Think England need to time waste now. 30 mins batting here could be terminal.
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What is with Australians reviewing when they’ve clearly edged it?? They can only be hoping snicko malfunctions in some way.
Reviewing that when he's middled it 
Hope we drag out the last 2, don't want to be batting for 20 minutes tonight.
Bairstow’s starting position to short stuff. Just did a feature on it, if he did what Carey did last test that’s out.
Why doesn’t Wood aim at the stumps as well as the short call with his pace.
Do you think Australia should be declaring then?
I think we just need to try and get this done, not piss about.
30 more and aus will fancy this. This is already going on longer than England would like
Exacty this. Just get the wickets. If these 2 are still here tomorrow, no telling how much extra runs they might put on. Especially with Englands record against tails.
Why do England start overthinking it when it's down to the last couple? Just keep bowling like we did surely...
I keep going between both, they’ve already eke’d out 18 runs in no time here, so now want to get them all out
I don’t think there’s any doubt England are trying to take the last two wickets. You’d rather bat for 20 minutes tonight than chase another 50 runs.
England have slowed it down a tad here.
Silly tactics with no one in the circle. Mirroring Australias tactics to Stokes and we know what happened there.
The other thing here, I don’t think fielders are picking it up so having them all out there is not really that useful.
Why are we doing this?! Cloud cover, something in the pitch, short every time. Ridiculous. We're literally giving them room to smack it.
The galaxy brain short ball theory this series has been hilarious from both teams.
seriously this is dumb..
Head playing the short stuff much better backing away and just going for it. Good knock.
Neither team can take decisive control when they have a window and then Australia win.
Yeah fecking annoying tail wag
Stokes-esque.
Feck sake.
plan could have a much simpler rather than short stuff. Swing is there, use it.
From a promising position to now this.. we’ve only got ourselves to blame if we don’t win this test.
almost there..
Honestly it’s not doing a lot, just enough but not a lot. Certainly wouldn’t be pitching it up to Head here but maybe it’s better to hide it outside off to Head, short stuff isn’t working.
Still good value for your shots when you beat the field here.
Can we get Murphy on strike?
yeah shorter on midwicket sides. Still dont fancy England able to chase anything more than 260. It will be very tricky.
two days of rain delays will not help batsmen & will def help bowling.
He looks handy to be fair.
It is very tricky, T20 has completely changed batting with the tail, everyone’s got the power and skill to shift the game in the bat of an eyelid and even tailenders are pretty handy now.
Bowl an absolute ripper of a short ball and get nothing for it. Tough game.
Why didn't we see Broad when Cummins got out,yet again we had them by throat and dropped again when it came to finishing job
It’s not been brilliant but Murphy came out and got 10 straight away off of Wood and Head’s played it very well.
Comms getting too invested in the ball moving once it’s past the bat, that’s not what gets bats out. It’s shaping early and just holding off the pitch, which is enough but not absolutely hooping.
Give me ultra edge
I know it’s to a tailender but that’s a fantastic over from Broad
Yeah, rarely has someone so deserved to get a number 10 out.