3rd test - Headingley

[Father Jack Hackett]

If we can get another 90 runs with these two still at the crease I'll be pretty confident.

40-50 will do me mate

 

[Voice of fair play]

Any chance I can have a nice relaxing afternoon, no? Nice 100 partnership for the sixth wicket before Bairstow comes in and hits the winning runs.

That too much to ask? Just some plain old test cricket, with no massive drama. I like plain old test cricket. I miss plain old test cricket.

I am not missing us losing 1 in 17 tests playing plain old test cricket and much much prefer this new approach and the results it has given us.

But agree with you just no risks please heart can’t stand another nervous wreck of a game

 

[sonson]

Hopefully thats the end of Brook at 3

 

[zebediah]

Should be done by tea one way or the other

 

[Beau Peep]

I am not missing us losing 1 in 17 tests playing plain old test cricket and much much prefer this new approach and the results it has given us.

But agree with you just no risks please heart can’t stand another nervous wreck of a game

It wasn't plain old test cricket's fault we were and remain hopeless at plain old test cricket

 

[zebediah]

It wasn't plain old test cricket's fault we were and remain hopeless at plain old test cricket

I think it is more a case of getting the best from what you have, we simply don't have any good old fashioned test batters bar Root.

 

[LJP1786]

I’m still massively tense. Just want a nice relaxed afternoon, just for once.

 

[Voice of fair play]

It wasn't plain old test cricket's fault we were and remain hopeless at plain old test cricket

Well yeah fair point, but know which cricket in general I prefer

I’m still massively tense. Just want a nice relaxed afternoon, just for once.

Yeah would love just no dramas!!

 

[Father Jack Hackett]

Should be done by tea one way or the other

Aye. I was going down tomorrow as well. Will get the bairn the new kit instead.

 

[zebediah]

I’m still massively tense. Just want a nice relaxed afternoon, just for once.

You follow the wrong football and cricket teams them

 

[sonson]

Interesting contrast from this time last week.

 

[SuperSub]

Again it looks like a lot will rest on Stokes. When was the last time someone in the top 4 stepped up and guided us to victory in the 2nd innings

 

[Voice of fair play]

England with Ladbrokes are 1/6 !

You would think with those odds it would be a cake walk, but feels fuck all like that!!

 

[Shandy drinker]

Should be done by tea one way or the other

What’s for tea today

 

[Father Jack Hackett]

England with Ladbrokes are 1/6 !

You would think with those odds it would be a cake walk, but feels fuck all like that!!

Weren't we something like that at Edgbaston at one point as well?

 

[KGC83]

England with Ladbrokes are 1/6 !

You would think with those odds it would be a cake walk, but feels fuck all like that!!

Absolutely ridiculous odds. If the Aussies get two quick wickets after lunch I think they will win.

 

[LJP1786]

You follow the wrong football and cricket teams them

You’d think we would build up some resistance to it all but my finger nails are always chewed to bits!

 

[jcrossan]

England with Ladbrokes are 1/6 !

You would think with those odds it would be a cake walk, but feels fuck all like that!!

Cake walk has an interesting origin. Just like takes the cake. All to do with slaves in the US and a dance they used to perform for which they'd get a cake as a prize..

Hey, its lunch. Got to fill the void somehow

 

[Rokerparkpies]

My prediction is that I'm not making predictions.

 

[KarenDent]

I’m going to get the grass cut during lunch

Done having an ice cream now