5 dropped catches today by England. Aussie 44 ahead with 4 wkts left. Need early wickets tomorrow or we could be going 2 down. Going to be a long viewing day, cricket till 12noon,tea and bacon sarnies, then City on Sky.
Mine is solid Bure. On the other side of the world probably on a different satellite. But scoring quickly playing proper shots.
I am able to watch all of each of these test matches. Unfortunately. Think I will dip in and out of them unless we drastically improve. Lord Botham was right, no matches leading up to this series leaves us un- prepared. Playing on Aussie pitches with the kookaburrah ball is totally different to Lords with the Duke. Only Stokes and Root have been here previously. Archer maybe also. I can see 5-0 looming again.
No, we just can't play proper test cricket, particularly in Australian conditions. The bowling lacks patience, guile and pentration, and batting lacks patience, guile and common sense. Arrogant Poms is about right, and I'm a huge but bitterly disappointed England fan.
yeah Stokes was so annoyed with himself when he got out yesterday, but shock horror, him and Jacks were batting properly, yes it was slow going, but they need to have patience. I think trying to slog Starc every ball usually doesn't work unless you're seeing it like a beach ball and the bowler is tired as per the final wicket of the first innings. 5 dropped catches as well in an innings and Australians took 2 or 3 blinders... reminds me of my old South African youth coach 'catches win matches', sometimes we would do 3 hours of fielding in our practice on a Saturday morning, would at times be real boring, but we knew 'catches win matches'
