4th test Manchester

[skullmeister]

Where do you suggest? Namibia doesn't have much rain. It's England, it rains all year round, part of the game. We sat all day at Headingley for 2+ hours play in the evening in which time we bowled Aus out. Well worth the wait and great talking to other fans including an Aus tour in next block to us.

Not everywhere has pretty much rain all do forecast for tomorrow.
Manchester is known for it.

 

[Hetty]

Dark and raining atm

 

[danthemanSAFC]

Met Office suggest rain stops at 12. Starts again at 15:30

 

[Wayne The Punk]

Met Office suggest rain stops at 12. Starts again at 15:30

But we will have to fit lunch in, absolute joke

Thats if we could get it dry enough

 

[Raker]

I’ve got 0 hope

 

[danthemanSAFC]

But we will have to fit lunch in, absolute joke

Thats if we could get it dry enough

You can guarantee that it will be dry when they having lunch

 

[Bears Beets]

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[Hulkenburger]

Forecast has slightly improved for both days, might get 2 sessions in instead of 0. Could just be enough?

 

[cfg]

You can guarantee that it will be dry when they having lunch

Once rain stops it will take an hour to clear the water, pitch inspection 1245-1300 n start 1330, take lunch 1230. Get 2 hours in, hopefully.
They’ll do everything they can to get 30 overs in.

 

[FatCat2402]

Well looking at the latest Met Office map it does appear there'll be a 3 hour window around noon. The weather seems to be coming from the south west, so if it stops raining at the golf it might be a decent indication we could get some play.

 

[Squat]

If we had picked our best bowling attack and declared earlier we might have already won

criticised for not declaring early enough now. TBH we'd expect them to get 200+ in second innings, we could have declared then and got another 45 mins at them? we'd still not have got them extra 6 wickets

 

[Silly Point]

Well looking at the latest Met Office map it does appear there'll be a 3 hour window around noon. The weather seems to be coming from the south west, so if it stops raining at the golf it might be a decent indication we could get some play.

Also has it possibly f***ing off around 3 tomorrow as well, although that could all change. Perhaps even for the better, let's stay positive

 

[Wayne The Punk]

Haway the sunshine

 

[Squat]

everyone local go down with a hairdryer for if it stops please.
can they not add a heater to that hover cover and whizz it round the pitch?

 

[mackembhoy]

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I was hoping to use that to keep an eye on things.

If you take out the currentlarge.jpg bit it says access denied to the page.

 

[FatCat2402]

everyone local go down with a hairdryer for if it stops please.

That's almost what happened at The Oval in 1968 when Deadly Derek caused chaos on a really sticky wicket

 

[forever changes]

Absolutely pissing down here at moment

 

[Safc1987]

Need two sessions, three wickets a session

 

[FatCat2402]

Need two sessions, three wickets a session

The convicts will fold quickly if they lose a couple of early wickets

 

[Exapno Mapcase]

Do they need to think about the merits in picking a venue when there is such a high likelihood of losing time to rain?

That would mean all test cricket should be played in the south and still no guarantee. London already has two tests sewn up. Maybe Chelmsford, Canterbury and Southampton? Weather is always a factor in English cricket.

The issue with this test was working out how many runs ahead would enable England to bowl out Australia with the likelihood of not having time to bat again. Declaring earlier might have seen more Australian wickets fall yesterday but the likelihood of England needing to bat again increase so Stokes decided to get the runs up front whilst on top. Hopefully there will be enough playing time left.