**Official Ireland in England 2020**

[BoyBrumby]

Pleased to see Curran, T's upper lip experiment has been consigned to the history books.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Touch of KP about Billings's straight drive there.

Lovely cover drive to follow too. Boy's in touch.

 

[Bijed]

0-64 and 1 off 8 balls in the series. Ouch.

In fairness he's been pretty economical with the ball so 0-64 isn't as useless as it sounds but it's not been impressive from him. Probably wise to have left him out of the test squad, he just doesn't seem like he's back where he needs to be

 

[BoyBrumby]

In the brown stuff here now.

It's ok to take a few balls sometimes. Especially when the team is going at six and a half.

 

[Bijed]

Just noticed that Topley doesn't appear to be playing this one - does he have a niggle or something? I'd have assumed that we were going to replace Mahmood or Willey with Curran, so that all the pacers got at least 2 games

 

[Magrat Garlick]

 

[BoyBrumby]

That's how you dispatch the free hit; one handed pull for a Dorothy.

In a flagrant attempt at not jinxing him, I'll say Willey is going acceptably.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Another maximum for Willey. Rancid half tracker from McBrine, but beautifully put away.

 

[Howe_zat]

Just noticed that Topley doesn't appear to be playing this one - does he have a niggle or something? I'd have assumed that we were going to replace Mahmood or Willey with Curran, so that all the pacers got at least 2 games

You'd think. But they are convinced that Mahmood is the future for some reason. Topley has a lot more raw materials, as far as I see.

 

[BoyBrumby]

And brings up his 50 in the grand manner. 50 off 38 after being on 1 from 8. Played Dave.

A wee sighter not the worst idea sometimes.

 

[Howe_zat]

50 for Willey in his 50th ODI. Closing in on a hundred unbeaten runs for the series.

 

[wpdavid]

I thought I heard that Topley's injured. Maybe I imagined it.

Anyway, nice way to bring up Willey's 50.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Ha, feck.

Campher's cutter does for him.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1290682758294122497

(This is why I thought Curran was the 10, I rated Rashid's batting)

 

[Howe_zat]

Looks like they're not going to bat out the innings. Annoying but the couple of good partnerships we've had should be enough

 

[wpdavid]

300 up. It wasn't so very long ago that this would have been quite something.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Ha, feck.

Campher's cutter does for him.

In a l'esprit d'escalier moment I realised "Willey suffers the unkindest cutter of them all" was a much better line.

Mahmood's List A average is over 20, so no mug. Reckon we probably have enough now anyway.

 

[Howe_zat]

It's gonna be annoying when, if England win, Morgan gets MotM even though Willey and Curran have had to get us to a good score and are presumably the ones who're going to defend it

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Willey's handy with the bat

You're a prophet

 

[Pothas]

A somewhat unorthodox way of making 328.