Cricket
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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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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.
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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 !
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Ask him if he has inside information through working as Michael Clarke's fluffer!
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All out for 60, that's weak as piss. There goes the ashes.
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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 -
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Nasser Hussain made a wise comment: 5 mm of grass at Trent Bridge last year produced a boring draw with number 11 Anderson scoring 81. A year later, with 8 mm of grass and cloudy skies, Australia have been blown away for 60.
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Just spoke to my Aussie work colleague and asked him how his teams strategy was working out now…............................it was a short conversation!
