O/T:- The Ashes 2023

[ncfcog]

"If you think you are going to plunder the best bowlers in the world with a new conker when they are fresh then you are an idiot."

Geoff Boycott

[Mark_Ross]

"If you think you are going to plunder the best bowlers in the world with a new conker when they are fresh then you are an idiot."

Geoff Boycott

It's so {expletive} easy for Australia. They're not really having to play that well to beat us, and it's heading for the dreaded 0-5.

You know what really annoys me though: the Aussie commentators on TMS. Even when they're trying to be modest - they just sound {sorry another expletive} patronising.

[magpie_mania]

55-4, 3 of the wickets were really good deliveries though. The only thing I can see England getting out of this match is a round of boos when they leave the field.

Hope not if Stokes and Duckett are still there.

They deserve and need encouragement, not boos. How will that help?

[countygump]

They deserve and need encouragement, not boos. How will that help?

It won't, but if merited that never stops it happening? Fortunately a little bit of redemption for England, 114-4. That Starc catch was never out BTW, he purposely grounded the ball to keep control of it, IMHAHO.

[Magpies1959]

While Starc was still moving in the act of taking the catch he needed to keep the ball off the ground. Good decision by the umpire, and even better that it wound McGrath up.

[countygump]

While Starc was still moving in the act of taking the catch he needed to keep the ball off the ground. Good decision by the umpire, and even better that it wound McGrath up.

183-5. Can we do it? 190 odd needed.

[BigFatPie]

More comedy batting from Bairstow. The protester should have chucked him off.

[Magpies1959]

Thee Bairstow dismissal is about the lowest of the low from the shackle draggers. It makes any Mankad decision look incredibly gentlemanly.

[laddo]

It's not dull

[drillerpie]

Anyone know anywhere in town that is showing the cricket?

I'm back in Nottingham for a couple of days and best I can find is a place on Friar Lane showing the F1 on the big screen and will only put the ashes on a side TV with no sound (sacrilege!)