2nd Test, Lord's, London

[King Pietersen]

****ing love Rory Burns.

 

[ajdude]

Into the gap again.

He just got dropped and Sanga says, "Excellent half century"

How much more did he get paid to say that?

former surrey teammates i guess

 

[the big bambino]

Rory Burns is a lucky ****. Good night.

 

[social]

Excellent half century?

Get the **** outta here

2 sitters dropped and 15 misses

 

[OverratedSanity]

Burns' FCA/Actual average ratio must be brutal.

 

[Starfighter]

Burns really should buy a lottery ticket. Seems to have more luck than everyone else put together this series.


Is is just me or is Paine standing really close to the stumps?

 

[morgieb]

Burns' FCA/Actual average ratio must be brutal.

His FCA wouldn't be any higher than 19 I think. He's only averaging 31 right now though.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Burns need to put one chainmail after that over

 

[morgieb]

I suspect one way or another the Burns thing will turn around. Might not be this series alas, but I just can't see how a batsman can be that lucky for an extended period of time unless it's a case of him being a really aggressive batsman, which really isn't the case.

 

[Daemon]

Just won the LMS in 35 overs thx Paine

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Ohhh, that was tentative from the whiteball specialist

 

[aussie tragic]

I remember as a kid when Richie, Chappelli and Tony were commentating...win toss, bat first 99 times out of a hundred, other time, bat

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Just ah push from Jos Buttlaw

 

[Starfighter]

I suspect one way or another the Burns thing will turn around. Might not be this series alas, but I just can't see how a batsman can be that lucky for an extended period of time unless it's a case of him being a really aggressive batsman, which really isn't the case.

I do wonder if the dryness and lack of pace in these pitches is helping him edge the ball past the slips or along the ground rather than into the slips, but the dropped catches and umpiring letoff are pure luck.

That's about the first shot Buttler has played where he hasn't looked terrible.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Short ball barrage to Burns continues

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Well now...short leg snaps him out

 

[morgieb]

I do wonder if the dryness and lack of pace in these pitches is helping him edge the ball past the slips or along the ground rather than into the slips, but the dropped catches and umpiring letoff are pure luck.

That's about the first shot Buttler has played where he hasn't looked terrible.

I don't really consider edginess pure luck. There's just as much "playing to the conditions" or a "just about right" technique for it to matter. I'm more talking about the dropped catches and the not referred decision.

 

[Starfighter]

That's bloody brilliant from Cummins, and an even more bloody brilliant catch from Bancroft too.

 

[Spark]

Holy ****, what a catch

 

[Groundking]

outrageous catch.