416 runs in less than a day.....
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416 is a good score against this WI side but it still feels like it was a 500+ innings.
416 is a good score against this WI side but it still feels like it was a 500+ innings.
416 all out, would have taken that at the start of play
I missed the first hour and had it on mute most of the day. Only just found out that England were put into bat, what on earth is that all about?
No idea, little bit of early movement but nothing else after that.
The Root and Brook dismissals were embarrassing, no need for those shots. Stokes was unlucky to pick out the fielder but shouldn't be getting out to deliveries like that and Smith was also sloppy. England will take that score, but on that pitch, they should have got more. Will see how the Windies get on with the bat tomorrow.
Windies can't bat. Their only route to a win is bowling us out cheap on a fresh wicket.
No pressure on if they bat first and hit at best 250.
Figured it must have been them worried about an early collapse after the last test. Hopefully they make a go of it.
Wood upto 97mph this morning!
Bit of a silly swipe to lose that wicket. Wood’s into his last over or two so seems silly not to see that off.
Bashir off the mark with his first wicket in test cricket.
Not seen Wood getting this fast since I took those blue pills
Morning Wood is always impressive.
Mad they didn’t use a review there. I thought it would be umpires call.
Oof would have been a wicket if they reviewed
That's a shocking shot.
Looked like a no ball on that first side on.
Look at the lack of quality international players participating in the 100. Just get rid of it FFS.
The West Indies are doing alright.
Really tough day for England, I can foresee a soft 2nd England innings where they shoot out for 150 and lose this test. Good Ashes prep 
A word also for how naff the Dukes has become, constant ball changes every 20 overs or so and then you get a ball that does do something out of nowhere. There’s no way a test match ball should lose it’s shape that badly after 20 overs, either do away with changing the ball or make the ball last 80 overs.
Score looks about par for the conditions and it should have been better with the way Woods bowled, very unlucky. I still say that England should have put more runs on the board.
If they can’t bat more than one entire day, they’re not winning a single test in Australia.
Yeah gonna be overcast tomorrow and that could put the cat amongst the pigeons. Don't tell @Mr Pigeon I said that.Really tough day for England, I can foresee a soft 2nd England innings where they shoot out for 150 and lose this test. Good Ashes prep
Yep exactly the point I was trying to make. This is not good enough against the top teams.
The cold hard reality that England have to face this summer is for all the talk over the years about their style of play, if they want to win Australia they’ll need a lot more discipline with bat and ball. Discipline to cash in and score big, discipline to take as many chances as possible in the field, discipline with DRS, discipline in building pressure and bowling dry. All of these have been lacking in this test match. They need to make significant progress in a short space of time to even compete in Australia right now.
Please don't force me to come into this thread. I'd rather come into rimaldo than see anything related to cricket.
Can we get Jimmy back for the 3rd test? Attack doesn’t look the same without him.
Totally agreed
Yep fully agree with you.
Exactly... That's why the bat sensibly (at times)/seize control calls are still there. Not just the attitude of "oh well, bazball".
On this pitch/conditions, got to be looking to be ruthless - 500+, rather than throwing wickets away.
Remarkably, that's almost exactly the score WI ended today on.
Watching the highlights.
Hodge dropped by Root on 16 to an easy chance. Athanaze looks like a talent.
They're both tiny men.
Hodge dropped by Root on 16 to an easy chance. Athanaze looks like a talent.
They're both tiny men.
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Last 3 series
Root dropped Marsh at Headingley who made a 100
Root dropped Rohit when he was less than 20 and he made a 100
Yesterday he dropped Hodge
He shouldn’t be at first slip
Hopefully that drop isn't as costly as the one yesterday
Joseph breaking roof tiles at Trent Bridge.
According to my memory of playground cricket rules that surely means six and out
According to my memory of playground cricket rules that surely means six and out
This has been poor from Stokes and England with field placements and bowling since 9 down.
I thought they'd stopped doing that thing where they bowl stupid balls to tailenders.
It literally never works either, game just becomes a stand still.
Finally.
Finally.
Finally, Windies lead by 41