Doesn't matter. Never seen them have to call somone back from the dressing room though, that's an interesting change.

Fuck sake, he took the shot as the post was saving.

Saved by the Post.

That is the way to play Test cricket, when it’s tough try and dig in.

tom I think your suggested 5, 6 and 7 are fine in Test arena providing 3 and 4 are absolutely world class nail hard batters. Root is ok but need someone else there at 3.

It's a dead rubber in the series, so hard to measure really I suppose, but that is a much better day from England.  David Lloyd made the point in commentary that the batting line up looks more balanced with Buttler at five, Stokes at six and Bairstow at seven. 

Point just made in the studio that although Burns and Denly didn't make a lot of runs, they did a decent job sticking it out in the early stages.

That's always been my stance with the top 3, I don't care if you average 20 or 50 so long as you're regularly there until at least 5-10 overs after lunch, that's the job, get it right with any consistency and 4-8 will score the runs against tiring bowlers with a soft ball, today was almost textbook other than Root who really should've been looking to cash in but the pressure on him has just ground him down.

Root is a concern, he’s a super bat but he’s been falling over the front pad for a while.

Agree Paul.  Ideally he would step up and take on the challenge of batting at 3, but he is seemingly unwilling to do it.  I think it would solve some problems for us, but doesn't look likely. 

That went well then.

Yet another collapse and we still haven't made 300 on this tour.  I'm looking forward to seeing Mark Wood bowl on this surface though.  277 might be competitive enough but I'd have preferred another 50 or so.