2nd Test, Lord's, London

[Second Spitter]

Defensive move at the toss because he's afraid of Archer.

Because he’s deadlier than facing MJ in the nets.

 

[Starfighter]

Electing to bowl, Paine immediately on the defensive. Being a bat first person I'd rather we'd have done that.

If Haze takes wickets I've got the bad feeling that we've seen the last of Pattinson unless Siddle goes wicketless or someone gets injured.

 

[King Pietersen]

Monty Panesar's new Ashes social media page - Panesar Channel is ****ing bizarre. Described as "Live coverage of Cricket with Monty's unique and exclusive take on events of the day." - but in practice is just Monty copy and pasting news articles and conducting awkward interviews. His social media as a whole is a bizarre insight into the man, mainly a collection of awkward photos of him with various celebrities getting them to hold up a copy of his book.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Paine's got some decent pecs for a skinny bloke

 

[Second Spitter]

As soon as England gets a bowler who bowls over 135km/h we instantly assume the rest of the cricketing world craps itself.

 

[TheJediBrah]

This looks very flat

 

[Starfighter]

Interesting how everyone has said bat first and both captains go the other way. Soon find out who made the right choice.

So both captains wanted to bowl? Is that one day thinking that failed so badly in the World Cup spilling over into tests too? I'm surprised, this pitch looks almost like one of the ODI wickets we got hammered on last year, and that we were expecting but didn't get in the WC. A tinge of green but hard and very, very flat.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Root is the only batsman who averages above mid 30's and some are below 30. Extra-ordinary batting line up.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Anything under 500 on this wicket is a failure

I'm calling a draw already

 

[aussie tragic]

Root is the only batsman who averages above mid 30's and some are below 30. Extra-ordinary batting line up.

Same as last test and that worked well

 

[TheJediBrah]

ooh ok that's done something

 

[Starfighter]

Unless England throw it away they should get a big total here. No movement off the pitch. Utterly insane decision.

 

[Starfighter]

Well, okay, That's not too bad.

 

[Jarquis]

That was not the innings of a Test match opener

 

[social]

Not a great shot

 

[Second Spitter]

Insipid shot

 

[trundler]

Not sure I expect this lot to flat truck bully properly either

 

[GIMH]

Oh FFS

 

[flibbertyjibber]

That didn't take long.

 

[TheJediBrah]

that was village from Roy

pretty much exactly what you'd expect from a white-ball batter opening in a Test