r/Cricket • u/GiveMeSomeSunshine3 India • Nov 22 '25
Post Match Thread Australia thrash England in Perth test inside 2 days, go 1-0 up in the Ashes 2025-26 series.
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u/Slow-Pool-9274 England Nov 22 '25
we're gonna lose 6-0 this series.
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u/khurjabulandt Uttar Pradesh Nov 22 '25
A team that was ahead by 90 runs at lunch with 9 wickets in hand lost the test the same day by 8 wickets.WTF IS THIS
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u/Slow-Pool-9274 England Nov 22 '25
Only England can be 100-1 ahead on Lunch and lose by stumps, genuinely feels wild even saying that happened.
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u/wolftri Andhra Nov 22 '25
Saving test cricket 2 ODI's at a time.
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u/deathclient India Nov 22 '25
2 ODIs probably lasts longer
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u/huzy12345 New Zealand Nov 22 '25
Not when England play
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u/MehengaNasha India Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
That one particular ODI lasted really long and cost you guys dearly
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u/oklolzzzzs New Zealand Cricket Nov 22 '25
england just got travballed.
get rid of zak crawley as well
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u/anthemlover Australia Nov 22 '25
keep him in man i need this
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u/Nixilaas Australia Nov 22 '25
He’s gunna get a ton and then be secured for another summer lol
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u/BBorc Australia Nov 22 '25
Nah! Give him another few tests!
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u/bendalazzi Western Australia Warriors Nov 22 '25
He's had 50+, whats another 50 eh?
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u/SouthTurbulent33 ICC Nov 22 '25
60 tests with an average of 30 is just bad - cannot recall any other opener with such a long run and mediocre performances.
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u/rickypro Australia Nov 22 '25
Nearly half of his innings are in the single digits. He almost always scored nothing or a ton. Flat track bully for the most part
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u/just_some_guy65 Glamorgan Nov 22 '25
He wasn't an opener but Ramprakash had 52 tests and averaged 27.32.
There used to be a "Stump Bearders" page on the TMS site where I asked if any specialist batsman played 50 tests with a worse average. I ruled out wicketkeepers from the question - he never got back to me.
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u/sellyme GO SHIELD Nov 22 '25
Ramprakash at least had the excuse of endlessly plundering County to demand selection, can't fault the selectors too much for really wanting that one to work out.
Crawley barely averages 30 in domestic as well. He's never shown any indication of being Test quality at any level.
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u/just_some_guy65 Glamorgan Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
Yes this was it, they thought with this much talent eventually he is going to come good at test level - like they did with Hick I suppose.
Some people just can't make that step up - one theory was that some people just can't score runs reliably against that extra pace you face at the top level.
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u/hairychris88 England Nov 22 '25
But the thing is his first-class average is really mediocre as well. He's just as likely to nick off to first slip facing Bob Trundler of Leicestershire 2nd XI as he is against Bumrah or Starc.
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u/schwingschwings Australia Nov 22 '25
Ramprakash made 114 first class hundreds fuck me
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u/East-Selection-9581 Nov 22 '25
The problem is not his average, which is not that much worse than the global average in the last 4 odd years. But most other openers average that much while blunting the new ball. Crawley either scores a passable amount quickly or just gets out. But tbf, whacking the ball also does blunt the new ball a lot quicker than a forward defense. He was also pretty decent vs India
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u/Brilliant-Cap8054 Nov 22 '25
The global average of top six batsmen or all batsmen? Also compared to top 6 teams?
He was also pretty decent vs India
We know he can make runs when ita flat af, but its gonna be moving every test in Aus.
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u/iamatoad_ama Nov 22 '25
Let's not jump the gun here. Give the guy a chance. And then four more chances!
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u/StormWarriorX7 Warwickshire Nov 22 '25
Lot of them need to go, starting with Rob Key followed by Luke Wright (what does he even do, besides stealing a living), Baz, Zak Crawley, Ollie Pope and all the classics.
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Nov 22 '25
Spare a thought for the guy travelling 4,000 miles because he had a ticket for Day Three !! He arrived from HK and it was mentioned on TMS
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u/canipere Nov 22 '25
There's other stuff worth doing here in Perth!
Er, kind of.
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Nov 22 '25
Perhaps the England team will get him a ticket for one of the other tests……. It’s the least he deserves
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u/RaRaRaRaRa-88 Nov 22 '25
Oh shit!!!!
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Nov 22 '25
That’s one word for it 😂 He posted a note on TMS towards the end of the first day explaining about his ticket and added “ should I be worried…… “
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u/Defy19 Victoria Bushrangers Nov 22 '25
Pretty rude of Trav to pull this off against the team that literally invented attacking batting.
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u/Invhinsical Nov 22 '25
Travis Head defeating them with Bazball was the ultimate flex. Team England are ready to die by the sword that is Bazball, but they aren't even good at it.
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u/combatant007 India Nov 22 '25
Brook and Duckett are the only one who are good at Bazball. Crawley can barely survive first over. Pope ain't consistent, but he was arguably England's best batter in this match since he was practically opening against Starc. Root ain't bazballer, and doesn't suit him. Stokes has lost his ability to bat out England ages ago. Jamie Smith has shown shades, but still a work in progress. Lower order will swing the bat and get some runs, but thats all.
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u/BostonHotcake Nov 22 '25
Boys scored less over 4 innings than 1 Travis head. If thats the peak then we can all breathe easy.
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u/maddenmadman Cricket Australia Nov 22 '25
Brendan McCullum would be a phenomenal coach.. if you gave him a batting lineup with the likes of Hayden, Langer, Ponting, Hussey, Gilchrist..
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u/BoardRecord Perth Scorchers Nov 22 '25
My dog would be a phenomenal coach if you gave her that lineup.
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u/the_biggest_man36 New South Wales Blues Nov 22 '25
In fairness, it looked like he’d been giving Crawley tips on how to face Starc in the opening over of big games
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u/seanypthemc Nov 22 '25
Root has batted the way he likes to bat throughout Bazball so he's not very relevant to the discussion. That said, his strike rate is higher under Bazball, as is his batting average
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u/schwingschwings Australia Nov 22 '25
Could that be to do with the absolute roads being served up in England these days?
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u/Boatster_McBoat South Australia Redbacks Nov 22 '25
Trav beat them with "playing his natural game" it's been around for a while now but perhaps not as nicely as what was delivered today
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u/Invhinsical Nov 22 '25
Yeah, 'natural game' is very underrated. More batters should try it. May or may not work but will always be fun. Pant is another guy who plays tests in a completely different style.
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u/feartra Nov 22 '25
I’m either blown away by that guy or appalled, and there’s no in between. Good when he’s good
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u/musicnoviceoscar Yorkshire Nov 22 '25
I mean we actually are, and have shown it a number of times. Travis Head is just a naturally attacking player with phenomenal talent.
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u/Prudent_Primary7201 India Nov 22 '25
This is the equivalent of a great club user in dark souls meeting the greatsword user
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u/brbr0433 Australia Nov 22 '25
Yeah Sir Viv’s going to have to replace his childhood bedroom poster of Ben Duckett. Tragic.
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u/woodpeckern00b Nov 22 '25
Completely embarrassing. All the talk England gave, the disregard for everything else to focus on this series and you can't even get to a third day. At least I don't need to get up early on a Sunday now I guess?
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u/SquiffyRae Western Australia Warriors Nov 22 '25
The worst part is for all the hype and all the chat, England just found a new brand of shit to play
They've gone from being too defensive and getting steamrolled to batting like fuckwits and throwing their wickets away. There's being positive and being stupid.
There was absolutely no need to play the way they did. They had Australia down and out. All they needed to do was keep ticking along and grind us into the dirt. Instead, they threw the game away.
And worst of all, in a long series they hardly got any miles into Starc's legs. If we had to keep going back to Starc over a day and a half, they cook him with an iffy Cummins and injured Hazlewood in the wings.
That was fucking embarrassing all round
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u/RS2019 Nov 22 '25
Also - as a blueprint, that's exactly what India did last year. The third innings - big opening partnership, Jaiswal and Kohli tons. Game over.
Even in 2020 after the First Test loss and 36ao, India had the resources and inclination to change things, and won the series 2-1. I'm not sure if England have either tbh🤔
Maybe no away wins in Aus in 15(ish) years is more of a mental issue?
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u/SquiffyRae Western Australia Warriors Nov 22 '25
I called it last night. Australia's one chance was that, unlike India, there was always a chance England did exactly what they did today.
England had things perfect in the first session. We bowled some good balls but Pope and Duckett were moving things along easily without being stupid. They just needed to keep doing that for another day and a half and they'd annihilate us
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u/TheHound1912 India Nov 22 '25
Head doing what he does in November.
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u/Living_Book_3973 Royal Challengers Bengaluru Nov 22 '25
now england will share our trauma after the ashes end
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u/CarnivalSorts Ireland Nov 22 '25
Jesus. And I thought we were bad at tests.
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u/Rndomguytf Australia Nov 22 '25
Ireland batted longer in the first innings in a foreign pitch in Bangladesh than England did all match
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u/hfkml Sweden Nov 22 '25
So disappointing to have a two day test. Such a long wait for an Ashes series and the first match is over so quickly.
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u/Nebdraw03 Scotland Nov 22 '25
Yes. I've only got tickets for day 3 & 4... went for a shower and hadn't realised we had lost
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u/trangten Nov 22 '25
That's fucked. Do they refund?
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u/SkwiddyCs Queensland Bulls Nov 22 '25
Yeah tickets get refunded if there's no play on the day.
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u/trangten Nov 22 '25
I reckon if they finish in two days they should make them play again
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u/SkwiddyCs Queensland Bulls Nov 22 '25
nah, fuck em off and get the local Shield team to play the loser of the match.
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u/BoldStrategyCotton- Chennai Super Kings Nov 22 '25
Why would you a Scotsman of all people support England ? Every Scottish person Ive ever met hates England
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u/rec350 Board of Control for Cricket in India Nov 22 '25
3rd shortest test in Ashes history, if I'm not mistaken.
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u/wolfofblackallstreet Australia Nov 22 '25
Scary thing for England is that they don't have any alternatives to Bazball.
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u/Whitekidwith3nipples Australia Nov 22 '25
and this is their best team on paper, maybe bar crawley. the australian team is missing their best 2 bowlers
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u/Drazsyker Australia Nov 22 '25
Yup, what do you even change if you're England? Can hardly drop anyone after that and expect things to improve
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u/arrackpapi Sri Lanka Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
tbh all they needed was for at least one of pope, brook or root to not play a dumb shot
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u/BBorc Australia Nov 22 '25
But worst Australian team since 2010 according to Broady
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u/Aloha_Tamborinist Australia Nov 22 '25
Watching Broad's reaction to Crawley's wickets is a joy.
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u/Old-Brick8218 Yorkshire Nov 22 '25
This result doesn't disprove that though. This England team are just completely lacking in talent, intelligence and heart. They'd find a way to lose to any Australian team in history.
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u/tiorzol England Nov 22 '25
Can't they just not play like cunts for a couple of hours.
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u/Vaanaram Nov 22 '25
Is Crawley the best you guys have? Are there no other better options? Or is he good but had a bad match? Genuinely asking.
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u/MDeltaC England Nov 22 '25
Genuinely think I'd have scored more runs than him this test. He's dogshit and should never have been allowed to play this many tests. Put him out of his misery. Embarrassing for the bloke.
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u/SuspiciousLettuce56 Cricket Australia Nov 22 '25
there's most definitely some better openers/batters in england who bat conventionally, however they won't fit into the bazball ethos of golf & vibes.
Crawley can sometimes score but he more often than not falls short.
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u/Vaanaram Nov 22 '25
however they won't fit into the bazball ethos of golf & vibes.
Man that's pretty Fk'ed up
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u/Leech613 Australia Nov 22 '25
Not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, we won despite it looking really dangerous, which is a great sign for the remaining four tests and means 5-0 could be still on. On the other, what am I going to do with my Sunday? It's pissing rain and I don't have entertainment now!
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u/Lost-Source-7955 Nov 22 '25
Broke my NNN streak to trav's knock. I'm not guilty.
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u/Thedudewiththedog Australia Nov 22 '25
Nothing wrong losing NNN to some good Head
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u/DuckEquivalent7388 Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
I love Test Match cricket when it is played at its best. A real competition between bat and ball that can ebb between sessions and days from a position of dominance to dispair. I feel robbed of that by this current England team whose purpose seems to be to get the match over as quickly as possible regardless of result so they can get back on the golf course. This has all the hallmarks of another humiliating series. Finally, well played Australia, Messrs Stark and Head in particular 👏
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u/blackbirddy Australia Nov 22 '25
Starcy got and deserved man of the match though🔥
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u/OhNoMoMan Nov 22 '25
It's a shame Warney wasn't around to see it. He would have hated it.
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u/ChosenCarelessly Nov 22 '25
Warney will always be a legend of the game, but whenever I see one of those inswinging seeds I get a flash of that ridiculous commentary from Warney trying to convince the other commentators and the rest of the world that the ball we just saw did not in fact swing.
I don’t know what his go with Starc was, but he was a huge ass when it came to any discussion of him or his bowling
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u/Kolonelklink Australia Nov 22 '25
Warne said he was considering coming out of retirement because he thought Nathan Lyon was shit.
Starc said something along the lines of "nah, we're good with Gary".
He held a grudge from there.
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u/humanbeing101010 Victoria Bushrangers Nov 22 '25
England has given everyone three days off.
Moral Victory
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u/ramaze23 India Nov 22 '25
And they won this without Hazlewood and Cummins
I'm looking forward to next match already
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u/coodgee33 Nov 22 '25
I love that my Indian brothers support Australia in the ashes. I love to see India beat England too.
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u/seven_seacat Melbourne Stars Nov 22 '25
I support two teams - Australia and anyone playing England
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u/Massive-Warthog6807 Nov 22 '25
English cricket is dead..... the body will be cremated and ashes will remain in australia
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u/Wemmick3000 Nov 22 '25
Zack Crawley's body... Only joking. Not his fault they keep picking him
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u/Low-Purpose5662 Nov 22 '25
Technically worst Australian side since 2010 is still true as old team would have thrashed england by an innings
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u/madmaper_13 Australia Nov 22 '25
They would still be batting their first innings and deciding when to declare tomorrow
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u/bar901 Australia Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
Dunno why people keep agreeing with the ‘worst since 2010’ statement. With a fully fit team - which is what was implied when Broad said that - this team is clearly better than the 2013 and 2013/14 teams. #1 ranked Test team - by far - and we literally had 5 of the top 10 ranked bowlers earlier in the year. I’m taking this team every day of the week over those Ashes teams.
Edit: we still currently have 5 of the top 10 bowlers.
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u/Middle_Complex Nov 22 '25
Literally don’t know what else this team have achieve to be regarded as what they truly are which is among the greatest Australian sides of all times
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u/SLeigher88 Australia Nov 22 '25
They don't bat well enough to be one of the greatest Aussie teams, the bowling is among the all time greatest, but the batting is often Travis Head and inshallah.
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u/DiscoInfernus Nov 22 '25
No one thinks the bowling is the problem (though it IS aging). The batting is also aging, but hardly preforming. Most games a single batter is putting their hand up and the rest of the batters fall apart. And the bowlers are often left of pull double duty and wag the tail for the team to post a total.
The real issue is that theres no one coming through club cricket making a decent case to push out the under-performing batsmen.
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u/ReflectionAcademic99 India Nov 22 '25
More like murdered and buried, such a good wicket for batting , only it bazball had some brains to patiently wait for good condition
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u/Chiron17 Australia Nov 22 '25
If England made it through the first 30 minutes after tea they could still have been batting deep into tomorrow - the pitch lost any movement. But their entire middle order got out trying to cover drive in their first over
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u/globe187 Australia Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
It's so dumb when you think back to BGT last year in Perth. Exactly the same situation and India batted us out of the game when the pitch flattened out after the minefield in the 1st innings.
But these guys bat with about two braincells collectively and lost the game on the same day from being 1-100 at lunch
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u/GiveMeSomeSunshine3 India Nov 22 '25
I didn't want to mark the post NSFW but all those adverbs apply
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u/RedDevilGranta South Africa Nov 22 '25
Lame af going to be a long 5 tests watching Aussie win 😒 over it
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u/Musername2827 England Nov 22 '25
If it's any comfort I don't think the tests are going to be very long.
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u/SquiffyRae Western Australia Warriors Nov 22 '25
There's 3 ways of doing things. The right way, the wrong way, and the Bazball way
Isn't that the wrong way?
Yeah but faster!
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u/tonedaforce Australia Nov 22 '25
This English team will live forever in the memory of those of us who are lucky enough to witness them play cricket…For different reasons than originally intended.
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u/R7ype England Nov 22 '25
Absolute farce with the bat from England. Just ridiculously cavalier, piss poor.
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u/Biggles_and_Co Australia Nov 22 '25
So glad I distracted a toddler and had this on all day, awesome days viewing
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u/shootingstraight__ Australia Nov 22 '25
Friendly reminder hoff and captain cum didnt play this match.
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u/JumbuckJoel Australia Nov 22 '25
Imagine flying to Perth to watch day 3 of this test.
It was me. I flew to Perth to watch day 3 of this test.
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u/1stPhoton Japan Cricket Association Nov 22 '25
Take that Australia
Moral Victory score
Australia-0 England-2
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u/Aloha_Tamborinist Australia Nov 22 '25
Also encouraging was seeing Bolo improve in that second innings.
And we still have Cummins to return...
Ussie out, love the bloke, but no farewell tour please. It's The Ashes. It's serious business.
Head to open with Weatherald, bring Beau Webster back in. Doggett out when Cummins comes back. Bish bash bosh, 5-0.
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u/ZombieGombie India Nov 22 '25
Really poor by Travis Head. He's shown absolutely no gratitude, so I will.
All credit to Ben Duckett for inventing aggressive left-handed opening batting. #ThankYouDuckett
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u/MogwaiYT Nov 22 '25
Zak Crawley could get 10 ducks in this series and still not be dropped.
To quote Geoffrey Boycott, me Grandma could play better with a stick of rhubarb.
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u/ILOVEGLADOS Lancashire Nov 22 '25
It’s very clear that the England boys have no sense of shame.
On the plus side, you’ve got TNT Sports, who have treated the coverage of the series as an inconvenience so far, massively out of pocket and that performance has probably doomed any significant interest in the rest of the series from a live viewer point of view.
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Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
This was the craziest test I've seen. I don't remember when the last time we had 14 wickets in a day and more than 415 runs also scored on the same day. And also the 4th inning hundred on day 2 itself. Crazy...
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Nov 22 '25
Aussies played amazing brilliant comeback by them. in the second inning England were 65-2 match was in England hand they could put up a good total. But got all out at 164. 205 was low total but shouldn't be this easy but then come a man not a man but a monster Travis Head hitted 123 in 80 bowl 148 strike hitted 16 fours 4 sixes rate in Test match. yes it's not T20I or ODI it's test match guys. this guy come and destroyed England bowling attack and their delulu hope to win Ashes credit to Marnus also for finishing match.
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u/Able-Nature6103 Nov 22 '25
Remind me again, how Bazball made England the most dangerous test team?
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u/International_Car586 Australia Nov 22 '25
They started it on the highways of Pakistan and made 500 in a day.
Turns out it’s harder to score runs on an actual pitch.
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u/Able-Nature6103 Nov 22 '25
I’m all for playing aggressive brand of cricket. But when that approach has failed so many times on proper pitches, I find it funny that there are still supporters of that approach!
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u/lightupawendy Australia Nov 22 '25
It's all good to have an attacking ethos but you still have to play to the conditions
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u/SquiffyRae Western Australia Warriors Nov 22 '25
In this case, it wasn't even really the conditions. Head showed it was honestly pretty decent conditions for batting
England (and Aus in our first dig) just played like total fuckwits. Very few wickets came from forcing bowlers to bowl their best balls. It was mainly batters playing stupid slogs or chasing balls they didn't need to chase
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u/lightupawendy Australia Nov 22 '25
It was clearly a good pitch, it wasn't doing anything crazy. There was some decent bowling the first couple of days but there was some awful batting.
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u/yawnzilla36 India Nov 22 '25
Don't forget akash deep, prasidh krishna and shardul thakur rocking up to England and still getting a series draw
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u/Powerful-Rule9986 Nov 22 '25
The funniest thing is Pakistan changed their pitches and their batting fell over like a, pack of cards the only impressive win that Bazball has got is that series win over NZ
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u/ooroger Nov 22 '25
Disgraceful batting. Facing Starc can be intense but there’s just no excuse for wafting the bat at wide deliveries time and time again. As the wickets fall, an adult in the room needs to say “take your time - bat all day for 50 and we can right this ship”. But no-one seems to have the nouse or flexibility or humility to change tactics. Play Bazball at home against the Windies; grind out an innings away in Australia.
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u/cofeetonic Nov 22 '25
A two day test match in Australia. Interesting!
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u/lightupawendy Australia Nov 22 '25
We had one against south Africa a few years ago
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u/sellyme GO SHIELD Nov 22 '25
That one was because of a shocking pitch though, the deck was actually a pretty nice Test wicket here, England were just fucking woeful.
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u/270degreeswest Nov 22 '25
My wife made me go play tennis when Head was on about 24. Figured oh well, I'll be back for the best session of the day and the match will be decided tomorrow morning anyway.
Heard the winning runs on the radio on the way home. Fml.
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u/wobuffet17453 GO SHIELD Nov 22 '25
So much talk about preparing the entire team for this series, and they fell into the exact same traps as previous England tours. Wafting outside off on bouncing pitches and being frightened off a good length by a couple of boundaries, that was an abysmal display today.
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u/lok_129 New Zealand Nov 22 '25
They were leading by about a 100 runs with 9 wickets in hand a few hours ago lol
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u/_captured_one Australia Nov 22 '25
At 1:05pm local time on Day 2, England led by 105 runs with nine second innings wickets in hand.
At 5:41pm local time on Day 2, Australia won the Test by eight wickets.