Ashes 2025-26.

[Arthur Crabtree]

I fully expect Australia to be batting again by the end of day 2

The England bowlers will have had no rest.... again..... and Australia will use the resulting lack of energy to rack up a big 3rd innings score, to which England will reply by falling in a heap in less than 40 overs

Is this a repeat?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Well England have two wickets to get first. So let's see how that goes.

But on a flat second day wicket, I'm not going to assume England are going to get bundled out for not many. The Aussie attack is good, but England have been up v/s better attacks in my lifetime, many of them in Australia, and won some of them. They may well lose badly, but it's not inevitable.

[Arthur Crabtree]

England get their review back. Which feels like an admission they got it wrong.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Well England have two wickets to get first. So let's see how that goes.

Hmm. Getting a bit of a pasting!

[backfootpunch]

As usual a load of absolute rubbish being bowled at the tail

[backfootpunch]

As usual a load of absolute rubbish being bowled at the tail

Maybe not hahaha

[Arthur Crabtree]

Wicket! Take that you Aussies!

[Arthur Crabtree]

Doesn't Tongue have a great record of bowling to the lower order?

Hey, he's on...

[andy]

This is frustrating!!! 35 mins of bowling, a ball pitched up at the stumps gets the wickets, rest of it short wide and *modded*....they're literally throwing away all the hard work done yesterday

[andy]

5 for jofra archer! Finally all out... now to bat and bat long!

[Arthur Crabtree]

Well done JA. Good effort despite the late bruising.

[backfootpunch]

This is frustrating!!! 35 mins of bowling, a ball pitched up at the stumps gets the wickets, rest of it short wide and *modded*....they're literally throwing away all the hard work done yesterday

90-4 to 370 feels like another big missed opportunity

They need to get 470 really. Assuming the pitch will deteriorate.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Crawley goes, but not the absolute worst start of the series.

Bedtime! My hunch is 270-5 at the close.

[backfootpunch]

Absolutely awful start

To be expected i guess

The worlds worst top 3 doing its usual.

Down to root as usual. Glad im going to bed in a few minutes.

[andy]

Well that session couldn't have gone much worse! Gifted the Aussies an extra 50 or so then top order fall again!! That being said Crawley and Duckett got genuinely good balls!!! Pope's was a shocker though and he should be dropped just for that if anything else! Soon to be 3-0 and over before Xmas again!