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

[Aidan11]

Less than 200 to get now.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Be funny if Stokes comes out and says we did it to keep left/right in. If Crawley was out Brook was batting 3. Given all the village stuff we have played this summer that would be apt.

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

Heh.. we all thought he nicked that for a min there... but I think he hit his pad

 

[Burgey]

Glorious camera work.

It's been so bad all test. I heard some of the players say it's not a great seeing ground on the field but I can't recall the camerawork being as bad as this anywhere in forever

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

It's been so bad all test. I heard some of the players say it's not a great seeing ground on the field but I can't recall the camerawork being as bad as this anywhere in forever

Maybe they are using the F1 camera crew. They never show the leaders and cut away to the crowd during the passes. And Toto's face

 

[Burgey]

Little bit of seam movement with the roller wearing off

 

[_Ed_]

Oh dear.

 

[CartyDurham]

Not sure Australia have the field quite tight so far

the amount of singles where the batsman are strolling for one is too many imo

 

[Gob]

Can't believe it remained overcast while England are batting

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Glorious bouncer

 

[Shady Slim]

@Spark explain to me why that ought to be byes and not, well, you know your white whale

incidentally and on a tangent i learned on friday night, "the whale", as in the movie, the title is a reference to moby dick and not to the main character, and now i feel pretty awful about from where i'd thought the title of the film came!!

 

[Uppercut]

If they’re calling those byes then byes should go against the bowler’s figures.

 

[CartyDurham]

Can't believe it remained overcast while England are batting

Yes but it’s the special overcast which is deployed to give false encouragement

 

[straw man]

I know pitches have been on the flat side but I'm still surprised Crawley has done as well as he has this series - averaging 30ish.

But... now he's mastered test cricket, reckon he's on his way to a match-winning hundred here - Moeen promoted to 3 just a decoy imo.

 

[slippy888]

Aussies are missing the goat Lyon

 

[CartyDurham]

Black socks and shorts

I’m a fashionista and that’s clearly wrong

 

[trundler]

Don't think any English spinner is ever going past Underwood even with test spam

 

[slippy888]

Mitchell Marsh burst will be crucial he could make the batsman relax and knick off a few wickets

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Is there anyone else who has batted 1-9?

Apologies if already mentioned but Mr Bazball did

 

[Flem274*]

I know pitches have been on the flat side but I'm still surprised Crawley has done as well as he has this series - averaging 30ish.

But... now he's mastered test cricket, reckon he's on his way to a match-winning hundred here - Moeen promoted to 3 just a decoy imo.

England play enough tests that this will actually serve as a decent experiment to see if you can brute force someone to a decent test record through very regular exposure the way you can in FC.

FC sides often have relatively talented guys who nonetheless aren't good enough in them for ages because they have less options than an international side, and those guys through enough brute force exposure can cobble together some results.

England are basically doing that with Crawley. Bro is gonna leave with 70 tests, two or three double tons and an average of 27.