The ashes

[nimrod]

Good 1st day for England, lets hope more confidence today
I'm off to The Gabba in an hour 

[Lekos]

I can't handle cricket...bores me to death. Having said that - have a great time and get pissed in the sun!

[Hesperus]

Facing a big l10 wicket oss in the first test. We kind of competed for a couple of days but our weakness in bowling and batting badly exposed today. We needed to step up for the 2nd test or this series could end up a 5-0 whitewash.

[Hesperus]

Day nighter test match starts in the early hours of tomorrow morning.  Not really got much confidence in England for this game.

[gavin]

I used to love staying up to watch the cricket. I wish I could still do it.

[nimrod]

We could do with the white Mike Tyson here.

[Hesperus]

Putting them in to bat was a bit of a left field decision. If we can nick Smith out today though we’ll be happy.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

England got the two wickets they needed (Warner and Smith) but the quicks (Anderson especially) bowled too short and outside off stump too often. Overton at least managed to find a line and length to trouble the Aussies.

[Hesperus]

How well we bowl with the new ball tomorrow morning could prove key. Woakes worries me, if he is rally one of the best we’ve got real problems.

[Hesperus]

At the end of the day. You win the toss and put the opposition in to bat, you need to be taking a lot of wickets. That didn’t happen today. Big call when you lost by 10 wickets in the first match.

[Rowley Birkin QC]

Some damning stats on Australian TV news this morning. Warner was able to leave 40% of the balls he faced, and for the first 13 overs England only managed to bowl one ball on the stumps! As you say Hesperus - if you decide to put an opponent into bat, you're supposed to make them play and get them out!

[Hesperus]

The Aussies have gone past 400. Root will be very disappointed wth his decision now.

I imagine they’ll put us in to bat today and have  an hour at us under the lights with a new ball..... and take about 3 wickets.

[bluebrendan]

I used to love staying up to watch the cricket. I wish I could still do it.

Lightweight!  Hopefully City's match is interesting or I may doze off in the stand. 

Aussies declare at 442-8, could be a lively last session for the England batsmen.

[Hesperus]

Difficult start for our openers. Come on lads, dig in. We need Cook to put an innings in.

[Hesperus]

Good fight back from the bowlers, but the Aussies missed a trick not enforcing the follow on.

History suggests there is zero chance we reach the target unfortunately.

[nimrod]

Good fight back from the bowlers, but the Aussies missed a trick not enforcing the follow on.

History suggests there is zero chance we reach the target unfortunately.

They certainly did miss a trick and now look under pressure, need a big innings from Root

[Hesperus]

Well, records are there to be broken. So there is always a chance. Root will probably need to hold his bat to the very end though.

[nimrod]

Even if England lose, its shown they will not necessarily lose the tour 5-0, (as I thought)
There is fight in the old dog so to speak, ohh and the barmy army were fantastic in that last session.

[Hesperus]

Batsmen blown away this morning. I got a bit giddy yesterday and seriously thought about a 3am alarm call. Glad I didn't now. The Waca next up, where we last won in 1978.... 🤔

[nimrod]

Its about this time when I tell people here Im not really interested in cricket