Channeling his inner Harmy here

comment by Phenom (U20037)
posted 14 seconds ago
speaking of rust, that ball from gabriel was a stinker
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They bowled a lot of rubbish yesterday, we need to take advantage, 207 runs is not great

Can't believe some of the chit people have been saying about Sibley. Ie how slow he scores runs etc.

England need a player who can play the boring innings, its them type of innings that help the team get big runs.

If he scored 20 runs in 35-45 ball people would still winge.

You've seen how slow the outfield is though. Swinging too and some variable bounce in the damp yesterday.

Fine margins - a more aggressive approach and we might have lost 6 or 7 wickets and only scored 50 more

How wide does it have to be for the umpire to call it FFS?

That last ball was half-way across the East Lancs Road.

comment by BO$$™ (U6401)
posted 1 minute ago
Can't believe some of the chit people have been saying about Sibley. Ie how slow he scores runs etc.

England need a player who can play the boring innings, its them type of innings that help the team get big runs.

If he scored 20 runs in 35-45 ball people would still winge.
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Absolutely. People complain if it's too fast, they complain if it's too slow. Bottom line is people are never happy. Sibley's playing his natural game, and a fine job he's doing too

comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 30 seconds ago
comment by BO$$™ (U6401)
posted 1 minute ago
Can't believe some of the chit people have been saying about Sibley. Ie how slow he scores runs etc.

England need a player who can play the boring innings, its them type of innings that help the team get big runs.

If he scored 20 runs in 35-45 ball people would still winge.
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Absolutely. People complain if it's too fast, they complain if it's too slow. Bottom line is people are never happy. Sibley's playing his natural game, and a fine job he's doing too
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Yes he is, but at some stage we need to up the run rate, we have to win this which means bowling them out twice, another 207 today will leave us 3 days to bowl them out twice

We're only one wicket away from our middle order dashers. Sibley's doing exactly the right thing gluing the innings together and setting the stage for the dashers to do their thing.

You won't convince me he's scoring too slowly here.

Joseph's speeds just cranking up now, beaten the edge a few times

nervous 90s

why did Thorpe sound like a South Afrian just then

Dunno mate. He's from just down the road from me

Ah its aussie and he worked there for a bit. Might be that

Stokes missing out on a full toss this time. Need to start putting the bad balls away a bit more to avoid inviting pressure

New ball finally taken

comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 1 minute ago
Stokes missing out on a full toss this time. Need to start putting the bad balls away a bit more to avoid inviting pressure
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Agree said many times

And it's Holder vs Stokes...

Think Stokes averages about 5 against Holder's bowling

New ball likely to fly

Bothers me he bowls with his jumper still on

Ahhhhh, lovely shot. Stokes through midwicket

Almost as worthy as Stokes through mid-on

How the fack is it raining all day in Manchester tomorrow? 25C+ and sunny forecast down south.

Sundays its raining

Run rate going backwards, Just occupying the crease, rain tomorrow

Stokes or Sibley to get to a 100 first?