Ashes 2013/14

[PaulWinch again]

Find it odd that we've left Stokes out of our Twenty20 side.

[Villan For Life]

Congratulations to the England Women's team in retaining the Ashes.

[taylorsworkrate]

Find it odd that we've left Stokes out of our Twenty20 side.

Yep, especially as Root has had a completely nightmarish tour.

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah or alternatively Bresnan is just worse than Stokes is in all aspects.

[PaulWinch again]

Fucking hell I'd forgotten about Dernbach.

[danlanza]

Fucking hell I'd forgotten about Dernbach.

You won't after he has bowled a bit longer. You will soon remember him !

[PaulWinch again]

Bloody hell we're bowling with zero discipline.

[paul_e]

Ah, T20 time so Dernbach can take over as the villain of the piece for a while despite his figures being more than good enough to have deserved his place in the side.  I've said it before, in T20 I like him, he's erratic and inconsistent but he'll throw down 4-5 wicket balls in his 4 overs because batsmen don't know what to do with him.  He's never going to be a cheap bowler but in T20 no one with any pace will be, genuinely quick bowlers in T20 have to be wicket takers and Dernbach is definitely one of those.

[danlanza]

We don't look like getting a wicket at all at the moment.
Aussies at nearly 10 per over.
We do have a fantastic batting line up so not overly worried at the moment.

[PaulWinch again]

I think my greater concern is how we've picked the side, we didn't pick Stokes because 'we've played really good Twenty20 cricket lately'. So we've stuck with the same side that last played in the summer? That seems slightly odd, there's no accounting for form or anything just that we did ok in the summer.

[danlanza]

A wicket, at last.

[taylorsworkrate]

Not picking Stokes is up there with some of the most mystifying decisions of this tour. And that's saying something.

[danlanza]

111-1 after 11. Never seen that before.

[PaulWinch again]

Excellent spell by Broad, and it maintains my belief that top bowlers will perform at all levels of the game.

[andrew08]

Cricket is definitely my armchair sport but still my second sport. As such I don't understand the intricacies of the rules like I do in footy (i.e. Suarez the the other week, should have been booked for diving).

That wicket that Luke Wright just had chalked off for being over waist height was a bit strange. The guy takes a pace or so down the wicket and strikes the ball just about over waist height,gets caught and is given not out. But on replay the ball would probably have gone on to hit the top of the stumps,but no one mentioned it on commentary. So what's the rule then?