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Dead Goon posted:I think it's fair enough to prepare a pitch to negate Mitch, but don't prepare a pitch that negates the England bowlers as well. Hard to do. You want it slow but with seam movement - but Haze can seam, Lyon will enjoy the turn and is the only experienced specialist spinner in either squad, and the Mitchells will have their tails up after this Test and will gladly bowl fast and full which kind of makes the pitch condition a moot point. And if you gently caress it up like Lord's here and get no moment, the Australians have a place advantage anyway.
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Jul 19, 2015 17:03
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Dead Goon posted:I think it's fair enough to prepare a pitch to negate Mitch, but don't prepare a pitch that negates the England bowlers as well. A pitch that helps the English bowlers will help the Australian bowlers. England are better off preparing a decent wicket and hoping poo poo Mitch turns up, honestly.
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Jul 19, 2015 17:04
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Need to pray for weather that lets it swing full loops.
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Jul 19, 2015 17:06
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Are there as many Mitchell's in the general Australian population as the cricket team makes it seem like there would be?
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Jul 19, 2015 17:07
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Especially with how fragile the Australian batting card is. Madness that they don't try and beat Australia there.
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Jul 19, 2015 17:07
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Look, then I think you're right, but look we could have done something else. But look. Look.
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Jul 19, 2015 17:09
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Hey look um
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Jul 19, 2015 17:12
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Last time Johnson played at Lord's (2009) his match figures were 3/200 so this was a pretty good comeback.
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Jul 19, 2015 17:19
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Australia bowled okay but England has consistently gone 3 down for about 40 runs regardless of whose doing the bowling. The whole top order play like retards.
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Jul 19, 2015 17:29
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England lost this match mentally. They let the pitch get to their bowlers, which let Australia put on a rather untroubled 500 in the first innings. Then they let the scoreboard pressure get to their batsmen, whose top order once again fell apart. Then the 2nd innings they came out acting like they'd already lost. There were 2 genuine great balls to get wickets in the 2nd english innings. Lyth got a great one, and Ali faced a spell of hostile short pitch bowling that I dont think many batsmen would have survived. The rest of the order either missed straight ones or waved at things they should, and did in the first innings, leave. Its a perfect example of how fragile that team is.
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Jul 19, 2015 18:42
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Did our brave Aussie boys sit down and have a beer with the Valiant English losers tonight?
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Jul 19, 2015 20:16
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I've got a right man crush on Mitchell Johnson, drat he's a stud.
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Jul 19, 2015 21:40
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gently caress me, England Collapse.txt I don't think they can recover from this mentally, this wasn't a cricketing ability loss, this was all in their head.
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Jul 19, 2015 21:54
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Bairstow for Ballance, Bell to 3, Root to 4, Stokes to 5, Bairstow at 6
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Jul 19, 2015 22:03
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Up at 3am, check score.... Holy gently caress did not expect that - What an amazing demolition and proof that flat pitches to negate Mitches wont work. They have to spice up Edgebaston to give the English bowlers a hope in hell of containing Smith / Rogers, let alone Warner and Clarke showing they too are coming into form. Nevill is a good repalcement to Haddin, Mitch Marsh ended Watson's test career.
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Jul 19, 2015 22:29
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Holy hell that was a pretty funny thing to wake up to. So after all the pre-series nonsense about Smith, it turns out it's actually the entire England side that can't bat under English conditions 
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Jul 19, 2015 22:51
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monkeu posted:it turns out it's actually the entire England side that can't bat
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Jul 19, 2015 22:53
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Smith now averages 58.5. Was 39 last October.
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Jul 19, 2015 22:54
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Fell asleep in front of the TV just after Stokes was run out so I'm not surprised by the capitulation. Gunna do some hearty lols if it rains all day tomorrow
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Jul 19, 2015 23:34
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Lots of talk about a lovely pitch but how about England doesn't pick goblins and gingers to hold bats and find actual good batsmen. Like, in Ireland maybe?
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Jul 19, 2015 23:41
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Did someone forget to tell England to turn up for the afternoon session?
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Jul 19, 2015 23:48
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-Spiffy- posted:Lots of talk about a lovely pitch but how about England doesn't pick goblins and gingers to hold bats and find actual good batsmen. The last few Irish we poached were rubbish.
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Jul 19, 2015 23:53
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Jul 19, 2015 23:56
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Why the hell is Dharmasena further back than Ballance?
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Jul 20, 2015 00:42
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Spedman posted:Why the hell is Dharmasena further back than Ballance? Keeping an eye on the stumps for when he inevitably steps on them
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Jul 20, 2015 00:43
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offballance.jpg
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Jul 20, 2015 00:58
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lmao dat technique
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Jul 20, 2015 01:04
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Has he always batted this far back or did someone 'fix' him?
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Jul 20, 2015 02:54
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Negligent posted:Just purely from a statistical point of view for the last series the team that wins the toss tends to win the game bbc posted up an interesting stat, from the last 20 years including this match, the amount of wins/losses from batting first is actually even at 327 wins and 327 losses, with 237 draws. so its probably not as much of an advantage as people first assume
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Jul 20, 2015 04:24
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Winning the toss doesn't necessarily mean you bat first though. I think they should at least try to coin toss the first test then alternate the decision for every test after. I bet the pitches would be doctored accordingly but that's probably gonna happen anyway.
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Jul 20, 2015 04:27
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-Spiffy- posted:Winning the toss doesn't necessarily mean you bat first though. oh yeah thats true. i just liked that stat haha
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Jul 20, 2015 04:35
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Australia made two changes to win at Lords, what two changes can England make?
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Jul 20, 2015 04:50
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Bring back watto
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Jul 20, 2015 04:51
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Airstream Driver posted:Has he always batted this far back or did someone 'fix' him? I cannot believe any batting coach would have a guy that far back driving. Imagine him driving like that in Australia. The ball would be on his handle Ffs
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Jul 20, 2015 05:01
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-Spiffy- posted:Winning the toss doesn't necessarily mean you bat first though. Yeah I was a proponent for this for years but I think the potential for doctoring is too high. I'd actually be happy with the away team choosing every match, balancing out home country advantage a little. Let the home team create whatever pitch they think will suit their bowlers and batsmen, but they'd have to do so with the knowledge that the visitors get the option.
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Jul 20, 2015 05:07
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Burn Down Canberra posted:I cannot believe any batting coach would have a guy that far back driving. Imagine him driving like that in Australia. The ball would be on his handle Ffs Probably works great on a dreary strip of mud against some washed up county hack.
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Jul 20, 2015 05:07
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Can the poms afford to drop Anderson? He didn't take a wicket and seemed to have a problem even running off the pitch.
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Jul 20, 2015 05:18
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Jul 20, 2015 05:38
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Stokes is an idiot but this rule is bad. He is obviously behind the crease.
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Jul 20, 2015 06:34
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It's not a complicated rule if you're not a loving idiot like Stokes was. 10 year old children understand the concept that you need something touching the ground behind the line; this isn't unique to cricket...
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