The cricket thread

crunchman

How bad do you reckon the collapse will be?

camf

Bad.

crunchman

Why was Buttler trying to turn that ball to the leg side.  I don't think he's a test batsman in English conditions.  Might be ok in places like India where it doesn't move much for the quick bowlers.

Heartfeltdawn

How many overs will Broad bowl tonight then? 

sixstringsupplies

England 4 down at the close, heavy roller overnight, Stokes/Bairstow/Ali to make hay tomorrow. Gives Broad/Woakes an extra half day to rest, England to lead by 150. Burns to carry his bat ending up on 180+

HA - that's the plan. More likely to be 6 down by the close. 

RandallFlagg

Isa Guha on the Sky commentary...

RandallFlagg

Well done Rory Burns. He looks like a 1930s cad with that haircut and sticks his arse out when he bats but he does look like he has a nice firm arse so all good. Keep going lad, get them runs in.

guitars4you

Would be great to have a healthy 1st innings lead - Lyon looks to be a threat

shrinkwrap

Something about Lyon I just find annoying - even without the Gary.

RandallFlagg

shrinkwrap said:

Something about Lyon I just find annoying - even without the Gary.

The Aussie chatter picked up on the stump mics when “Garry” bowls is so annoying,

“Aaah well bowled Garry” 

No it wasn't he's 0-79 heading towards his century of runs leaked. I hope Garry gets some hand shakes when we finally smash him for 100-0. He's getting turn but Rory Burns has picked him and neutralised him.

Get through the first hour this morning and let's push onto 100+ lead hopefully.

guitars4you

Great to see Burns get a ton - Most of us had him as a no no for the team - So let's hope he builds on this with renewed confidence

His haircut reminds me a bit of 'Arfer' in Peaky Blinders

Stuckfast

Burns has played a blinder here. I bet the Aussies wish they'd picked Mitchell Marsh now. They really do have no back-up bowling at all to give the seamers a rest. (Though I'm surprised Smith hasn't had an over or two.)

Heartfeltdawn

RandallFlagg said:

No it wasn't he's 0-79 heading towards his century of runs leaked. I hope Garry gets some hand shakes when we finally smash him for 100-0. He's getting turn but Rory Burns has picked him and neutralised him.

Apart from that LBW decision that wasn't given when Burns was on 21. 

Scoring a debut century hasn't been a problem for many openers in recent years. Lyth did it, Sam Robson did, even Joe Root did before succumbing to failure at the top of the order. Compton and Jennings both had more than one... so the rush to say that England have sorted out the opening pair is somewhat premature to my mind. Burns's ton is only the start. If he doesn't push on, we're back to square one (or the likely talk of Sibley or Zak Crawley to come into the side). 

RandallFlagg

Heartfeltdawn said:

RandallFlagg said:

No it wasn't he's 0-79 heading towards his century of runs leaked. I hope Garry gets some hand shakes when we finally smash him for 100-0. He's getting turn but Rory Burns has picked him and neutralised him.

Apart from that LBW decision that wasn't given when Burns was on 21. 

Scoring a debut century hasn't been a problem for many openers in recent years. Lyth did it, Sam Robson did, even Joe Root did before succumbing to failure at the top of the order. Compton and Jennings both had more than one... so the rush to say that England have sorted out the opening pair is somewhat premature to my mind. Burns's ton is only the start. If he doesn't push on, we're back to square one (or the likely talk of Sibley or Zak Crawley to come into the side). 

What a cheery soul you are 

RandallFlagg

Garry strikes! dammit.

Never fear...Moeen Ali strides out to bat with his 12 month batting average of a whopping 16...

RandallFlagg

...and back to the pavilion Moeen goes. FFS when will they drop this clown? He just lifted his bat and watched it pass through and castle off stump, useless.

RandallFlagg

Steve Smith's calling the shots in the field and is directing Paine

Heartfeltdawn

RandallFlagg said:

Heartfeltdawn said:

RandallFlagg said:

No it wasn't he's 0-79 heading towards his century of runs leaked. I hope Garry gets some hand shakes when we finally smash him for 100-0. He's getting turn but Rory Burns has picked him and neutralised him.

Apart from that LBW decision that wasn't given when Burns was on 21. 

Scoring a debut century hasn't been a problem for many openers in recent years. Lyth did it, Sam Robson did, even Joe Root did before succumbing to failure at the top of the order. Compton and Jennings both had more than one... so the rush to say that England have sorted out the opening pair is somewhat premature to my mind. Burns's ton is only the start. If he doesn't push on, we're back to square one (or the likely talk of Sibley or Zak Crawley to come into the side). 

What a cheery soul you are 

I'll stick to hyperbole about how Burns is now nailed on for the next three years then. 

Heartfeltdawn

Stuckfast said:

Told you we were right to keep faith with Mo! Good knock from Siddle though.

And now?

shrinkwrap

Can I put my bails theory here?

I think they are failing to dislodge because even though they have the same weight, size and centre of gravity - the new bails are much heavier in the centre around the axis, due to the electronics and battery for the silly lights.

That means they have a very different "moment of inertia" - (I'm pretty sure that's the right term - been a long time since A level physics). In effect the central mass pulls them back to the centre point.

Surely they've had an engineer consult on this?

I can't be right, can I?