The end of a thoroughly enjoyable Ashes series - excepting the draw of course. What an ending for #StuartBroad. We all wanted to see a final wicket, and he delivers two! Brilliant!

The Boy was jumping around the living room in delight!

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Awesome cricket 🏏 action this afternoon. What a legend Broad is. #TheAshes

What odds on Jimmy quietly announcing his retirement once the dust has settled? (Or perhaps he just won’t, but it feels like the end of an era anyway)
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A 6 with his final ball faced and a wicket with his final ball bowled. Hell of a way to finish. #TheAshes

Fitting end to the series if nothing else, no matter which way it goes #TheAshes

Finally got #khawaja out. Man that guy’s a hell of a batter. #TheAshes #BBCCricket #ENGvAUS #EnglandCricket

I can’t be doing with all this nonsense about a moral victory in this series. England could and maybe should have won this series, but they didn’t. That’s okay. We’ve played some amazing cricket, but the Aussies will (at least) retain. That’s okay too. That’s how this has always worked.
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Perfect timing, I reckon. One last magic spell tomorrow and done. A legend of the game and a master of the celebrappeal and Broadhousery. Maybe shift Marnus’ bails around once more, just for fun.

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Most scores of 50-plus in Test cricket

119 SR Tendulkar (Ind) 51x100/68x50
103 RT Ponting (Aus) 41/62
103 JH Kallis (SA) 45/58
99 R Dravid (Ind) 36/63
96 S Chanderpaul (WI) 30/66
90 AR Border (Aus) 27/63
90 KC Sangakkara (SL) 38/52
90 AN Cook (Eng) 33/57
90 JE ROOT (Eng) 30/60

Can Joe Root become the fourth man to reach 50 in 100 Test innings?

Next current batter is Steve Smith, on 70: 32 hundreds but only 38 fifities.

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Things I never thought I would say: I really like Ricky Ponting.
(To be fair, I was in the crowd at the Oval that gave him a standing ovation in his last Ashes test here in 2009. But I was also in the crowd at Trent Bridge in 2005 giving him a send off after his runout by Gary Pratt).
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Question: how do you keep doing stuff you need to do when The Ashes is on??

I'm like constantly tapping into my phone, my pc, anywhere I can see where we're at ... if I'm not watching it, which is the biggest problem :ablobthinkingeyes:

@ianRobinson I entirely agree. Stats need to be selected with great care.

The most runs conceded off an opening over? Interesting and relevant.

Fewest boundaries bowled round the wicket to a left-handed Aquarius batter while the moon is in the eighth house? Leave it out, Zaltz: just because you can doesn't mean you should.

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Post #WeAreDevs, managed to find a bar in Berlin showing #TheAshes .

Germany with it's ability to compound words is missing out with a sport where LBW is a thing.....

When he caught Alex Carey, Ben Stokes became the seventh member of an exclusive club - and the sixth was his team-mate James Anderson!

1,000 runs, 100 wkts, 100 ct in Tests

JM Anderson (E) 1,332 runs/690 wkts/105 ct in 183 Tests
IT Botham (E) 5,200/383/120 in 102
CL Hooper (WI) 5,762/114/115 in 102
JH Kallis (SA/Wld) 13,289/292/200 in 166
GS Sobers (WI) 8,032/235/109 in 93
BA STOKES (E) 6,075/197/100 in 97
SK Warne (A) 3,154/708/125 in 145

#TheAshes #TheMensAshes #ENGvAUS #CricketStatistics

Great catch by Joe Root with his left hand, for sure…. But why didn’t Jonny Bairstow even move? Surely keeper’s catch?
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“Eventually Bairstow went back and Jimmy Anderson sent down a series of bouncers, bringing the bizarre grey-day spectacle of a 40 year old bowling middle-aged chin music, chin jazz, chin hits of the 90s.”

The idea of ‘chin jazz’ performed by Jimmy Anderson has really made me chuckle. Nice one, Barney Ronay.

#Cricket #TheAshes #ChinJazz #TheGuardian

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jul/22/joe-root-puts-a-different-spin-on-a-day-of-soggy-ashes-frustration

If this game had been at Trent Bridge (which has no men’s Test this summer, although the women’s game was fantastic), we’d have had about two sessions of play.
Just saying.
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Instead of spaffing all that money on the hundred, why didn't the ECB invest in a giant umbrella to cover Old Trafford?

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I'd just like to say ... Crawley

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