My dear old things, it's STW TMS!

Just figured out who Overton reminds me of.

Mike Hendrick.

A good ‘hit the deck’ county seamer who bowls too short at test level – will be economical, but not effective. Not sure what the difference to Jake Ball is(?)

“When you win the toss – bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague – then bat.”

WGG

Another version not sure which is correct if either

“When I win the toss on a good pitch, I bat. When I win the toss on a doubtful pitch, I think about it a bit and then I bat. When I win the toss on a very bad pitch, I think about it a bit longer and then I bat.”

I’m surprised by the decision to put Australia in. It’s as if we’ve got carried away by the bit of drizzle and the day/night thing.

Not so sure about that. Very good conditions to bowl in, just we didn’t bowl very well. Still, similar conditions here today, so we’ll see what we manage with the 2nd new ball once we’re back under way.

Bowlers underperformed until late in the day when they made the ball move a bit.
New ball is 1 (?) over old; let’s see what Anderson, Broad et al can do with it.
Is Smith susceptible to a bit of the verbals – close up and, possibly, personal?
Root’s decision to bowl first shows no lack of confidence – which is good.
I will either stay awake until about 4.30am and then crash out or pick it up at about 8am; hmmmm – what to do?

Root’s decision to bowl first shows no lack of confidence – which is good.

Agreed – some are interpreting it as fear of their bowlers, but given the conditions, it had this written all over it:

04W24W 0W0410 0000W4 000011 0W0200 004010 00W000 000000 101000 011W00 112000 100400 40000W 1W3000 000000 000040 000000 000000 1004W

Just a pity the bowlers were hopeless for the first couple of hours

At first sight, I thought – hmmmmm code.
2 hrs and then we form an opinion.

Stuff happening here today. Hanscombe gone, Marsh saved by DRS, run rate considerably higher.

Well back into some sort of signal and the score north of 300 isn’t a good sign. Opening under the lights?

England will struggle to make the follow on.

Loving learning about Nugget Rees, who’s scored a hundred on every Australian test match ground

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-15/barry-nugget-rees-cricket-greats-want-to-honour-nugget-of-gold/7166156

Yup, might end up facing a declaration at this stage. Bowling been pretty good today, very unlucky with not getting edges, but fact remains, they haven’t.

Marsh 100, Oz 400 and a bit then declare?

lol bes quote of the day from my mate in there

Michael Smith – Good drinking weather Jonnie?

Jonnie – They can stick their beer up their arse though. XXXX Gold is the only beer on tap at the ground.
I leave at the end of the day hugely bloated and my bank account is more hammered than I am.

I’ve moved to the cider…

surely sending them back out to bowl some more is considered cruel and unusual punishment…

You’ve been here long enough to know the Aussies don’t give a fig about UN conventions

yeah, but at least we just got one. Cummings not going to get his century just his best ever test score.

Why has cricinfo become such a shitty website (if there was another source for ball by ball I’d never go there again)?

spied from the top, cricket Australia one does it properly for this series with graphs and a work mode that makes it look like excel

Cook to silence his critics with a 50 ball century? 😆

Well I’m sat enjoying a fine beer in a wonderful Tassie pizza joint, the Bnb I’m staying at has a TV and the cricket on, I’m not rushing back for this one

So maths time… everyone needs to get 44 how hard is that?
Basically 11 4’s so 3 overs each?

Aussie bowling exactly how England should have, but didn’t.

Full and moving it around.

Stoneman and Cook looking good and watchful so far….

That’s not out either!

We’re missing Otis Gibson. Who replaced him? On the previous occasion Gibson left the setup, England reverted to default short and wide. It’s not that difficult surely for a professional bowler to work it out and be able to pitch the ball on a postage stamp is it?

Stoneman gone, but at least it looks nice at dusk…

you at the ground or in the new RAH there zokes!!

and another lol

George Dobell
GeorgeDobell1
The ground-staff’s struggle with the wind is the most competitive thing the crowd in Adelaide have seen today.

The ground for now. The rain has prevented the standard of cricket driving me to exit from my lofty perch up here.

Looks awesome up there! Might be a good time for a shower or some heavier stuff

This made me chuckle

Jon Matthews: Pollution stops play at Delhi. Good idea: let’s get every English person in Australia driving around and around the ground until the umpires stop play.

Big cover just come back on again. Few more showers yet to come on the radar. Can apparently play until 10.30pm here apparently…

Most amusing thing I’ve seen today is six police evicting the Pope from the fanzone

All continuing as expected. Vince wafts at a wide one.

Wow that’s looks amazing zokes,lucky you.Well there goes cook,i am only going by bbc text updates but why the hell is he getting out from nothing balls,need someone to go into boycott mode and block the **** out of it for a day or so,jeez.

They do indeed. Malay gone now, Bairstown in. Surprised the Aussies don’t all have helmets on 😆

Well this was always going to happen, sigh.

So from an English perspective this is dire and i can see it being 5-0 again.
The best players in England can’t get any of the aussies out when they are supposed to and they can’t stay in when they’re supposed to. Dismal

I have man flu and went to bed early last night, and that was the BBC headline I was expecting I’m afraid . “England collapse…” sigh.

Well thanks to the bowlers we have made it to the dinner interval, 24 runs needed to avoid the follow on. If they can make that mark (not that the Aussies would have enforced it) then England only need rain and to bat for 2 days or make 400…

Rain not completely unfeasible. England batting on the other hand…

Why, should England not creep within 200, wouldn’t Australia want to enforce the follow on?