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Bidwell always looks like he means business !

Again, a lot of this is nuance/subjective when making comparisons. From memory the Aussies were trying to stand outside their crease to negate swing/seam movement, in which case they’re open/fair game to potential run out as they’re trying to gain advantage. Bairstows was a belief ball was dead...

He’d used his foot and thought ball was dead. Fact is he just shouldn’t have left the crease It’s done though, they won and shown how they want to play. Let’s hope we return the favour and play with some more ruthlessness in next match.

I agree with this in theory, I just don’t think it happens in practice. The argument would then be, should the umpire be handing back hat etc to bowler without calling over/ball dead which is what started to happen here apparently (not seen clip yet though)

It was Stokes’ with his bat when he was making a run and the throw hit it and went for a four in the World Cup final. A total freak accident not premeditated. Not sure many walk these days unless it’s an obvious edge I agree that over the five days Aussies deserved to win that test, although I...

Yeah, they used that as a comparison on sky yesterday which surprised me as theyre totally different circumstances De Grandomme was never in his crease and was even maybe looking at a possible run. Bairstow was always in his crease, even marked with his foot after ball had passed before walking...

I’d have good money on Bairstow looking for payback before end of series

Gutted. Was starting to think we could maybe do it. Amazing innings though. Aussies had done well to dry runs up, negative but needed

Exactly. It was player errors. They didn’t get told to try to hit every bouncer, it was just a chaotic passage of play and players lost their heads.

Will certainly make rest of the series a bit lively ! Only a few years after getting caught sandpapering the ball and then crying when they got caught. It’s just in them. They want to win at all costs

Agreed, we let them back in and I’ve said Root and Brooks batting was chaotic/brainless. My point is that’s nothing to do with Bazball, just poor play Also agree that we were still in great position the next day when stokes was out, to a leading edge (not an aggressive shot) and Bairstow last...

Bit embarrassing really. Like sending Lyon out yesterday

Who wins the SBT bet ?

All this slating of ‘bazball’ is bizarre. As mentioned before, something like one win in 14 before Stokes/McCullum came in and 12 in 15 or 16 after, playing some exciting/fun cricket. We’ll probably lose this test and I’d imagine probably the ashes against a very good Australia team, with the...

I thought it was poor form from Australia. Whether it worsens the specific injury or not (I can’t imagine it will do it any good) he can’t move which makes it very dangerous when he’s likely to face short balls. Fair enough if they were only 200 ahead, maybe everyone considers it’s worth the...

They keep mentioning maybe pitch is a bit two paced so players mistiming shots

Agreed. Cost us at edgbaston and hasn’t helped here. Although Anderson dropping head did get smith on strike to be out next ball…funny old game 🤷‍♂️ Bairstow is giving me the shits still ! If they get Head out cheaply then could give us a tiny sniff…still massively behind in the game though...

Such a shame with Archer especially. Not sure if it made a difference (can’t have helped) but he was bowled into the ground a couple of times by Root/Silverwood. Could really have done with one of them being fit, especially with this short pitch tactic Tongue looked good/lively

Apparently waiting for the terms of the SBT bet to be agreed before speaking to clubs

Agree about Edgbaston even though a result was produced, however, this pitch has given bowlers enough…especially in the periods we’ve bowled. We bowled poorly at start of first innings and have been a bit unlucky in the second*. Anderson, who’s a legend, just hasn’t been his usual self, maybe...