[Cricket] The Ashes- England v Australia- 3rd Test, Headingley, July 06-10, 2023

[banjo]

Never in doubt

 

[pasty]

Easy. Easy. Easy.

 

[SweatyMexican]

Never in doubt.

 

[doogie004]

Always rated Baz ball

 

[Weststander]

Nothing beats a Headingly roar in cricket and I’m going back to Boycott’s 100th ton in 77.

A football crowd …. I like it.

 

[pasty]

we’re gonna win 3-2

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Started welling up then.
Wood and Woakes

 

[Eeyore]

So lovely to go to Old Trafford with the series alive. It means I can stay away from football a bit longer.

 

[The Fits]

With Woakes and Wood's habit for runs we can surely bring Foakes back next test.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Brook and Woakes won that. Well done chaps

 

[7:18]

Great innings!

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I think you could reasonably argue we've lost all three of these matches because of him.

So glad to be proved wrong about this bit.

 

[A1X]

Unlike the right wing press, I’ve always believed in Woakes

 

[nwgull]

This thread is even more negative than some matchday threads! BetFair has us at 1-5 on, and for good reason. I’m not saying it’s a formality - it isn’t - but all it requires is for a couple of the 7 remaining not-out batsmen to get 30 or 40 runs, and I’d say that at least 5 of them are capable of that to some degree or another.

I don’t get it right that often, so am going to brag about this. I called it almost perfectly:

Didn’t need an epic innings from Stokes, just Brook adding 35 runs to his lunchtime total, Woakes also in the 30s, and even though the other 3 didn’t get significant runs on their own, they still got a more-than-useful 34 plus any extras that came whilst occupying the crease.

Can’t wait for Old Trafford!

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

Can’t wait for the negativity in the Old Trafford thread…..

 

[Si Gull]

Excellent. Keeps the rest of the series alive which is what we want.

 

[nwgull]

Excellent. Keeps the rest of the series alive which is what we want.

Absolutely. It would’ve have been doubly annoying to have the series dead after we’d batted and bowled better than they did for 4 innings. The reason it was so close was that our fielding was so poor on the first day.

 

[jcdenton08]

Bairstow must surely be dropped. I know he’s handy with the bat but he’s very average behind the stumps.

 

[Berty23]

Bairstow must surely be dropped. I know he’s handy with the bat but he’s very average behind the stumps.

To be honest I would take average with the gloves!

 

[Icy Gull]

Had a quick look earlier in the day and came to the conclusion that any match day thread on any sport on NSC is the same, Knee jerks and despair long before the end when things are going awry