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

[Molehill]

I give up trying to predict anything under this bunch of fools now.

 

[ataraxia]

Getting his eye in.

 

[morgieb]

What the hell was that shot to start procedings

 

[Starfighter]

It would have been justice if that had hit the stumps.

 

[trundler]

Bold.

 

[Starfighter]

Could you have a worse pair of photos than that?

 

[Blenkinsop]

Ollie Robinson may be a 78mph trundler but apparently he was more than quick enough to bounce out the Aussie tail.

 

[ataraxia]

It's not even a bad shot IMO, considering the small number of balls that actually hit the stumps. However, on the first ball of the morning, the poor execution shows.

 

[Starfighter]

Our bowlers have sent down so much detritus on the pads recently.

 

[Gob]

I don't min

It would have been justice if that had hit the stumps.

Yeah deserved it

 

[Molehill]

Well he's nailed that one and might make Carey think about standing up too!!

 

[straw man]

I think I've worked out England's game plan.

It's to undermine the entirely credibility of the sport of cricket.

 

[ataraxia]

Yessssssss

 

[Starfighter]

Where's third man?

 

[wpdavid]

Rabada getting 1 Test ban after his celebrating the dismissal of Root.

I suspect that Starfighter means a few years earlier than that. There are plenty of accounts of Heine and Adcock being pretty obnoxious in the 1950s.

 

[straw man]

Genius move tbh

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Meanwhile Asalanka dropped against UAE. Better than this Ashes rubbish.

 

[Starfighter]

I think I've worked out England's game plan.

It's to undermine the entirely credibility of the sport of cricket.

Five test tour of India coming up in January. And for the first time ever, I'll be supporting India.

 

[GIMH]

They don't normally stop a shootout before a team actually wins it, though.

No, and to this day I don't understand why the rules weren't just 'have another super over'

BUT in fairness it was laid out before the super over that it was decided that way, so England knew we just needed to match NZ's score. Fair, probably not. But it's not like everyone stood around while they worked it out.

(I know you know this, but it sometimes gets presented as if that's what happened)

Anyway. Joe not hanging about...

 

[chris.hinton]

Rout showing what Borland actually is....A club bowler