Australia v England, 5th Test, Sydney, 4-8 January, 2018

JGK wrote:

Henry wrote:So England’s ashes farce begins with Stokes drinking too much, and finishes with Root not drinking enough!

Nice

Heh, nice summation, Trev.

Henry wrote:So England’s ashes farce begins with Stokes drinking too much, and finishes with Root not drinking enough!

Played.

skully wrote:

Nath wrote:odds of the SCG pitch getting an infraction?

Not if Elmer and 2nd runs through 'em.

Fixed. Good Test pitch.

skully wrote:

skully wrote:

Nath wrote:odds of the SCG pitch getting an infraction?

Not if Elmer and 2nd runs through 'em.

Fixed. Good Test pitch.

The excessive heat on Sunday did help to bake it though. Think Australia may have been able to see out Ali and Crane on the last day.

Interesting that there are many critics of Root for not bowling first. They think he's gun shy after Adelaide re. sending teams in. Certainly they set Australia up for the pancake flat middle days of the test.

Absolute comprehensive win by Australia. There was never any doubt that it was going to end this way. The only thing stopping 5-0 was a moribund Melbourne pitch.

BTW, Jimmy's batting average fell below 10 today.

Henry wrote:So England’s ashes farce begins with Stokes drinking too much, and finishes with Root not drinking enough!

Bet the papers wish they thought of that, though these days may not be allowed to publish it as a headline.

In essence though, the Aussies didn't really have to work super hard for such an emphatic win.

OP Tipping wrote:Dello has given a summary of the English performance in the other thread.

Among the Australians, it is hard to point to any genuine weakness in the final line up, with the possible exception of Bancroft but I'd still give him a chance. Everyone else earned their lunch money.

fair as always

embee wrote:Was the Gripper hoping he wasn't gripping?

Masons allegedly have an odd grip ... perhaps we should just call him Trevor

A drug addict can't begin to get better until he/she accepts he/she has a problem and the England cricket team will do themselves no favours either with ridiculous wishful thinking like we heard last week. ''We've outplayed the Australians for periods but not for long enough''. DO me a favour! I don't know which 3 overs they were talking about but 4-ZIP with each and every defeat being not by 10 runs or 1 wicket but by a hammering from a very big height means we were unadulterated RUBBISH. No pace, nobody turning the ball, several of them with an eye on the retirement home in Antigua, plus raw players who'd have struggled against Zimbabwe quite frankly. Let's hear less of the dare i say it, SPIN and quietly crawl away somewhere whilst we try and find a team capable of playing away from the cold damp conditions we love. Congratulations Australia because whilst few of their current 11 would get in a best post-war Aussie team, they played to the best of their ability and it was way too good for our shower. G'day.

Must acknowledge that Jo Root has been unfairly targeted in social media, ie being 'asleep on the job'. Gastro can be very nasty and combined with heat can threaten life. I admire that he had a crack for his team and am happy sense prevailed and he was allowed to sleep in the dressing room from lunch onwards.

The BBC post-match discussion page added a touch of popular culture-based humour by putting a picture of Jon Snow under a heading about “nightwatchmen”...

Which begs the question, was John Snow ever a nightwatchman in his career?

beamer wrote:The BBC post-match discussion page added a touch of popular culture-based humour by putting a picture of Jon Snow under a heading about “nightwatchmen”...

Which begs the question, was John Snow ever a nightwatchman in his career?

It would have been poetry to watch, as it were. However I can't recall Snow being sent in as a night-watchman.

horace wrote:

beamer wrote:The BBC post-match discussion page added a touch of popular culture-based humour by putting a picture of Jon Snow under a heading about “nightwatchmen”...

Which begs the question, was John Snow ever a nightwatchman in his career?

It would have been poetry to watch, as it were. However I can't recall Snow being sent in as a night-watchman.

If you’re wrong, then you know nothing about John Snow

Have you read Some JS poetry?

Not bad but hardly Auden.

Haven't watched GoT in years. Any worse and Kirk Douglas would have guested.

Root and branch ...

among the selectors & coaching staff.

PeterCS wrote:Root and branch ...

among the selectors & coaching staff.

Well, they didn’t pull up any trees, and will leaf without much to show for it.

Too much dead wood.

Congrats again Australia on a thoroughly ruthless demolition job.

I'm just glad it's over now.

Cheers vilks.

Never fear, it'll be much closer in 2019.

beamer wrote:The BBC post-match discussion page added a touch of popular culture-based humour by putting a picture of Jon Snow under a heading about “nightwatchmen”...

Which begs the question, was John Snow ever a nightwatchman in his career?

He was a day 3 nightwatchman in this match
http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/17318/scorecard/62981/england-vs-south-africa-2nd-test-south-africa-tour-of-england-1965/

Well found OP.

That's a very odd-looking England scorecard with Titmus batting at 4 in the first innings and 3 in the second, while Boycott's bowling figures of 26-10-60-0 also make amazing reading.

OP Tipping wrote:

beamer wrote:The BBC post-match discussion page added a touch of popular culture-based humour by putting a picture of Jon Snow under a heading about “nightwatchmen”...

Which begs the question, was John Snow ever a nightwatchman in his career?

He was a day 3 nightwatchman in this match
http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/17318/scorecard/62981/england-vs-south-africa-2nd-test-south-africa-tour-of-england-1965/

And he scored nothing, John Snow!

A Maester’s chain for OP for that piece of research...

Nice tribute to the Ashes victory at Circular Quay last night...