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I can smell a collapse here...
Class bowling
WTF
It’ll be turning sideways on day 5!
The game will be lucky to get past Day Two at this rate.
Jeezus.
England bowl a yard too short shocker (or in Overtons case 6 yards, though to be fair it was under orders)
The game will be lucky to get past Day Two at this rate.
cash strapped YCC won't be happy.... it was designed as a 5 day pitch 😀
RIP
Who would have thought at lunch that we might be asked to follow on before tea?
Who would have thought at lunch that we might be asked to follow on before tea?
And game over just after...
I'm going to try looking at this positively. If JB can somehow hog the strike and hang in there whilst playing a few shots then we might at least pass the 100 mark unscathed. We may still be all out soon after, or it might be the start of a rebuild.
Chef is such an impressive chap, he's always constructive with his critiques.
You lot turned it off?
Lead now under 100, with JB century and the big lad on debut looking for a century too (already has record score for debutant)
Record seventh wicket partnership
What kind of test cricket is this? Rollercoaster doesn’t come close! What a 7th wicket partnership - where did that come from?
evening dinner in the garden listening to brutal bairstow..... has anyone scored this many runs from such desperate situations ?
absolutely amazing.....
Great day's cricket, loved it
blimey it's all kicking off 446 from Broad off Boult!
Interesting test this is. There’s a real chance it’ll be almost level at exactly half way through the match.
That’d set up things beautifully.
Overtons knock seems to have "annoyed" Broad "Oi! I'm the bowler who can bat in this side" 😉
LOL tms with shipping forecast overlay 🙂
Leach on fire! He's scoring about a million time faster than his ashes knock with Stokes.
Well, you wouldn't have predicted a 1st innings lead, would you?
Listening to Mo Ali talk about Brendan McCullum telling batters to go out and express themselves, I wonder if he's re-considering/regretting his test retirement?
Joe Root 😁😁😁🤣🤣
WTAF?
This is a test match! What's Boycott got to say about it?
Listening to Mo Ali talk about Brendan McCullum telling batters to go out and express themselves, I wonder if he’s re-considering/regretting his test retirement?
I’m sure he said in the last test he’d be open to a call. Given that at some point Stokes will get injured he may even end up as skipper at some point.
Unrelated, Zak Crawley really needs to go back to county cricket for a while, I’m just not sure he’s the man for the job.
Ollie Pope however look much happier.
WTAF! Root reverse sweeping the medium pacer for 6.... wg turning in his grave 😀
It says it all about "new" England, that when set 299 to win, I just assume they will get there easily. A year ago if set 99 to win I'd have thought it unlikely.
It's the same players, but they are so different. God knows what Chris Silverwood is thinking.
They’ve been way behind in each match! It’s great to watch but it’s going to be hit and miss if this is the way forward!
there was a stat on yesterday I think; under Baz McCullum they are attacking something like 35% of balls faced. Under all the other coaches it was low 20's.
It's high stakes, high reward and is brilliant to watch, and I hope brings people into the grounds as a result. But when it goes wrong, as it surely must then the commentators and columnists have to be fair about it too.
bloody weather 🙁 in other news Morgan calls it a day.
that's an interesting start
went to make a coffee and Bairstow has 20..
Yup, Root and JB ticking along in ODI mode.
there was a stat on yesterday I think; under Baz McCullum they are attacking something like 35% of balls faced. Under all the other coaches it was low 20’s.
I think the same mindset applies to the bowling side of things too. Leach certainly attests to this, eg "You realise teams I have played in, the way I have thought, a lot of decisions are made around negativity. A lot of four or five-day games you give up on the win quite early but [under Stokes and McCullum] it feels like you are always pushing for that win, so there is never really too bad a situation."
It got very tiring watching Eng play safe/negatively, especially in the last 18 months of Root's reign.
Don’t forget the early start this morning, England bowl first
looking flat and slow and not much swing.
Kohli gone, good start for England this is.
The new England Test philosophy has to be a lot smarter than just flashing at everything, no matter the conditions. Attacking cricket shouldn't be brainless cricket.
Yesterday I top scored with 31 n/o off 74 balls, to set a total of 162. Everyone who tried to attack got out, we bowled the opposition out for 103. The wicket and conditions dictated the style of play.
mayhem!
inevitable!
England can't expect the lower order to keep bailing them out of their new 'slogathon' approach.
The ginger Viv at it again!
England likely to face quite a deficit, despite Bairstow. What was Stokes doing earlier?! Bit of ego creeping in? He could have played a bit more circumspectly before opening up.