Broad picks up the wicket of Marcus Harris, caught lbw. Australia burn one of their reviews getting it looked at. No lessons learned there from Headingley on the use of reviews. 28/2.
Harris. Is that the guy that was no good in England the last time?
Warner has to be one of the worst opening batsmen in Ashes history
This series has hardly been vintage but he has to be (statistically) at the lower echelons
hopefully things will settle down by friday afternoon into saturday and we’ll have some decent tense cricket
72/2. The England bowling has been pretty ragged on the whole this morning.
No play since lunch with persistent rain. Don’t know who thought it was a good idea to have a test match in Manchester in September. Do well to get a result here.
I presume Australia are going well?
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Smudge approaching his ton now. 230/5 or so. Archer dropped him on 65.
8 consecutve Ashes innings now scoring a half century or more. Some going.
318/5 Sandpaper Man 144no
Leach had him but unforgivably for a Spinner it was a No Ball.
Roy dropped an easy chance to get Paine out too just after lunch. The English getting no luck really but that’s no surprise after previous game.
Archer struggling too…
England have been very scratchy and sloppy all series. No balls, loose bowling, dropped catches, batsmen giving away wickets, poor selection (injured players) and substandard captaincy in the field. Stokes heroics at Headingley and the freakishness of it all meant all of that was temporarily forgotten. Australia have been much more disciplined in all aspects bowling, batting and fielding.
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Ben Stokes has pulled up injured. A bowler down now as well.
I know nothing about cricket so pardon me my ignorance but why isn’t there that much of a crossover between players playing 1 day vs test cricket? For instance why isn’t Eoin Morgan playing in the ashes?
They would have to put blinkers on him for test cricket. All the empty seats would make him nervous.
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It’s shocking considering the conditions should be suiting the English bowling attack.
Paine gone for 58. Overaton gets him just after tea.
Massive wicket to break a really strong partnership.
It’s fucking freezing in manc har.
Australia declare on 497/8
Smith scored 211
Going to be plenty of short stuff from the recalled Mitchell Starc you’d imagine.
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