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England Cricket 2023
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We are IN this game now!0
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Broad gets Smith!0
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Next fifteen minutes might decide this0
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I've never been more worried about no ball calls than in this Broad spell
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uncanny how this is mirroring 20050
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In comes Boland to see out 15 minutes0
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Real chance to get them 4 down tonight0
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How can we not allow to play until 7.30pm today ?1
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England now favourites:
England 1.85
Australia 2.48
Draw 16.00
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Be honest, who had money on "Smith and Labouchagne will both be averaging less than every England player after one Test"?2
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I'd still have Australia marginal favourites, the way Khawaja is playing, and with Head, Green and Carey to come.Addick Addict said:England now favourites:
England 1.85
Australia 2.48
Draw 16.003 -
terrific fight back from the England bowlers .. it'll be a cracking day tomorrow, win, lose or raindraw0
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At end of play (England have drifted but the draw has seen some action):killerandflash said:
I'd still have Australia marginal favourites, the way Khawaja is playing, and with Head, Green and Carey to come.Addick Addict said:England now favourites:
England 1.85
Australia 2.48
Draw 16.00
England 2.12
Australia 2.38
Draw 9.20
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What a splendid day of cricket5
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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?0
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Especially as we didnt bowl the allotted 98 overs.Rudders22 said:How can we not allow to play until 7.30pm today ?
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 ?
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Still very much in the balance. Great Test Match0
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What happened to Moeen?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?
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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.Todds_right_hook said:
What happened to Moeen?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?3 -
In other words, nowhere near match fitAddick Addict said:
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.Todds_right_hook said:
What happened to Moeen?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?0 -
Be interesting to see what they do for the second Test.Addick Addict said:
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.Todds_right_hook said:
What happened to Moeen?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?0 -
BBC 5 live and a couple of beers in the garden, makes for a perfect afternoon.0
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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.North Lower Neil said:
Be interesting to see what they do for the second Test.Addick Addict said:
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.Todds_right_hook said:
What happened to Moeen?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?0 -
In other news Matt Parkinson will be joining super Kent at the end of the season.1
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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.8 -
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.0 -
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.1











