Headingley Test Match

[outwoodclaret]

Fifty partnership. Can we get home?!

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Brooks grew a pair, Wood has a pair and Woakes held it all together.

Will Jimmy get his last hurrah at Old Trafford?

[alfinyalcabo]

Easy peazy lemon squeezy..
Well done Brooks as well.We can go on to win this series now.👏👏

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Easy peazy lemon squeezy..
Well done Brooks as well.We can go on to win this series now.👏👏

I think the Aussies may well disagree with you Alfie.

[sinkov]

Well, I'll go to the foot of our stairs, I wasn't expecting that.

[outwoodclaret]

A snippet from Felix White BBC Sport Columnist. One for Pseuds Corner?

“Under bat-friendly blue skies to bowl-friendly cloud cover to nothing-friendly thunder and back, it was a tingly, giddy form of Test cricket; ringing out our insides, calling our bluff, never once letting us drift into phones without fear of returning with no context whatsoever on the game situation.”

[outwoodclaret]

Here is Felix on the Oval Test.

“Living in the moment. A state of active, intentional dedication to the present.

It has never been more sought after and has, no doubt, never been more rarely achieved.

What is it to live in the moment, without contrive or artifice these days? What with modern living rife with anxiety, distraction, and catastrophising, who is carrying the tools anymore to do it?

In the world we live in, can anyone hand on heart lay claim to experience time slow, stretch and extend and sense yourself as part of something that others are experiencing too?

As unprecedented, mercurial and enveloping this men's Ashes turned out to be, ending in ludicrously joyous circumstances, the living in the moment part had not been a part of its lure.

This series, with its innumerable storylines getting offered up and then blown up into thin air, its discourse reaching manic states, its strangely confrontational post-match interviews, its cricket as a sugar-high thrill causing disruptive levels of philosophical debate on process and what winning is anyway, has offered not that connected type of escape we crave from Test cricket, instead more the kind that comes through veins bulging, eyes popping and states of extreme high alert.”

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Here is Felix on the Oval Test.

“Living in the moment. A state of active, intentional dedication to the present.

It has never been more sought after and has, no doubt, never been more rarely achieved.

What is it to live in the moment, without contrive or artifice these days? What with modern living rife with anxiety, distraction, and catastrophising, who is carrying the tools anymore to do it?

In the world we live in, can anyone hand on heart lay claim to experience time slow, stretch and extend and sense yourself as part of something that others are experiencing too?

As unprecedented, mercurial and enveloping this men's Ashes turned out to be, ending in ludicrously joyous circumstances, the living in the moment part had not been a part of its lure.

This series, with its innumerable storylines getting offered up and then blown up into thin air, its discourse reaching manic states, its strangely confrontational post-match interviews, its cricket as a sugar-high thrill causing disruptive levels of philosophical debate on process and what winning is anyway, has offered not that connected type of escape we crave from Test cricket, instead more the kind that comes through veins bulging, eyes popping and states of extreme high alert.”

It's a f*cking game of cricket you retard. "Veins bulging, eyes popping and states of extreme high alert." Has this dude been dragging on his crack pipe?

[kritichris]

Why don't we just give the Ozzies the Ashes, they win it more than we do and have retained them for 6 years? It's just a load of bails to me.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Why don't we just give the Ozzies the Ashes, they win it more than we do and have retained them for 6 years? It's just a load of bails to me.

Bails are for turning round k_c, Broady undid the Aussies twice with the same ploy.