Three Yorkshire men playing horrible shots. Real collapse. Good day for bowling, but even better when the batsmen are helping out.
Root,Stokes and Bairstow out for a combined score of 13. Can't win matches against the Aussies with that.
Never judge a score mate till both sides have batted. 300 would be a very good total IMHO especially after being put in. Yes it could have been more but with the dropped catches it could have been worse.
Agreed. This has been a disappointing effort so far, but we might skittle the whinging convicts for 100 then it looks like a match-winning total 5th drop of the day as I type
I'd say 50 or 60 under par. At 184 for 3 , that's not the best effort at all really. But it looks a good time to bowl, though I think the pitch will flatten a bit. . If Jimmy can't swing it in this, then it really is time for him to leave it.
That's really the only positive from today. If we can get 3 or 4 out tonight then it's been our day, but if they are 100-1 at stumps we are behind the game I do love Bazball and I don't necessarily think the wickets were chucked away today, but Brook, Root and Bairstow all played shots they didn't need to. Stokes got a beauty and Duckett was unlucky
Everyone knew this. Tongue took five wickets in his one debut test and looked a threat throughout Anderson has four in three tests plus this one and not bothered a single batsman rearly. Awful, sentimental pick.
On top of that Anderson can't bat. Bazball is great but if you're in the Bazball family you seem undropable... Just as I text...a wicket falls
Yep. They got three middle order wickets too easily. Ext circumstances for Ali, and for Wood and Woakes to a point, but that's seven wickets they didn't need to graft for, three of them top line batsmen. That looks a 400 plus pitch to me now, at least. We'll need Root tomorrow as only three of the seamers carry a threat. I had a bet on them to win 3-1 at the start, so I expect I'll collect We've done much better than I'd expected though, and if we'd caught our catches earlier on, or just a reasonable amount of them, we'd be at least ahead now. We have dropped literally hundreds of runs! Time now surely for Jimmy to pack it in. Not a good look when there is at least one youngun chomping at the bit.
