Ashes 2017/18: Stokes for the madness!

Heavyweight showdown of Tim Paine & Shaun Marsh v Craig Overton & James Vince

Stoneman scored a hundred in the warm up last night. I BELIEVE

Hero Moeen presides above all, plotting his various 70-ball hundreds and torture of Australia's middle order

fwiw I'm actually more concerned about Hazlewood than Starc

Cummins doesn't look too bad either. Amazing he's never played a test in Australia. I guess for Oz it's about keeping them on the park.

Cummins is the kind of bowler that a really class batsman could destroy IMO

Hazlewood is McGrath 2: Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Forward On Off Stump

Hazlewood will get the top order, Starc will blow away the tail. Starc averages about 3 against 9, 10 and Jack

Starc got two hat tricks in the same game for NSW recently

ANGER

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/nov/16/australia-ashes-anger-wicketkeeper-tim-paine-england

“Morons masquerading as mentors”- is Stuart MacGill about to drop a conscious rap album?

ARE YOU READY???

let's smash this 'starc' chap all over brisbane imo

dear fuck am I truly going to have to listen to michael vaughan for the next two months

and when not him, swann ffs

Vince looks like the best player in the world. He'll flash one to second slip in a minute

not yet! Vince dropped by Paine, it's a pity he's a Tim

good game this. Moeen to bowl England to victory day 4?

^^^ gigantic hostage to fortune

A strange scorecard, doesn't the team batting first at the gabba traditionally end the day on about 800 for 2?

slow-ish pitch, lush outfield from what I saw this morning. The draw is a possibility, there's more weather about apparently

it's gonna be a draw (which is gonna be a win for england) because brisbane is a tropical hellhole

the most important thing is that australia will still win the series and we'll have a parade for nathan gazza the goat lyon

greatest living Aussie is Gaz

how's it feel to have your batting line-up at the mercy of Moeen

The general opinion in the office has been that England had no business bringing a spinner like Moeen to Australia, I'm very happy they're starting to be proven wrong.

Mind you, should have picked Crane in this Test instead of Ball. Yeah I know Ball got Warner out (not through any good bowling), but a leggie here would be so useful...

difficult to predict that the Gabba pitch would turn from lunchtime on day one I guess. Another good day today!

otm, great start to the series.

Devereux Versus The World

STEVEN PETER DEVEREUX SMITH

how dare they try to bodyline him before

Nathan Lyon destroying this England innings could very well make my top ten 'lol england' moments.

A hero must arise

What garbage

not bad, not bad at all

well then

JUST IN: Reports emerge that England keeper headbutted Aussie player earlier this month in Perth: https://t.co/uodboAm0Bb #Ashes pic.twitter.com/8eOqZ1FX3K

— cricket.com.au (@CricketAus) November 26, 2017

brb googling 'how likely overnight hurricane brisbane'

you may be in luck:

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yeah the boys

Jonny Bairstow 'headbutt' something he does with his rugby mates, says Andrew Strauss

Send the cunt home imo.

Brief excitement that Ben Stokes had been spotted at Heathrow in full kit. He is apparently going to see his family in NZ... dare we dream?

you couldn't lose this from 220 ahead now could you

England to win by "dinner" tomorrow, calling it now

No more wickets before close and I make us favourites

did you just kiss of death it?

yes....but at least Root abides

yeah i feel like they've moved one or two notches up from abject

I like sending in Woakes as nightwatchman - he's talented enough to bat 6 regardless

yeah if he and Root can put on 50 tomorrow morning... it's the hope that kills you

and Moeen still to bat...yeah best not think like this

That wasn't worth being awake early for.

classic waking up early-ish and eagerly checking the score. oh of course. *puts phone down and faces day*

"You knew this, Winston. You have always known it."

hey look more drinking related trouble for england

must be a day ending in a 'y'

new promotional video for England

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3EAUDcZrN8

poor Jimmy

it was looking good for four overs!

might still be good. cook's dismissal was the leaden poke of a man on his way out

this is all going a bit ~too well~

dropped!

DAWID JOHANNES MALAN

Sarf Ifrikan?

think his dad is. A great knock, just what England needed. Bairstow looking good too.

malan born in middlesex mate, no bother

Cook Out

Cook double century at the MCG

Good to see we can manage 35 runs for the last 6 wickets.

I shouldn't be surprised but still

I'm not surprised.

Still not surprised.

-_-

That's presumably the last time we ever play four rfm bowlers in Australia

Question wisdom of playing in australia full stop

tbh I'm glad those Irish and Afghan blokes are getting a chance, would be good to play against quality bowling for a change

meh

g'day

nathan lyon waz right

now we've got that thing out of the way, time for the main event: THE BIG BASH LEAGUE (STARRING SHANE WATSON)

Gaz Lyon can walk on water p much

rumours of alistair's demise seem a little exaggerated

took his time

Cool interesting to see how inglan lose from here

hay guys did I miss anything here

the appetiser course for a festival of limited-overs cricket

- trevor bayliss, 2017

http://images.performgroup.com/di/library/omnisport/9a/75/glennmaxwell-cropped_15zyt76g1uj6s144k3qqmlqvbl.jpg

yeah yeah whatever

nothing to see here, move along please

re. my first post, I was right about two of these

Heavyweight showdown of Tim Paine & Shaun Marsh v Craig Overton & James Vince

― Neil S, Thursday, November 16, 2017 2:11 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbf predicting a K.O. win for Shaun Marsh would have been laughed at heavily by me good self before the start of the series

Mitch Marsh getting a couple of centuries was even more surprising