5th Test at The Oval, London

[Maximas]

Would be heartening to see this go into a final day, suspect we'll struggle on to somewhere in or around 300 but losing the openers for **** all and Marnus/Smith for not much more is going to decide this one you'd think

 

[hazsa19]

This no ball situation is a joke. Bowlers don’t know when they’re close to the line, **** knows how many runs are missed for the batting, and say nothing for the fact that umpires seem to have just taken it upon themselves to completely ignore an important part of the game

 

[Ulzan69]

Broad gets smithy 9th time in test cricket

 

[Ulzan69]

This no ball situation is a joke. Bowlers don’t know when they’re close to the line, **** knows how many runs are missed for the batting, and say nothing for the fact that umpires seem to have just taken it upon themselves to completely ignore an important part of the game

Woakes had 2 successive no ball but umpire only noticed 1 no ball.
Wade Lucky he need 39 more for second century in the series.

 

[Ulzan69]

Would be heartening to see this go into a final day, suspect we'll struggle on to somewhere in or around 300 but losing the openers for **** all and Marnus/Smith for not much more is going to decide this one you'd think

Over today
May be last 4 in 25 runs

 

[Ulzan69]

Lmao Marsh is awful

He did his job in both innings
Who can think he took 7 wickets at oval

 

[theegyptian]

Duck sake root

 

[Spikey]

That's one for the hall of fame

 

[Spark]

"See, we can review like morons too!"

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Second joke review review. Root has lost his marbles.

 

[Groundking]

Was obviously outside leg, ffs.

 

[GIMH]

Two poor reviews from us today

 

[Spark]

5 down so it almost certainly won't matter, but England certainly leaking a lot of runs here

 

[Arachnodouche]

These two gonna ****tease all the way to 275

 

[91Jmay]

Some Paineish reviews today

 

[halba]

problem is, aus are a batsman short due to M Marsh not being a proper batsman.

 

[91Jmay]

problem is, aus are a batsman short due to M Marsh not being a proper batsman.

Both teams are more than 1 bat short.

 

[Spark]

problem is, aus are a batsman short due to M Marsh not being a proper batsman.

Not having an opening pair is more of a problem than who bats at #6

 

[Maximas]

Wonder if this will end up like the Adelaide test against India where the tail got fairly close but not enough to really look like it was on

 

[Spark]

Both teams are more than 1 bat short.

Yep. You can shuffle the deckchairs all you like at 5 and 6, unless your name is S Smith you're going to have problems if your openers are giving you zero protection.