The Ashes 2017 - The Fiso Game - Prizes - 5th Test - Johngooch wins 5th

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Toss at 10 past, if relevant.

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England batting, probably forced by the "2" spinners?

[Ducks Deluxe]

Can't really change now without major surgery and don't have time to check all the other teams to prevent duplication... Tricky...Not at all happy with my team....hey,ho!

DD.

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Locked now?

I think England batting protects my Warner and Smith a bit, hopefully Starc goes big and Hazlecomb bombs with the ball.

(Day 2 and 3 best to bat apparently, M Hussey, I think.)

[Ducks Deluxe]

Yup,the sun comes back for the fourth innings....So no changes for me....not enough time... I think the toss was actually a few minutes early...

Plus factors...I have Starc...

Minus factors... No Smith,Cummins or Lyons...

The winner will almost certainly have Smith...good luck to you....I would be thrilled to be in top three...unlikely...

Oh...if I might say without coming across badly..My better half and I were in Sydney in May....Managed to get into the members' bar ( as very poorly portrayed in the BBC short video)... We also got into both dressing rooms.... Incredibly basic but utterly reek of history....

DD...

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Other way round here: any reason you say Cummins not Hazlewood?

[Ducks Deluxe]

Because I already have Hazelwood... and I think that Cummins has a sight edge on him...

This is the most balanced team that I have had but as a consequence, the weakest in terms of Aussie bowlers..

Warner,Cook,Starc,Hazelwood, Curran, Crane....

So we have Starc vs Cook!

Have fun!

DD...

[Ducks Deluxe]

Two Cummins wickets.... that is why I wanted him in in place of Hazelwood.... hey,ho! Usual stuff from Vince and Stoneman is now also a concern...

DD...

[Ducks Deluxe]

Oh heck....Cook out.... All on Root ,Malan and Bairstow.... I wonder if Australia will have to bat twice?

DD....

[ooozzzie]

Watching in a bar in Cambodia early afternoon 35 degrees, I ain't moving anywhere, keep the beers flowing. Vince is a plonker.

[Ducks Deluxe]

Good for you, Ooozzzie! Hopefully the runs will flow along with your beer! Not as bad as it seemed a while ago... Hopefully can bat into tomorrow now..

Have fun!

DD....

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Oh heck....Cook out.... All on Root ,Malan and Bairstow.... I wonder if Australia will have to bat twice?

DD....

May well do.....

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That was before Root was caught on 83....

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Swann seething at Bairstow having no Night's Watchman and gets out.

The Test has turned in 10 Balls?

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Day 1 scores:

1 thebillfella 208 (81)
2 johngooch 173 (40)
3 forestfan 149 (100)
4 jimwinn 144 (29)
= megadyl 144 (68)
6 primitive man 140 (48)
= Surprised 140 (174)
8 blahblah 135 (151)
9 Spencer4 133 (82)
10 owenclass 130 (139)
11 jeffersdn 122 (43)
12 hancockjr 114 (70)
= Ducks Deluxe 114 (120)
14 Darbyand 100 (50)
15 ooozzzie 99 (5)
16 tyaslevesley 94 (125)
17 thelip 85 (67)
= Kris_fiso 85
19 foxinthebox2001 83 (7)
20 TheBigLewandowski 75 (30)
21 Rick Spangle 64 (100)
= kingcurtley 64 (106)
23 wizardoffire 55 (57)
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0 Backlash 0 (55)
0 Maldini 0 (50)
0 Grant 0 (25)
0 SamD 0 (10)
0 yorkshiredragon 0 (8)
0 Geoffv 0
0 sibrown4 0
0 Edmondson 0

[thelip]

England all out for <300 before lunch tomorrow then Australia get 500+ is my bet.

[SamD]

@ Sp4: team picked at 6:25pm Wed isn't showing on (lower reaches of) leaderboard.

[jimwinn]

Happy with 4th

Maybe Spence will extend the game to include the one dayers ☺

[Ducks Deluxe]

Blah,blah....I fear you are right...there was a great description on TMS of the gradual change from sunlight to semi shadow for the batsman and the ominous sense of encroaching doom.....Root going was tragic...Bairstow was....simply awful for a major batsman....I hope Moe sleeps well....gulp...

Jim...there are also the NZ games looming!

Ooozzzie...did the bar run out of beer? We were counting on you to hold it all together!

So near and yet so far......

DD...

[megadyl]

In terms of my team in this game I’m hoping Anderson and crane can put on a miraculous 200 partnership to see us past 500....... in really life I just hope broad and moeen can hang around with Malan long enough to get us past 350, that would be competitive I think.


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Day 1 scores: One addition (sorry Sam) and one slight adjustment (sorry fox)...

1 thebillfella 208 (81)
2 johngooch 173 (40)
3 forestfan 149 (100)
4 jimwinn 144 (29)
= megadyl 144 (68)
6 primitive man 140 (48)
= Surprised 140 (174)
8 blahblah 135 (151)
9 Spencer4 133 (82)
10 owenclass 130 (139)
11 jeffersdn 122 (43)
12 hancockjr 114 (70)
= Ducks Deluxe 114 (120)
14 foxinthebox2001 107 (7)
15 Darbyand 100 (50)
16 ooozzzie 99 (5)
17 tyaslevesley 94 (125)
18 thelip 85 (67)
= Kris_fiso 85
20 TheBigLewandowski 75 (30)
21 SamD 74 (10)
22 Rick Spangle 64 (100)
= kingcurtley 64 (106)
24 wizardoffire 55 (57)
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0 Backlash 0 (55)
0 Maldini 0 (50)
0 Grant 0 (25)
0 yorkshiredragon 0 (8)
0 Geoffv 0
0 sibrown4 0
0 Edmondson 0

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When does this start tonight?

I assume they are making up some of the time from this morning.....

(Apologies for UK time bias here, but it confuses the ass off me otherwise.)

[thelip]

11pm start tonight apparently

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Thanks.

[megadyl]

Awesome, that’s just 20 minutes away. I reckon moeen will have 50 by midnight.


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50 what?

A few stats, I'm not that into them tbh but these arte mildly intersting:
1, Root has a 5hite conversion rate of 50's into 100's c 25% . Among others, Warner is 44% and Smith >50% and are the ball park for the best players?
2, And this is weird: Stoneman has a ridiculous strike rate really early in his Innings compared to after. It is something like twice for the first 20 mins or Balls or something than the rest (70 or 80 odd vs 30 odd per 100 Balls, I think). The only vague justification is that slips slip away and there are more outfielders... More realistically he tries to be assertive (ie Warner) then decides enough is enough and goes all "Geoffrey". the problem being that Boiks knows times have changed.....

On Malan: from the highlights he could have been out 3 or 4 times already, but has concentration and tries, unlike Vince

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R5 just said that Malan is our highest scorer this series....

[jimwinn]

Loving the BT coverage

The rambling is so TMS ☺

Come on England

Tenner on the draw at 7/2 adds a bit of spice

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Same bods doing the Commentary?

Here cums the TAIL Lyon and Cumming owe me

[tyaslevesley]

Loving the BT coverage

The rambling is so TMS ☺

Come on England

Tenner on the draw at 7/2 adds a bit of spice

Was just saying that myseld. Slats and Ali Mitchell taking about Benaud didn't mention the action for 5 minutes