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Chaos

Bairstow bowled

42/5

Bairstow gone too - clean bowled.

42 for 6 but England reviewing

Haha 42/6

Woakes lbw

Three LBWs so far, very reminiscent of the visiting team's scorecard in the days when there were not mutual umpires, particularly on the sub continent. One slight difference, all these three today have been utterly plumb.

The rut continues, 43 for 7!

I’ve only been watching since the 3rd wicket.

It’s not a minefield. The ball is swinging around a little and Ireland have bowled a good line.

England have recovered to a certain extent to take the score to 67 for 9.

@Duluth said in Other Cricket:

I’ve only been watching since the 3rd wicket.

It’s not a minefield. The ball is swinging around a little and Ireland have bowled a good line.

Using the slope as well. They're saying Murtagh has a few wickets here playing for Middlesex so he knows how to put it in the right areas.

England do not get the chance to declare their first innings closed as they lose their last wicket to be all out for just 85 runs shortly before lunch after winning the toss and batting!

Ireland goin well in comparison 45/1

England prob still win though due to hitting more boundaries

132-3 currently. Stirling and Balbirnie paired well - according to the experts. Stirling just went - lbw after 36. Kevin O'Brien comes out.

Told ya that England had used up all of their luck!

England obviously not trying for a few more diving deflections to the boundary

England are still struggling to find top order batsmen who can cope with the new ball - Roy may blast some runs in the Ashes but generally going for your shots on the first morning will get the slips excited. Bairstow's innings was just weird, being warned for batting so far out of his crease that he was "running on the pitch" and then bowled through the gate with a big drive.

They are all still drunk from last weekend. And rightly so

Aus no better with the bat, their internal match is a wicketfest

@mariner4life said in Other Cricket:

They are all still drunk from last weekend. And rightly so

Aus no better with the bat, their internal match is a wicketfest

Only 4 of the players actually played in that final ...

Going to be a great day tomorrow - Ireland with a real chance of the upset but it will be a tricky chase with a lot of pressure.

That pom test team looks weak. Reminds me of us when we were trying all sorts of first class players.
Aus favourites on personnel and test experience

Interesting stats

Root as non-captain 53 tests, batting average 52.80
Root as captain 28 tests, batting average 42.48

Kane as non-captain 48 tests, batting average 49.23
Kane as captain 24 tests, batting average 63.69

Kohli's numbers are 41.13 and then 62.70 as captain
Smith is 51.83 and then 70.36 as captain

My hunch is Ireland will find 200 (and the pressure) too much.
Their own first innings batting collapse may be costly, left their number 5 stranded on just 28 not out.

But here's hoping.