Blimey, so this is ‘Day 5’?
Sublime from YJB yesterday, let’s hope he can carry on some more… another England player of Caribbean origin making an impact!!
#Ashes#bbccricket#YeahMan
Why are Carse and Potts bowling short and wide so much?
I don’t buy the ‘Matty hasn’t bowled in a game for a while’ narrative, because surely he’s bowling ‘areas’ in nets?
Stokes is the only bowler regularly targeting the stumps, hence the 2fer
#brainless#Ashes#bbccricket
A featherbed, easy-paced, with the odd one staying a little low… surely you’d be wanting to target the stumps more often?!
*Saying this as a 3rd XI slow seamer whose record of hitting said timbers isn’t great*
#Ashes2025#bbccricket
After the 1st day of this Ashes series we were waxing lyrical about our pacy, threatening bowling attack… wickets possible at any time
Three weeks later, and Carse is bowling 135kph wide long hops with a new ball that’s swinging 🤦♂️
#Ashes2025#bbccricket
@MichaelVaughan Brainless batting and lack of situation awareness from the middle order today… totally threw away a strong position.
I’m all for ‘bazball’ but that was pathetic!
I know this sounds petty in this ridiculous game, but…
Why would you not be giving Buttler as many balls as possible? In 24 balls he’s faced 11. 12 off 13 from the others.
#bbccricket
Blimey, this is phenomenal bowling…
I think I’m right in saying SA need to reach 98 to avoid the heaviest defeat in terms of runs in ODIs? @tmsproducer#ENGvSA#bbccricket
Great to see Bethell back to looking in run-scoring form, becoming clear to see the potential he has
Remarkable what playing actual cricket for a few weeks can do for you!
#ENGvSA#bbccricket
England’s batters appear to have forgotten how to bat for 50 overs… almost like they haven’t done so for a while
Whilst we’re apparently trying to save Test Cricket, we seem to be doing the opposite for this format
#SAvEng#bbccricket
@BoothCricket First two ‘decisions’ of the day equally as bad as well. Dharmasena feeling the need to refer a clear and obvious caught behind, then clearly unsure when he eventually gave Overton lbw…
@CamWallis94 Referred one that was blatantly out, and then gave one that he clearly wasn’t sure about…
Fwiw though, I think 2-2 is a fair reflection of the series as a whole. We simply didn’t bowl well enough this week.
All players clearly under pressure this morning, but the ones who should be getting it right in this situation is the umpires… but they aren’t.
Shame the best umpires in the world right now are English who can’t use their skills here
#ENGvIND#bbccricket
@TheBarmyArmy India batted 100 more overs than England did in this game, and scored 114 more runs in that time… and roughly half of those came when it didn’t even matter
The Oval is gonna get spicy I reckon!
@ArgyleBoyo@TheBarmyArmy From two blokes who saw India to a win recently… oh no wait, they didn’t did they
Meaningless centuries, maybe Washington can get a real one at some point
@vikramvamsi33@MichaelVaughan Root has won more games, which is clearly more important… and don’t even start a conversation comparing wickets here and in India!