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  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,934
    We are IN this game now!
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Broad gets Smith!
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Next fifteen minutes might decide this
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    I've never been more worried about no ball calls than in this Broad spell  :D
  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,875
    uncanny how this is mirroring 2005 
  • Rudders22
    Rudders22 Posts: 3,864
    Rudders22 said:
    Shit. Here comes Smith. Dangerman
    and out he goes...
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    In comes Boland to see out 15 minutes
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Real chance to get them 4 down tonight
  • Rudders22
    Rudders22 Posts: 3,864
    How can we not allow to play until 7.30pm today ?
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    England now favourites:

    England 1.85
    Australia 2.48
    Draw 16.00
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  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Be honest, who had money on "Smith and Labouchagne will both be averaging less than every England player after one Test"?
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    Addick Addict said:
    England now favourites:

    England 1.85
    Australia 2.48
    Draw 16.00
    I'd still have Australia marginal favourites, the way Khawaja is playing, and with Head, Green and Carey to come.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    terrific fight back from the England bowlers .. it'll be a cracking day tomorrow, win, lose or raindraw
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Leuth said:
    Spinner for the next Test, anyone?
    Mate Stokes could pick Mr Blobby to keep wicket and my cat to bowl off spin and he would find away.

    Remember under Stokes we have never not taken 20 wickets.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    killerandflash said:
    Addick Addict said:
    England now favourites:

    England 1.85
    Australia 2.48
    Draw 16.00
    I'd still have Australia marginal favourites, the way Khawaja is playing, and with Head, Green and Carey to come.
    At end of play (England have drifted but the draw has seen some action):

    England 2.12
    Australia 2.38
    Draw 9.20
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,801
    What a splendid day of cricket 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Chizz said:
    Be honest, who had money on "Smith and Labouchagne will both be averaging less than every England player after one Test"?
    Me, I put it in a double with Anderson having the highest strike rate in the 3rd innings 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    Our seamers will steam in first thing tomorrow, but at some point they'll get tired and the ball soft. Can we control things with an injured Moeen and Root as the spinners?
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,626
    Rudders22 said:
    How can we not allow to play until 7.30pm today ?
    Especially as we didnt bowl the allotted 98 overs. 
     
    If it had rained today presumably we could have played until 7.30pm. So, logically, as it rained yesterday & we lost a number of overs (of which we are only making up 8 today & 8 tomorrow) then we should play until 7.30 tonight. But silly me, fancy wanting to play in bright sunshine when we had to bat in gloom & rain yesterday.

    Cricket eh ?
     
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    Still very much in the balance.  Great Test Match
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  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,881
    killerandflash said:
    Our seamers will steam in first thing tomorrow, but at some point they'll get tired and the ball soft. Can we control things with an injured Moeen and Root as the spinners?
    What happened to Moeen?
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Todds_right_hook said:
    killerandflash said:
    Our seamers will steam in first thing tomorrow, but at some point they'll get tired and the ball soft. Can we control things with an injured Moeen and Root as the spinners?
    What happened to Moeen?
    His spinning finger has open blisters. He isn't allowed to tape it so the pronounced seam just digs into it. That comes from not having played red ball for two years. You don't get blisters bowling a maximum four overs with a white ball. 
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Addick Addict said:
    Todds_right_hook said:
    killerandflash said:
    Our seamers will steam in first thing tomorrow, but at some point they'll get tired and the ball soft. Can we control things with an injured Moeen and Root as the spinners?
    What happened to Moeen?
    His spinning finger has open blisters. He isn't allowed to tape it so the pronounced seam just digs into it. That comes from not having played red ball for two years. You don't get blisters bowling a maximum four overs with a white ball. 
    In other words, nowhere near match fit 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    Addick Addict said:
    Todds_right_hook said:
    killerandflash said:
    Our seamers will steam in first thing tomorrow, but at some point they'll get tired and the ball soft. Can we control things with an injured Moeen and Root as the spinners?
    What happened to Moeen?
    His spinning finger has open blisters. He isn't allowed to tape it so the pronounced seam just digs into it. That comes from not having played red ball for two years. You don't get blisters bowling a maximum four overs with a white ball. 
    Be interesting to see what they do for the second Test.
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    BBC 5 live and a couple of beers in the garden, makes for a perfect afternoon.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    North Lower Neil said:
    Addick Addict said:
    Todds_right_hook said:
    killerandflash said:
    Our seamers will steam in first thing tomorrow, but at some point they'll get tired and the ball soft. Can we control things with an injured Moeen and Root as the spinners?
    What happened to Moeen?
    His spinning finger has open blisters. He isn't allowed to tape it so the pronounced seam just digs into it. That comes from not having played red ball for two years. You don't get blisters bowling a maximum four overs with a white ball. 
    Be interesting to see what they do for the second Test.
    They might go for a four pronged seam attack if Moeen isn't fit. Stokes has bowled just 7 overs in the match and that really does not suggest that he can fulfil that 4th strike bowling position so they might have to rely on Root for spin. The fact that only 2 of the top 46 wicket takers in the country are spinners (and neither of those are available to play for us) doesn't leave us with too many options. I would love to see Reehan Ahmed play but we are unlikely to do that with just three seamers so that would leave Dawson as the obvious choice. 
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    In other news Matt Parkinson will be joining super Kent at the end of the season. 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    I believe it was ridiculous starting with 3 players who weren't virtually 100% match fit/up to speed.
    Bairstow, Stokes and Moeen.
    As ridiculous as that early declaration when Root was hitting 6's for fun.
    Add another 50 to our lead and I'd be very confident.
    As it stands it's in the balance and it never should have been.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    Yes they were worried about preserving players energy for a tough series, but some players were definitely rusty. Jimmy's bowling wasn't at his best, while Stokes batting wasn't that fluent either. Jonny's keeping was very poor while Mooen's spinning finger wasn't up to the job...

    England's bowlers are having to work really hard in this, indeed Bazball means that the Aussie bowlers will have bowled fewer overs than England's, which could tell at Lord's. 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,626
    edited June 2023
    If Stokes isnt fully fit then he should drop out & Foakes replaces him to keep wicket & Bairstow plays just as a batsman. Stoke wont be missed as a bowler as he's hardly sent down any deliveries this Test. Bowlers being Anderson, Broad, Robinson and a.n other. Root can be the spinner. 

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