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      Maynard Friedman
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      One down, roll on Thursday and Lords…!

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      • SreeniS
        Sreeni
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        Everybody was asking WHEN Australia will win this. This series is going to be fun, even without KP participating.

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          And Australia steamroll England at the home of cricket. I haven't seen a better comeback. It is going to be fun at Edgbaston.

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          • GilesG
            Giles
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            Yeah, that was completely and utterly embarrassing…...

            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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              Maynard Friedman
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              At least it won't be 5-0!

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              • GilesG
                Giles
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                Good point.

                I was mightily impressed with the way the Aussies came back for the drubbing they received in the first test, I remain extremely sceptical that the English team have the same resolution of character.

                I hope I am wrong.

                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                • SreeniS
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                  I wonder what is it about the two countries that produces such different types of cricketers. The closest to Australian style of batting in England is Jos Buttler  or Ben Stokes. Australia has Chris Rogers (who has played for four counties) who is more like Cook than Warner. One would think that there would be similarities between two sides that have been playing against each other for so long.

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                    Perhaps it's the nature of the pitches (due to geography and weather conditions) which reflects the type of players produced to (theoretically) best suit their conditions.

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                      Maynard Friedman
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                      3-2 is now the worse case scenario. This series is swinging more than one of Jimmy Anderson's deliveries!

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                        One of my Australian work colleagues reckons the Aussies threw the Edgbaston game to make for a more interesting series. He was deadly serious as well.  Personally I just don't see the Aussies being that charitable, I am sure they would have been aiming for another white wash.  All makes for an interesting end to the series.

                        There is no 'I' in team …............ however there are five in 'individual brilliance'.

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                          If England win this Ashes, so many experts will have to eat their words.

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                          • GilesG
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                            @ddtrash:

                            One of my Australian work colleagues reckons the Aussies threw the Edgbaston game to make for a more interesting series. He was deadly serious as well.

                            Did he actually say that with a straight face?

                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                              ddtrash
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                              Deadpan straight!  He honestly thinks the Aussies turned it up at Lords and then backed off to make more of a series of it.  Not sure he is all there - the lack of logic is alarming !

                              There is no 'I' in team …............ however there are five in 'individual brilliance'.

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                              • GilesG
                                Giles
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                                Tell the feckin feckin arsehole not be so insulting  😃 😃

                                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                  Maynard Friedman
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                                  Ask him if he has inside information through working as Michael Clarke's fluffer!

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                                  • SreeniS
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                                    60 all out! I was cheering for England thinking they were the underdogs. I haven't been more wrong in all these years of watching cricket.

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                                      All out for 60, that's weak as piss. There goes the ashes.

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                                        Giles
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                                        Surprised to see an Aussie in here at the moment… 😃 😃 😃

                                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                          Hereforthebeer
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                                          Yep… slightly embarassing effort from our boy's  :o I think a few retirement's/sacking's might be on the cards...  😶

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                                            Not that I want to gloat - not….. Courtesy BBC....

                                            This is only the fourth time in Test history that a team has bowled first and been batting by lunch.

                                            60 all out is Australia's joint seventh-lowest total in Test matches. It was the earliest fall of the fourth, fifth and sixth wicket in Test cricket

                                            Stuart Broad's 8-15 was the third-cheapest eight-for in Test history. Extras top-scored for the first time in Ashes cricket

                                            Test Match Special has just replayed every one of the 10 Australia wickets. It was almost impossible to hear the commentary over the roar of the Trent Bridge crowd. Andrew Samson is now running through all the remarkable statistics. It might take him all of the interval

                                            Stuart Broad has the third-best Ashes bowling figures in history - behind Jim Laker's 10-53 and 9-37 in 1956

                                            Cheapest eight-wicket hauls in Test cricket:

                                            8-7: G Lohmann, England v SA, 1896
                                            8-11: J Briggs, England v SA, 1889
                                            8-15: S Broad, England v Aus, 2015
                                            8-24: G McGrath, Aus v Pak, 2004

                                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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