*Official* Fifth Test (The Oval, London) 27-31 July

[Shri]

let murphy have a go

 

[TimAngas]

Surely Dharmasena should not be signalling bat in that situation? Otherwise we may have lost a review.

 

[halba]

leaking lots of 4's. Bring on Marsh or Murphy.

 

[hazsa19]

Well, I guess 7 good innings in a row from Starc was too much to ask for.

He quite often starts like though doesn’t he?

 

[halba]

Cummins no longer taking the new ball is not a good sign of confidence. Hazlewood being given the new ball- haze is best at first change .
Mitch Marsh and even Murphy should be given the new ball until Cummins regains confidence.

 

[91Jmay]

leaking lots of 4's. Bring on Marsh or Murphy.

Probably another bloke who'd be more useful I can think of

 

[loterry1994]

Couldn’t have started worse

 

[Spark]

This has been abysmal.

 

[Spark]

Just astonishing that a set of bowlers this credentialed have struggled so hard to bowl to a field. It's not as if England have done anything out of the ordinary.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Call me crazy, but bowling the opposite lines to those your field is set for doesn't seem to make sense. Two blokes in you could potentially get outside off...and we bowl on their legs.

 

[Spark]

Nice of them to ship 30 runs before putting a ball in the right spot.

 

[91Jmay]

Cummins on now, huge spell in context of the series

 

[White Ball]

Rain is due today…

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Fun start this. Scored more in 20 minutes than Aussies did before lunch yesterday.

Obviously not quite but won't be long till we get there.

Why feed Duckett on his pads as often though?

 

[morgieb]

So they finally bowl the off-stump line to Crawley and they’ve already got two edges and a play and miss. This really isn’t hard.

 

[KungFu_Kallis]

I mean how hard is it to just bowl a length in the ****ing channel

 

[91Jmay]

That is such good placement tbf

 

[loterry1994]

Time for some rugby

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Remember when Marnus took 6 days to score 9 on this pitch?

 

[Spark]

Cummins no longer taking the new ball is not a good sign of confidence. Hazlewood being given the new ball- haze is best at first change .
Mitch Marsh and even Murphy should be given the new ball until Cummins regains confidence.

"Murphy should be given the new ball over Pat Cummins" has finally crossed the line for a post so stupid it could only be trolling, so we'll see you in a year.