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

[Molehill]

What time is tea scheduled?

4.30pm

 

[CartyDurham]

Edged for four lucky lad green there

 

[chris.hinton]

133 runs..... its still too much

 

[Burgey]

Nice soft hands* there from Green

*it’s always softhands when one of your guys edges in front of slip. If the opposition do it they are hacks and insanely lucky

 

[Nintendo]

Yeah green is gonna go big here. This is exactly how his big shield knocks come. Looks clueless and gets an edge away early, then nails a straight drive and starts smashing it.

 

[trundler]

Going back to an earlier discussion with this but I reckon it's a blessing that there's no way to reconcile wicket keeping stats with the actual quality of wicket keeping. We would've been subjected to more statistical vomit from Anantha Narayan otherwise.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Will Moooooen pick up his 200th test wicket in this test?

 

[Spark]

That 52% vs 40% thing hasn't been updated, surely? Would have thought England are heavy favourites right now if they started the day as slight favourites by the same metric.

 

[CartyDurham]

50 overs after this one left

I think tea will be at 4pm uk or possibly 415pm

finish around 7pm if we get that far

 

[TimAngas]

I hope the missed stumping opportunity in the first innings doesn't weight too much in Green's mind.

 

[CartyDurham]

Heads face there. Complete shock

 

[Spark]

I hope the missed stumping opportunity in the first innings doesn't weight too much in Green's mind.

Eh I don't remember him dancing down the pitch early on at Ahmedebad. He should get himself set first, just not take an hour plus to do it.

 

[CartyDurham]

The field positions in this session have been great

numerous shots straight to them

 

[Spark]

The pitch does look very very slow now. Difficult to score.

 

[chris.hinton]

When Khawaja is batting it feels different. He’s looking at ease but not really scoring

 

[social]

Will Moooooen pick up his 200th test wicket in this test?

Htf has Moeen taken nearly 200 test wickets

 

[TimAngas]

Ominious sign with Cummins taking off his tracksuit.

 

[Burgey]

Khawaja really has lost his timing this morning, can happen at times even when you’re in form. Needs to work his way back into it.

 

[TheJediBrah]

The pitch does look very very slow now. Difficult to score.

Yeah it was a real road on day 1

then day 2 and 3 very hard to bat on

then day 4 got real good to bat on again

now very hard to bat on again

 

[Burgey]

Ominious sign with Cummins taking off his tracksuit.

That’s what she said etc etc