3rd Test at Headingley, Leeds

[GIMH]

Best result of Australia here is Roy fluke-slogs 50 odd and keeps his spot.

Joke is on you when he finishes on 204* and leads us to a famous victory

 

[Spikey]

ew gross there's blood

 

[Spark]

180

 

[Uppercut]

That properly popped off a length. Pitch might be getting even harder to bat on.

 

[Burgey]

Joke is on you when he finishes on 204* and leads us to a famous victory

That’s not 50 though is it? TJB standard posting from gimh here

 

[GIMH]

That’s not 50 though is it? TJB standard posting from gimh here

**** off you old ****

 

[Second Spitter]

Give Burns a concussion test while you're there.

 

[GIMH]

That properly popped off a length. Pitch might be getting even harder to bat on.

Pitch is unsafe, match should be abandoned for player welfare IMO

 

[Lillian Thomson]

That properly popped off a length. Pitch might be getting even harder to bat on.

Or the bowling is better and the batting worse.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Burns play and miss/edge-o-meter: 3

 

[trundler]

Did the old ball reverse or was it all seam?

 

[Second Spitter]

Did the old ball reverse or was it all seam?

Looked like seam to me.

 

[stephen]

The advantage of using Roy as an opener is that he makes Burns look like a great selection by comparison.

 

[stephen]

Warne talking a lot of sense here.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Did the old ball reverse or was it all seam?

It was definitely swinging, Stokes was swinging it a lot both ways, but it seemed to just be pretty conventional. I wasn't paying close attention to which side the shiny was though and given the stage of the innings it probably was reverse.

so, yes?

 

[andruid]

Warne talking a lot of sense here.

This should go in the strange commentary thread, no?

 

[TheJediBrah]

how does that go for 4??

 

[Prince EWS]

Did the old ball reverse or was it all seam?

The old ball often just swings conventionally at Leeds. People used to say the Perth pitch was from Mars; Headingley might be from Venus.

 

[Spikey]

here comes the modern day chris martin

 

[TheJediBrah]

don't bring Lyon on now ffs

you've got Pattinson, Cummins and Hazlewood and you give Lyon a 4 over-old ball