Ashes 2013 Nicknames

I do believe the nickname experts at Fremantle call him ......

Spoiler:

Does that make Agar "(Ashton) No-Turner"?

PeterCS wrote:Does that make Agar "(Ashton) No-Turner"?

"The Lady" (is not for turning).

Uhh, Gashton Spurner anyone? Huh?

Splashed'on Turnip? Ohhh no.

Bunsen.

Or Raging.

Tina xurely

If selected: "F*wad"
(and esp if the gamble doesn't pay off)

James Taylor = Frodo.

TGM2 (Stevie Smith)

A bit like R2D2, only less robotic.

Jonny Bad (Trott) and Jonny Rotten?


"I am the Bails Antichrist!
I am the batting anarchist"

(Belatedly)

Fogg = Hughes.


Phileas Fogg - travels round the world without obvious purpose.

Phileas Hughes

Fogg Hughes - his response to the selectors on being omitted again, or to everyone who says "sort your technique out"

McKerriGain

Kerrikins

PeterCS wrote:(Belatedly)

Fogg = Hughes.


Phileas Fogg - travels round the world without obvious purpose.

Phileas Hughes

Fogg Hughes - his response to the selectors on being omitted again, or to everyone who says "sort your technique out"

Doesn't make sense. Phileas Fogg had a clear reason for traveling around the world.

So had Hughes.

I was commentating from outside.

Kerrigawn?

Root: Dud. Especially after today.

68 wasn't bad as (what should have been) a foundation.

Feeble exit stroke, true.

But it was the subsequent deceleration which was the core problem of the day.

I was a bit worried he'd be out two runs before.

"Root: 66."

Like 13, 111 or Aussie 87, ominous ring.

PeterCS wrote:68 wasn't bad as (what should have been) a foundation.

Feeble exit stroke, true.

But it was the subsequent deceleration which was the core problem of the day.

I was referring to his scoring rate, too; not his eventual tally. A soporific day.

Aye, but as an opener (perforce), seeing off the new ball, seeing off the end of one day and start of another, he has some excuse.

Remember his S/R is considerably worsened by the defensive action of the previous evening. You could claim he should have come out firing then too, but I believe a (small?) minority would have done that in those circumstances.

#3, 4, 5, 6 have less mitigation. Woakes could claim "debut" I suppose. And at least struck two early fours. Before sinking into the Ditch of Dull that soggied the rest.

I've avidly watched the Tests even while we've been getting smashed earlier in the series, not missing a ball ... but I just can't bring myself to watch such turgid bollocks.

My own views on the go-slow (FWTW) are on the match thread.

Just that I wouldn't single out Root, as a sort of "escaped goat".

In fact, as I said, I'd tend to "invert selection", as computers sometimes put it.