*Official* 1st Test at the SWALEC Stadium

[Johnners]

This feels like an unerringly long stint of Healy commentating, and I don't like it.

Srsly, has he been on all session?

 

[Cabinet96]

Ball will get nice and wet, goodbye swing.

 

[Top_Cat]

Yeah I thought Starc's extra pace might offset that but Ballance seems to be dealing with it well. Kinda surprised at Starc's issues with left handers tbh, the vast majority of left armers love bowling to lefties.

Dunno. Even Akram was less potent against lefties not named Lara. Boult might be an anomaly.

 

[NUFAN]

watson can be pearce but who is our ennis?

Rad? I mean, this is a hard question.

 

[Flem274*]

this is surreal. usually umpires have the players in the sheds if a speck hits their hat. this looks wet as ****.

 

[Spikey]

Rad? I mean, this is a hard question.

Rad has done some good in the Ashes.

 

[Johnners]

watson can be pearce but who is our ennis?

Smarsh

 

[GIMH]

Man I love Joe Root

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Ball will get nice and wet, goodbye swing.

Hopefully, nice to see it going to the boundary off Johnson, every little helps.

 

[Cabinet96]

this is surreal. usually umpires have the players in the sheds if a speck hits their hat. this looks wet as ****.

They've voted yes on question 1. #LMS

 

[morgieb]

Haddin........

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Trying to work out why it is he has a problem. I think Holding was on to something when he was talking about how close to the stumps he gets. Means he can bowl a very attacking line to the right handers with everything hitting the stumps, but the opposite problem for the left handers. It's either magic balls or more likely drifting onto the pads or swinging from the hand outside off. What makes left armers like Boult so hard to face for LHBs is the angle in and then movement away, but Starc doesn't really get the same angle in.

Lack of familiarity I guess. Against lefties his standard "knock the stumps out of the ground" gameplan doesn't work.

 

[Gnske]

I think 50 lashes are in order for Haddin.

 

[Cabinet96]

That pitch map is superb. 0 S/R on a good length, 200+ everywhere else.

 

[Uppercut]

I reckon the Aussie quicks have been pretty poor apart from one Starc over. That pitch map to Root is embarrassing.

 

[wpdavid]

I think 50 lashes are in order for Haddin.

What's he done? Or is this still to do with dropping Root before he'd scored?

 

[Howsie]

It's mostly due to him being Boult's bunny. One would assume another left arm swing bowler of similar quality would have him on toast.

Ha. Similar quality, good laugh that.

 

[Gnske]

What's he done? Or is this still to do with dropping Root before he'd scored?

Of course, a Queenslander or Victorian would have caught that.

 

[Cabinet96]

Of course, a Queenslander or Victorian would have caught that.

Or the superior New South Welshman.

 

[GIMH]

nice fielding