Bazball is great at the right time, but you've got to have another tactic if the first one won't work. That's the problem with their implementation, not the idea of positive cricket per se.
Indeed. Yet Aussies are still whinging about it, and claiming this trashing of spirit of the game doesn't count, because it's hardly bodyline.
Amazing isn't it!
Quite telling on the 4th day when Stokes came in at 45/4, he batted out the rest of the day for a relatively slow 29. I think some of the batsmen are getting carried away on occasion and making bad decisions and, fundamentally, England's bowlers are, on the whole, much worse than Australia's. The latter is the crucial factor that's going to lose the series - if Wood and Archer were fit that probably would change the dynamic but you might as well as ask for Larwood to have been born a century later.
I don't think a Nottingham pub landlord is going to be much help here Steve.
Yes, but you need to avoid listening to the Murdoch shills who do it to fill space in their shitty newspapers. Much like I know that Piers Morgan is a wanker, and that he doesn't speak on behalf of the English.
Not Morgan and his messaging per se, but the idea that a wanker is representative of the UK is reasonable I'd say.
The similarities are mind boggling
Total no. of articles this week on the Guardian website about old white men getting cross at cricket: 47. I think that must be a record.
Not a huge cricket fan, but I'll be tuning in this morning to see if there's a punch up at Headingly.
Good positive start, but Bairstow carries on his poor form.
Funny how the world turns. Stokesy banging on about "spirit of the game" and how he thought he'd make a different decision in the face of the Bairstow dismissal. He's just saved a four with his hand on the rope.
There are 10 different shades of white thread in embroidery.
The two can’t even be compared.
Wood has been brilliant.
Spectacular false equivalency, made more amusing when you're trying to make your daft point in a room where most people agreed that the original wicket was probably on the right side of the grey area.
All bets off now, your boys have opened Pandora's box, I'm hoping we cheat our way to victory in all remaining Tests.
Loved the football-esque chants of "Stand up if you hate Cummins" ringing round as he was plumb in front. Test cricket has become fun finally.
