2ND ASHES TEST: LORDS

[safcpelaw]

around his usual score then 30-35. We need 50+ off these next three batsman which worries me

 

[TheRey]

Not just the press. Nick Compton scored an inning anchoring 85 off 236 balls in Durban and Bayliss comes out and criticises his scoring rate. Employ a short format coach for test cricket and you will get short format batting.

That was absolutely incredible. Probably the point I lost any faith in Bayliss in red ball cricket.

 

[Mainze]

Seriously why pick the lad. Its hardly like potential to improve.

Might be second top scorer yet

 

[Baby Give It Up]

Really hope Denly does well, big afternoon for him coming up.

FFS man

 

[TheRey]

Seriously why pick the lad. Its hardly like potential to improve.

Because he's Ed Smith's mate.

 

[smoker]

Not an lbw but predictable. Was he overbalancing outside off stump?

 

[safcpelaw]

Let’s hope archer had a blinding debut then. Can see this one being a draw

 

[Mr Redknapp]

FFS man

To be fair I did say in my next post that in 30 minutes time I would look like a 'nana

 

[Baby Give It Up]

Spur him on to a hundred man

Ha way the rain

 

[TheRey]

Joe Denley. Proving once again, that nothing good can ever come from K*nt.

 

[cooky]

Let’s hope archer had a blinding debut then. Can see this one being a draw

It will take another full day of rain for this to be a draw. Neither team can bat (apart from Smith).


Can't get the logic in Buttler above Stokes mind, baffling.

 

[Mainze]

Burns needs to take advantage of his fortune.

 

[Bri]

I think so do we mind, obviously there have a better spinner, as far as batsman are concerned from 5 to 11 think we a lot better, nowt much between the sides imo and a lot to play for, we can still win the series.

I think we would with an Anderson. Broad and Woakes are very good, Stokes is good but imho they don't compare to Starc, Cummings, Patterson, Hazlewood and Siddle. Siddle gets a bit of disparagement on here but he has a role of locking down one end - And that's an example of having a plan, the Aussies are able to rotate their bowlers and they know what they're doing while we .... have been concentrating on 50 over cricket, for which there was a good reason but for a while Test cricket has been the ginger haired child.

 

[TheRey]

Played Rory

 

[SAFC11]

Riding his luck (though deserved)

 

[chopsfc007]

Played Rory

Lucky

 

[TheRey]

Lucky

You make your own luck.
No other **** in that lineup has shown the guts and grit that he has. He had a bit of luck in his century too, but the same applied there.

 

[Liverpool Beachball]

Come on Burns double it

 

[chopsfc007]

You make your own luck.
No other **** in that lineup has shown the guts and grit that he has. He had a bit of luck in his century too, but the same applied there.

Or they haven't had the luck he has not complaining got him on a few bets

 

[TheRey]

Rory Burns has made 33% of England's runs in this Ashes series so far - in a difficult start to the Test summer for his side, he's been England's most effective player.