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We've already stayed up too late haven't we?

Yeah nevermind. 11/3, I'm not staying up.

Might just be a good idea to hibernate all winter, to be honest.

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Drumstick wrote:What a tosser our Joe is

Bat FIRST.
Bat DEEP.
Bat LONG.

Didn't stay up and glad. What strawberry floating idiot bats first in an ashes series after having zero warm up games?

Rex Kramer wrote:
Drumstick wrote:What a tosser our Joe is

Bat FIRST.
Bat DEEP.
Bat LONG.

Didn't stay up amd glad. What strawberry floating idiot bats first in an ashes series after having zero warm up games?

This. Writing was on the wall after the first ball.

Well, at least I'm glad I didn't stay up to watch it.

Morning lads. Anything happen while I was asleep?

Always good to set the tone for the series on the first day

Hypes wrote:Always good to set the tone for the series on the first ~~day~~ ball

Fixed.

Play commences at 23:30 tonight

Wicket looks nice and flat and the sun is out.

England need to be sharp.

No swing whatsoever for Woakes, needs to bowl a fuller length.

Good knock by Warner - always nice to see him out in the 90s.
Robinson has brought a bit of balance back with those 2 wickets.

I feel for Leach here, he's barely played any cricket for 2 years and now he's being taken apart.

Rex Kramer wrote:I feel for Leach here, he's barely played any cricket for 2 years and now he's being taken apart.

Yeah, Wicket is flat and Leach has been expensive.
Root's been having a bowl so that Leach doesn't leak more runs.
He's about 1-85 at the moment.

That delivery from Wood was a livener :shock:

In Leach's defence, the "plan" he is bowling to is strawberry floating nonsensical. But he has bowled some howlers.

Also, maybe batting on the first day was the only option given our bowling unit is totally knackered in their first innings. Not playing Broad was a big mistake.

Broad for Woakes is like for like and Broad has been poor in recent tests, so I imagine that's why Woakes got the nod.

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