Off Topic 2024 cricket season - with new zealand v england tests
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apparently - to my surprise - this is the first time england have scored 400+ in both innings of a test match.
they seem to have steadied things, he said, hoping to jinx the steadying.
Poor from the openers. So much for the slightly more reserved "Bazball 2.0", playing a more reserved style when the situation requires etc
No, it's Eng being sporting and trying to make a game of it...Bazball, bazball is falling apart again.
Mark Wood deserving of his 5-fer too.
England v West Indies video: Mark Wood rips through tail - BBC Sport
England v West Indies video: Mark Wood rips through tail - BBC Sport
so, first test v sri lanka and the visitors were all out for 236. perhaps a little disappointing that they got that many given that they were 6/3 at one stage.
and, as i type, harry brook loses his wicket. to make it 187/5. parity isn't far away, and we might still have a first-innings lead.
the main reason for reviving this post, apart from the fact it needed doing, was that if smith had added another 3 runs before the smith-brook partnership ended, we'd have two batsmen batting together with career test averages of 60+ (even if one of them has a test career only a handful of games old). my apologies for jinxing it! perhaps later in the series.
and, as i type, harry brook loses his wicket. to make it 187/5. parity isn't far away, and we might still have a first-innings lead.
the main reason for reviving this post, apart from the fact it needed doing, was that if smith had added another 3 runs before the smith-brook partnership ended, we'd have two batsmen batting together with career test averages of 60+ (even if one of them has a test career only a handful of games old). my apologies for jinxing it! perhaps later in the series.
