At least we’ve salvaged something from this series. Winter 2021 is the away ashes, summer 2022 is New Zealand and South Africa. So the very earliest the next home ashes will be is 2023 and 22 years since last beat us here. 

Just now, chaddyrovers said:

Sibley has 1000 runs this season at average 55 4 days cricket whilst Crawley has 801 at 38. 

We need to find a number 3 from somewhere. Could Ben Stokes do that job? 

Root should go back to 4 for me

Pope should come in for Bairstow for me. And bat 6. 

A very decent season to be fair but Burns was getting big first class runs. In my opinion for what it’s worth I’d be wary about putting stokes at 3. He’d basically be coming in as an opener and I think he’s better once the ball is a bit older.

For me a bairstow is hanging on by a thread. I’d personally go for foakes over him as keeper batsman. Don’t know what he did wrong he had a good tour of Sri Lanka and seemed to be made the fall guy for the West Indies debacle.

Think can afford to play buttler or bairstow just not both as both very hit and miss. Mainly miss unfortunately 

On 13/09/2019 at 20:21, chaddyrovers said:

Being played at The Oval. 

You mean Shaun Marsh? 

Archer and Curran bowled very well today. 

Have you seem Zac Crawley or Dominic Sibley play? Good enough for test cricket? 

Where do you think Lancashire need to improve squad wise for next season? 

Yeah the oval. Ha.

Never seen either of those play. As far as I’m aware both open but haven’t got great averages. On the one hand that’s worrying with the county championship being so weak but on the other hand they’re doing the bulk of red ball cricket it the spring and autumn so not exactly great to bring on the top order through. Another one always mentioned is Ollie pope who has a first class average of 60. But he’s another number 5/6 and there is obviously a massive step up. 

Lancs, like England, have a weak top order. That’s always a concern. Jennings, Davis, Bohannon and livi have been plenty for div 2 but can they regularly step up in div 1. Onions will probably go but they’ve brought in Luke wood from notts. I think getting Glenn Maxwell back would be decent work. 

Apparently there was a bit of agro between stokes and Warner with stokes calling him a fucking prick after classically childish Australian sledges about Bristol. Wade and Paine are chirpy buggers as well. Particularly Wade never shuts up. Given neither make any runs, you’d think they’d be quiet.

Mitch Marsh on the bowling honours board at Lords. How embarrassing. Those brothers are dog shit and get dropped all the time, other than against England. One of them, think him, got a double hundred or a “daddy” hundred last time we played down there. He can’t buy a run generally. 

This is probably the first time England have been ahead in a game until the last few overs at Lords where got on top without ever having a realistic chance of winning and the miracle at headingley.

If England win this game then the next time there’s an ashes series on these shores they won’t have won a series over here for over 20 years. That’s definitely worth fighting for. 

Lancashire promoted. Far too good for division 2. 

Just watched the wickets. Denly, Burns, stokes, bairstow and Curran terrible just terrible. Root got a decent ball but I believe he was dropped 4 times off rank shots. 

Bit of cramp coming on surely. ?

That’s it lad. Get the physio on. 

22 overs left. Could drag that down to 15 with a bit of faffing about. New gloves here and there. An invisible man behind the bowlers arm. 

He is a number 11 if ever there was one. If jimmy was fit he’d still be a number 11. Not sure how Buttler could leave that one. He could have only left it on length but why would you do that on a day 5 pitch. Not a good look. 

Wish buttler had used that wooden thing he was holding. 

Well we’ve made tea. More than I thought we’d do. All can ask is they put a price on their wickets and make it difficult and for the most part doing that. Not a lot left though. Archer and broad don’t look to have an over in them so could come down to leach 

This series has been worth £7.6 million to lancs in ticket sales alone. Presumably the ecb are getting a massive chunk but I’d wager there’s more in 5 days of gate receipts at Lancs than rovers have all season.

Just now, Husky said:

I think I know why there are always empty seats at 'sold out' events. As this is from 2 minutes ago on the LCCC site:

Yeah they’re absolutely ridiculous there’s loads of tickets left in du6 and du10

Decent effort for a certain defeat. 

Smith has won the ashes singlehandedly. Although we’ve stopped trying to get him out. Quite pathetic just to give up trying. 

7 minutes ago, Husky said:

Currently there are still a few available for £25 on the lccc site. Temporary party stand.

A lot of adult tickets are going for £15 on the resale bit as well

From the Bairstow school of batting that one. The frustrating thing about this ashes is without Smith they’re absolutely nothing with the bat. 

If we can somehow wriggle out of this with a draw the best we can hope for is to get them both early to at least inflict a tiny bit of psychological damage before the oval. 

We could still bowl Australia out for 0 and lose. 

I’d definitely drop two of buttler, bairstow and Roy. In a perfect world all 3. Foakes in for bairstow. Vince literally anyone really in for Roy. And at this point in time Curran better than buttler as a batsman.

Warner ?. Three ducks in a row. 

How has archer got a first class average of 30. Speaks volumes about the quality of the county championship.

How many times does he get bowled driving!!! He needs fucking dropping and Foakes can keep. Roy is also bloody useless at this format.