Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

[Topdog]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

Phenomenal innings from Stokes. To get a team out for 67 and lose the match is going to sting for a long long time. It took until there were 2 runs to win before we finally put pressure on the batsmen. Terrible captaincy, terrible bowling, terrible fielding in that last hour

[Happy Days]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

Yep wasted review when the bowler said it was outside leg has cost the match

Maybe so, but who let Joel Wilson umpire another test after the disgraceful showing in the first test?

[The Doctor]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

shocking captaincy, what a choke

[lemmon]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

Don't think you win the Ashes after that.

From Harris' drop to Lyon's fumble, that was a real choke.

[The Pie Man]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

That will give Paine & Lyon some serious nightmares

[Topdog]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

Maybe so, but who let Joel Wilson umpire another test after the disgraceful showing in the first test?

You don't overrule your bowler like that. It was missing by a mile. Dreadful decision

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

You don't overrule your bowler like that. It was missing by a mile. Dreadful decision

I can understand (not endorse) why Wilson had doubt about which leg it hit first. But I can't understand Paine doing something as pointlessly and reckless as risking the ashes, which is now a thing because he did.

On a discussion for another day, the poor decision and review system showed how tests can have literally have 'wrong' results. Something needs to change from the ICC level. Dumb reviews and incorrect decisions don't cancel each other out.

And Harris if you can't catch or throw, I have no idea what you are doing playing test match cricket because your nice 'starts' are crap.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

Shane Watson is the master of reviews compared to Paine. The 'out' ones aren't actually challenged, and the not out ones get confirmed and reviewed burned. I didn't think we'd get someone has horrible inept to judge reviews as Watson, but Watto, hand over the mantle.

[jeemak]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

It’s funny how all the decisions go a particular way in England.

The arsehole should have been behind bars anyway, nothing shows the colonialist bullshit like Stokes being able to play cricket.

[jeemak]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

I can understand (not endorse) why Wilson had doubt about which leg it hit first. But I can't understand Paine doing something as pointlessly and reckless as risking the ashes, which is now a thing because he did.

On a discussion for another day, the poor decision and review system showed how tests can have literally have 'wrong' results. Something needs to change from the ICC level. Dumb reviews and incorrect decisions don't cancel each other out.



And Harris if you can't catch or throw, I have no idea what you are doing playing test match cricket because your nice 'starts' are crap.

The matches go for five days , review everything, time isn’t an issue.

[FrediKanoute]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

Phenomenal innings from Stokes. To get a team out for 67 and lose the match is going to sting for a long long time. It took until there were 2 runs to win before we finally put pressure on the batsmen. Terrible captaincy, terrible bowling, terrible fielding in that last hour

Agree with all of this. His innings was sensational. Its exactly what a clean hitting batsman can do.

Agree also we got it wrong today, big time. We were so desperate for the new ball we forgot what it was about that new ball that makes it so dangerous. We pitched short, around leg and generally made it easy for Bairstow and Stokes to play themselves in. We wasted the new ball, but worse we actually allowed them to wrest control and whittle down the runs.

That last hour, again silly bowling. We tried to bounce out a set batsman. we allowed him to grab singles off the 5th/6th ball of each over and worse we leaked runs all over the park. Then when the chances came, we muffed them.....Harris drops a difficult one. Lyon fumbles a simple run out; we throw another run out chance to he wrong end; and then.....we waste a review.

Basically, as a team we cracked under pressure. The problem was though that we allowed them to put us under pressure. If we had stuck to the plan, kept with our line and and length, we would have won this test.

[FrediKanoute]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

Don't think you win the Ashes after that.

From Harris' drop to Lyon's fumble, that was a real choke.

Going to take a bit to come back from. Really though, we lost this game as much with the bat as anything. 179 in the 1st innings and 246 in the 2nd is hardly match winning stuff. We had a chance in the 2nd dig to bat looong and failed. The fact that only Lambuschagne was capable of putting his head down and grinding our a decent score is why we lost this test. If that 246 had been 300 or 350, it was game over.

If you look at the dismissal's in the 2nd innings and Harris and Khawaja stand out as guys who wasted starts. Head copped a beauty, but still, he was bowled twice in the test. Is it a technique issue? Wade.....batted well for 33, but needed to hang about. Gloving one off Stokes is disappointing.

[ledge]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

It’s funny how all the decisions go a particular way in England.

The arsehole should have been behind bars anyway, nothing shows the colonialist bullshit like Stokes being able to play cricket.

Wow .. you think players who used sandpaper in the highest grade should be able to keep playing?

[ledge]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

Wow .. you think players who used sandpaper in the highest grade should be able to keep playing?

England was all out for 67 in the first dig, your scraping the barrel to not accept Australia stuffed up with bad decisions in the second innings , dropped catches , bad reviews .
Stokes was incredible what he did one night at a night club a while ago ( and we all make mistakes) has no bearing whatsoever on the test.
And to say he is an areshole is pretty small minded.

[Ozza]

Re: Third Ashes Test - Headingley August 22 to 26 2019

Can't blame the umpires or the DRS. Paine's handling of the 2nd innings was atrocious. And I'm getting quite sick of him appealing every time an opposition plays and misses when he knows it isn't out.

The DRS has been a complete c0ck up from the start, and has made umpires second guess themselves and become poor at their jobs. But we can't blame it for the way we lost.