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Crawley on his way. Both openers gone inside 8 overs.

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@ChairmanDan loves Liverpool . Heā€™s like the RNLI, not in any way trustworthy

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Thanks for the readable format mate

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Root and Malan need a hundred run partnership here.

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you are welcome

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Leading edge for an opener is just awful. Whatever about a nick to first slip, that choice of stroke from Crawley was more like a tail ender.

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Slow looking pitch here mate, I reckon England 180 all out.

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BOUNDARY

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Root looks in good nick here. Any batsman can lose their wicket to a snorter unplayable delivery. Outside of that though, I reckon Joe is going to score big here.

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Malan out to Cummins in the last over before lunch. 61/3 and lunch is called.

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And Root just after bringing up his 50 gives it away to Starc trying to run a lazy one outside his off stump down past third man. Thatā€™s an awful stroke yet again when he was set.

82/4

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Ben Stokes. Considering match position and his importance to hang around at all costs, it was possibly worst English dismissal of the lot in series. What a pitiful effort.

Jos Butler just joining him after another brainfart

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Pitiful from England.

The three senior batsmen Root, Stokes and Buttler all just gave their wickets away.

An innings defeat looks an inevitability.

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England want out of there.
Their senior players want back to the IPL.
The only reason I can see that Australia didnā€™t enforce the follow on in the last test for a comfortable innings victory was financial.

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Spirited knock from England. Just couldnā€™t get that big partnership going. Big chance to knock over some early wickets tomorrow with the out of form Harris and the nightwatchman in. Marnus and Smith a massive obstacle but some bulldog spirit from Jimmy should do the job. Nicely poised.

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This is a damning indictment of county cricket. @ChairmanDan

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Itā€™s a damning indictment of the ECB. First class cricket and the County Championship have been pushed to the margins for over a decade now and are barely played at the height of the summer anymore. Itā€™s all big bash, pyjama nonsense.

The farce that is playing out in Australia at the moment is the inevitable endgame.

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Positive Covid test in the England camp has put the continuance of the Melbourne test into jeopardy.

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All clear given and play will commence at midnight