*Official* Second Test (Lord's, London) 28 June–2 July

[Spark]

In aus favour?

I’m streaming and it’s slightly behind live

Yes

 

[CartyDurham]

Yes

It’s about right. I can’t wait to see the Aussie tactics defending this total

Never expected todays play at all.

 

[Gob]

Mitch Marsh plays a nice hook.

Food for thought

 

[honestbharani]

Think Lyon batting now is a defensive move tbh and probably unnecessary. Hope it doesn't cost them.

 

[Nintendo]

Warner's the guy i'de back to clear the boundary hooking/pulling of anyone in this lineup, but he's usually gone before it matters. This is gonna sound really stupid, but if england persist with this maybe move warner down to 5 and open with head?

 

[Prince EWS]

If England do decide to bounce Lyon here it legitimately wouldn't surprise me if he did what we've been joking about and deliberately copped one on the melon.

 

[CartyDurham]

It’s basically 4, 6 or out now

A weird day of test match cricket. The usual snail pace over rate

 

[Aidan11]

Starc cops one on the helmet. If he gets a second one doesn't he have to get taken out of the game?

 

[honestbharani]

If England do decide to bounce Lyon here it legitimately wouldn't surprise me if he did what we've been joking about and deliberately copped one on the melon.

I hope we have learned enough about concussions for that not to be an option ever.

 

[hazsa19]

70-30 actually feels about right to me.

unless the pitch transforms I can’t see how we’re chasing this. Aus will just go short after the new ball spells won’t they?

 

[CartyDurham]

Those dismissals could be described as soft?

100 for the last 7 first innings Australia

About 80 odd for the last 6 so far this innings

Amazing really from the most basic tactics going

 

[Aidan11]

This is silly.

 

[Spark]

Jesus.

 

[Spark]

Cummins might have to declare here.

 

[Daemon]

Smart from Lyon. Will score brownie points with fans which are worth more than silly things like runs wickets and health

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[TimAngas]

This is insane.

 

[CartyDurham]

This is all a bit ridiculous now , I’m afraid

That was great boundary fielding though

 

[CartyDurham]

My backs hurting watching rehan do that contortion

 

[OverratedSanity]

Bazball can't win with nerds in a way. If they deviate from all out aggression and self-memeing you lot go "this isn't very Bazball" and if they keep on trucking they'll cop it for being bone-headed. This has been hard to watch but these are pretty much textbook attritional tactics with a almost century long precedent.

Haha what. They've gone "We're trying to make cricket entertaining and saving test cricket, the result doesn't matter", and then used the most crushingly boring bowling tactics imaginable and made this a tedious match to watch so far. It's not a big deal but it's certainly funny.

 

[Aidan11]

I really don't see the point of this. Is a few more runs going to make any difference?