3rd Test at Headingley, Leeds

[duffer]

Haha, all these bonus runs

 

[Jarquis]

Just relieved there's been no BS about declaring.

UC to comment on ground fielding.

 

[trundler]

Comical

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Woakes is out there. I thought he must be dead.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

First time I have noticed Chris Woakes all day, and he does that

 

[ajdude]

not since the heady days of hilfenhaus have we seen such a post from spikey

omfg. golden summer for hilfenhaus

 

[Starfighter]

Isn't there a rule against bowling short to tailenders?

Archer seems to have a special exemption from the wide rule, the two bouncers an over rule and the intimidatory bowling rule, going by the umpiring in these two matches.



That was horrendous fielding.

 

[stephen]

Lyon trying to farm the strike

 

[Spikey]

Firstly, his career averages are irrelevant. And if you read my earlier posts we are specifically talking about the recent degradation of his batting abilities. I specifically praised the previous iterations of Lyon's batting, ie. the reason for those stats you quoted being decent.
Secondly, I deliberately used words like "barely" and "moderate upgrade" because they are meaningless and there is no way a sensible person could realistically disagree with it without requesting further clarification.

how do you measure performance

 

[TheJediBrah]

Lyon looking good. Wasted down at no. 10, looks better than Cummins.

how do you measure performance

bro read the rest of the post. it's clear

 

[MW1304]

A nice soul-destroying 10th wicket stand here would be the cherry on top of the lasagne.

 

[Starfighter]

That was Woakes' way of reminding Root he exists.

 

[ajdude]

how do you measure performance

 

[morgieb]

Just relieved there's been no BS about declaring.

UC to comment on ground fielding.

No Shane Warne yet.

In fairness I'd think about declaring if Archer continues to bowl. Just seems to have marginal upside for extreme risk.

 

[stephen]

A nice soul-destroying 10th wicket stand here would be the cherry on top of the lasagne.

I prefer cheese on my lasagne, not cherries.

 

[Spikey]

how do you measure performance

the dude scored 50 runs in a test last summer. like, seriously. why am i the only one calling this out.

 

[Burgey]

Firstly, his career averages are irrelevant. And if you read my earlier posts we are specifically talking about the recent degradation of his batting abilities. I specifically praised the previous iterations of Lyon's batting, ie. the reason for those stats you quoted being decent.
Secondly, I deliberately used words like "barely" and "moderate upgrade" because they are meaningless and there is no way a sensible person could realistically disagree with it without requesting further clarification.

Nah, you’ve been awful. Worse even than usual. And that’s a low bar.

 

[Starfighter]

A nice soul-destroying 10th wicket stand here would be the cherry on top of the lasagne.

If you ever open a restaurant I hope your culinary selections are better than that.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Archer seems to have a special exemption from the wide rule, the two bouncers an over rule and the intimidatory bowling rule, going by the umpiring in these two matches.



That was horrendous fielding.

M8 they can hardly even figure out lbws and catches that bounced, how do you expect Jo-el to understand rules like that

 

[Second Spitter]

Archer seems to have a special exemption from the wide rule, the two bouncers an over rule and the intimidatory bowling rule, going by the umpiring in these two matches..

On the plus side, we are spared from hearing Mikey's moaning about rules designed not to get batsmen killed.