This test will end in a draw due the weather, which is a crying shame because we absolutely battered the Aussies here. The laws around timings in tests needs looking at IMO. Even when a team deliberately slows the over rate down, as the Aussies have here, there’s no on field sanctions. They don’t even make them stay on the field until ‘missed’ overs have been bowled. I know I sound like a stuck record but it also makes no sense to end play when it’s bright and sunny when it’s 99% certain that at least a full day is going to be lost later on. Anyways, if this game is a draw let’s steam into the Aussies again at The Oval and square the series. Let’s make sure that we don’t lose a series on home soil against these arseholes for the first time in 22 years. Do that and this series will always be remembered as the one where Australia were made to look bereft of ideas, overly conservative and were saved by the rain.
Not a lot happening with the ball, Jimmy im afraid is done as a test bowler, no threat whatsoever (really hoping those words come back to bite me on the arse)
Aus now just 80 behind, still 6 wickets left. Marsh/Labuschange looking comfortable. Fast bowlers stood down because of light, Root/Ali bowling.
Ok, Root gets Labuschange, let's see if we can push on now. What a shame we can't get the quicks on with a new ball coming soon.
That’s a shame Root seemed confident Nice rendition of ‘2-0 and you ****ed it up’ from the crowd. Hopefully they’re right
Our bus trip was to the Test Match was. The option was to still get the bus, which was booked anyhow, and go to a rugby league match somewhere along the M62, which some did, or forgo your the fare for the bus, not travel, and go for a pint in town. I went in town for a pint.
It really is ironic, on the one hand the BBC banging on about were are all going fry under the sun, and here we are having a cool wet July weekend.
I've just taken the dog out for half an hour and it's like November. Wish I'd put some gloves on as my hands were wet and getting cold. I'd put my big waterproof on and had the hood zipped right up but that just meant that my trousers consequently got soaked through as the rain just ran down my jacket. Mental for July.
This isn't the thread for it, but I do think that some of the dramatic talk of how it'll impact British weather does an amount of harm to people's understanding of climate change. Everyone's so polarised on everything these days so it's already a difficult topic to navigate, but people simplifying climate change, which is undoubtedly a very real threat that must be taken seriously, down to "Britain will be constantly hot", which is sensationalist bollocks, just polarises people further and gives disingenuous deniers something to latch onto.
