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That was some innings from Crawley. His timing, all around the wicket, was exquisite.
umpires are walking out
WOW, the second Spitfire pass was spine-tingling!
****stan are getting a bashing here
flayed and flayed again!
Wonderful stuff, lovely knock from Crawley, Buttler looking good too.
WOW, the second Spitfire pass was spine-tingling!
Amazing machines.
<Political rant on a non-political thread bore>
But combining a Spitfire with the NHS is in pretty poor taste.
</political rant on a non-political thread bore>
I won't do it again.
I'm looking forward to watching the highlights tonight. It sounds like Crawley has played a truly great Test innings. Especially as ****stan started out trying to reel him in with wide bowling, hoping he'd be nervous about trying to get to 200. Sounds very much like his game/series awareness led him to think "You've got to win this game lads, so it is your own time you're wasting here" and he didn't rise to it. When you're starting to dictate tactics to the fielding side you have them on the ropes. Then you grind them into the dirt, tire their bowlers, keep them in the field.
One of the defining characteristics of Stokes' knock at Headingley was that it was the only the first or second time the aussie bowlers had to really put their shoulder to the wheel. The last day (which I was lucky enough to be there for) started out with the bowlers fresh, but they flagged quickly having been made to work the day before.
Why are England still batting?!
demoralization
Why are England still batting?!
I think Root is probably trying to piss them off. England are 1-0 up and don't really have to win this game and/or run any risks trying to do it.
I disagree with sending the bowlers in now, though. If I was Naseem or Shaheen Shah I would bounce the shit out of Broad to prompt the declaration if Root could be made to worry about possible injuries to the bowlers.
It's an odd thing to say about a batsman who has just scored 152 but that was slightly concerning innings from Buttler, one of the most destructive batsman in the history of the game. Once it was obvious England were going to get past 500 he didn't seem able to become destructive and ended with a bit of a lame dribble of runs for the last 100 deliveries faced.
Anderson making it talk...
Will Jimmy hit 600 this match?!
too ****ing good!
What a day!
Excellent last 90 minutes there, ****stan trying to hang on for the close, and Anderson Archers and Broad pinging the ball round
Interesting suggestion from Warne, keep Jimmy for home tests and use him as a bowling coach on tour. Not sure if Jimmy would go along with that mind!
Oh Jimmy! And that last one won’t go towards his stats. Is it meant to be this summer?!
Catches win matches...another drop off jimmy, I fear these will be costly.
England management have had enough of these drops and Collingwood is now in the field. No messing around.
Collingwood is now in the field
🙂
Whoop!
(Shame he couldn’t get it 6 balls sooner for the record)
Yes Jimmy!!!
🙂 🙂 🙂
Outstanding achievement.
Good to finally see some play today, even if it ends in a draw. And an astounding achievement from Anderson to get his 600th.
...and that's it. It was good to have Test cricket over the summer, and the second ****stan Test aside, it has to be seen as pretty successful, all things considered.
Player of the summer for England? ****stan player of the tournament?
****stan win toss and put England in to bat. May escape the rain
This Banton lad can hit a ball can’t he?
Can you reserve such comments about a batters form for the ****stan players
And I’ll refrain from suggesting we’ll miss the rain
LIVE CRICKET ON THE BEEB!
Loving the Zaltz on Sunday afternoon bbc 1
****stan looking like getting a big total here. Babar Azam is soooo good.
I spoke too soon he's rubbish!
Australia BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Win the toss and bowl first, some big names back for England
16 off the first over!
They’ve slowed a bit in the last 2 overs
Ooh a four
Gah. Come on Moeen we need a good un from you
These Aussie spinners are very annoying! Watching a T20 World Cup watch along thing earlier and Bumble was saying his theory that the worse the bowler the better you do at T20 😛
But we’ve got the best white ball spinner in the world and Moeen
Edit. I wrote that before your edit 😣
Edit 2. Ah fudge
Same old Aussies always cheating
Jeez. Aussie fielding has been ridiculously good.
Ha! Or not
I really dislike Smith
He's not easy on the eye when he's batting for annoyingly long in tests. Funny the T20 WC final I was watching he was bowling absolute pies and batting at 8.
Going down to the wire! Great fightback from England
Blimey! Did not expect that
Crikey!
Beating Australia is always so rewarding but especially so when they were absolutely cruising.
Never in doubt.
Not for one moment
Glorious to beat 'em; especially as it seemed they had it all sewn up mid-way through their innings.
Yup they must be feeling gutted
Shame
Wee bit of karma for them giving us Tony bloody Abbot.
Warner.
HaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa
Ha
Ha
HaHaHaHaHa
Hahaha!
Carey!
HaHaHaHaHa
Smith
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
He wasn't happy!
He was a well out of his crease though. Outstanding fielding, too.
Smashing.
Lovely that
Game on!
Can they bottle another?
Afternoon, evereeeebodeee.
The season rumbles on!
Morgan and Roy both available, weather looks good.
Last over nailbiter, please!
*lays out tartan blanket and opens flask of tea*
Afternoon
Afternoon all. Lovely day for it.
Not a bad start, that.
Needed that from Wood. They were starting to get going.
Morning everyone...
How I've missed TMS: "the way Stoinis is built, he knows where the dumbbells are in the gym, he's a proper unit..."
Wood!
Anyone else getting annoyed by the “toooooooot uh uh” every few minutes on the crowd noise. All blimmin summer, and there’s no option for no crowd noise for this game
The Beeb text commentary is a joy. Along with chat about Thomas the Tank Engine is this gem;
Another lovely over from Rashid. Australia are playing him like they are searching for their car keys in a dark room.
And another falls as I type!
Keep typing
Australia are playing him like they are searching for their car keys in a dark room.
My favourite from my playing days to describe a decent leggie with variations was:
"Harder to pick than a broken nose".
Some proper "A lovely shot from a lovely Victorian there" Bill Lawry-style commentary on the go. "Those wrists don't laie".
Bonus that's a proper ODI though, I thought was another T20 (#notpropercricket)
ahaaaa, Maxwell's gone, just after whichever Aussie commentator started chatting about ODI centuries...
Bonus that’s a proper ODI though, I thought was another T20 (#notpropercricket)
I was reading about a 'T10 Premier League' game in the WI earlier, one team won with a score of 185. :-/
FFFFS
Aussie bowlers are very good but Bairstow is starting to lose the plot here. Why can't he bat like this in a test match? 😛
Some serious double screen action today! Tour and cricket to keep an eye on!