Why is Bairstow going back? Has he been in any biosecure bubbled after the IPL?
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He was in South Africa.
What will we do when Jimmy finally retires at the age of 56?
Broad and Anderson played every test of the last Ashes and we got smashed, so I think we have to try something different this time. Rotating them seems fine. And we can't rely on our spinners because, well... We've just seen why.
Agree on the big picture though. We should be looking at the India series as being equally important as the Ashes.
Agree with the general vibe in here that we seem to be bizarrely throwing the India series and accepting we will lose by a few tests.
Dissapointing attitude but English cricket always picks the Ashes as piriroty particularly in a feck up of a calendar like this year.
Dissapointing attitude but English cricket always picks the Ashes as piriroty particularly in a feck up of a calendar like this year.
Really good from Buttler so far.
That was weird the one angle looked straight off the boot and the other angle looked like it caught the floor too
agreed one angle looked like two deflections.
I thought that too, but I think it was because the fielder was in the way. England have a big problem now. Will need Root to take control and get within 50 runs.
I think it was out. The angle that wasn't clear was mainly cause we needed a frame between the two we had. The other angle it was obvious.
Unlucky dismissal that
A bit. It's a false shot though. It's not as bad as when you middle on into short leg and it pops up like that one smacked in to Bairstow last match.
Root passes Pietersen's runs total, in less matches and at a better average. As he should pass everyone but Cook.
Big problems now.
definitely need to put an extra batsmen in for India, the batting is nowhere near solid at the moment.
Stokes in for Curran should help, also not been helped by Sibley and Crawley looking like tailenders.
Yep Stokes as third seamer and possibly Pope coming back in for Lawrence. Then play 4 bowlers. Burns for one of the openers.
Man it's good to have Root back.
Thank god for Joe Root eh, although still needs to carry on a while longer
So good and you can tell what kind of form he's in by the tempo he bats at. I think I read this is the first time he's got back to back hundreds in test matches, would be a brilliant time to develop a ruthless streak.
Dickwella's desire to just talk to everyone is proper keepers stuff. You love to see it.
This is superb from Bess as well, great support.
I don't know if you caught it on Sky when Jayawardene was asked about it and he said Dickwella went to the same school as Sangakkara so he's not surprised.
It's getting pretty ugly from Root now. I suppose you're not really allowed to 'retired knackered' and then come back later.
He probably have to be back within 5 minutes,
Cheating prick, he must have known that was on the floor
Decent inning from Bess, though his reprieve didn’t last long.
Disagree. I'm not even sure he didn't catch it.
This could be over pretty quickly from here.
Root is running on empty now, hopefully Wood can get a decent cameo and score quickly to try and break even.
I expect Wood will just swing and hope
Time for the tail to swing the bat. I think Joe’s struggling to lift his 
Really good catch to get rid of Bess, took a decent deflection off the keepers gloves
I think Leach can bat ahead of Wood next time.
I would quite like Embuldeniya to get the nine for. He's done so well this series.
Idiotic from Wood.
10 minutes to stumps and you're trying to smash their best bowler for 6
10 minutes to stumps and you're trying to smash their best bowler for 6
I reckon that was probably planned. Send Wood out to smash a few, get Leach in with Root tomorrow to block at one end and let Root continue to do what he's doing with a night's sleep under his belt.
What a death 
feck sake.
Last over of the day
Last over of the day