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The Ashes
Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2025 7:03 pm
by ellie ellins
Does anyone else watch the cricket? Where are we going wrong? Are we just a two man team with Root and Stokes? All the Aussies can get a good set of runs in for the game whilst our side were out for nowt! What would Geoff Boycott do? What did Geoff Boycott say?
"England are irresponsible, rubbish and too far up their backsides to care"
Who knew Ellie Ellins was a cricket fan? Is cricket losing its popularity? Not round here but that is Yorkshire so things are done differently here but what do we need to do to get our mojo back. Anyway I will still be watching it.
Re: The Ashes
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 10:19 am
by Alan
I'm a cricket fan too. Playing the Tests as if they were one day games (Baz ball as the press called it) might have worked with lesser sides than the Aussies but a disaster against the convicts
Re: The Ashes
Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2025 4:52 pm
by ellie ellins
Yes - too many players used to playing these one day matches with bazball tactics. They cannot do that in Australia where they have these fine margins in day and night matches, so Aussies just cannot slog it. Perhaps England need to practise the dark - ha! Australia have a great bowler in Starc too and although we have Stokes - he isn't enough. England are not used to those Aussie pitches either and they've probably not practised enough. Those dry pitches with deep ruts at the wicket are hard to manage.
Re: The Ashes
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2025 12:35 pm
by Alan
Looks, sadly, like we're heading for an embarassing whitewash
Re: The Ashes
Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2025 8:30 pm
by ellie ellins
I cannot watch it at the moment because it is so disappointing to watch. Jofra A is holding the team up. I did read some criticism of Stokes because for all his championing of bazball, he spent a whole day at the wicket doing precisely the reverse (2nd innings). They are all over the place.
Re: The Ashes
Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2025 3:03 pm
by Alan
Looks like now the Aussies have won the Ashes that they're humouring us by playng Bazball themselves. Trouble is that they're better than us at that style of cricket too
Re: The Ashes
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2025 8:33 am
by Alan
Well, who would have bet on that!