Ireland the best test cricket team in the world, who knew 
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I see the Test team are back to their normal self.
You gotta love it.
England haven't even batted that badly tbh
Good to see an Englishman ripping apart England for a change.
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They've been fairly awful, I would say. Technique has been all wrong against a moving ball.
Curran and Broad both can bat. Just need to see out till lunch and then runs galore
Not for about 5 years he can't.
Proud of the boys, after winning a World Cup this is such a perfectly English thing to do. All is right with the world again.
Or not the case may be
What the feck
This has been utterly fecking shameful batting.
It's a green top and Ireland have played well but fecking hell. No excuse to be 58/8.
Embarrassing.
It's a green top and Ireland have played well but fecking hell. No excuse to be 58/8.
Embarrassing.
58-8
Obligatory Archer tweet
Fine catch that is with clever field setting and bowling. England have been shite but we've been very good in fairness.
67-9. wow.
The Aussies will be drinking this in. If Hazelwood, Pattinson and Starc move it around even a little bit it's guaranteed carnage. We've forgotten how to bat in tests.
Bayliss might have done alright with the ODI side, but it will be nice when he fecks off and we get a coach that has some idea about how to play test cricket in England.
Exactly this.
We won the World Cup so I suppose he's done what he was employed to do.
But our Test side has been neglected for years and today it's coming home to roost.
We're utter shite.
Olly stone reaches double figures.
Get him up the order.
Get him up the order.
Hehe. Big fan of cricket, me. Always have been.
Thompson been England's best player.
I hear we're beating the bastards? Don't understand the rules to Protestant hurling but I'll take it.
I'm taking nothing away from the Irish bowlers, they've bowled the conditions brilliantly however nobody will tell me that that attack is of a 69/9 quality. Very poor batting from some very experienced players and the usual nothing from the top order. If I was Bayliss and Root, I'd be on my hands and knees begging Chef to come back for the ashes.
Brilliant
Can but dream.
That last one is on the commentator though, 85 all out. Spectacular.
Out for the first time before lunch at Lords in a test. We need to relearn the test match mentality and fast.
4th time in a year we've lost all 10 wickets in a session, and we lost 9 in one session in the West Indies.
We don't know how to bat in Test cricket.
We don't know how to bat in Test cricket.
Odds on Broad to bang it in back of a length
As awful as England have been I'm made up for Ireland. Thought it was an arrogant and disrespectful team selection (as it has been when England have played ODIs against Ireland over the years) and disrespectful to play them in a one off, four day test. England coping a hiding can only be a good thing for the sport. Hope Ireland bat well too.
I wish we would stop playing at Lords, England's record there in all formats is poor to say the least. Only ever inspires teams from overseas.
People seem to forget that the reason cook retired was because he was very bad at the end
Our record at Lords just feels like it's appalling.
It seems like we never win there.
How was the team selection arrogant ? The match is right between the WC which went for 2 months and the ashes so not sure what you would want
Because they picked a side for a warm up game. If you don't have time in the schedule to play a test then don't schedule a test.
What rubbish is that , it provides England a chance to test themselves against a good attack who will try their best and it gives Ireland a chance to play a test match at Lord's . 8 of the 11 that played today will play in the first test at Edgbaston , how is that a warm up side ?