The Ashes

buffybegood

Wood's cameo comes to an end, 24 off just 8 balls. 167-8. England trail by 96.

OldCastleSwift

Broad now out hooking.

They've learnt absolutely nothing from Lords.

buffybegood

Broad goes for 7, 199-9.

Slacker

Broad out doing what he had to do.
Brilliant catch though.

buffybegood

Stokes gets his half century with a 6, he's 53, and England go to 205, trailing by 58.

OldCastleSwift

Getting closer to parity, but both Stokes and Robinson are injured.

Going to be a toil for Woakes and Broad in the second innings.

buffybegood

Yeah, Robinson went off halfway through bowling an over in the Aussie first innings with a back spasm, and he's definitely not right still; can't see him bowling in their second innings, certainly not today anyway.

buffybegood

Stokes out for 80, 237 all out, trail by 26 on first innings.

Slacker

Great entertainment again.
Stokes is just wonderful to watch.
Game on - again.

mike

As in the second test Stokes is keeping us in the game.

IronHerb

mike said:

As in the second test Stokes is keeping us in the game.

I think Wood helped.

buffybegood

OldCastleSwift said:

Getting closer to parity, but both Stokes and Robinson are injured.

Going to be a toil for Woakes and Broad in the second innings.

Could be a lot of overs for Moeen Ali too, let's hope his finger holds up 🤞🤞🤞, or maybe that we bowl them out so quickly it's not an issue 😂🤣😂.

buffybegood

Broad gets Warner yet again, he goes for 1, Australia 11-1.

buffybegood

Waiting to see snicko, but it looked like a catch down the leg-side that we didn't make much of and didn't review.

buffybegood

We desperately need a couple of quick wickets.

buffybegood

Looks like Bairstow has dropped another one, dreadful.

buffybegood

Labuschagne, who Bairstow just dropped, gets caught on the boundary by Brook, 68-2.

buffybegood

Smith goes for 2, Australia 72-3. I said we needed a couple of quick wickets 😊😊😊

buffybegood

Woakes gets Khawaja, caught by Bairstow. 90-4, lead by 116.

buffybegood

116-4 at the close of play, Australia lead by 142. Will be an important session tomorrow morning, although, saying that, every session seems to be really important atm.

Slacker

Great day’s play today.Test cricket at it’s best.
Hopefully the rain forecast for tomorrow doesn’t ruin it.

buffybegood

Play finally under way, can't see that many over being bowled given the light and more rain on the way. Need a couple of wickets at least for not many runs.

buffybegood

buffybegood said:

Play finally under way, can't see that many over being bowled given the light and more rain on the way. Need a couple of wickets at least for not many runs.

Well, that didn't last long, one over in fact.

buffybegood

Players back out, c'mon England, make the most of the conditions.

buffybegood

Marsh goes for 28, 131-5, a lead of 157.

buffybegood

Carey goes for 5, 139-6, lead is 165. Woakes with both wickets today.

buffybegood

168-7, good catch by Brook given it looked as though it was Bairstow's as he ran for it and then stopped. Lead of 194, we need to mop up the remaining 3 wickets cheaply, I suspect the ball will still be doing a fair bit when we head out to bat, either tonight or tomorrow when the forecast is more cloud and rain.

buffybegood

170-8, Cummins falls to Wood who also took the previous wicket of Starc. Lead of 196.

buffybegood

Not a drop as Bairstow got nowhere near it, but, with better anticipation from a quality keeper, who knows? Instead it's 4 runs.

thornburyiron

Pathetic bowling by England to Head. Every ball short and he keeps pulling them.