*Official* 2nd Test at Lord's

[Swingpanzee]

Sigh I will be disappoint if we don't pick 7 by the end of today

 

[mr_mister]

rule britannia
brittania rule the waves
england never-ever-ever-ever will be saved (in this match)

 

[Spikey]

Root's got the kind of form and confidence where he was always a candidate for an early dismissal because he goes at it from ball one if it's there to hit.

thought it was curious he went for the drive first ball

 

[dfrinku]

Newly converted member of the Flat Pitch Society.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Would like to see Starc on for Hazlewood now. Reckon Stokes will struggle against him early on.

 

[GIMH]

its so flat guys

Excellent bowling + scoreboard pressure. Still flat as a pancake but Oz just making the conditions count with the bat and countering them with the ball. Not rocket science.

 

[Spikey]

hey gimh who is gonna walk away with the wwe belt on sunday

 

[Spikey]

just get out and punch a wall ben

 

[mr_mister]

kevin owens

 

[Swingpanzee]

Would like to see Starc on for Hazlewood now. Reckon Stokes will struggle against him early on.

Yup

 

[ajdude]

ugh stokes is gonna take this away from us i can just see it, let out a big groan when I remembered he was next in. such a gun

 

[Uppercut]

its so flat guys

You must be fun at parties

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Excellent bowling + scoreboard pressure. Still flat as a pancake but Oz just making the conditions count with the bat and countering them with the ball. Not rocket science.

It's not that flat though. It's a very nice pitch to bat on but there's been some evident life there, Moeen was getting a bit of turn, Broad and Stokes got a bit of movement off the wicket etc. It's just a normal good batting wicket, a touch slow but more pace than Cardiff, with less turn. The talk of 600 vs 600 and it being horrible for cricket etc was premature, just like Ponting saying England was behind after scoring 430 in Cardiff because the wicket was so dead was premature.

That said it is carrying through nicely today and it wasn't always doing that yesterday so that helps the seamers for sure.

 

[Cabinet96]

... and 3/29 today.

Really is something they need to work on, yeah?

What's weird is that our openers have done OK so far this summer. 3 and 4 are so important.

 

[GIMH]

hey gimh who is gonna walk away with the wwe belt on sunday

Sheamus

 

[vogue]

You must be fun at parties

and lol

 

[Spikey]

Sheamus

thumbs down

 

[Tangles]

Just got out of a meeting and 4 down. Lol wtf

 

[GIMH]

It's not that flat though. It's a very nice pitch to bat on but there's been some evident life there, Moeen was getting a bit of turn, Broad and Stokes got a bit of movement off the wicket etc. It's just a normal good batting wicket, a touch slow but more pace than Cardiff, with less turn. The talk of 600 vs 600 and it being horrible for cricket etc was premature, just like Ponting saying England was behind after scoring 430 in Cardiff because the wicket was so dead was premature.

That said it is carrying through nicely today and it wasn't always doing that yesterday so that helps the seamers for sure.

Mostly agree with all that to be fair.

 

[Gob]

You must be fun at parties

probably not since im not a clown