***Official*** 2nd Test at Adelaide

[morgieb]

Starc is bowling pure puss here.

Shame as the first over against Stoneman was quite good.

 

[CarlsbergXpress]

No doubt he'll still get three by the end.

3 for 150?

 

[stephen]

OK Starc, time for a breather.

 

[Gnske]

The good news is, Starc finally has a tight pitch-map.

 

[Cow]

Cummins should be on next over.

 

[Starfighter]

3 for 150?

3/90 odd. Bowl enough short stuff that's hard to score against without actually being threatening.

 

[CarlsbergXpress]

3/90 odd. Bowl enough short stuff that's hard to score against without actually being threatening.

I can feel a sweepstake coming

 

[Starfighter]

Haze is much better when he bowls a bit slower but maintains that line and length and gets a bit of swing and seam, and also when he bowls over the wicket to the lefties.

 

[Cow]

Haze is much better when he bowls a bit slower but maintains that line and length and gets a bit of swing and seam, and also when he bowls over the wicket to the lefties.

He is bowling very well at the moment.

 

[Tangles]

Haze is much better when he bowls a bit slower but maintains that line and length and gets a bit of swing and seam, and also when he bowls over the wicket to the lefties.

Boof prefers fast mate.

 

[Starfighter]

That's a nice shot by Cook.

 

[srbhkshk]

England's got this in the bag.

 

[Cow]

This is winnable for England. Especially with Starc bowling.

Bump

 

[Fuller Pilch]

For this test the losing captain should be MOTM.

 

[Starfighter]

Forgot about Lyon. I'm guessing England are going to continue the stupid thing of batting the Beard above YJB so we get that lovely string of lefties.

 

[morgieb]

This is still way too early to say that England have a real shot. There's been too many times where the side batting 4th chasing a very hard target get off to a good start but falter to lose comfortably.

 

[morgieb]

This does feel a lot like England's game though. A lot of luck is going England's way right now.

 

[Gnske]

I would love it if this went so horribly wrong for Australia.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

The key thing is that there is so much time that England can win before the final session on the 5th day. If they can score heavily in this session and survive the next one it is definitely on. The lefties in the middle order need to improve against spin though

 

[Gnske]

Knock off as many as possible before twilight tbqh.