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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited July 2019
    They say you can't judge the pitch until the other team have batted on it. We'll find out in about 20 minutes... =)


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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
     :p

    Time for the new boy bowlers to mske an impact with the bat.

    What a shower of shit. 
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    67-9, Curran goes. 
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    85 all out.

    As well as Ireland bowled this was shameful. If I was a team sponsor I would be asking for my money back. 
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  • shrinkwrapshrinkwrap Frets: 512
    I don't know.. they did high drama very well last week, they're just seeing how well they can do banana skin comedy today.
    Top of the class, I reckon.

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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    On the plus side it's our highest ever Test total against Ireland.
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
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    wow - 85 all out in one session 

    I know we can all have a bad day - I know some other of the players might be mentally fatigued after the WC, or indeed not mentally turned on for this, thinking it would be an easy dress rehearsal - But 85 all out and the Aussies will be laughing 
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 27656
    Our worst ever??? (considering the opposition)

    The opening batsmen are both on 4 runs as I type, they have both outscored 6 of our players!!!! 
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    I blame BoJo
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    Hang on it looks like the Test cricket has started...

    Not sure what match England were playing this morning but it wasn't this one.


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  • StuckfastStuckfast Frets: 2124
    Jack Leach making Ashley Giles look like Murali here.
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    We pick a bowler-heavy team, we win the toss on a green top that will lose the green by mid-afternoon, the night previous had electrical storms and dry heat around London (some fucking beautiful lightning over Epsom and Cheam way looking from my balcony at 2am)... and we bat. 

    Picking two spinners suggests they're thinking of turn but are they that afraid of the Irish slow bowling that they didn't want to bat last on a spinning wicket? 

    And all this against an attack who would be considered not too special in D1 of the County Championship. 






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  • StuckfastStuckfast Frets: 2124
    Wonder what Ireland would have done if they'd won the toss.
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  • crunchmancrunchman Frets: 10961
    Stuckfast said:
    Wonder what Ireland would have done if they'd won the toss.
    According to the pundits on TMS, they would probably have put us in.
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    So, if things continue on their current path it looks like they will have to bat a fair bit to make Ireland bat again.

    You wouldn't be the odd one out if you had doubts, would you. 
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  • StuckfastStuckfast Frets: 2124
    Corking over from Stone there.
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    If we can keep them to just 100 ahead then with a good 2nd innings England could get this, no 5th day though to bowl them out and weather looks like it will break by Saturday with 40% chance of rain which will either help the ball nip around or could limit the time left to play.

    Tricky, and intriguing. This is why we love Test cricket, the ebb and flow!


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  • DopesickDopesick Frets: 1506
    Fifty for Leach - opening batsman problems solved instantly.
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    Dopesick said:
    Fifty for Leach - opening batsman problems solved instantly.
    Don't know about that, but he's marked himself down as nightwatchman if picked in the future.


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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited July 2019
    Scores level. Start the match again. 1 innings each. I fancy England to win this now.


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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    Roy doing better, going at a run an over on 70, still doesn't look entirely like an opening Test Match batsmen, a few sillies charging down the pitch and missing etc. Leach playing a blinder, very lucky at times, and few howlers but 72 well earned runs so far.


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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited July 2019
    Bairstow having a nightmare. Looking down the Chinese menu for tea and having a double duck dish I would think followed by a "pear" dessert  


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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    Oh bugger. 194-5 now. Only 72 ahead, we need at least 100 more. Up to you, skip

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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited July 2019
    Wahay! Moeen Ali is in, here we go. Time for some tree chopping.

    I bet the Aussies are making notes "bowl a bit of a slower pace, aim at top of off stump" simples. 


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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    Or bounce Moeen, if he's picked.

    This isn't going well. 
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    Middle order mayhem...again. If Ireland get England out with less than a 150 lead they could take this tomorrow.  


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  • shrinkwrapshrinkwrap Frets: 512
    Mo needs resting again. Aussies must be chortling in their beers.
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    Bloody hell, Root.

    So it's down to the bowlers to get a lead thst they can defend.

    I thought that all of the micro-planning was supposed to eliminate the Ashes and a world cup within weeks of each other. Does anyone have any sort of red ball form? 
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    This match is clearly too soon for the CWC players, their heads are still in ODI mode or elsewhere, however, they make take the experience of this match and it may reset them.


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