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  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,345
    Sue Perb

  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 12,715
    Lovely scorecard to wake up to. Nice to have a wildcard pick of Neser instead of Cummins
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,221
    Well, that's better than I'd expected. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,365
    This is the first match in 12 years that Australia have put out a side without Cummins, Hazlewood and Lyon. 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 12,715
    That ball for Duckett is fantastic
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,272
    Well this is a pleasant surprise to wake up to. Neser is a bit of a wildcard pick that ironically would concern me more in English conditions. 
  • jakecafc
    jakecafc Posts: 2,125
    Good recovery. Crawley looks much more assured which is great to see.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,365
    The reality is that this Test will be won by the side that can negotiate the difficult periods best - early on when the ball is hard and also when the light is fading - and not give it away when conditions are at their best to bat. That sounds all very straightforward but it's not something that we've particularly good at recognising under Bazball. Til now hopefully. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,345
    Interesting that both sides have left out their main spinners because of the dusk period,  but it does leave them vulnerable during the day.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,365
    Keeper standing up to seamers after 25 overs says it all about the lack of pace and bounce of this pitch and the rapidly deteriorating pink ball. 

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  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,943
    Same old Crawley…

    Not good enough. Has to go on and get a big ton 
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,885
    Zak 😭
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,365
    Crawley caught behind trying to pull a ball for 76 (93)

    122-3 (27.5)
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,869
    Please don't let this be the start of a mini collapse. 
    Need a decent partnership now from Root and Brook.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,345
    Soft dismissal.  Great time for Brook to come to the crease though,  the ball starting to get soft and an hour until it starts getting dark. 
  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,943
    Brook straight onto the attack 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,365
    As Cook says, the ball wasn't there to pull it and 70s don't win Test matches. I'd like to think Crawley will learn from that but, as he's only converted 5 of the 25 occasions he's reached 50, I'm not sure he ever will. 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,221
    Brook wont be around for long playing like this.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,365
    That was an incredible take by Carey. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,094
    Feel like this will be a quick 25 or something here from Brook.  Daft play. 

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  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,221
    Was his foot down ?  
  • jakecafc
    jakecafc Posts: 2,125
    I hate the ramp shot. So risky.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,345
    Crazy shot by Brook. Going like a train,  so no need to play the T20 stuff. That would have been a mad dismissal. 
  • kinveachyaddick
    kinveachyaddick Posts: 3,943
    If he’d got himself out there someone should have shot him 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,221
    jakecafc said:
    I hate the ramp shot. So risky.
    Esp when you have just come in & your team is 130/3. Been there a while & are 400/6 then no problem. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,365
    The phrase "in for a good time and not a long time" was made for Brook. 
  • jakecafc
    jakecafc Posts: 2,125
    What they're saying on comms is right. Crazy shot to try when you're 140-3 in a test match. Take responsibility.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,094
    edited December 4
    Glenn McGrath talking a lot of sense on TMS - saying leave the short stuff and the bowlers will have to go back to a length and it seems easy to score off on this pitch.

    Shame I suspect most of our team haven't got half his nous.
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,869
    Root and Brook are 2 of the very best batsmen in the world. 
    Just play sensible cricket and cut out the one day shots.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,365
    50 * (83) for Root

    151-3 (32.4)

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