*Official Third Test at Edgbaston

[TT Boy]

Should keep playing another hour IMO, will still be light enough

200 will be up by then. I've seen enough.

 

[pasag]

Should keep playing another hour IMO, will still be light enough

Yeah, sunny as.

 

[steds]

Should play through the night to make up the time. Lack of light will mean the Australians will be less likely to see the ball to hit it, but the difference to Prior's keeping will be negligible. We'll be sorted.

 

[Richard]

Yeah, sunny as.

Sun stays up until 8:30 or so on a cloudless day in the Midlands at this time of year.

 

[GIMH]

I remember on the Saturday of the Lord's Test they said we could go on until 7.40 (bad light & rain stopped that), so how come there has to be a 7 finish tonight? Are there longer hours allowed on day 4/5? Should make up as much time as the light allows, give a better chance of a result and the people their money's worth.

Oz will be pleased with this session. Bowlers need to regroup tonight. They all seem to bowl so much better when Flintoff is on fire.

 

[Richard]

I remember on the Saturday of the Lord's Test they said we could go on until 7.40 (bad light & rain stopped that), so how come there has to be a 7 finish tonight? Are there longer hours allowed on day 4/5? Should make up as much time as the light allows, give a better chance of a result and the people their money's worth.

I agree that ideally we'd make-up as much time as light allows, but the fact is only 1 hour per day is allowed to be set aside. The reason for the 7:40 possibility in the previous game was if slow over-rates crept in (1\2hr) and because of 10 minutes being added for the Queen's visit, which surprisingly they haven't (much) here.

 

[GIMH]

I agree that ideally we'd make-up as much time as light allows, but the fact is only 1 hour per day is allowed to be set aside. The reason for the 7:40 possibility in the previous game was if slow over-rates crept in (1\2hr) and because of 10 minutes being added for the Queen's visit, which surprisingly they haven't (much) here.

Fair enough to only allow an hour on top of a full day's play. But when two and a bit sessions have been wiped out, play as long as you can, FFS

 

[Richard]

Fair enough to only allow an hour on top of a full day's play.

You're not allowed to make-up any time on a full day's play. Only 1\2hr set aside for slow over-rates. If any play is lost, up to an hour, and no more, can be made-up.

 

[GIMH]

Pretty sure if play has been lost on previous days you can make it up on later days, unless I am imagining it

 

[GIMH]

Interesting session, frustrating from an English POV but thank God Swann took that pole. Must do better in the morning.

 

[pasag]

Great session for us. All starts again tomorrow morning though.

 

[Richard]

Pretty sure if play has been lost on previous days you can make it up on later days, unless I am imagining it

Yeah, you can - can't remember if that's an hour or half-hour, think (ridiculously) it's only half-hour.

Point is if there's been no time lost there's no more than 1\2hr available ever. Think if time has been lost it's 1 hour for the day in question, 1\2hr for previous days, but might be wrong.

 

[Richard]

Interesting session, frustrating from an English POV but thank God Swann took that pole. Must do better in the morning.

Can't see it happening TBH, reckon we'd be hammered if this game went the course. Perhaps fortunately it's not remotely likely to (though I agree with He Of The Birth In '79 that "only cowards pray for rain").

I've got the excuse that I'm going to be semi-hungover on Saturday though. Ergo I hope it hammers down all over the country all day.

 

[Uppercut]

Taking Swann off was an odd decision indeed. Should have had two wickets in his first over, Watson was plumb sweeping first ball.

 

[GIMH]

**** off, I'm going on Saturday!

Anyway, forecast suggests we will get full day tomorrow, about 70 overs each Saturday & Sunday, not sure on Monday yet. Could well be enough time left in the game for a result, anyway. Always find talk of a draw at this stage to be presumptuous, IIRC the same things were being said at this point during the Lord's test

 

[Uppercut]

This pitch has been a lot quicker, with a bit more bounce, than the Lord's one was on the first day. Funny because Lord's was much quicker than this on every subsequent day of that test. I suppose you just never know how a pitch will behave.

 

[Richard]

**** off, I'm going on Saturday!

Serious question - would you rather see a day where England were buried alive or a day where it rained? Interesting question for a partisan like you.

Anyway, forecast suggests we will get full day tomorrow, about 70 overs each Saturday & Sunday, not sure on Monday yet. Could well be enough time left in the game for a result, anyway. Always find talk of a draw at this stage to be presumptuous, IIRC the same things were being said at this point during the Lord's test

Forecasts seem to be changing every 5 minutes (not surprising with the jetstreams as strong as they've been the last month really). Earlier today all I was hearing was how Sat and Sun were both looking dreadful.

 

[GIMH]

There will be rain on Sat but should be plenty of play as well. Sunday is looking decent.

But yeah, they are constantly changing. also finding that the accuweather site f_o_s showed me to is quite different to BBC

 

[Richard]

Answer the other bloody question. Which in fairness I might have edited in after you read the post with your super-quick-new-posts-function replies.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Good session to watch there. Thought England were pretty poor, but not taking anything away from Watson, played a good innings, looked like a proper test opener.