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1st Test, ICC World Test Championship at Birmingham! The Ashes. - ketchim - 08-01-2019
147 - 8 after 51
43.6
Stokes to Cummins, celebrappeal from Stokes! Outswinger, outswinger, outswinger, inswinger!
PJ Cummins lbw b Stokes 5
1st Test, ICC World Test Championship at Birmingham! The Ashes. - ketchim - 08-01-2019
3.40pm .....And with just a hint of rain looming, that will be TEA. Another extraordinary session.
England appear to be in utter command, and yet, with Steve Smith playing another epic Test innings
on his return to the side, there's clearly more work to be done.
Especially if Anderson is done for the Test
154 - 8 after 53 overs
Smiff 66* Siddle 7*
1st Test, ICC World Test Championship at Birmingham! The Ashes. - chairman - 08-01-2019
a good day by england
1st Test, ICC World Test Championship at Birmingham! The Ashes. - ketchim - 08-01-2019
4.01pm The umpires are out there, taking a look. No umbrellas which is a promising sign
... restart at 4.20pm
1st Test, ICC World Test Championship at Birmingham! The Ashes. - chairman - 08-01-2019
Australia are 169 for 8
1st Test, ICC World Test Championship at Birmingham! The Ashes. - ketchim - 08-01-2019
193
Current Partnership : 71 runs, 18 overs, RR: 3.94
Peter Siddle 36* Steve Smith 34*
1st Test, ICC World Test Championship at Birmingham! The Ashes. - ketchim - 08-01-2019
222 -9
67.2
Ali to Siddle, OUT, grips and clips the inside edge - straight to short leg! Buttler snaps it up low to the ground !
PM Siddle c Buttler b Ali 44
1st Test, ICC World Test Championship at Birmingham! The Ashes. - ketchim - 08-01-2019
248
Steve SmiFF 117*
1st Test, ICC World Test Championship at Birmingham! The Ashes. - bobby - 08-01-2019
Right, what England are doing here is utter dross. Spreading the field and basically allowing Steve Smith to just tap a single off the fifth ball and give England maximum one ball at Nathan Lyon.
And then that one ball is rarely even good.
Joe Root is having a low moment as captain right now
1st Test, ICC World Test Championship at Birmingham! The Ashes. - bobby - 08-01-2019
This is dire, dire captaincy from Root. Well though Smith has played, it is criminal to allow one batsman such a free ride without trying to get him out. England did this last year with Kohli and the tail and it didn't work then either!