Warner will be key but probably needs to get the balance right in trying to ‘blow them out of it’. Sounds like a wicket that patience and caution are required on as well. Coming into this series, Warner had scored 790 test runs at an average of 30.38 in Asia. That’s probably dipped under 30 now after his 8 in the first innings. His overall test average is 47.42.
Australia set a target 265. They’ve just lost Renshaw and Khawaja to slip from 27/0 to 28/2.
Hows Warner doing? He blocking away like your namesake GB or is he blasting as I predicted?
Warner 75 no I see at close. Handy five or six wicket win tomorrow.
Windies have the target of 322 down to 137. They’re on 185/2. Another big unbeaten partnership between Brathwaite and Shai Hope. They’ve put on 132 so far for the 3rd wicket.
Brathwaite gone for 95, Windies need 125 more to win.
Big wicket just before tea. 199/3 at tea. 123 needed.
Cricket 
Are we discussing the test match at Headingley in the appropriate thread or should we be elsewhere?
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The only way Warner knows how to bat is to blast it. When it works out, marvellous but more often than not it doesn’t. Alastair Cook is an opener who doesn’t hang about but he knows when to hit too and can play a patient knock if needed. I’d take someone like Mark Taylor all day long ahead of Warner to open, cool calm and collected- more importantly patient. Sir Geoffrey was too far over on the other extreme, he’d block 5 balls of an over even if bowled by an old woman and take a single off the last ball to keep the strike.
Thanks- So I was correct on Warner I take it?
246/4. 76 runs needed.
How many overs left Geoff?
Pom fielder afraid of hurting his hands there at second slip, drops Hope on 106 
Minimum 12. 288/4, 34 needed. Should be home and hosed.
310/4 - 12 runs needed.
Shai Hope has brought up his second century of the match. I believe he’s the first player in a first class match at Headingley to score a century in both innings.
Surely your namesake or even Tendulkar have done it? Some stat if true
Apparently not. Kraigg Brathwaite came pretty close to doing it here as well. Knocks of 147 & 95.
A famous victory
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Incredible 5 days of cricket. Nothing quite like a test match that goes the distance. Hopefully the Windies can build on this. They have some very talented young players.
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