Didn't see it but I hate when matches are decided by bad pitches rather than 'homers'. Was this the former or the latter?
It was, you need a pitch that deteriorates as the game goes.
Moeen was excellent.
A bit surprising that there's been nothing on here. Was an odd day, Stokes seemed to go from ball-to-ball being really dangerous or really shit.From 235-6 we really should've been looking at bowling them for 300-350 but we bowled really poorly in the last hour.I'd definitely rather have Woakes in the team than Wood or Dawson, who both looked pretty ineffective in the main. I think winning this one could be tough from here.
Good work from Anderson to make light work of the tail this morning. Gut feeling is that is prob 40-50 runs too many for this wicket, considering the fragility in the England batting line up. Really needed to cash in either at the start of play yesterday, or keep the foot on the throat when it was 200-odd for 6.
Quote from: KevinGage on July 15, 2017, 11:40:56 AMGood work from Anderson to make light work of the tail this morning. Gut feeling is that is prob 40-50 runs too many for this wicket, considering the fragility in the England batting line up. Really needed to cash in either at the start of play yesterday, or keep the foot on the throat when it was 200-odd for 6. I'm not sure, I think that was probably about par. The pitch is doing a bit this morning but it'll settle I think so if we can get to lunch safely I suspect it'll get easier from there. On top of that there is, for me, a drop in quality after Morkel and Philander so again, get through their spells unharmed and it should get easier.