*Official* 2nd Test at Lord's

[Swingpanzee]

btw idk who has a more punchable face, Stokes or Bairstow

 

[Howe_zat]

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GIMH and I

 

[Compton]

Warner tripping over the boundary rope

 

[harsh.ag]

Can we please have a gully as well

 

[harsh.ag]

Someone get a still of Stokes bent in mid air playing that uppercut

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Someone get a still of Stokes bent in mid air playing that uppercut

He is very strange, looks great playing straight but very unorthodox when he plays some of his shots to different areas.

 

[Gob]

Cook has left well

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Cook has left well

When in form he does, when not he tries to get bat on ball and nicks off all the time. Needs to leave and accumulate for a couple of sessions to keep us in this.

Then he goes and does that. Ha

 

[Spark]

Who's off for Watson?

 

[harsh.ag]

Am looking at the arm tattoo to differentiate between Stokes and Cook before their faces

 

[BackFootPunch]

Who's off for Watson?

Voges.

 

[Swingpanzee]

sheesh that was close

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Voges.

Would imagine he'd be off for rest of the game but will bat. Was a nasty blow and will be very sore today.

 

[wpdavid]

2nd day seemed to have a lot more in it for the bowlers. Still not exactly a perfect bowling strip but it wasn't as bad as it seemed in the first day. Probably because Australia actually bowled very well and attacked the stumps though.

Sounds reasonable. An not entirely unexpected, given what we've seen from them in the past.
Forgive me for not reading the earlier pages, but what was the take on the English batting? My impression was that Lyth should have left the ball alone and Bell should know not to play those sort of deliveries through mid-wicket. Ballance and Root more down to the quality of the deliveries maybe? But I didn't see much of it, so others may differ.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Shot Stokes, nice way to bring up a 50.

 

[Gob]

Needs more cutters

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Sounds reasonable. An not entirely unexpected, given what we've seen from them in the past.
Forgive me for not reading the earlier pages, but what was the take on the English batting? My impression was that Lyth should have left the ball alone and Bell should know not to play those sort of deliveries through mid-wicket. Ballance and Root more down to the quality of the deliveries maybe? But I didn't see much of it, so others may differ.

Didn't see the play but saw the dismissals later.

Lyth poor shot.
Ballance played right back to a half volley and if he'd gone forward he'd have been fine.
Bell missed a straight one.
Root was a victim of himself, he comes out being positive and looking to score and just got it wrong. Can't slag him off too much as most of the time he digs us out of the hole we make.

 

[OverratedSanity]

poor bloke missed the India series too where he would have scored runs all day.

Well, yeah. Not sure what your point is though. Everyone scores runs all day against India.

 

[Swingpanzee]

Sounds reasonable. An not entirely unexpected, given what we've seen from them in the past.
Forgive me for not reading the earlier pages, but what was the take on the English batting? My impression was that Lyth should have left the ball alone and Bell should know not to play those sort of deliveries through mid-wicket. Ballance and Root more down to the quality of the deliveries maybe? But I didn't see much of it, so others may differ.

apart from the wicket taking balls itself, Australia bowled very well throughout the first hour, they were pretty much pitching it up and attacking the stumps which England didn't really do when they bowled.

god that was a good yorker

 

[dfrinku]

Shane Warne word of the day: Patience.