2nd Test, Lord's, London

[Spark]

Is it just me or has this quickened up a fair bit since lunch?

 

[trundler]

Haze has the wood over England

 

[trundler]

Strange year to pick out to say that. NZ won in UAE, India won in Aus, Eng won in SL, SL ****ing won in ****ing SA (Im still not sure how this actually happened but I'm assured it did)

You're right but I've only been here a year.

 

[Starfighter]

Is it just me or has this quickened up a fair bit since lunch?

The pitch or the match? That one certainly fell short.

Why is it that every time the ball goes towards Khawaja I feel the pangs of terror that he's going to mess it up?

 

[aussie tragic]

I know Khawaja dropped a sitter at gully, but he looks a decent fielder now...years ago it was "where do we hide him"

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Woke's average at home will be close to 50 after this innings

 

[vcs]

This is not a new thing. Buttler was the only one to average over 40 last year in England, and only 6 batsmen averaged over 30 - 3 of them were Dom Bess, Chris Woakes and Sam Curran. Our batsmen haven't known how to bat at home for a while.

That pesky lower order bailed them out a lot against India. Ireland as well. It's not exactly a sustainable strategy, along with winning a lot of tosses.

 

[Starfighter]

SL ****ing won in ****ing SA (Im still not sure how this actually happened but I'm assured it did)

This one has got to be very strong contention for the most unexpected result of all time.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

This one has got to be very strong contention for the most unexpected result of all time.

Included one of the greatest innings of all time to top it up

 

[Starfighter]

Bairstow looks like he could get out any moment but these two are doing the right thing and just hanging in there. It will probably get easier when the ball passes sixty or so overs old. This could help save the innings for England.

 

[trundler]

The pitch or the match? That one certainly fell short.

Why is it that every time the ball goes towards Khawaja I feel the pangs of terror that he's going to mess it up?

Pakistani genes

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Paine should introduce Head into the attack

 

[aussie tragic]

So Aus still 7 overs behind the over rate..with 12 mins deducted for the 6 wkts, that would be 8 points deducted from WTC...this is still such a farce as nothing happened in first test

 

[vcs]

Anything over 250 keeps them in the game as we saw in the first Test. Looks like a 400-par first innings pitch though.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Why are they not also talking about Vaas?

 

[Gob]

What is a Lords slope?

 

[Gob]

Dennis Lillee one of the all time great fast bowlers- Shane Warne

lol

 

[Gob]

They need to stop the run flow

 

[aussie tragic]

Dennis Lillee one of the all time great fast bowlers- Shane Warne

lol

Not according to Pews

 

[morgieb]

Anything over 250 keeps them in the game as we saw in the first Test. Looks like a 400-par first innings pitch though.

Struggle to see England get 450 in the third innings, though.

This partnership looks fairly awkward, though o/c Woakes is significantly better than your average #8.