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

[halba]

No - not a concussion.

The should change the rules to Allow like for like sub. So if a bowler breaks down you can replace with another bowler. This is consistent with every major team sport eg soccer or basketball. Even T20? Allows this?. All teams to benefit equally

 

[cnerd123]

this looks every bit like Jimmy's last Ashes

 

[TimAngas]

The should change the rules to Allow like for like sub. So if a bowler breaks down you can replace with another bowler. This is consistent with every team sport.

Nah. Then you would have first innings specialists and other shenanigans like that.

 

[ashley bach]

this looks every bit like Jimmy's last series

Fixed.

 

[social]

Khawaja really looking like he has a lot of time against this stuff.

Khawaja has been one of the world’s best players of short bowling all his career & averages something like 280 against it in his test career

 

[Fuller Pilch]

if eng lose ashes playing bazball- its time to finish bazball for good- Mccullum career will almost certainly be over or untenable. he will get dumped as Eng never lost a home ashes since 2001, so bazball will be proven a sham(as they played normal cricket in all the other series- and won or drew)

England hadn't won a test series in Pakistan or a test in NZ for a very long time before Bazball either.

 

[halba]

this looks every bit like Jimmy's last Ashes

If they lose, his last series possibly. Guys like tongue, Potts to be the mainstays

 

[Son Of Coco]

Are Bairstow's hands painted on?

 

[social]

That’s such awful keeping

 

[Spark]

England hadn't won a test series in Pakistan or a test in NZ for a very long time before Bazball either.

The latter is significant but there are other factors which contributed to the former.

 

[Alex0paul]

Formidable captaincy from Stokes here

 

[Spark]

57 extras for the match from England btw. Not quite a full extra batter across both innings but getting there.

 

[GotSpin]

Jesus bairstow

 

[Xuhaib]

Great to see bazball meeting it’s match with old fashioned test match grinding by Khawaja.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Yeah but being adaptable is what makes very good/ great players. These guys aren’t known for their defensive games. I don’t know that they can do that. For all the bluster, was their first innings run rate meaningfully higher than Australia’s? I don’t think it ended up being so. Really good players have gears, not just one, whether it’s first or fifth

Absolutely. I'm not suggesting England are capable of doing this.

 

[halba]

England hadn't won a test series in Pakistan or a test in NZ for a very long time before Bazball either.

NZ lost their main bowlers re that loss. No Boult or Jamieson or Ferguson. If they had even one they are tough to beat

Pak tracks were too flat in that series but if it's a big ashes loss here at home, they will have to admit failure- Aus team is nowhere near the ATG level of prior teams.

 

[Spark]

 

[Fuller Pilch]

The latter is significant but there are other factors which contributed to the former.

There were a lot of factors that contributed to the latter as well.

 

[Spark]

God I ****ing love Steve Smith. He's so ****ing weird.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

England hadn't won a test series in Pakistan or a test in NZ for a very long time before Bazball either.

That one run loss spooked them.