*Official* 1st Test at the SWALEC Stadium

[Spikey]

we need to hear the welsh anthem to get back to taking wickets

 

[Dan]

Anyone up for comms in the second session?

 

[adub]

Technically nevill's Victorian.

he renounced his victardiness

 

[Pothas]

Well the last half an hour was a lot of fun.

 

[Watson33]

Lyth 100* at the end of day 1. Heard it here first

Pretty proud of this prediction :/

 

[aussie tragic]

Bah, 7 overs short in first session due to the idiotic opening ceremony

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Good session that. Enough from that for both sides to be relatively satisfied.

Hope it the shape of things to come for the series with it being topsy turvy.

 

[91Jmay]

Run rate good, but top order again fails. Cook should be furious with himself.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

imagine how many runs Ballance would score if he wasn't so rubbish and facing a bowler who wasn't the best in the world

it's almost as if when a batsman stops scoring runs and looks rubbish against quality bowling people start to wonder whether his initial success was a flash in the pan

 

[OverratedSanity]

I might have to start admitting that Root is ****ing awesome.

 

[Howsie]

I'm a boult fanboy but man you gotta be blind to not say they belong in the same bracket.

Get back to me when Starc gets that test average under 30. Until then he isn't close to Boult as a test bowler.

 

[Pothas]

Moving Root to 3 would be silly right now. He should go to 4 though, Bell has always been better at 5 and the candidates to replace him are likely to bat there as well.

 

[Riggins]

who will piss me off more tonight; ian healy or navi? stay tuned

update? truly a stoppable force vs movable object battle there.

 

[Gob]

Estraya's session but **** that Root drop could be costly

 

[LegionOfBrad]

It's a pretty nice day outside Cardiff now. I might relocate to the garden with an iPad for the second section.

Time to make hay.

 

[wellAlbidarned]

Get back to me when Starc gets that test average under 30. Until then he isn't close to Boult as a test bowler.

any game now everything is gonna click for starc and he's going to destroy everything. A guy who's 6'5'' and bowls 150kph inswing isn't gonna average over 30 forever.

 

[aussie tragic]

wow, Qld 52, NSW 6....what a way to spark up the Qld Test players...oh wait...there aren't any ;(

 

[Spark]

3/88 is pretty good given that most of the bowling was mediocre at best

 

[LegionOfBrad]

any game now everything is gonna click for starc and he's going to destroy everything. A guy who's 6'5'' and bowls 150kph inswing isn't gonna average over 30 forever.

It's all about the radar I guess. If he can get it into check he'll be flying.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

any game now everything is gonna click for starc and he's going to destroy everything. A guy who's 6'5'' and bowls 150kph inswing isn't gonna average over 30 forever.

Though if he can't bowl to lefties then he won't have much joy in this series.

Not saying he can't but not seen enough of him in the WI series to know if it a major issue or not. Just someone said when he came back and got Bell and had Root dropped it was him being godlike to right handers again.