comment by Phendompelé (U20037)
posted 2 minutes ago
is pope back?
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Yep although it'll be interesting to see whether he gets back in or whether we stick with Lawrence.

Can we hit 80 odd off remaining overs overs

comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 41 seconds ago
comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 4 minutes ago
Pff. I think we can all agree I have no issues with bias against Bairstow, so I should definitely be listened to since I'm definitely giving a balanced, objective, fact-based view
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Root gone

Crap

Ohh... That's changed the dynamic a little bit

comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Sheriff JW Pepper (U1007)
posted 41 seconds ago
comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 4 minutes ago
Pff. I think we can all agree I have no issues with bias against Bairstow, so I should definitely be listened to since I'm definitely giving a balanced, objective, fact-based view
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Surely the rest can muster up another 80 runs

Fack

bum squeaking

comment by Bennyville (U8058)
posted 45 seconds ago
Surely the rest can muster up another 80 runs
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Down to Butler now, can he save us

Dan the man with a plan. He's got this.

Fair to say Root has been better in the first innings (average 207) than the second (average 6) in this series

Collapse incoming... 🙄

77 needed, 7 wickets remaining.

Surely...

77 to win with 7 wickets in hand always looks lovely and in poll position but you know if you lose a few quick wickets it could get ugly.

Oh gawd Laurance

That’s out

Crap

Yep gone Caught

comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 9 minutes ago
Dan the man with a plan. He's got this.


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This aged well

Class stat

Joe Root scored 200 runs off 247 balls off the bowling of Lasith Embuldeniya.

It is only the fifth time a batsman has scored 200 runs off a specific bowler in a season, and only the second time they have done so without getting out to that bowler. The previous occasion was Rahul Dravid off Stuart MacGill in Australia in 2003-04.

Bollox

It’s Buttler or bust

Should have stuck money on SL at 10/1, odds are down to 9/4 now. England were 1/25, now 1/3...

Who would have thought Sibley would be the one keeping things together at the other end

164 is not an easy fourth-innings chase in Asia. I know we're making hard work of it, but it's not like we were chasing 50.