[Cricket] The Ashes - England v Australia - 5th Test, Oval, July 27-31, 2023

[Titanic]

Wood gets Starc

Too quick for him to pull it like that... straight up in the air.

185-7

 

[banjo]

And another one bites the dust

 

[Titanic]

Cummins gets his instructions from the captain.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I know it's been said but I really can't listen to this Mel Jones.

Ponting, Tubby, Maxwell et al offer something with a certain amount of neutrality but she is SO biased.

 

[Titanic]

Smith RUN OUT by the sub fielder ??

YES HE IS

or is he??

Crikey this is painful... he's going to give it not out. BOOOOO!

 

[The Wizard]

Smith ran out by a sub fielder

 

[Hugo Rune]

That’s close.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Smith run out by a SUB!! 194-8. Or has he?? JB knocked the stump before the ball got there. Not out by a frame

 

[The Wizard]

What is this idiotic third umpire doing? The stump is clearly dislodged??

 

[Hugo Rune]

Smith ran out by a sub fielder

They ****ing hate it when sub-fielders do them!

 

[The Wizard]

It’s not on top of the stump it’s because the stump has gone, that’s how gravity works mate.


What a joke.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Utter bollox

 

[banjo]

Bullshit.

 

[KZNSeagull]

JB knocked the stump before the ball got there.

 

[The Wizard]

I’m going to backtrack on my opinion having seen he replay, crap keeping again by Bairstow.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

I’m going to backtrack on my opinion having seen he replay, crap keeping again by Bairstow.

The margins are so tight, taking the ball right next to the stumps was the only way to get the runout, rather than waiting for it to go past. There was just so little space to work with and he caught the stump fractionally first - to call it crap keeping is so so harsh, it was almost brilliant keeping - and I don't even think the bail was dislodged before the ball was in his hands - which if so would perhaps mean it should have been given out.

 

[The Wizard]

Anderson given the new ball again… it’s hard to imagine this isn’t pissing the other bowlers off given the lack of action Jimmy is getting and has been getting throughout the series

 

[The Wizard]

Umpire took 3 years to give that one LBW, looked out out out to me.

Oh FFS, the gods have turned on us, that swung absolute miles

 

[jakarta]

Not to happen is it?

 

[Eeyore]

I was hoping that that had hit the bat to make sure that there wasn't any doubt