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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,225
    Stupid batting. Just play normal cricket shots.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,202
    Stupid batting. Just play normal cricket shots.
    I can’t get too upset at a no. 9 trying to play shots when it’s just got him and his batting partner to one of the highest partnerships of the Test match.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,202
    Archer hits a four and the lead is now 200.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,358
    Such a modern dismissal that. The concept of leaving seems alien now.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,202
    Archer hits a four and the lead is now 200.
    Out next ball playing a hook lol

    160-9, 33.5 ovs

    Archer 5 (3) c Smith b Doggett
  • Another crazy dismissal, batting like it's the final over of a T20.
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,225
    At least it will go into a 3rd day. Aussies will have around 30 overs to bat today. No way will they get 200 in the final session. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,358
    Some great shots, BUT it's like the last 3 overs of a T20. Not a Test with TEN sessions left.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,202
    Wood hooks a four first ball :-)
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,871
    Probably about  50 runs short,  but  you never know 

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  • jakecafc
    jakecafc Posts: 2,125
    Should be taking these runs here.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,202
    164 all out

    Atkinson caught on the boundary

    Aus need 205 to win
  • Mike
    Mike Posts: 6,181
    Stupidity from so many of them. Just want a few more days in the spa
  • arny23394
    arny23394 Posts: 1,255
    Some great shots, BUT it's like the last 3 overs of a T20. Not a Test with TEN sessions left.
    You can’t play golf and cricket at the same time 
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,756
    Get Smith early again and I think we win this. 

    If not, you’d think 204 on a Day 3 pitch is more than achievable 
  • AdTheAddicK
    AdTheAddicK Posts: 3,435
    Bleak 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,370
    How many times has England failed to bat for 35 overs in both innings? No wonder we struggle in ODIs. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,358
    The ball is just going soft, but we've been bowled out twice before being able to exploit it.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,202
    Nathan Lyon bowled only one over across both innings. Reckon they’d trade him for Beau Webster right now
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,370
    Australia 1.46
    England 3.10
    Draw 1000.00

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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,225
    I wonder what Boycs makes of all this. He would take 35 overs himself just to get to 50.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,390
    The Aussies will have to get the highest score in the match. 

    A lead of 200 would give us a decent chance. 
    The trouble is that in previous tests pitch has flattened out as the match has gone on. Let's hope it doesn't today/tomorrow.
  • It feels like a Test match of the future, which will be a two-innings T20.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,370
    We've lost 9 wickets in 38 balls in this match. This pitch isn't minefield territory. 
  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 5,015
    England's batting in a nutshell:

    Such a waste of a great day's bowling yesterday.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 17,390
    Bowlers needed a rest as well. Archer looked exhausted this time yesterday 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,225
    And back on planet earth....well, India to be more precise.

    SA have scored 134 off 35.2 overs  1 ball more than the Aussies faced for 2 more runs. However, in the 5 day format they have lost only 2 wickets.
  • Need a couple of early wickets to put the pressure on.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,370
    Head opening!!!
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,225
    We've lost 9 wickets in 38 balls in this match. This pitch isn't minefield territory. 
    Perhaps the ECB can come up with another version of limited overs cricket. We have T20 and The Hundred, so maybe a shorter version called the 50.....