All happening so far!
Warner nicked off, England didn't review. England reviewed (awfully) for LBW and then Warner given LBW, didn't review and going down leg. Broad and Jimmy bowling superbly.
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All happening so far!
Warner nicked off, England didn't review. England reviewed (awfully) for LBW and then Warner given LBW, didn't review and going down leg. Broad and Jimmy bowling superbly.
Aussie's 129/8
The Umpires are having an absolute shocker
The decision to leave out a genuine pace bowler is going to be costly.
Same old England 80mph ish line and length.
210 / 9
I've not watched much of it, but I'm assuming that the risky decision to include Anderson without him having played a game to prove his fitness has blown up in the selector's faces?
248-9 now which is not a bad outcome when you consider that Australia opted to bat, but all of the momentum is with them now and I have very little faith in this England batting line up.
To be fair Broad has been excellent and Woakes has done well. But 122 for 8 a genuine quick would surely have helped finish it off
If Archer isnt ready Stone should have been in.
Saying that questions must be asked when Andersons calf has gone again after 4 overs.
This female commentator is terrible as well.
I generally listen to TMS i find Alison Mitchell very knowledgeable play by play commentator, and certainly has a good sports background.
I also quite like the input from Ebony Rainford-Brent and Isha Guha both as former professional cricketers to add a different view on the game.
It a long day listening to cricket and the different voices and hearing something different adds something for me, and there is still time to hear off the former male pro in what is a long day of listening.
Obviously wrong call in hindsight, you would have imagined that Anderson would have gone through all pre match fitness test and come through ok. There have been videos of him bowling in the nets going around for weeks, and you would think he is doing 30 overs a day in the nets.
The problem is net bowling isnt quite the same as match bowling. Having no pressure charging in bowling with no consequences is different from bowling in the first test of the ashes.
Its right you don't really go all out in the nets, but how else could he prove fitness before hand, they couldn't replicate the situation. I would have imagined that the medical would have gone through all the processes and scans before hand, but there was still a weakness there.
Being a bowler down and with the release of pressure and the added tiredness of the remaining bowlers has in this moment let Australia get to a higher score than they should have done. In a venue that England generally win at, they are at a sure disadvantage now.
England are still in the driving seat, it was important to get both Roy and Burns back last night. It's still a below par score and they just need to get off to a good start.
They could have made Jimmy actually bowl at full tilt for a spell. Either way, he's not 100% and you can say x, y, z but it clearly was a mistake.
People will scream political correctness about any change they don't like, in fact there's a hell of a lot more people that complain about political correctness than there are people complaining that things aren't politically correct.
Having women on makes it more inclusive and maybe more accessible to the women watching. TMS is on for about 8 hours, I genuinely can't understand why anybody cares if there's someone of a different gender to them talking about the cricket for a portion of that time, it's bizarre. Same with football, there's some awful female pundits and there's some great ones, the same is true for male pundits
And without tarring everybody with the same brush it's usually men of a certain age complaining about that and a lot of other things that are changing to make things more equal for everybody. Times change, go with it, it doesn't matter
My issue isnt so much Anderson but not having the tools to finish the tail. If they didnt want to risk Archer then they should have found a space for Stone.
Im sure Siddle and Lyon wouldnt have lasted as long with 90mph balls going past their noses.
They had the tools when the ball was new and moving about. Siddle in particular was in little trouble against the old ball.
The convicts have extra pace and a miles better spinner. They wont have the same problem when the ball gets old. Someone really has to step up and get a big score.
We need a decent lead and ive no real confidence we will get 250.
I can't bring myself to say "we" but England have great depth to their batting. Anderson decision looks dodgy but very surprised that Starc isn't in the Aussie line-up.
Root given out caught behind. Immediately reviews. Another ball thats hit the stumps and the bails dont come off. Root survives.
Enjoy the cricket but...
Grown men doing that 4 run wavy hand thingy, they look absolute dickheads, don't they realise their families may be watching
Enjoying this. I am at work so following on cricinfo, and the BBC live text coverage. One thing that puzzles me though... on the BBC thing, each comment comes with the option to like or dislike. Who the f**k is clicking on those buttons? 248 people have hit "like" on the news that it is a drinks break. Why?! And how on earth could 16 more "dislike" that particular piece of information?! bonkers stuff.
Moeen Ali.............:facepalm:
I'd add that very overrated batsman Bairstow as well.
If England can eke out another twenty five runs I'd say that would be a significant lead, but it looks like Lyon is going to become more influential as the game goes on - Moeen, needs to produce with the ball later on today.
To be fair, England proved me wrong with their batting yesterday - especially Rory Burns. After failing twice against Ireland, it wouldn't have surprised at all if he had been dropped. As he admits himself, you'd never teach kids to bat like he does and the thing with players like that is that less patience is shown towards them compared to classically elegant players (watch people tear into Steve Smith's method once he starts to struggle) - it was proper test batting by Burns, Root and Stokes yesterday and I'd started to think this England team was incapable of that.
Bairstow isn’t exempt from criticism, flashing wildly at a ball when he needed to get his head down and bat for a few hours! However, Ali leaving a ball like that makes him looks timid and completely out of sorts ! clearly Lyon has him sussed which is so annoying as he can do so much more with the bat !
I think Moeen was originally selected as a batsman who could bowl, but now it's his bowling that it is keeping him in the team. I'd just stick him at number eight from now on and hope he can contribute with the bat now and again - Bairstow is different for me, he is still thought of as a specialist batsman, but he is far too loose currently to be that.
Jason Roy :facepalm:
Could have cost England the game with his impatience.
Quintessential white ball player right there :angry:
No doubt Roy has something but in test cricket, and in the position England are in, you have to apply yourself and dig in.
He had made his mind up what he was going to do before the ball left Lyon's hand, instead of playing the ball on merit. He didn't even get to the pitch of the ball.
Denly reviewing was an even worse decision!
Looks like they might need "sir Ben" yet again to get the draw.
I wonder what odds and who had money on Aus to win at 120 odd for 8 on the first day. I bet somebody had money on it.
Root has gone now ! ...... Lyon showing the difference of having a spin bowler in form ! Ali has had a stinker of a test so far but maybe he will be needed some time this afternoon to save the test !
To think they had Australia 122-8 on first day and let them make 284 ! And then had a mini collapse from 279-4 to only finish 90 runs ahead. They only have themselves to blame !
I've never liked Smith - don't like the way he bats and didn't like the obnoxious behaviour of the Aussie team he captained (the real measure of how bad they had got is that I don't think any genuine cricket fan could have been the least bit surprised when the ball tampering story broke), but, I don't think I've ever seen anyone make batting look as easy as he did when he came in, with his team, seemingly, on their way to defeat, in a very tense situation on Saturday. Moeen Ali had turned his second ball a long way to all but bowl Bancroft and then got him out in his next over - he was the potential match winning bowler for England, but Smith was toying with him from the start and is now dominating him to the extent that he will, almost certainly, be dropped after this match with his bowling, and batting, confidence absolutely shot.
Second best ever to Bradman? On the evidence of this match, Smith may just be that.