England's Summer Of Cricket against New Zealand and AUSTRALIA!

[Chazza]

Coming your way then...

Dan Roan @danroan
It's pouring at Old Trafford

[Shaggy]

It's gone very dark all of a sudden

[Shaggy]

And it's sunny as **** again, not a drop! Weather is so weird

[Chazza]

[Shaggy]

So, so weird - it's like Barbados here

[PTP]

it's been mental all week in liverpool - seems to start off dull/wet/humid and then afternoon it's ****ing glorious, but every now and then it pisses down

it's like being in a tropical climate - i can't take it - be hot/be cold and stick to it - how the hell am i supposed to gauge what to wear

[Shaggy]

[Chazza]

Sporadic

[Shaggy]

Something quite sad about this....a forlorn Compton sat at home watching it on telly

Nick Compton @thecompdog
Great analysis from Nasser and Shane on how to play spin. A must watch for anyone learning to play spin #Ashes

[Chazza]

Not quite the early breakthrough everyone (apart from Harv) was hoping for.

[EwarWoo]

This as draw written all over it. If we cant get these muppets out on this pitch we'll be batting for 3 days.

[Shaggy]

Yep nailed on draw. They'll make 550-600 and it'll fizzle out.

[PTP]

surely tho they need to attack - they need a win - i'm hoping they take a gamble, declare and try and bowl us out quickly

cook would take the draw all day -

[Shaggy]

IMO they'll declare on a massive score and will think they can knock us over relatively cheaply on a deteriorating wicket.

[PTP]

yeah possibly

if our batsmen get in and settle, this will turn out to be a pretty lame test compared to the last two