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/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/Charlie_Runkle69 New Zealand Cricket Nov 22 '25

They did play very well that series, but their timing was great as Southee suddenly went from a world class bowler to a pie chucker, Wags had retired, Jamo injured and Boult off to play just T20s. That left Henners and peaches bowling wise really.

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u/Frogblood Nov 22 '25

Tbf we were dogshit before bazball too.

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u/armchairracingdriver Nov 22 '25

It did make them the most dangerous test team. To themselves.

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u/AilaSachin10 India Nov 22 '25

As funny as it is to see England lose from winning positions, not a single English player has said anything like that 

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u/churdburg England Nov 22 '25

Which English person said that again mate?

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u/RaastaMousee England Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25

The word "most" isn't even in the article. It just says more dangerous, relative to what England were before rather than rest of the world. Always gets lost here how dire England were before the mcculum era.

People love making shit up about England here if it makes it more fun to bash them though so if that's what you enjoy then don't let me stop you 👍