*Official* Fifth Test at the Oval

[GIMH]

What are Cummins and Ahmed getting medals for? Not spilling any water?

 

[Daemon]

What are Cummins and Ahmed getting medals for? Not spilling any water?

Australia didn't lose any of the matches they played in

 

[Cabinet96]

What are Cummins and Ahmed getting medals for? Not spilling any water?

Good squash mix.

 

[GIMH]

Poor Gary Ballance

 

[Spark]

Poor Gary Ballance

His first innings was actually really, really important in the context of the series.

 

[Tangles]

Only 3 Aussies have been standouts and would be first picked in a joint team. Rogers, Smith and Lyon. That indicates poor bowling on top of poor batting.

 

[91Jmay]

Ballance did more than Lyth to be fair.

 

[Zinzan]

Well spoken by both skippers. Clarke was very humble.

Congrats again to England, but great response by Aust to finish things off.

 

[91Jmay]

Only 3 Aussies have been standouts and would be first picked in a joint team. Rogers, Smith and Lyon. That indicates poor bowling on top of poor bowling.

Nevill done as much (as little) as Buttler in fairness.

I'd cheat a bit and go something like this:

Rogers
Warner
Cook
Smith
Root
Stokes
Nevill
Starc
Broad
Anderson
Lyon

 

[Tangles]

What's with the hymnal being sung? Thought I was at church when I heard it at Edgbaston.

 

[GIMH]

Jerusalem

 

[Cabinet96]

Yeah, Ballance's first innings was crucial. If he'd not played it we may have lost Cardiff.

Go laugh at that Aussie slip cordon.

 

[Tangles]

Nevill done as much (as little) as Buttler in fairness.

I'd cheat a bit and go something like this:

Rogers
Warner
Cook
Smith
Root
Stokes
Nevill
Starc
Broad
Anderson
Lyon

Happy with that top 6. Not sure I want to reward any of our seamers for their collective bowling and Buttler has been clean and didn't drop the Ashes in Cardiff. Although that was Haddin not Nevill. Nevill scored more runs i think.

 

[burr]

Jerusalem

That song is the single most irritating thing about English cricket.

Anyway, well done England!

I hope all the players from both teams do get together after the match and mingle a bit. They all seem like fairly decent blokes to be fair.

 

[Pothas]

Well not much of a day but being there for the ceremony was decent I suppose. Also had to see everyone get a bloody medallion though, disappointed I did not get one tbh.

 

[Watson33]

No test in the series went to day 5. That speaks volumes about modern approaches to test match batting.

 

[Furball]

Pretty sure the only Tests in 2005 that went to a 5th day were rain affected.

 

[Stapel]

Surely from a neutral perspective five hammerings shared amongst the teams is better than a 5-0

I would disagree, Five tight tests that all eventually swing the same way is more fun.

The very very great thing about test cricket is that the momentum can swing form session to session. Well, that's what I like about it! It has only happened once this series, at the very start of it.

 

[Adders]

What's with the hymnal being sung? Thought I was at church when I heard it at Edgbaston.

That song is the single most irritating thing about English cricket.

****ing ignoramuses!!

 

[Niall]

BBC Sport - Ashes 2015: Graeme Swann's England-Australia player ratings

Swann's ratings are dire. Mitch higher ranking than Haze and Starc? Clarke should be getting no more than 1 and Voges and Buttler getting six? Eh no.

Wood averaging 40 getting an 8 as well? Then surely Finn should be getting 10 out of 10 and not just an extra .5?