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[Cricket] The Ashes- England v Australia- 1st Test, Birmingham, June 16 - 20, 2023

Ashes- 1st Test- The result ?


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Greg Bobkin

Silver Seagull
May 22, 2012
15,692
But not lost the game !
Yeah, but you can't prove that, can you?

Anyone blaming an early declaration – after EVERYTHING else that has happened in the subsequent days – for a defeat is just wrong!
 






ManOfSussex

We wunt be druv
Apr 11, 2016
15,062
Rape of Hastings, Sussex
Oh well. Great Test match though. Australian payback delivered for that Sunday morning in the Edgbaston Ashes Test back in 2005.
 














Questions

Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
25,330
Worthing
If only we could have squeezed another 30/40 runs from our batting.
 








Kinky Gerbil

Im The Scatman
NSC Patron
Jul 16, 2003
58,610
hassocks
Yeah, but you can't prove that, can you?

Anyone blaming an early declaration – after EVERYTHING else that has happened in the subsequent days – for a defeat is just wrong!
Yeah, but you can't prove that, can you?

Anyone blaming an early declaration – after EVERYTHING else that has happened in the subsequent days – for a defeat is just wrong!
Can't prove we would have run out of overs either.
 


Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park
NSC Patron
Apr 5, 2014
25,571
Splendid match, all five days, top cricket by both teams

TEST is BEST.

Now I'm off for a cry.
 










doogie004

Well-known member
Oct 12, 2008
6,515
wisborough green
Can't prove we would have run out of overs either.
Yeah, but you can't prove that, can you?

Anyone blaming an early declaration – after EVERYTHING else that has happened in the subsequent days – for a defeat is just wrong!
The facts were no one had ever declared on day one after 78 overs Fact!!
It has cost us
 






nwgull

Well-known member
Jul 25, 2003
14,398
Manchester
Arse. We really should've won that. Having your spinner unable to properly bowl on the last day of a test is a real disadvantage. Root did ok, but he should've been taken out of the attack as soon as he'd got that wicket. Those sixes he went for really put the Aussies back on the front foot.
 


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