Bairstow 
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Jeez the nutters on the roof ….madness
Why is Bairstow guaranteed a place?
England need to take advantage - feels like there could be a wicket any ball.
What a feckin' morning this is.
If we get Smith out before 100....
If we get Smith out before 100....
Woakes is a great bowler
That was a really tough chance to be fair. Thought he did well to even get the tips of his gloves on it considering it was an inside edge.
In fairness, if you were to say that's a 50% take rate for Bairstow and a 70% for someone like Foakes, you're still talking about evaluating that marginal increase.
Because his batting form has been one of the best before his injury.
No excuse for that one, he has to take that.
Bairstow man that’s embarrassing. England happy to keep him in though and watch them throw chances away again and again.
Shocker from Bairstow there. He's costing England in this series.
Out of interest, could a batter review that to get the run? Be interesting to see if that happened with a batter on 99.
Out of interest, could a batter review that to get the run? Be interesting to see if that happened with a batter on 99.
You'd expect him to take that even without Gloves. Shocking stuff.
OK, that is a dolly he's just put down. A clear edge.
Stokes mate?
If you’re trying to compete at the top level you need a proper wicket keeper end of story
Criminal to not have an actual WK in tests. Probably costs you 100+ runs per match.
That's some wild 4D chess from Bairstow.
Broad is special
Yes what a wicket!
As if he thought he didn't hit that. Get fecked, Smith
Get in Broady!
There was clearly a sound there, but Smith looks confident.
Yep bairstow is Costing us big time with his wicket keeping this series.
Why did he review that? Surely he knew he'd caught it?
Think it is more this! Even if he is in form with the bat, fine, but just have Foakes as WK and Bairstow as a batsman...
This series may have been very different if our bowling attack had been available from the 1st test. The variety is there now.
Smith must have known he got an edge…..
Seriously, Smith using a review on that was insane. He must have known he’d got a massive edge on it.
Must have thought he'd sanded his bat down enough to have missed it.
Wood looks far better than I’ve seen him before. Very accurate at pace.
Probably assumed Bairstow had dropped it.
Sure broad didn't know he edged one to slip that time. Can be difficult in the heat of the moment mate
Difference being, Broad wasn't given out. That shite from Smith only served to hurt his own team.
Even Broad would have walked off if he’d been given out though!
Difference being, Broad wasn't given out. That shite from Smith only served to hurt his own team.
New moral conundrum for the Aussie-sympathisers.
Was Smith cheating by not walking and reviewing that clear edge?
How we needed this to finish job at Edgbaston,not even Cummins & Lyon could negate that pace