*Official* First Test (Edgbaston, Birmingham) 16–20 June

[Alex0paul]

Play proper test match cricket and they’d be about 330/4 today on this pitch

 

[G. S. Kohli]

The batsman always knows when he hits it etc Ya SMG says.

 

[Burgey]

that's embarrassing from Stokes

Fortunately he is now able to play with that sort of freedom, safe in the knowledge that there are no dressing room repercussions for **** cricket brought about by fully expressing himself and being true to his identity as a man and player, according to the Bazball wAnker documentary someone linked to earlier today. Honestly, bat like that for five tests without any fear of being dropped or reprimanded. What can go wrong?

Tosspots.

 

[G. S. Kohli]

Fixed

He not looks test class
RF brooks

 

[Jfry]

Joke's on you, Hazelwood got him.

Clearly Boland would've got him faster if given the opportunity

 

[Spark]

He's smashed this.

EDIT: Oooh or not!

 

[Anil]

Centuries from Root, Bairstow, Ali & Broad needed

 

[Calm_profit]

Joe Denly>BazBall

 

[TimAngas]

Going down if he didn't hit it anyway

EDIT or not

 

[Son Of Coco]

Interesting start by Fozzie Bear.

 

[G. S. Kohli]

eng captain bats like 10/10 over game.

 

[morgieb]

Weird. Thought that might've been going down, but it was bouncing over.

Good areas from Haze, though.

 

[social]

Oh yeah, I just think that until Hazlewood's over we'd mostly been piss since lunch. Even the chance came off a dreadful long hop that should have been carted.

Yeah

Australia hasn’t been good but I do think that a lot is to do with the field placement

In my experience, bowlers hate conceding runs and simply gifting singles is totally against what they want

 

[Spark]

I'm really surprised Cummins hasn't brought himself back on here.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

In the **** here. Self inflicted too

 

[Socerer 01]

He not looks test class
RF brooks

yeah thats why he averaged above 80 before today

 

[chris.hinton]

That was terrible from Stokes

 

[Calm_profit]

Bairstow or Bowledstow?

 

[Burgey]

Bairstow been in a decent paddock in his spell away from the game.

 

[kevinw]

Takes me back to the days when Root had to bail the top and middle order out and we'd only get a score if he got a hundred.