*Official* First Test at Swalec Stadium, Cardiff

[Craig]

Strauss out. Poor play of that short ball IMO.

 

[social]

Very lucky for Strauss - looked out in real time and out in replays

Bopara has been so poor against short pitched bowling it's not funny

Woohoo Sensational from Johnson

 

[Top_Cat]

Great bowling by Johnson.

 

[NUFAN]

Woohoooooooo

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Good call from Richard there.

 

[Uppercut]

Super over from Johnson. Great to see him back.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Looks like Hughes isn't the only one to struggle with the short ball. Strauss out to it and it has to be said Bopara does a wonderful job with it too

Good to see Hussey back bouncing around in gully as that ball went up for the catch.

 

[Adamc]

Great over, getting his pace up now. Bopara looks like a walking wicket at the moment.

 

[wfdu_ben91]

Not impressed by Bopara one bit. His played one good shot in 20 runs and the rest have all been through dodgy shots.

Midge is gonna own Kevin Pietersen now... WATCH CLOSELY KING PIETERSEN - your hero is about to get destroyed.

 

[NUFAN]

As I thought, Strauss out first despite looking far more comfortable. That bad decision against Strauss makes no difference.

No way is that counting as a first chance... You can't call that a bad decision at all.

 

[GIMH]

eek

 

[pup11]

Jeez, Mitch has bowled an awesome over here, that bouncer to Strauss was very well bowled, and that's something that's so good about him, when you think he is not bowling that well, he just comes back with hostile spell out of nowhere.

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

Ton from KP coming up.

 

[Richard]

No way is that counting as a first chance... You can't call that a bad decision at all.

It was called as "that's got to be very close" at the time; HawkEye showed it hitting cleanly. Clearly out for mine. Not that it mattered, in the slightest - Strauss did not add to his total before gloving that one.

 

[Burgey]

Johnson's gone from ****e to dynamite in one over here. Just has that knack of shocking even top quality players.

 

[irfan]

Super over by Midge - awesome stuff. Slower yorker does in Strauss, Bouncer hits Bopara, Slower ball completely deceives Bopara who just clears mid-off and finally a bouncer to get rid of Strauss.

 

[Richard]

First byes of the series, through no fault to Haddin.

 

[Craig]

What was that Siddle?

 

[Richard]

Bopara hits a really convincing stroke for probably the first time today.

 

[Craig]

Why can't Bopara play like that more often?