*Official* Second Test (Lord's, London) 28 June–2 July

[Ashes81]

Crawley is so fuxking frustrating- he's played well and then does that.

 

[chris.hinton]

Its annoying we keep giving our wicket away to Lyon

Relax we are going to score 450

 

[White Ball]

If Straya can get one or two more before tea then England will be in a world of trouble.

 

[sledger]

Pietersen spouting even more inane drivel than usual.

Ollie Pope is here today. He is batting against Australia...at number 3.

****ing spare me.

 

[Spark]

easier to throw starc out of the team than to worry about that

He does it when the right arm bowlers are bowling too sometimes tbf but yeah no Starc in the team makes life easier for him.

Pietersen spouting even more inane drivel than usual.

Ollie Pope is here today. He is batting against Australia...at number 3.

****ing spare me.

He and Matthew Hayden in the same box would make spacetime collapse due to the sheer concentration of inanity in one place.

 

[Stapel]

Nah we're still ahead. Again, the beauty of scoring 400 up top is that you can eat a **** session or two and still be in a good position.

One bad session, agreed, but two?
You don't want Brook, Stokes & YJB to come in, with 250 on the board and a shineless ball.

 

[james240]

Crawley is so fuxking frustrating- he's played well and then does that.

We love giving Australia easy wickets

 

[Stapel]

Its annoying we keep giving our wicket away to Lyon

From my neutral perspective, it somewhat evens out Root's double strike, as that was not Root, but Head & Green playing daft shots.

 

[Spark]

This is where we really have to use Cam Green. Hazlewood and Starc stinking it up means that they have to actually let Green bowl reasonable amounts. Workload manage him next week if you have to.

 

[Carlos]

Cam Green needs to bowl. Starc looks like a bowling machine just feeding it where the batters can practise their drives and flicks.

 

[Gob]

This is good bowling

 

[Spark]

Gap between the quality of bowling when Cummins and Lyon on vs when they're not is quite striking right now

 

[Uppercut]

It's looking more and more like Lyon will be the difference between the teams this series.

 

[Spark]

Pick up the ball before you try and throw it, Marnus.

 

[Howe_zat]

England's 91 run opening stand was their biggest in the Ashes since Cook and Strauss in 2010-11

 

[Howe_zat]

England's 91 run opening stand was their biggest in the Ashes since Cook and Strauss in 2010-11

This was 32 Ashes tests ago

 

[Stapel]

It's looking more and more like Lyon will be the difference between the teams this series.

Maybe.
I have to say most of Lyon's wickets this series so far, were either stumped or slogged

 

[ashley bach]

111/1 @SillyCowCorner1

 

[Uppercut]

Maybe.
I have to say most of Lyon's wickets this series so fra were either stumped or slogged

That's just where wickets generally come from against Bazball.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Lacquer will come off in a couple of overs and carnage will ensue.

It did. Ball went to boundary.