Cricket

two extraordinary results. shamar joseph - woke up early this morning and was following the obo and catching clips on twitter and it was delightful and electrifying. and the ongoing mysterious ability of england to pull out second innings victories that look impossible in the first is… well it’s baffling how many times they’ve managed it tbh. what’s the factor at the margin that allows for it. not unreasonable to say stokes but that underdetermines it surely.

its all in the mindset installed in them by coach and captain. Such a huge difference between that and the England we all grew up with.

this from the guardian report is interesting:

Stokes typically made his own telling contribution on the day, with a jaw-dropping direct hit on the dive to run out the dangerous Ravindra Jadeja from wide mid-on and leave his fellow all-rounder hobbling off with a hamstring tweak. But perhaps his biggest impact was the husbandry of Hartley, incredibly the third spinner under his watch after Will Jacks and Rehan Ahmed last winter to start his Test career with a five-wicket haul.

i wonder how long mccullum will be around

cunt team managed by cunts plays like cunts idk maybe i'm missing something

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lol

Beautiful

Very funny

Classic England

well done Ireland, their first victory in Tests!