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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    I'd be surprised if there was any pay before mid-afternoon.

    It's been hammering down here (at the northern end of the Finchley Road) for hours.
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
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    My tickets just arrived for Leeds next Thursday - 1st day - Looking forward to this 

    Does anyone know about taking in your own food/pic-nic - assume okay
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited August 2019
    No idea Mark, I just checked and the YCCC website doesn't help either. 

    Hope the weather is good for you, I am going to Old Trafford 4th Test on day 1.


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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    England did well today, kept things pretty even with Aus, a good start


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  • NiteflyNitefly Frets: 4697
    Exciting, wasn't it?!

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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    Test match weather as I remember it. I think I need to put a sweater on.
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  • droflufdrofluf Frets: 3144
    RandallFlagg said:
    England did well today, kept things pretty even with Aus, a good start
    Yes, better than I’d hoped for at close of play. A few setbacks but they did as well as could be expected. If they can pull off a couple more days like this then they may get a flattering result. 
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
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    RandallFlagg said:
    No idea Mark, I just checked and the YCCC website doesn't help either. 

    Hope the weather is good for you, I am going to Old Trafford 4th Test on day 1.
    I'm almost equal distance from Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, with Nottingham a touch closer - But this year I applied for the usual ballot and only got in with a spot at Leeds - Hope it is still all to play for by the time it gets to Manchester
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
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    RandallFlagg said:
    No idea Mark, I just checked and the YCCC website doesn't help either. 

    Hope the weather is good for you, I am going to Old Trafford 4th Test on day 1.
    just found out food is okay to take in  - Any drinks must be in still sealed plastic containers and no alcohol - And only plastic knife/forks etc - So okay - Thanks for looking
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    edited August 2019
    No idea Mark, I just checked and the YCCC website doesn't help either. 

    Hope the weather is good for you, I am going to Old Trafford 4th Test on day 1.
    I'm almost equal distance from Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, with Nottingham a touch closer - But this year I applied for the usual ballot and only got in with a spot at Leeds - Hope it is still all to play for by the time it gets to Manchester
    I hope so too mate. The way this weather's going it could be snow by September...


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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    Aussies win the toss and put England in.

    Where the hell's that bloody rain?
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  • crunchmancrunchman Frets: 10961
    At least the Aussies have left Starc out.
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  • mikeyrob73mikeyrob73 Frets: 4537
    great start 0-1 
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  • munckeemunckee Frets: 11457
    Who let them bowl, if you let them bowl or bat we'll be in trouble that much was obvious.
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  • DopesickDopesick Frets: 1506
    Keaton Jennings please come back, all is forgiven.
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    That was completely unacceptable from Roy. It's not a sodding limited overs game! 
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  • crunchmancrunchman Frets: 10961
    Root out.  Will we last until lunch?
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  • DopesickDopesick Frets: 1506
    Burns and Denly hanging on.

    The Aussie over rate is awful - 24 overs in nearly two hours is pitiful.
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  • crunchmancrunchman Frets: 10961
    Dopesick said:
    Burns and Denly hanging on.

    The Aussie over rate is awful - 24 overs in nearly two hours is pitiful.
    Could we get them to make Smith the captain again, so he's the one who will get suspended.  Not sure we have any other way to get him out!
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 12794
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    A good recovery by Burns and Denley - Hope it develops into something we can build on and then allow, Bairstow, Butler and Stokes to be more expansive

    Will be interesting to see what bounce Archer can get out of this pitch
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  • earwighoneyearwighoney Frets: 3380
    Dopesick said:
    Burns and Denly hanging on.

    The Aussie over rate is awful - 24 overs in nearly two hours is pitiful.
    It was 27 in the end, which is actually a decent rate.  

    In the first test there times where the Over Rate was 11 or 12 to the hour. 
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  • crunchmancrunchman Frets: 10961
    guitars4you said:
    A good recovery by Burns and Denley - Hope it develops into something we can build on and then allow, Bairstow, Butler and Stokes to be more expansive

    Will be interesting to see what bounce Archer can get out of this pitch
    Best thing for the long term would be for Bairstow to get bowled cheaply again, so they finally see sense and get Foakes in.
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    Bloody hell. Six down and we've not reached 150.

    And it's sunny. 
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  • munckeemunckee Frets: 11457
    Reckon Woakes is good for 200??
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  • RandallFlaggRandallFlagg Frets: 13679
    I can't hear any singing from the subdued Lords crowd


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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    RandallFlagg said:
    I can't hear any singing from the subdued Lords crowd
    After a Lords lunch? They're three parts pissed. 
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  • octatonicoctatonic Frets: 33263
    I'd struggle to see this being anything other than a draw with the loss of an entire day.
    James Richmond

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  • crunchmancrunchman Frets: 10961
    octatonic said:
    I'd struggle to see this being anything other than a draw with the loss of an entire day.
    With tomorrow's weather forecast, you are probably right, but with England's batting it's not guaranteed.

    We could still be bowled out for 230, and your lot could have 50 on the board tonight.  Even if most of tomorrow was lost to rain, you could still have a decent first innings lead by tea on Saturday.  England could easily get bowled out for 150 again on the last day.

    England are heading slightly in the right direction though.  We've got past tea.  In the last match at Lord's Ireland we got bowled out before lunch by Ireland on the first day.
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  • scrumhalfscrumhalf Frets: 10838
    edited August 2019
    258 all out.

    Probably what you'd expect if you put the opposition in.

    Now to see what Archer's made of. Will he open the bowling? 
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  • iseverynamegoneiseverynamegone Frets: 1569
    You could warner had knicked that in real time watching on tv!
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