Unless its pissing down for the week, Old Trafford usually requires at least one spinner. Can’t see them relying solely on Bethell, so fingers crossed for Daws.
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Bashir is out for the season so I would expect Dawson to replace him as the spinner. Richly deserved too IMO. And he has a better batting average than Crawley, maybe he will open the batting as well!
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and in surprise news, in the article
The fourth Test between England and India begins at Lord’s on 23 July.
Hmmm, I wonder how those who have tickets for Old Trafford feel about that 
More evidence of the grandeur of the BBC.
(And tbh Sports Journalism these days. Fire everyone on a contract replace with interns and AI)
Apart from The Athletic but even they are threatening to can their Cricket correspondants
Fuckin’ Prince Andrew trying to get into Pedo Style again. 
India won’t be reddy
India’s Reddy misses remaining Tests due to injury -
Dawson picked 
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Dawson gets his first wicket, Jaiswal caught by Brook at slip for 58. India 121-2.
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That is a proper ball, that is out. A lovely bit of spin, Yashasvi Jaiswal got a bit stuck.
That is Liam Dawson, lovely bit of bowling, a bit of drift. He’s such a consistent performer.
BBC site
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321-6
Pant batting with busted Metatarsal
349-9
Fivfer Stokes
Not sure we want to face Bumrah on this
England making a decent start, 77-0 at tea. Zac Crawley batting very nicely to be fair.
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Duckett 50 off 46
98-0 18.1 overs
Creepy 50 off 73
109-0 off 21
Creepy gone 85 good low slip catch
166-1
32 overs
Made a huge dent in their score that opening stand
Duckett snicks a short one behind for 94
Now 205-2 40.3
225-2 at stumps
407-4
100 for Root now 3rd highest run scorer of all time.
Needs 120 this knock to go ahead of Ricky Ponting