5th Test

[Leothebear]

England favourites to win but Australia have made a good start today and now look in with a chance.

Why on earth hasn't Mark Wood been given a spell? The wicket's not helping the seamers much at all but Wood has real pace and is always in with a chance.

[Tedx]

Smith (39) gloves to Stokes but catch ruled out because England skipper drops ball during celebration

What a fanny

[pje16]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cricket/64959416
watch the clip
hardly a celebration
IMHO

[Tedx]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cricket/64959416
watch the clip
hardly a celebration
IMHO

He was winding up for the typical celebratory throw into the air, his hand clipped his thigh and it came out of his hand.

As captain, if one of his team mates did that, he'd boot their *rse.

....AND he mucked up the regulation resignatory flob by letting it dribble down his chin.

[pje16]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/cricket/64959416
watch the clip
hardly a celebration
IMHO

He was winding up for the typical celebratory throw into the air, his hand clipped his thigh and it came out of his hand.

As captain, if one of his team mates did that, he'd boot their *rse.

....AND he mucked up the regulation resignatory flob by letting it dribble down his chin.

Looked to me more like the natural path of his arm coming down, if he had winding up it would go higher

[cinelli]

Here are the series averages. What a pity this was the last test of the summer and it's still only July.

Cinelli

England Players in the Ashes of 2023

Batting
                 M'ch Inn NO  H'est  Runs  Av'ge 100s 50s Ct  St

Z. Crawley         5   9   0   189    480  53.33   1   2   9
J.E. Root          5   9   1   118*   412  51.50   1   2  11
B.A. Stokes        5   9   0   155    405  45.00   1   2   6
H.C. Brook         5   9   0    85    363  40.33       4   3
J.M. Bairstow      5   9   1    99*   322  40.25       3  23   1
B.M. Duckett       5   9   0    98    321  35.67       2   9
Moeen M. Ali       4   7   0    54    180  25.71       1
O.J.D. Pope        2   4   0    42     90  22.50           1
M.A. Wood          3   5   1    28     83  20.75
C.R. Woakes        3   5   1    36     79  19.75           1
O.E. Robinson      3   5   2    27     59  19.67
S.C.J. Broad       5   8   2    16     78  13.00
J.M. Anderson      4   6   3    12     28   9.33           1
--also--
J.C. Tongue        1   2   0    19     20   ----           1

Bowling
                 Overs  Mdns  Runs  Wkts   Best   Av'ge 5wI 10wM

C.R. Woakes      113.2   22    345   19   5- 62   18.16   1
M.A. Wood         87.4   15    283   14   5- 34   20.21   1
O.E. Robinson    102.4   28    284   10   3- 55   28.40
S.C.J. Broad     184.2   33    625   22   4- 65   28.41
J.E. Root         53.1    8    172    6   2- 19   28.67
J.C. Tongue       42      7    151    5   3- 98   30.20
Moeen M. Ali     126     15    463    9   3- 76   51.44
J.M. Anderson    154     37    427    5   1- 51   85.40
--also--
B.A. Stokes       29      4     89    3   1-  9    ---
H.C. Brook         6      2     12    0            ---

CRAVE 3.0

[Leothebear]

Just wrote a longish post that vanished.

I wanted to say what a series! What a finale for Broad! A few dull moments when Australia batted but not many.