*Official* Second Test (Lord's, London) 28 June–2 July

[Nintendo]

These two need to get a real move on. 18 balls left and only 88 on the board with all 10 in the shed. Horror innings from duckett.

 

[ashley bach]

First time this test you could say England now on top.

 

[Spark]

Ah the first donation. Good keeping though.

 

[grecian]

First time this test you could say England now on top.

well done...

 

[RightArmMystery]

There's the brain fade. Classic Crawley.

 

[Spark]

First time this test you could say England now on top.

Nah we're still ahead. Again, the beauty of scoring 400 up top is that you can eat a **** session or two and still be in a good position.

 

[RightArmMystery]

Carey's been so solid behind the stumps so far this series.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Fair chance Lyon is Oz's leading wicket-taker this series. England bats always look iffy against him.

 

[Nintendo]

Crawley you ****ing spud. Bairstow wish he could have done that.

 

[vicleggie]

Good keeping

 

[grecian]

Look if we are going to pick a guy who can score quickly on roads, but can't play on seamers, just go with Buttler to open, but that dismissal was just ****ing ridiculous.

 

[morgieb]

How good is Carey though, deadset.

 

[White Ball]

Good breakthrough for Straya

 

[Stapel]

Anyway, time for Crawley to do his usual innings:

1) A few nice shots early on (probably cover drives).
2) Scoring rate slows.
3) 3-4 horrible play and misses.
4) Temporary regaining of composure.
5) Out.

Not quite

 

[Nintendo]

How good is Carey though, deadset.

His keeping his been phenomenal for a while now. He averaged >10 in India while looking like a muppet with the bat, but kept so well that basically noene questioned his spot coming into the WTC final/ashes.

 

[sledger]

Not quite

Hmm yeah. Seems we skipped stages 2-4 today.

 

[hazsa19]

What a gift.

 

[Spark]

His keeping his been phenomenal for a while now. He averaged >10 in India while looking like a muppet with the bat, but kept so well that basically noene questioned his spot coming into the WTC final/ashes.

He still hasn't quite fixed that problem he has to outside edges for right handers against Starc in particular but against spin he's as good as we've had in a long long time.

 

[james240]

Its annoying we keep giving our wicket away to Lyon

 

[vicleggie]

He still hasn't quite fixed that problem he has to outside edges for right handers against Starc in particular but against spin he's as good as we've had in a long long time.

easier to throw starc out of the team than to worry about that