Ashes to Ashes

[Satchmo Distel]

Many thanks!:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVik...layer_embedded

EDIT: It's about 2-3 minutes behind Cricinfo e.g. Woakes is still in on my feed but out on Cricinfo.

[Janik]

This picture captures the panic of a run-out perfectly; the scream of shock, the flailing body of the runner scrambling back:- https://a4.espncdn.com/combiner/i?im...5_1296x518.jpg

[diggedy derek]

Bloody hell, Janik, not sure I'm ready for the trauma of that.

[ursus arctos]

Stokes certainly entertains

[Satchmo Distel]

Deserves a century. Must be his best ever innings in the circumstances, especially following a marathon bowling stint that kept England (just) in the game.

Keeping Lyon on for that last over was foolishly risky. His figures are now 2-107.

Then again, he's smashing Cummins

[Vicarious Thrillseeker]

Flipping heck

[ursus arctos]

Oh come on

Hollywood would reject this as implausible

[Satchmo Distel]

Stokes genius + dropped catch + wasted review + umpiring error decides it.

That wasted review will haunt Australia. Ashes would have been retained if they'd had that review left.

[ad hoc]

Holy shit. Headingley again.

[Sporting]

Just WOW

[Logan Mountstuart]

I think we can put Botham/ Willis 1981 to bed now. Fuck me. Better than the World Cup final?

[ursus arctos]

Just WOW

Try to explain that to your mates at the cafe

[tee rex]

Getting the runs is extraordinary enough, but everything that went on in the last few minutes ... amazing.

Ben Stokes, Botham squared.

[multipleman78]

I know it doesn't matter now but on that wasted review. The ball clipped his front pad but hawkeye didn't appear to show any deviation when there certainly was some. I presume that is why umpire didn't give it.

[Satchmo Distel]

I think we can put Botham/ Willis 1981 to bed now. Fuck me. Better than the World Cup final?

Wasn't on terrestrial but will that matter? Botham never quite won it in that manner.

[Janik]

Holy shit. Headingley again.

Isn't it something like only the fourth time in test history that 300+ has been chased down to win, and three of those have been at Headingley?

[multipleman78]

I couldn't believe the two balls that Stokes played after getting it down to 2 to win. Just knock a single and guarantee the Ashes are alive. Instead he tries a reverse sweep, Leach is almost up his arse and then after escaping that he is trying to slog one into the stand. I suppose at that point the adrenaline would be surging so much that clarity is hard to find.

[diggedy derek]

Woah!!!!!!!

[Guy Profumo]

Yay!

[Satchmo Distel]

I know it doesn't matter now but on that wasted review. The ball clipped his front pad but hawkeye didn't appear to show any deviation when there certainly was some. I presume that is why umpire didn't give it.

Pre-Hawkeye-era would any umpire have given it?

My two nephews were at the ground and will now be able to tell their grandkids "I was there!"

As an individual effort in a Test in England, Stokes this weekend is up there with anybody.

[Gangster Octopus]

Couldn't believe that the game was still going when I came into the pub. Glad that I did: good timing on my part...

[Paul S]

Arise Sir Ben Stokes!

That was amazing stuff, just wow, those last few overs had everything. How do explain test cricket to an American?

[Gangster Octopus]

There are a number of Americans on this thread who know exactly what's going on.

[Satchmo Distel]

I couldn't believe the two balls that Stokes played after getting it down to 2 to win. Just knock a single and guarantee the Ashes are alive. Instead he tries a reverse sweep, Leach is almost up his arse and then after escaping that he is trying to slog one into the stand. I suppose at that point the adrenaline would be surging so much that clarity is hard to find.

Cricinfo suggested he was absolutely exhausted and I think the momentum was with him to just keep slogging. Rather that than a run-out.

[ursus arctos]

Ta