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Now he's set he's got to make a proper score. edit there you go

Ali at 3 worked well then. Just see off Cummins & Starc.

The counter to that from my region is that we would now have an aggressive power that has also stated its desire to reassert its authority/control on all its former Soviet countries -not just Ukraine. NATO and the EU would have this aggressive power on its doorstep. Eastern Europe has memories...

Actually going to watch today purely to see how McLaren get on.

Interesting to see what teams have learnt from the images of the underside of Perez's car from Monaco pics. The floor one of the main reasons for Red Bull advantage so that'll be analysed to the nth degree. Of course Newey will come up with something new next season to leave them ahead.

Doable this chase. Hopefully Root anchors and lets others play the aggressor. Needs one good innings - each innings so far has had only the one 50+ score. Is that Root drop of Marsh going to haunt them???

our board playing silly buggers. Saying he was injury-prone to keep fee down but he'd already played 20 odd games for Wimbledon that season.

Pinched from BBC Mark Wood's slowest ball today was 88.2mph. England had only bowled two deliveries quicker than that in the first two Tests.

good morning but should have been a really good one with 5 down before lunch on day 1.

not even difficult.

Not sure about Brook at 3 with his short ball playing but still better than Lawrence. Bairstow at 6 makes more sense but longish tail if they are going to keep up the aggressive lower order batting.

Botham outed Roebuck as the "mastermind" as well in one of his biographies.

Context has to play apart in this. if england were 89 for 9 or 368 for 6 not sure there's so much uproar.

It's a highly paid professional sport that needs to maintain income streams. As one of the Aussies said excitement comes from winning. Compare it to Rugby which has become far more cynical in the professional era in terms of gamesmanship.

Few players walk anymore unless it's blatant. Consensus seems to be it's up to the umpire, not the player. Disputed catches similar. Majority of the time catchers know whether they caught it cleanly or not - still force umpires to make the decision.

Don't have much of a problem with the Bairstow dismissal. Symptomatic of a team that lacks concentration too often ATM or is too focused on just the one thing. This isn't a smart team at times. Yesterday we were 6 down and needed 70 odd to win with 60 overs left. No need to try and win it in 20...

Yep. Pick your moments.stokes now a good example. Last proper batsmen so how does he bat with the tail?

Think Broad could be wearing a few after his verbals

Hopefully makes England more focused and determined going forward. Whatever the result it's still England's mistakes and sloppiness making these 1st 2 Tests more difficult than they could be.