Australia 237/3 at lunch. They should comfortably chase down 384 for a 3-1 series win.
Stokes getting the wicket of Sandpaper chalked off for dropping the ball during celebration sums up the utter farce of England in this series.
Lot of soul searching for English cricket. This series and Bazball an utter shambles, as was predicted from the outset.
Possibly time to move on McCullum now and Stokes as captain needs to take the lessons of this mess on board.
stokes behavior is disgraceful
“the spirit of cricket” doesnt apply to Poms
Mate, 7 of the Australian side in England this summer played in the ‘Sandpaper’ test in Cape Town 5 years go. Australia or Paddy Cricix type Australian cheerleaders the last people who should be invoking ‘the spirit of cricket’.
How’s the weather looking @ChairmanDan? I was hoping to watch the afternoon session having been focused on Vera’s tigers this morning.
Raining
Play resumed at 4.20pm.
England are not going to pick up 10 wickets. Only issue left to be resolved is whether Australia can bat at a much faster tempo than they have all series to knock off 130 runs to win this.
The Stokes fuck up before lunch just summed up a dismal series for the English test cricket community. That sort of thing is probably all part and parcel of the Bazball entertainment business though.
Ali picks up Head.
I think there’s a good chance England will roll them over here.
That self absorbed fucker Broad who felt the need to announce his retirement on Saturday evening to make it all about him might step up.
I was just thinking the very same thing. It had a very self-indulgent Bazball style victory lap style razzmatazz feel to it announcing the retirement after Day 3.m, with plenty of heavy lifting still to be done. I sense it was more of a Bazball team collective thing though than Broad on his own bat.
Woakes dismisses Sandpaper. 274/5
He’s bowled well.
Game on Ger
274/6.
What agility from Bairstow to pick up the wicket of Marsh.
Unbelievable scenes here. Great atmosphere. Test match cricket is unrivalled.
Wow, what a sea change since that dodgy replacement ball was randomly selected by the umpire
Aussies undergoing an English style collapse
276/7
Presume you’ll write an apology and show some sort of contrition towards Broady and Bazball should England sweep the rest of the tail here. You had his p45 prepped an hour ago.
No. England should have comfortably won this series against an ageing over the hill Australia side. As it is we’re scrapping to just try and level it 2-2.
Just in case you hadn’t heard, Broady handed in his notice on Saturday. He’ll be retired in about an hour.
I was referring to Baz as that was who you were trying to pack off an hour ago.