Get the fuck in!!! Smith gone.
I’d say that 3/4 of the English wickets were needlessly thrown away
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Just a warm up before the main event…
The rain appears to have stopped but it’s still pretty wet out there. There’s a lot of standing water on the covers and the super-soppers are in operation, but it’s cold and still so it might take a fair while for conditions to improve to the point of being playable. We can, in theory, resume in about an hour’s time from now - but that will rely on the rain staying away for the next while.
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12:33pm : Time for cheers. Covers starting to come off, notifies Gnasher. The first session is most likely to be washed out of course but with the forecast improving through the afternoon, this is a great sign.
Inspection at 13.20
Starting at 2.15.
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1.30pm: We have a start time: 2.15pm confirmed! The sun is starting to break through and there should be time enough to get something like two sessions of play in before the light might start to become an issue. Get strapped in, people. IT. IS. ON
Boland gone, full in-swinger, edged to Bairstow who actually manged to hold on to it :-
Aus 121-4, need 160 more runs
Ali on, 4 loose balls to Head that all get punished, then he gets him caught behind (by Root).
Aus 143-5
Moeen Ali to Head, OUT
Gottim, snaffled at slip! Moeen Munir Ali! What a moment. Head landed a couple of body blows but Moeen puts him flat on the canvas with a superb delivery that pitches on a length and rips away, jams the shoulder of the bat and loops to Root at slip
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Classic village over that
101 needed…
Tea - need wickets or the Aussies are going to grind this out
Boom
Green gone played on
192-6 Robinson with the breakthrough desperately needed
89 to win
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We got another wicket
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STOKES YOU BEAUTY!
Khawaja gone
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Root drops Carey.
He catches him
Brilliant by Stokes turns doen new ball Root into the rough outside left handers off stump 1 turns square next identical to the 1 he dropped this time hangs on Carey gone
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We’ve fucked this
Aussies need 14 with 2 in hand