At least we have an Aussie on board to wind it into
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76-3 at Tea.
Puts me in a better frame of mind heading to the Mall for the Black Friday rugby Scrum
Good fightback by Smith and Marsh. Excellent day all around.
I watched the first 90 mins or so. Mitchell talking inanities did it for me.
Boycs was excellent and when paired with Vaughan they did talk cricket and tactics really well.
Shame about the inevitable collapse and shame about the inevitable Aus fightback, ah well will make the first session tonight more interesting…
Steve Smith is obviously the key wicket, the rest looks a bit a fragile.
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Marsh out 
Watching England’s bowlers have a bang at Steve Smith is basically what life is about.
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Oh, Jimmy Jimmy!
Great stuff from Broad
Thank fuck Cummins has gone.
Rare you get to this point in a Test and still have absolutely no idea who’s going to win.
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Hopefully our batsmen have noticed it is a drop anchor pitch not a blast away pitch…
A number 11 taking on Woakes’ short ball for a boundary 
328 then. Their tail was a lot stronger than ours. Let’s hope we were taking notes…
That’s the real loss of Stokes tbh - Moeen at 6 means Woakes at 8 and we don’t get that extra 50-60 runs from the tail.
Which we may regret. Got to bat through a whole day now at least. Time for Cook to find some form. Saints have looked more like getting a score of late than he has.
Alistair Cook sod off 
Ffs
I know they are talking about Mark Wood proving his fitness and getting called up from the Lions squad, but do we have another opener? Cook is really out of touch at the moment…
Sod this too tense for a hangove from hell I’m off to pass out again