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Five-over spell for Archer not helping I’d imagine. :dread:

Christ Ben.

twitter.com/JofraArcher/status/1281691991139594241

So a collapse is obviously not far away, but this is basically the start you'd want.

EDIT: Ah, here's Chase. Collapse is on!

Burnsy.

Sibbers.

EDIT: Ha! Whoops.

EDITEDIT: Double-ha!

Nasser

Sibley

That's unfortunate, see it a fair bit though where a batsman gets a second chance and blows it immediately.

Done his job though.

One of the best Sky commentary moments for a long time as viewers are asked to Tweet in the best performances for their clubs first day back playing, and Atherton reads out Hugh Jardon taking 6 for 9 at Cockermouth before hearing what he’s said and the box losing the ability to speak for a couple of balls :lol:

twitter.com/Ngreg/status/1281986878393262081

Crawley and Stokes apparently too busy giggling at that to play. :roll:

Sometimes, the silence speaks louder than words in this thread :lol:

What do you say to that? Especially if you don’t think England bowled particularly poorly, or have big qualms about the attack selection/toss (I don’t). I don’t see any easy fixes apart from getting rid of Jos, and it’s not like that’s going to affect England’s propensity to collapse overnight. Pope needs to stand up in the next two Tests though.

It’s also a lot harder to come up with chatter when the opposition just played really well. Kudos to the West Indies, and in particular Blackwood who I’d thought of as a walking wicket.

Personally I'd have had Broad in ahead of Wood but neither are really the answer long term. Foakes definitely needs to start ahead of Buttler but I just don't see it happening, he seems to tied up the system to get dropped. Denly moving aside for Root is the obvious one as well, he's done bits but never really cemented his place and Crawley looks a prospect.

I mean what is there to say? England have yet again started a test series poorly. It's happened in the vast majority of their series over the last couple of years, and it's usually down to a below-par first innings score. The same happened here.

This time, however, the top order actually managed to pull them back into the match until the second innings collapse of 5-30.

Broad will be in for Wood, Root will be in for Denly with Crawley at 3. Buttler will be kept until the end of this series and Foakes will come in for the Pakistan series (and hopefully thereafter).

It wasn't a bat first wicket and I think the result is reversed if Stokes opted to bowl.

England’s Jofra Archer has been excluded from the #raisethebat second Test against the West Indies starting today (Thursday 16 July) at Emirates Old Trafford following a breach of the team’s bio-secure protocols.

Archer will now commence five days of isolation and will undergo two COVID-19 tests in this period, which have to test negative before his self-isolation period is lifted.

The West Indies team have been made aware and are satisfied with the measures that have been imposed.

“I am extremely sorry for what I have done,” said Archer.

“I have put, not only myself, but the whole team and management in danger. I fully accept the consequences of my actions, and I want to sincerely apologise to everyone in the bio-secure bubble.

“It deeply pains me to be missing the Test match, especially with the series poised. I feel like I have let both teams down, and again I am sorry.”

F*cking idiot. That means no true pacers on a fast bouncy deck. :roll:

You would have thought they'd bring Wood back in to the squad to cover.

They are allowed to change the team sheet to include Wood up until the toss...

Wood will break after another Test so soon.

12.30pm start is the word from the ground. Toss 12pm, with a one hour session before lunch at 1.30pm.

Second session: 14.10-16.25

Tea: 16.25-16.45

Final session: 16.45-19.00 with 30 mins extra

83 overs in the day

What an absolute strawberry floating joke, lunch should have been taken at 11:30 FFS.

And we're off :-)

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