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Very nice lads...very nice

Yes...yet another 'rubbish' Yorkshireman!!
Where are you, where are you...WHERE ARE ALL YOU YORKS HATERS NOW? where are all you haters now?

Total batting paradise pitch

Full house, suns out & Yorkshireman (Lyth) getting to work piling on the runs

150 for opening stand - a great effort - feel for Kiwis bowlers - all that hard work but no reward in terms of wickets.

England better make the most of it seeing how the weather forecast is not great for the next 3 days.

Looking on the bbc weather for tomorrow.. unsure how accurate it is.. but its not that seriously bad.. lets pile on the runs and see where we are tomorrow evening.

What a dull pitch this is for test cricket. Absolutely jack all for the bowlers unless its overcast.

What? its a good wicket... the bowlers haven't got it right..

lyth

Yeh! Rubbish rubbish yorkshire

comment by englandwhoelse, money man morgan in ipl (U16825)
posted 14 minutes ago
What? its a good wicket... the bowlers haven't got it right..
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OK mate keep telling yourself that. I think every commentator has said there nothing really there for the bowlers. That to me is a poor pitch.

England will win this game. if the weather doesn't take to much time outta the game.
so a result is a result. so not a bad pitch..

Pretty mediocre bowling from them mainly...like us earlier

Fantastic century for Lyth.

Really happy to see Yorkshire boys doing well for England.

Like the old saying - Strong Yorkshire = Strong England.

Well said, England! Boss is just negative all the time, he can't be bothered to post anything that can be construed as praise for England. Just ignore him

wow!! Really NO foot movement from Ballance there, what on earth is he playing at? Maybe time for a spell on the periphery for Mr Ballance, concerned he has lost it a bit. Or do we persist with him and maybe bring him in lower down the order? Test average doesn't lie he CAN be a good player

ballance plays way to deep in his crease for my liking. he wouldn't have missed that if he had pushed forward..

Root gonenow.. poor half an hour from England here..

ouch!! good ball though, no dishonour being out like that. Game on

Told you we'd built stokes up...that was feckin stupid

We haven't scored quick enough today really and then got sloppy

Poor scoring rate has got England in trouble. We hyped up stokes after his century against the Aussies and then he couldn't hit hold a bat for awhile. Need to stop building players up after a good game.

Moan whinge moan again! Less than 100 behind and Bell is due a ton!

boss when India win a test series In Aus/Eng/Sa you will be allowed to have an opinion..

Stokes was defending the ball with his bat face 3rd slip.. you cant defend away from the body like that. Ballance. dismissal was lauagble.. he played back. the ball hit the stump.. all he neeed to do was play half forward and used the bat..
anyway a decent score between these 2 current batters and we'll be almost level.. plenty to play for.