*Official* First Test (Edgbaston, Birmingham) 16–20 June

[G. S. Kohli]

Haze to Crawley 4
0.1/0/4/0

 

[Burgey]

“He’s got some questions to answer”

Yessssss

 

[Shady Slim]

How are Anderson, Broad, Robinson & Moeen supposed to take wickets on this

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[G. S. Kohli]

Sitting here, dreaming about what Starc's first ball would have been

5 run

 

[chris.hinton]

Poor 1st over for us - only 5 off it

Give it time. Aussies are upset already

 

[TheJediBrah]

They managed to take 20 on Pakistani roads. It'll break up from Day 3 I think, but early days anyway.

It doesn't make any sense. If you're going for a flat pitch why leave out Mark Wood the one guy who can force things on a flat pitch and go with 3 medium pacers instead?

 

[Nintendo]

Starc missing this game could be a bad call in hindsight. This deck looks good to bat on and boland-haze-cummins-green is REALLY samey.

 

[Spikey]

What's with this rubbish camera angle when on the long shot. Failed country.

 

[G. S. Kohli]

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Under Cloud

 

[Prince EWS]

Ponting blabbing on about it.

Ponting was outcaptained in 2005 and now whenever someone tries to learn from that he immediately complains about it to defend his legacy. Bitched about the third man in the WTC final too.

Ponting be like:

 

[Ashes81]

The Aussies are rattled - a deep point in the 2nd over

 

[straw man]

Wouldn't want to jinx him but Crawley looking good for a new career high score here

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

I'm hearing that this is the first time England have ever hit both Australian opening bowlers for 4 on their first ball of an Ashes series.

Pretty sure that means we're winning.

 

[ashley bach]

Bazball off and running...

 

[ataraxia]

Slow start.

 

[Jfry]

Smith won't get out all series with pitches like these

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

If you are gonna bowl trash like that. Take out a few slips and put them in the circle (haha) on the off side in front of the batsman

 

[Jfry]

Boland time

 

[TheJediBrah]

Need to bowl a bit wider to Duckett I think

 

[Molehill]

It doesn't make any sense. If you're going for a flat pitch why leave out Mark Wood the one guy who can force things on a flat pitch and go with 3 medium pacers instead?

Anderson has long since worked out how to take wickets on these kind of pitches. It's seen a lot of sunshine over the last couple of days, don't think it's a typical Day 1 pitch, more like Day 2 or older.

England going at 6 an over and haven't really gone hard at the bowling yet.