Kick Off

Moeen Ali coming out to bat in place of Root.

A left hand batsman.... fodder for Lyon

ETA
3 maiden overs in a row. RUNS do not matter to either side. This is a battle to take (or retain) wickets

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Wicket 5
MM Ali lbw b Lyon 13 (43b 1x4 0x6) SR: 30.23

Reviews remaining:
Australia 2 (0 successful, 0 unsuccessful);
England 1 (1 successful, 1 unsuccessful)
(I think they are WRONG about Eng reviews... they used both yesterday? I guess 1 could have been "umpire's call" thing?? but I would expect that to show in the stats?)
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5th Test Day 5 - LUNCH

England 346 & 346 & 144/5 * (75 ov)
Australia 649/7d

England trail by 159 runs with 5 wickets remaining

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Play resumes...

Joe Root has not returned to the crease... Again "retired hurt"
Apparently his hospital thing was a gastro "bug" rather than just dehydration

JE Root retired hurt 58 (167b 1x4 0x6) SR: 34.73



Lyon is bowling from the other end to all his previous overs.
New ball is due in 4 overs

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6th Wicket
JM Bairstow lbw b Cummins 38 (143b 4x4 0x6) SR: 26.57

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7th Wicket
SCJ Broad c †Paine b Cummins 4 (2b 1x4 0x6) SR: 200.00

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New Ball

2nd new ball is available after 80 overs


England 346 & 149/7 * (80 ov)
Australia 649/7d
England trail by 154 runs with 3 wickets remaining

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8th Wicket
MS Crane c †Paine b Cummins 2 (4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50.00

Reviews remaining:
Australia 2 (0 successful, 0 unsuccessful);
England 0 (1 successful, 2 unsuccessful)

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I found a commentator worse (IMO) than Rigor.

Graeme Swann

He is on BT Sport channel and not taking this series loss very well.



ETA: Evidently, he's a bit of controversial commentator going back to November. Aussies don't care for him even under the best circumstances.

Hearing the Barmy Army, went back in the thread to re-read what you said about them.

Not heard him commentate... but I seem to recall I didn't like him when he was playing?

Mind you.. I dont like most English players

NZ's "Peter Sharp" might have been worse than Rigor? He was from a different (older) era. He got taken off TV.. but carried on as radio commentator. He was LITERALLY.. a school teacher type.... high school teacher who thought he knew all about cricket. He's dead now

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Interesting point..... 5 runs "hit equipment"

A ball just hit the helmet that the wicket keeper has near him. That is automatic 5 runs .... whether it rolls on to the boundary or not.

It is a rule that if the ball hits fielding teams equipment it's 5 runs. I'd like to see that rule put to the test if fielder loses his hat, or sunglasses etc... and ball hits them

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Last Wicket falls (Root not coming back)

JM Anderson c †Paine b Hazlewood 2 (23b 0x4 0x6) SR: 8.69

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THE ASHES 2017 - 2018

5th Test - Australia v England

Thu Jan 4 - Mon Jan 8, 2018 10:30 local (23:30 GMT -1d | 12:30 NZDT)
Sydney Cricket Ground LIVE

Toss: England have won the toss and will bat.

Livescorecard
http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/1088 ... z-2017-18/


STUMPS - Day 1
England 233/5 * (81.4 ov)
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STUMPS - Day 2
England 346
Australia 193/2 * (67 ov)
Australia trail by 153 runs with 8 wickets remaining in the 1st innings
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STUMPS - Day 3
England 346
Australia 479/4 * (157 ov)
Australia lead by 133 runs with 6 wickets remaining in the 1st innings
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STUMPS - Day 4
England 346 & 93/4 * (46 ov)
Australia 649/7d
England trail by 210 runs with 6 wickets remaining
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RESULT - Day 5
England 346 & 180/9 (88.1 ov)
Australia 649/7d

Australia won by an innings and 123 runs






5 Game ASHES TEST SERIES, Australia 4 V England 0
(1 Game drawn)

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1st ODI - Australia v England

Sun Jan 14, 2018 (50 ovs) 14:20 local (03:20 GMT | 16:20 NZDT)
Melbourne Cricket Ground LIVE D/N

Toss: England have won the toss and will bowl.

Livescorecard
http://www.espncricinfo.com/series/1088 ... z-2017-18/



5 Game ODI Series Australia V England

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Lets hope this game is better than all the CRAP games played in NZ.

A 350+ score would be nice..... players batting with SR above 100% from the start.

OF COURSE I want Australia the "Beat the English"

Game started well... Finch hitting boundaries

Weather in Melbourne looks Glorious

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Oh Crap... Wicket.. Warner out

Wicket 1
DA Warner c Root b Wood 2 (5b 0x4 0x6) SR: 40.00

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Thinking about my notion that payers (on average) need to score at SR 100% and so each individual needs to attain that, or at least NOT occupy the crease for a long time at a low rate....

Of course, players may go through periods of not scoring.... and I am not suggesting a "slog" at every ball. What is required is to NOT fall more than a boundary (or 2) behind a run/ball faced. In practice players can tick along scoring ones or twos off most balls... but in practice there will be periods of dot balls and so each player needs to score a boundary.. say every second over that they face most of.

Eg At the moment Finch has fallen behind... but he is only 2 boundaries away from catching up

Aaron Finch(rhb) 22 (32) SR 68.75

But.... Finch DOES need to pull finger about NOW!!

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Wicket 2
SPD Smith c †Buttler b Rashid 23 (18b 3x4 0x6) SR: 127.77

Australia 58/2 * (10.5/50 ov) RR 5.35
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Wicket 3
TM Head b Plunkett 5 (8b 1x4 0x6) SR: 62.50

Australia 78/3 * (14/50 ov) RR 5.57
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England Unsuccessful Review.
0 remaining

Australia 80/3 * (14.4/50 ov) RR 5.33
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I hold my breath when Ali is bowling, and I don't miss one toss when he is batting.

I am enjoying the match so far, the RR is a rollercoaster. I won't get to see much of England batting tonight.

Waiting for a partnership to settle in and start working.



ETA:
Looking at the stats again so far, Cricket is a funny old game, isn't it?

Michael Clarke (who should know better) just said it is OK for Marsh to be batting slow for 30 or 40 balls faced.."he can always catch up later"..... Yeah right... sounds like a plan except.... it often happens that a batsman who is behind in SR then goes OUT and so puts all that "catching up" on the shoulders of later batsmen. And.... whoever ends up doing the "catching up" has to score his own "run a ball" as well as the "catching up" runs.... and the extra runs used to catch up would be much more use if they were in fact BONUS runs on top of the run a ball... setting a large target beyond 300+

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Key phrase here "who should know better"...

Even I understand what you are saying and it makes perfect sense. Does he think he's watching a Test match?

Of course I never saw him play, but I like him a lot (as commentator).