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Paul.S
I don't get why all this doom and gloom has set in so quickly. We won the last test with a fairly dominant performance in 3.5 days. Even with losing the toss if memory serves.
This test has had a totally **** slow pitch, and a 20 minute period of wobble. Even Root went for a shot he would never have attempted.
Personally this test looks to be a write off, but England have shown more than enough from the first to tell me that it's gonna be a good series.
We won the toss in the last test match. You have to bat first in 90% of matches, just look at the second game against NZ, we won the toss, put them in and lost.
To save this game we are going to have to bat for 3 days over the course of both our innings. Still possible, but unlikely.
Our top 4 is a liability. But I will say Cook showed magnificent mental fortitude last night weathering that storm after standing in the field for 150 overs.
Regarding Bell, he's in an awful run of form, but in that bad trot he has got out to a quite a few absolutely fantastic deliveries. I'd drop Lythe and Balance and bring in Hales and Barstow. Got to try something new because our top order gets blown away almost every innings.
Same again from Buttler would be nice here. Score some runs whole Cook hangs in. We need to avoid the follow on. Do that and I think we will draw. Don't and the Aussies will knock us over in short order.
Yes. Come on and knock the rest of these muppets out! He was looking dangerous that Stokes.
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"looking through your posts since 2007 and what you have consistently written about my football team I have come to the conclusion that if you had 1 more brain cell you would be a plant .. your father was a hamster and your mother smells of elder berries, I fart in your general direction ..." Nicey
"When a man insults my country I insult him, by taking his woman" Tony Yeboah
"looking through your posts since 2007 and what you have consistently written about my football team I have come to the conclusion that if you had 1 more brain cell you would be a plant .. your father was a hamster and your mother smells of elder berries, I fart in your general direction ..." Nicey
At least at this rate they will get the day off tomorrow
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"When a man insults my country I insult him, by taking his woman" Tony Yeboah
"looking through your posts since 2007 and what you have consistently written about my football team I have come to the conclusion that if you had 1 more brain cell you would be a plant .. your father was a hamster and your mother smells of elder berries, I fart in your general direction ..." Nicey
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