1st Test, Edgbaston, Birmingham

[flibbertyjibber]

Nice pie put away there.

 

[King Pietersen]

Burns looks way more comfortable this morning than he did against Ireland. Left the ball much better early on and has played his shots with much more conviction. No doubt he'll nick off in a minute now I've said that, but looks way less of a walking wicket than he did against Ireland.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

This is the first time I've seen Rory Burns bat. As the bowler approaches his delivery stride, it looks like Rory is having a stroke.

Why do you think we were all saying he probably won't be a success apart from that one bloke who is now banned.

 

[Uppercut]

Probably helps they're a few kmph slower.

Definitely. Tim Murtagh would have them 5 down by now.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Some of the stuff on Twitter is quite funny. It's almost as if any runs scored by the openers are some sort of bonus.

 

[trundler]

Well he isn't an LO hack who's been shoehorned into proper cricket at least. Good to see him leave stuff outside off.

 

[trundler]

Burns.. on fire.

 

[Uppercut]

Some of the stuff on Twitter is quite funny. It's almost as if any runs scored by the openers are some sort of bonus.

Jason Roy has somehow gone from England's Great New Hope to a shrivelled turd in the space of one test against Ireland where he batted quite well.

 

[morgieb]

He's back.

 

[StephenZA]

Not a great surprise...

 

[King Pietersen]

****ing hell. Did not look comfortable against Pattinson at all, was just a matter of time.

 

[harsh.ag]

Roooooooot time

 

[Starfighter]

Yes Jimmy.

Hack fraud of an opener.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Well 22 is more than we normally get for the first wicket I guess.

 

[trundler]

**** off you LO hack. As I've said, Patto vs Roy could only go one way. Root at 3 is dumb.

 

[Son Of Coco]

James Pattinson...what a man!

 

[vcs]

I'm looking forward to seeing more of Pattinson's bowling. Didn't watch much of him in 2011-2013 apart from a handful of cracking spells in the Homework-gate series.

 

[Starfighter]

Jason Roy has somehow gone from England's Great New Hope to a shrivelled turd in the space of one test against Ireland where he batted quite well.

Realistically Roy is a guy who will get the odd quick fifty, not do much otherwise. I'd be a lot more afraid of him if he was batting down the order, same as how Finch bats five in the FC stuff.

 

[Burgey]

Hopefully Patto will do a number on Ellen here. If he goes cheap they won’t make 150

 

[Starfighter]

Well 22 is more than we normally get for the first wicket I guess.

Does any team have good openers these days? I'd be overjoyed if we regularly had 22 opening partnerships.