England top 7 batting scores tell the tale, particularly the contributions of Crawley, Root and Stokes.
Crawley 0 & 0
Duckett 21 & 28
Pope 46 & 33
Root 0 & 8
Brook 52 & 0
Stokes 6 & 2
Smith 33 & 15
154/7
Atkinson and Carse at 8 and 9 starting to score a few runs now as the ball is softening up past the 30 over mark. A handy 50 run 8th wicket stand. A pity none of the England top order could have exercised a bit of caution to increase their prospects of hanging around to cash in.
England 172 & 154/7
Australia 132
Target out to 195. A successful fourth innings run chase would be the highest innings total of the match.
154/8
Carse on his way.
England all out for 164
Australia will have to chase down 205 to win.
That cameo from Atkinson will be the winning of the game.
Cycling’s Rob Hatch on the commentary
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I suspect Australia will knock off these 205 runs with minimum fuss, for the loss of maybe 3-4 wickets. It’s still a Day 2, early Day 3 pitch.
When Number 8 and 9 are top-scoring and putting together one of the highest partnerships, indicative usually that the pitch is not as bad to bat on as perceived.
England top order batsmen need to do a lot of soul searching and make some common sense adjustments.
One thing I noticed yesterday was two lbw calls against England were marginal, one just clipping the outside of the stump, which would on review have been umpires call.
The first Aussie LBW was so middle of middle stump halfway up that AI couldn’t have put it better, yet the umpire gave it not out.
Seemed a bit odd.
Do Australia just have to get 183 runs before being all put out?
That’s the Archer to Weatherald delivery yesterday, I presume you are referring to? It was the most plum lbw you could ever see and was laughably initially given not out, only to be overturned on review.
That call against Jamie Smith was a scandal. Smith was been watchful enough and when you look at the runs that Atkinson and Carse prised immediately after his departure, it could be very costly for England. As ever Australia benefiting from dodgy calls and questionable officiating.
Australia will win this test. England haven’t done enough.
Usman Khawaja will be dropped and is likely playing his last ever test.
@balbec has been calling for it for a long time now, but England need to drop their opener Crawley after his latest failure of a double pair. Simply nowhere near the level required for test cricket.
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There are few better sights in test match cricket than Travis Head motoring.
Australia 1/106
99 runs needed
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Thanks mate
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The commentary on TNT is terrible
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Yeah, it’s appalling commentary.
Ricky Ponting is a very good commentator, really enjoying him in this test.
Aaron Finch is bloody awful.
Great to hear Aggers in the radio when I was driving earlier.