comment by Liverpoolwhoelse17 (U16825)
posted 21 minutes ago
You know when a coach is leaving, be it through choice or by those above. the team often play garbage.
be it football/cricket or any other team sport.
Its got that feel of England team.. There is no leadership.I may have said I want England to get hammered from now on in. But seriously we cant go into the ashes with that moron Bayliss in charge. something has got to change. otherwise we will lose the Ashes quite easily.
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Ramprakash is offering nothing either...got to be removed

3 wickets for Wood, 2 for Moeen. Things have changed a bit. WI 74-5.

Wood bowled absolute rockets

Amazing spell from Wood. He's never delivered a fast spell like that for England. Obviously lots of problems remain ahead of the Ashes so hopefully some of the top order players around the counties can put their names in the hat. Wouldn't be surprised to see this game finish today with the way the pitch is behaving.

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Should win this one...now that the series has gone

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Dead rubber so time for Root to step up.

Joe Root's sixteenth Test century. Well done.

comment by TCM (U8959)
posted 20 hours, 43 minutes ago
Amazing spell from Wood. He's never delivered a fast spell like that for England. Obviously lots of problems remain ahead of the Ashes so hopefully some of the top order players around the counties can put their names in the hat. Wouldn't be surprised to see this game finish today with the way the pitch is behaving.
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If Jofra Archer and Olly Stone can perform well in red-ball cricket the next 6 months, and if Mark Wood can stay fit, then we could have a pace attack to match Australia's in the Ashes.

More likely that those 3 will feature in our 2020/1 Ashes attack though.

That's 3 in 13 innings now so good to see an improved conversion rate from him regardless of the match situation.

Declaration with a 484 run lead. Captains can't win can they, all the should have batted on comments are coming out. If they carried on then all the where's the declaration comments would have been posted.

Almost first ball but wicket falls third ball. Great catch Mo.

I didnt know Root was a bender !! Anyone know what Gabriel actually said. Weird that media only mentions the reply that sticking one's member up another man's rear end is "acceptable". May be acceptable to another bender but not to the majority I would think.

Yep Root and Buttler are a pair. Thought this was common knowledge?

A very poor series for England overall despite winning the dead rubber. The same problems remain. Wood provided some real pace for a spell but how often can he do it and can he keep it going? The top order is still an issue. Surely Jennings is gone this time but who would replace him? The jury is out on Burns and Denly. Who keeps wicket?

So according to Shannon Gabriel, his verbatim exchange with Joe Root went as follows:

SG: "Why are you smiling? Do you like boys?"

JR: "Don't use it as an insult. There's nothing wrong with being gay."

SG: "I have no issues with that, but you should stop smiling at me."

Sounds like a 100% accurate report of real speech

FFS

Sounds like one of those horribly stilted "dialogues" used on language-learning courses

Lmao just read what Gabriel said to root. Is that it? Is that all it takes to get a 4 game ban ffs. Absolute joke and Root needs to shut him mouth as I've heard way more foul things come from the England bowlers.

To be fair he only asked him if he liked boys....

comment by BO$$™ (U6401)
posted 3 hours, 35 minutes ago
Lmao just read what Gabriel said to root. Is that it? Is that all it takes to get a 4 game ban ffs. Absolute joke and Root needs to shut him mouth as I've heard way more foul things come from the England bowlers.
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He wasn't banned for 4 ODI's purely for that comment, it was because it took him to 8 demerit points within a 2 year period which is automatically a 4 match ODI ban.

whats wrong with smiling and why did he talk about liking boys?

He should have asked if he likes BBC