We remain favourites so i'll take that.
Brook will worry the Aussies as another half hour of him and he'll score at a real rate.
Brook will worry the Aussies as another half hour of him and he'll score at a real rate.
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England should be decent favourites from here. Quite a decent tail for England too with Woakes and Broad, with Wood and Robinson not being the biggest bunnies in the world. Not that I want to see that tested.
I suspect Brook will get short stuff post lunch, so he just needs to play through it and see England home.
Yeah they can all bat I just don't want that
Think Cummins waited too long to get Murphy into the game, very little margin for the spinner now.
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Yeah daftly following that short ball at Lord's put us into this mess along with dropped catches
This has been an extremely interesting series. We could easily be 2-0 up, but if the next session goes badly, we could quite easily be 3-0 down.
The closest whitewash in ashes history.
Yeah, just have to hope there is still time to right the wrongs of first two tests
Ok morning, as usual with England it could have been better, but then it also could have been much much worse
As the target gets closer Australia will strain even harder so England really just need to let the game come to them. I know they won’t though.
Still feeling confident?
This team makes me wanna kill myself everyday but I can’t stop watching
Also every time WinViz comes on I feel like they take a wicket, it’s a load of absolute shite please stop using made up numbers.
Yes I am - that was my marker
Doesn't seem to trust him. To be fair he doesn't seem to trust anyone besides himself and Starc right now.
Yeah that thing is a jinx
The pitch hasn't broken up that much but there's no question that Lyon would be well into the action and you would be fairly certain that he wouldn't be wicketless.
It's not really being mentioned enough on the comms how much of a loss that is for Australia.
It's not really being mentioned enough on the comms how much of a loss that is for Australia.
I think it'll be wrapped up in an hour after lunch. Might lose a couple more wickets but blast the way to the target. The only way this is lost is if the batsmen are bogged down and the scoreboard stops moving but I can't see that happening. Starc is going to be used to try and produce his fiery wicket taking yorker balls but in the process he'll also bowl some wide filth and there's not enough runs on the board to defend now for it not to eat away at them.
Have to be, less then 100 with 6 wickets in hand at home should do it 99/100, with Stokes who is arguably the best batsman in the world under pressure no reason why England should blow it from here.
Worrying few mins for Stokes G/F here.
What doesn't
Surprised the Aussies didn’t stump him while he was bent over in agony
Well that’s that then.
Trouble ahead. Another IDIOTIC shot
What are these dismissals!
some crazy shots today 
It’s soft but not a bad shot.
Crazily unlucky - what a joke time for that to happen
And with that wicket goes any chances we have of winning this test.
Looks like he walked too far over off stump and cramped himself for room
Relax - Bairstow has this…
Just a trace of brown in the underpants now
Bairstow having dreadful test. Wont make double figures
He didn’t need to play the shot having just hit a boundary and with 90 left to chase all day.
Still some chance but this partnership is crucial
It’s on his pads of course he’s going to back himself to score off that. Just got across too much.
Every batsmen in the world plays that shot, it's 99% safe.
Yeah now it looks an uphill task without our two best batsmen to say the least
Bairstow massively owes England an innings here