Michael, Phil and Ben unpack a remarkable start to the Ashes series which saw Australia sneak home at Edgbaston with just two wickets to spare.
The guys break down what England need to do ahead of Lord’s to level the series and why hope is far from lost for Ben Stokes’ side.
Australian legend Adam Gilchrist joins us from Down Under to give us his reaction to the result. He also offers up a bit of expert wicketkeeping advice for Jonny Bairstow after he came under fire for some costly errors.
Plus, we get the latest from the Telegraph’s Chief Cricket Correspondent Nick Hoult regarding Moeen Ali as well as the other headlines from the England camp.
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I'll take an ugly win over an entertaining brave loss, please
Let's see how BAZBALL is viewed, if we go 3-0 down – EVEN if it's is a spectacle for cricket. Look at the windies! People can't get behind losers, even if they lose with flair, it's ridiculous! If Joe Root wasn't infected with all this, first time stumped, we would have won easy…I LOVE England, we HAVE altered our style, now let's go f**kin' WIN!
Warner was right, basically laughing at England, saying that "we won't throw out wickets away, like some England players do!"
Anderson is cooked.
Stokes' knee is knackered.
Broad ageing.
Moeen's finger has gone.
Definitely not a bazball dynamic bowlers outfit.
Big blunder from Ben Stokes with that declaration. Maybe he thought we were going to lose more time with the weather. At worst we could have drawn the match if we had batted on but now what worries me is we head to lords 0-1 down and we don't tend to go well there against the Aussies so if we lose that we are in big trouble and this approach of ours will start to look a bit silly. Big big call for the selectors coming up picking the bowling attack for lord's. Let's hope we get the right result. 🏴🏴🏴
Can we plis get a video pleeese :((
As England fans, why should how they last hour went change our enjoyment of the last 5 days? As much as we all want England to win, can we not appreciate entertaining games even if we lose? Would we rather a 2 and a half day game that we win by an innings, apart from it stroking our egos?
Great listening from Oz amazing match lets see if the rest are as great as the first and might help if Smith and Lab's and Head get a few more runs next match might not be as close if they do!
I've said it a thousand times…never play more than 1 ginger
can we stop saying "bazball" now? that's so cringe
What use is this without video?
Would it have been too much to declare early in 2nd innings and get to about 450 in the first?? Scoreboard pressure is a thing. I am not England fan but i found that strange and especially arrogant. It may have worked in Pakistan but this is Australia, they have demolished everyone at home the last couple of series. They came into this in red hot form.
Cricket is cricket. England had the better of the atmospheric conditions during this test, and that should have swung the game their way. It would have does so had they been able to catch and picked a specialist wicketkeeper. Cricket is cricket, and catches win matches.
The England bias is ridiculous
LOL where did England have their foot on Australia's throat? This game was always in the balance with both sides making mistakes.
Bozzoball doesn't represent the overall strength of the team if they order doctored lifeless pitches to give them a better chance of pulling it off.
It takes the bowlers out of the game and skews the balance between bat and ball…. England won't dare produce a fair pitch.
Even so this Australian side is better where it matters…batting, bowling and fielding
AUS lost the toss and their two best batsmen failed…..and still won…
Starc will be back at Lords…..and Smith, and Lab will score some runs
Aussies have 'Cumball'…
This series is just getting started…I have no doubt there will be innings were Bazball works and they will make 400 in a day and other innings where its a miserable failure and get rolled easily
Don't agree with fans and expert at all. Standing with England team 100%.
England have won more than they have lost with their new approach and it is so disgusting and so disrespectful for the fans to just turn away out of one or two results, And if that is so then the fans are also following bazball approach, Win I cheer, Lose I swear. Who needs an audience or a fan like that ? I would rather play on an empty ground than to have fans like that.
With the conventional approach, England lost and lost miserably, They won only ONE MATCH out of 17 Matches they played before Bazball era. And that is something one should be worried about.
Interestingly, nobody criticised the team like they are doing now even when they got whitewashed by Australia twice, 4-0, 5-0. And that should be more painful to accept than to see a match where both teams were in the game till the very last minute of the game.
When the players say Bazball brings the best out of them then players should be left to do what works best for them, and what works best for them may not be enough on every day, and then on those days, one must stand up and applaud the opponent team for doing a better job rather then tearing apart your own team.
Gilchrist was playing Bazball 20 years ago
Usman Kuwayja?
Why not Jos Butler as wicket keeper instead of Foakes?
England were never that much ahead in the game …..england didnt dominate anything….australia dropped 5 chances as well….
As an Aussie, what an unbelievable start to the series! Credit to the English fans for making this an absolute spectacle. It would be a dream to get amongst it one day in the UK. England definitely should have won that and somewhat bottled it. But solar panel Pat turned himself into a national hero. I was wondering who would take the villain mantle from Broad and now Robinson has taken it. I'm not sure he is of the same quality as Broady 😂
I think Tuffers is completely wrong about Usie being too slow in the 2nd innings and getting them in trouble. They needed stability and to stop wickets falling in bunches, and he did that. The Aussies have very quick scores down as for as Cummins (who held the record for fastest 50 in the IPL!) so run rate was never going to be a problem. As it happened thru only had to go hard at Root for a couple of overs after Carey got out and won it with plenty of overs to spare. I know Phil was never the voice of batting, but England seem to have forgotten that a key part of test cricket is the ability to speed up and slow down as required, Bazball as it stands doesn't benefit from how one-paced it is, even if that pace is 100 mph.
Poms when Cummins sets a field: "Spooked".
Poms when Stokes sets a field: "Genius".
England were exciting however played some poor cricket….. 26 no-balls and over 6 dropped catches.
Best part of this Test was when Ben Stokes totally scrapped his Bazball fields when Pat Cummins went on the attack. All the fielders out, Pat and Nathan taking singles for fun. Loved it lol
So are the rest of the cricketing world expected to produce dead wickets for England😅