You've come in at 3 for 8
First ball you charge Stac and try and smack the ball over the off
side...
You've come in at 3 for 8
First ball you charge Stac and try and smack the ball over the off
side...
On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:42:44 +1100, Mad Hamish <newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:
You've come in at 3 for 8
First ball you charge Stac and try and smack the ball over the off
side...
The same at 6-68
On 26/12/2025 05:52, Mad Hamish wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:42:44 +1100, Mad Hamish
<newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:
You've come in at 3 for 8
First ball you charge Stac and try and smack the ball over the off
side...
The same at 6-68
There's more excuse for a player who is predominantly a bowler, though >(assuming that the player was Atkinson).
Since Brook and Atkinson were
England's two highest scorers, perhaps all-out aggression was the right >approach on that pitch: hope to get them before they can get you.
Day one was rather reminiscent of the first day at Perth, even though--- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
the pitch was very different. England supporters must hope that
Australia collapse in their second innings like England did at Perth,
and that then either Duckett or Crawley can play a Head-like innings. I >wouldn't put money on it, though.
Day one was rather reminiscent of the first day at Perth, even though
the pitch was very different. England supporters must hope that
Australia collapse in their second innings like England did at Perth,
and that then either Duckett or Crawley can play a Head-like innings. I wouldn't put money on it, though.
On 26/12/2025 10:25, John Hall wrote:
Day one was rather reminiscent of the first day at Perth, even though
the pitch was very different. England supporters must hope that
Australia collapse in their second innings like England did at Perth,
and that then either Duckett or Crawley can play a Head-like innings.
I wouldn't put money on it, though.
Perhaps I should have done - apart from the someone playing a Head-like innings, which didn't quite happen in terms of number of runs though it
did in aggressive intent. I wonder when the last Test was when no
batsman on either side reached fifty.
On 27/12/2025 10:34, John Hall wrote:
On 26/12/2025 10:25, John Hall wrote:
Day one was rather reminiscent of the first day at Perth, even though
the pitch was very different. England supporters must hope that
Australia collapse in their second innings like England did at Perth,
and that then either Duckett or Crawley can play a Head-like innings.
I wouldn't put money on it, though.
Perhaps I should have done - apart from the someone playing a Head-
like innings, which didn't quite happen in terms of number of runs
though it did in aggressive intent. I wonder when the last Test was
when no batsman on either side reached fifty.
West Indies v Australia at Kingston in July - HS 48 (so it's happened
twice in Australia's last five Tests)
The previous one that wasn't almost washed out, and the last such with a
HS at least as low as the 46 at Melbourne, was India v SA at Nagpur in 2015/16, when the HS was 40.
The last Ashes Test without a fifty was Edgbaston 1981, and Melbourne
had the lowest HS in an Ashes Test since 1890, apart from a near-wash-
out in 1926.
https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/stats/index.html? class=1;filter=advanced;groupby=match;orderby=start;orderbyad=reverse;qualmax1=0;qualval1=fifty_plus;size=200;template=results;type=batting
You've come in at 3 for 8
First ball you charge Stac and try and smack the ball over the off
side...
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