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

[Gnske]

Cummins literally strangled away Khawaja's fluency, he sabotaged his teammate. You all saw it.

 

[Aidan11]

Let's try and kill this off quickly now.

 

[TimAngas]

This could be fun.

 

[mackembhoy]

Absolutely superb knock

I hope the new England still applies itself that way when needed.

Also stokes alpha captaincy living rent free in the Aussie players heads.

Turned Khawaja brain into jelly

 

[kevinw]

You can't say that Stokes isn't an inventive captain. Cant imagine Root would've set an umbrella field.

 

[GIMH]

Brilliant knock but that’s a bad shot as England are really on the ropes here

Nah

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

That declaration seems even more foolish now , What England would give for another 50-60 runs to this deficit.

 

[Ashes81]

Why am I not surprised Robinson was that thrilled to get one up over an ethnic guy?

Maybe he wants a job as security in an Australian hotel - you know the sort of place - where Usman gets stopped in his kit and asked what he's doing there.

 

[mackembhoy]

That declaration seems even more foolish now , What England would give for another 50-60 runs to this deficit.

The declaration would have been more than vindicated if Jonny didn't have his Mickey mouse gloves on.

 

[Nintendo]

Picking someone like Parkinson would be a lot more in line with the picking the most talented players and letting them do their thang policy. Not saying I agree with it. 4 quicks + Root was surely the way to go.

Parkinson can't even get into a county first xi this year unfortunately.

 

[Spark]

It's 80mph, just hit it Pat

 

[social]

Pat needs to go back to whacking it

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

The declaration would have been more than vindicated if Jonny didn't have his Mickey mouse gloves on.

Of course it's all hypothetical, but England had more control of the declaration than Jonny Bairstow being a quality keeper.

 

[Burgey]

Just bat as long as possible and make the old blokes keep bowling, their pace is way down.
KP saying there’s no chance of a draw. Plainly doesn’t have the weather app

 

[Spark]

Just bat as long as possible and make the old blokes keep bowling.
KP saying there’s no chance of a draw. Plainly doesn’t have the weather app

I would usually agree but honestly Stokes really will just declare prematurely to force a result even if it's vastly premature. We've already seen it several times.

 

[Prince EWS]

The declaration would have been more than vindicated if Jonny didn't have his Mickey mouse gloves on.

It was still one of the worst decisions of all time even if Australia got rolled for 50.

 

[Spark]

The declaration would have been more than vindicated if Jonny didn't have his Mickey mouse gloves on.

A declaration that only works if the opposition plays appallingly is a bad declaration.

 

[Gob]

Lyons a good hooker

 

[Spark]

Like Australia could have declared with 200 on the board against South Africa last summer in every innings and likely won every game. It still would have been an extremely stupid thing to do.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Lyon consistsently through these shots too early