Cricket

Michael Holding on race/BLM was really good, as everyone said it was.

Well done Windies!

Feels like the first team in fifteen years that wouldn’t have choked.

Cool as a cucumber tbh.

Ben Stokes: "... I thought we had a lot chances with the bat to put our foot on the throat of the West Indies".

... errrrrrrr

classic australianism tbfttl

(cough)

lol england

(West Indies were quite good!)

Yes, excellent, Jason Holder is a class act.

This is going well.

Bizarre review from England there.

Magnificent bowling. This is special.

Good stuff, I really don't like this current England team - batting line-up anyway.

abbas is sort of pudgy, unfashionable and utterly demonic, i love watching him bowl

This is crazy tense.

always a good sign when i've spent yesterday in the pub questioning England's ability to reach 200

that was amazing

Cracking match

Pakistan keep losing the ball as Jos Buttler hits it too hard!

Crawley's the real deal

He's been terrific, the partnership with Buttler has been brilliant.

New ball might change things. 1 wicket could bring a collapse quite easily.

or England could score quite quickly

3 no balls in 1st over with new ball. Pakistan feeling the pressure. They cant afford to waste the new ball.

Ball is swinging now. Going to be a tough 8 overs now I reckon.

Excellent day for England. Would love to see Crawley get his double ton and Jos get his ton. They both deserve it. Two cracking test match innings.

And they have done. Beginning to think Crawley might be the answer to our #3 problem.

Crawley out for 267

That is a brilliant catch down legside by Buttler

Jimmy is the greatest of all time. First fast bowler to take 600 test wickets. Incredible achievement.

The greatest what of all time?

Incredible achievement but when Walsh became leading wicket-taker of all time nobody argued he was the greatest then and nobody serious would of it now

Do

he's not in the top 10 of all time bar statistics

can't help lolling at the carpe diem ingenuity of Mitchell Claydon ball-tampering with hand sanitizer

Crikey.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/dec/19/india-slump-to-new-low-as-australia-cruise-to-victory-in-first-test

yeah i saw that this morning. O_o

i was following the test a bit and it felt like india got a slightly below par first innings score but when i saw australia’s first innings score and thought “oh wow india have a good chance here” and then yeah. no single batsman made double figures.

That Aussie attack is terrifying. If Cameron Greene comes good they're going to be pretty much unbeatable.

cummins and hazlewood are basically mcgrath x2 at this point

except a bit quicker

That was great. And good to see J Burns get some runs at the end.

Kudos 2 the 2nd string Indian team

They'll have probably 3.5 sessions to survive. Rooting 4 them

Good win for England

love 2 watch the aggressive Test Match playing that Australia is world renowned for

Good win for England

― Oor Neechy, Monday, January 18, 2021 4:54 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I bet you thought they were going to lose!

Nah, they were pretty calm this morning and looked ok.

Might've been different if they had taken that review!

love 2 watch the aggressive Test Match playing that Australia is world renowned for

― Pre-Raphaelite Brah (King Boy Pato), Monday, 18 January 2021 09:42 (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

if ever a series has deserved a final day of rain and recriminations

or my favourite potential outcome of all: pat cummins superman 8-fer, india finish 9 down

101 needed, surely this is doable from here?

Ugh, the new ball doing the damage.

I don’t understand why Australia didn’t rotate their attack - bringing in another paceman for a couple of tests and giving Starc and Hazelwood a test off each could have swung the series.