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Drumstick wrote:Balla's Boys on the way to beating Yorkshire (sans Ballance)!

SO THIS IS YOUR FAULT

Balladeer wrote:
Drumstick wrote:Balla's Boys on the way to beating Yorkshire (sans Ballance)!

SO THIS IS YOUR FAULT

Not chance.

8 wickets in the match for Ollie Robinson.

Also apparently, Pakistan are going to play Shadab and Yasir in the first test, meaning Fawad misses out. :lol:

Absolutely crazy.

Anyone listening to Zac Crawley on 5 Live just now?

"So Zac I know your dad John played for England as well and he had my favourite sporting nickname ever - Creepy. What's yours?"

"Well it's Creepy"

"Oh so you nicked it then!"

"I don't know if I nicked it, he's not my dad..."

England 1 Dom Sibley, 2 Rory Burns, 3 Joe Root (capt), 4 Ben Stokes, 5 Ollie Pope, 6 Jos Buttler (wk), 7 Chris Woakes, 8 Dom Bess, 9 Stuart Broad, 10 Jofra Archer, 11 James Anderson

Pakistan 1 Shan Masood, 2 Abid Ali, 3 Azhar Ali (capt), 4 Babar Azam, 5 Asad Shafiq, 6 Shadab Khan, 7 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 8 Yasir Shah, 9 Shaheen Afridi, 10 Mohammad Abbas, 11 Naseem Shah

Pakistan win the toss and bat

I can't believe they've omitted Fawad. I mean, I can considering how they've treated him, but yeah, crazy.

Top Jof

Chris Woakes is now better than Jimmy in England. Discuss.

Fair observation I'd say.

Babar is just glorious when he's in full flow.

Ooooohhhhh Jimmy Jimmy... :toot:

Going better this morning!

So yeah looks like Masood is going to carry his bat.

Pakistan to open in the second innings with both spinners.

This is going excellently.

twitter.com/benjonescricket/status/1291367814515888130

OK seriously please replace Buttler for the next Test. That's like 4 drops + missed stampings now in this innings alone.

This is shiiiiiiiiiiite.

This is going well

When I see dismissals like those today I get angry.

Four dismissals I have seen multiple times very recently.

Rory, you're stepping across too far at the wrong angle for around the wicket bowling.

Dom, have you ever watched Abbas? He bowls to your strengths, on the pads. Why are you coming all the way across to him?

Ben, you stopped marching down the pitch in the Windies series and made 176. Why have you reverted to this?

Joe, just put the cut shot away unless it's properly outside off.

If Jos gets a 50 this innings and doesn’t scuff any more chances in the second I will officially shut up about him until past the end of this series.

Any more than 270 and we won't win this. First session is going to be crucial.

England won’t win this anyway, given the turn the spinners were getting.

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