Jeor Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 And England escape with a rain delay. They've got a chance to forge a good innings during the daytime tomorrow - one thinks Root will be crucial. He'll have extra motivation given his (now I admit to be disastrous) sending in Australia to bat. When the other side ends up scoring 400+ and declaring, you know that was a bad move... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 3 hours ago, Jeor said: And England escape with a rain delay. That was fortunate timing, it was a very awkward session to try to bat through. England will have to bat very well tomorrow to save the match (and effectively the series), especially since I think Lyon might exploit the conditions better than Ali did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squab Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Still early in series but after three Australian innings England have only taken 18 wickets. Are they actually able to take the 20 required to win a match? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paxter Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 England only managed to take 20 wickets once in the previous Ashes in Oz. And Australia won that match by 281 runs. Little has changed in the intervening four years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeor Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Early days yet with only 4 wickets down, but if it comes to it I wouldn't enforce the follow-on if I were Australia. It's Adelaide, a good batting wicket that rarely deteriorates, so I'd go for safety first with some quickfire runs and try and bowl them out on a fifth day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Winged Shadow Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 5 down. England definitely in trouble now. Follow-on territory still. I doubt Aussies will enforce follow on if they get the choice. Assuming England manage to extract another 30-40 overs from the aussies, the bowlers will definitely need a rest. Can't afford to risk injury to the fast three. Although there is still a risk of rain. So don't think they can afford to bat for long. They will need more than a day to get them out a second time I think. Specially if the target set is unrealistic, England might just bunker down and go for a draw, which would be a good result for them still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squab Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Australia being the only test team to lose after enforcing the follow on is a crazy stat, even if we hadn't done it 3 times. I worry every time we do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeor Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Anderson bowling well, so this match could be interesting yet. Still, they really couldn't have enforced the follow-on. Tempting as it would have been to bowl again at England under lights, they had already bowled close to 80 overs and probably wouldn't have been as effective making the bowlers back up a second time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Winged Shadow Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Hahaha, Anderson must be spewin! Another LBW overturn, this time Smith! England started bowling really well, but lost the line there for a good 10 overs. Now they are back right on top. Anderson is just killing it right now. Good stuff! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeor Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Great spell of bowling to bring them back into the game, but England are going to have to wrap the innings up pretty quickly. Chasing anything over 300ish will be too much, even at Adelaide, against the Australian attack and with the benefit of lights. Australia could do the same thing to England that England did to them under lights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paxter Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Well that was what Root was hoping for from his bowlers in the first innings - it’s just arrived a little too late. Some impressive stuff though from Anderson and Woakes, highlighting why many pundits were expecting a strong England performance at this ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereward Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I'm not sure I want to live in a world where Donald Trump is president of the USA and James Vince plays for England. So very, very wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paxter Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 3 minutes ago, Hereward said: I'm not sure I want to live in a world where Donald Trump is president of the USA and James Vince has the highest score for England in an Ashes series. So very, very wrong. Fixed that for you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereward Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I'm pretty sure that was a mass delusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Winged Shadow Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 England playing really well. Aussies haven't bowled as well. A few tough dropped catches costing them dearly. England have a really healthy run rate, which has put them in a really good position for the final push. But these two players have to stay in tonight, it will be a big boost for confidence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeor Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Credit to England for a great day's play. They lost one too many wickets to be favourites but they're in with a real chance. Adelaide is still comfy to bat on for a fifth day pitch so if Root can push onto a century and someone stay with him they're going to get very close. If Australia win it will seem cruel for England to go 2-0 down (and it would stuff up what would be an otherwise interesting series) so I wouldn't be terribly disappointed if England pull this one out of the fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hereward Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Even the smallest amount of hope is a killer. Luckily, I know that Root will be out within the first half an hour tomorrow, and the rest will collapse in the traditional fashion. Thus, I will sleep easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 It's at times like this that having Ben Stokes coming in at 6 could have been very handy. I think everything depends on Root tomorrow, if he can stay in for most of the run chase then the others might be able to provide enough support but I'd be sceptical they could do it without him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maltaran Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Yes, a good Bairstokes partnership would be very useful in this situation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squab Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 An interesting start to the afternoon. Series done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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