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I wouldn’t mind Warner being an opener for years to come.

Taking the series as a whole. Cut out the personal criticism of me, stick to your cricket opinions.

Catches win matches, Bristow made too many errors.

Who would be in your ideal 11? [In batting order]

Bristow’s been slagged off all summer for his keeping by nsc cricket experts, pundits and writers.

Fine margins. Batting sorted, lesson learnt on first innings declaration. ‘Just’ need to top class wicket keeper and two pacemen to join Woakes and Wood.

Retired tonight.

Spinner? Especially for Australia and Indian subcontinent. Is Root enough?

Scyld Berry of the Telegraph, series player ratings (out of 10): Duckett 8 Crawley 9 Ali 7 (based on useful runs too) Root 8 Brook 8 Stokes 9 Bristow 6 Woakes 9 Wood 9 Broad 8 Anderson 5 Pope 4 Robinson 6 Tongue 7 Who’ll be the test quality bowlers to replace Broad, Ali and Anderson?

Great stuff, has The Oval filled up?

3-1 away win for Australia looks near certain.

Has anyone here ever got really cold at a cricket match? From memory the Sept 1993 NatWest final where Tony Piggott handed the trophy to Warwickshire, was ******* freezing. Late October temp's on 4th Sept. At Hove T20's I always needed a fleece.

I was thinking of a football or rugby union analogy. In a proper tournament, total professionalism, the team and winning comes first. An active first choice player announcing their retirement in or around a key knock out game, would be a distraction at that moment. Almost certainly hasn’t...

Worth a read. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/jul/30/england-bazball-australia-test-ashes Beneath the prose, a message that several England bowlers shouldn’t now be playing, Bristow not keeping and Broad should’ve announced his retirement after the match (an unprofessional distraction).

Garth Le Roux playing? I loved his JPL taking games by the scruff of the neck.

For you ..... also Arundel, Chichester?

Exactly. They’re playing age old fundamentals that yield winning test cricket. There’s an arrogance to English cricket hacks just now. Prior to the plethora of wickets falling today, on R5 one trotted out “The ICC owe us something, we’ve single handedly torn up the rulebook on test cricket...

Is Bazball going to hand Australia their first win in England since 2001?