*Official* Third Test (Headingley, Leeds) 6–10 July

[KungFu_Kallis]

If it wasn't for Wood bowling Kumar would put me to sleep. Is there any more boring commentator

 

[chris.hinton]

Have to laugh at this Twitter user thinking Freddie Trueman bowled slowest

Based on one ball (

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1676906883150499841

)

 

[Qlder]

Geez Mark Taylor "surprised Smith is in first Ashes Test at Headingly" he hadn't debuted yet in 2009 and 2019 he was concussed. There haven't been any other tests to play

 

[Athlai]

Geez Mark Taylor "surprised Smith is in first Ashes Test at Headingly" he hadn't debuted yet in 2009 and 2019 he was concussed. There haven't been any other yesterday to play

Mark Taylor isnt a ****ing nerd

 

[CartyDurham]

Surely people would rather watch high quality fast bowling and high quality cricket than trying to squeeze the required overs in, whether you paid for your ticket or not. As long as they don’t waste so much time they’re only getting 60 overs in!

I accept this completely but we’ve seen 16.2 overs in an hour and 20 mins

I suppose this is similar to the West Indies back in the day of slow over rates

for £100 I want the full allocation personally

 

[Bahnz]

Jeez, it’s funny I don’t remember Lee being particularly quick in 2005, I guess Dizzy and Kasper’s pedestrian-ness are muddying my memories.

 

[Burgey]

Surely people would rather watch high quality fast bowling and high quality cricket than trying to squeeze the required overs in, whether you paid for your ticket or not. As long as they don’t waste so much time they’re only getting 60 overs in!

Yeah I generally am not on the over rates band wagon tbh. When teams routinely bowled 95 or more overs in the standard six hours, you’d have scores of like 5/200 to 240 or so. Give me 80 odd overs of this type of cricket any old day

 

[CartyDurham]

Jeez, it’s funny I don’t remember Lee being particularly quick in 2005, I guess Dizzy and Kasper’s pedestrian-ness are muddying my memories.

He was quick at the oval as the ball went about twenty rows back off pietersens bat

 

[Burgey]

Mark Taylor isnt a ****ing nerd

Tbf he is a nerd but he just didnt know all that

 

[Bahnz]

I accept this completely but we’ve seen 16.2 overs in an hour and 20 mins

I suppose this is similar to the West Indies back in the day of slow over rates

for £100 I want the full allocation personally

Lol a 100 quid to watch a cricket game, you guys are getting ripped off.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I accept this completely but we’ve seen 16.2 overs in an hour and 20 mins

I suppose this is similar to the West Indies back in the day of slow over rates

for £100 I want the full allocation personally

I'd rather 80 overs of good fast bowling and great cricket than 65 overs of it and 25 overs of crap part-time spin being milked to sweepers for 4.5 an over

 

[Burgey]

Haha was waiting for Tubby to bring up Devon Malcolm when talking about quick bowlers.

He was genuinely rapid. no idea where they were going but Fmd he was fast

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Guessing the answer was yes

Woakes had softened Khawaja up at the other end first.

 

[CartyDurham]

I'd rather 80 overs of good fast bowling and great cricket than 65 overs of it and 25 overs of crap part-time spin being milked to sweepers for 4.5 an over

Fully accept

imo if the weather is fine they should play onto the 90

it’s when they bowl around 80 and walk off in blazing sunshine annoys me

anyway let’s move on to this game anyway

 

[NZTailender]

Haha I wish I got a screengrab of Tongue looking out the window through the binoculars there

-Oh, look! There's Tongue! Wave to him.
-Maybe we should give more game time to Tongue. He's becoming isolated and weird.

 

[CartyDurham]

Decent spell by Woakes so far , keeping it tight

 

[CartyDurham]

Could really do with a third wicket England here

 

[jcas0167]

Jeez, it’s funny I don’t remember Lee being particularly quick in 2005, I guess Dizzy and Kasper’s pedestrian-ness are muddying my memories.

Earlier that year Lee bowled one at 160.8 kph to Craig Cumming in an ODI.

 

[Burgey]

A slower ball. Unheard of. This has otherwise been good from the human enigma

 

[Shady Slim]

others have said this but this is what ingerlund should've done from day one. pitches where they back their bowlers and back their newly expressive confident batsmen to still get off to a flier regardless of the conditions - instead they almost forgot what "bazball" actually really is - it's backing your limited players to play their best game - it's not just durrrrr slog meme cricket - and twice for playing that way they've been rightly punished!

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