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clockstander said:
After the run out, had to watch the rest of the day with the mute button on just to shut Nasser up. The glee in his voice when things go against us says it all. Lets hope Root and Bairstow can shut him and his mate Kholi up tomorrow by leading England to a famous victory. OaU.
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If I’m an England player, any of them, and we won it, I’m in Kohli’s face celebrating the second the winning runs are score. Would love Bairstow to go celebrate in his face. Just like he did with Lees when he was run out.

You can guarantee that Hussain would say “no need for that” despite almost gleefully commentating about Kohli talking Lees off the field
 
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marcusblackcat said:
If I’m an England player, any of them, and we won it, I’m in Kohli’s face celebrating the second the winning runs are score. Would love Bairstow to go celebrate in his face. Just like he did with Lees when he was run out.

You can guarantee that Hussain would say “no need for that” despite almost gleefully commentating about Kohli talking Lees off the field
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I hope Bairstow blows a kiss back to Rat
 
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Mackem-Tiz said:
I watched every single ball today (off work lol) and it's been literally fantastic to see the difference in the team. We are literally starting a trend here...no test team has ever played with this attacking mindset from my memory and I've been watching test cricket for over 40 years.
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I don't disagree. The only similar approach was from the Aussies in the late 90s when they used to give Gilchrist his head to score over 4 or 5 an over ,but that was usually on the back of the Aussies top 5 batmen (all of whom would have been in the top 3 for their positions in the world) having hit 305-4.

What was extraordinary (especially given how Crawley has betted recently) yesterday was Lees and Crawely attacking the bowling, whilst chasing a record England score, early on a fourth day. Boycott would have spent 4 sessions getting 26 having faced 226 balls.
 
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What is also fantastic about this ultra aggressive approach is it is getting test matches to day 5. Seems a bit counter intuitive to say. I know NZ and India play am aggressive game too. Maybe this style will spread - could be the saviour of test match cricket.
 
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TopCat_ said:
I think Stuart Broad will be a shoe-in when he ends his test career. I enjoy listening to Mo Ali, Ali Cook and Eoin Morgan,
JOnathan Agnew is still he Daddy of radio commentary and I like Atherton's style on Sky. Isa Guha is good too. I find Alex Hartley's voice annoying, but she speaks well about the technical side of the game.
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Jimmy Anderson did a spell on TMS for the ODI's last year and was pretty good - he's really quite dry and sparked well with both Cook and Tuffers. Ramps is maybe better suited to TV where you don't have to speak quite as much.
 
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SAFCDRUM said:
Can't wait for it to start this morning.
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Be interesting to see how they approach it. Couple of early wickets and it's almost game over, but take it to them early and we might just deflate them enough to make this another Headingley
 
TopCat_ said:
Be interesting to see how they approach it. Couple of early wickets and it's almost game over, but take it to them early and we might just deflate them enough to make this another Headingley
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If it had carried on last night I would be very confident. Interesting first hour.
 
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100 for Bairstow , he's waited 33 mins in the 90's for that one, while Root has been making hay at the other end.
 
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