**Official** Ireland in England 2019

[wpdavid]

Curran has made more than Root, Bairstow, Ali and Woakes combined. Plus one of the openers.

 

[Prince EWS]

Yup, bowled fantastic aswell.

Could have avoided it easily by selecting him, tbf.

 

[Cabinet96]

How's Boyd Rankin's bowling these days? Would've thought Curren and Broad would rather face this from Thompson than anything he has to offer.

 

[Groundking]

I think the lack of anyone improving in their red ball batting during his entire tenure as coach suggests he probably can. At least to an extent.

Not just the lack of improvement, everybody has regressed!

 

[Jarquis]

You do you Sam Curran

 

[morgieb]

Not quite the score I was expecting when I clicked on the BBC to check. Man alive!

Pitch doing a bit, rank bad batting or both?

Both.

 

[wpdavid]

Not quite the score I was expecting when I clicked on the BBC to check. Man alive!

Pitch doing a bit, rank bad batting or both?

It's doing a little bit, the batting's been horrible, and the bowlers have done really well.

I can't say I'm looking forward to Broad bowling too short on this track.

 

[Uppercut]

How's Boyd Rankin's bowling these days? Would've thought Curren and Broad would rather face this from Thompson than anything he has to offer.

Reckon Rankin might want the other end.

 

[Prince EWS]

How's Boyd Rankin's bowling these days? Would've thought Curren and Broad would rather face this from Thompson than anything he has to offer.

Well he's definitely still better than Thompson but the ball is still doing a bit and Thompson gets more movement. Could also just be that Rankin wants the other end and there's going to be a change there soon too.

 

[vcs]

This is very similar to the first innings of the first Test in the WI earlier this year. England have some real issues with their Test batting ATM.

 

[mr_mister]

Please get this jammy **** out

Also lol, England still $1.30 favourites. Bookies putting this down to the pitch

 

[King Pietersen]

2nd innings Roy double-ton incoming.

 

[Spintolose]

This is funny.

A long way to go yet, but England are crap at Lords and Ali has become some kind of curse for England.

 

[Flem274*]

england constantly playing in front of themselves might be a symptom of so much white ball cricket where these guys want to smash it combined with bringing this mindset to facing some medium pacers getting swing.

they might have actually scored a few more if this was 135+

 

[Jarquis]

Just saw thar Roy no-ball lbw.... sheeesh

 

[Groundking]

Well that was pretty damning sequence from Hussian showing all the closed bats.

 

[ImpatientLime]

based timmy murtagh to run through england at least once.

a man once described by Richard as adding absolutely zero value to the english county game

 

[King Pietersen]

a man once described by Richard as adding absolutely zero value to the english county game

I agree with him. Can we have Murtagh banned at the end of this over?

 

[Uppercut]

I've only seen the dismissals and am very very biased but it looked more like good bowling than either bad batting or a nightmare pitch.

 

[Groundking]

I've only seen the dismissals and am very very biased but it looked more like good bowling than either bad batting or a nightmare pitch.

Half of them have gotten out playing away from their body.