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A good spell of bowling and captaincy from Robinson and Stokes. But we all know the big prize is Khawaja. I still fancy him to carry his bat unfortunately.

I should have put money on this. This was always Australia's to lose as we just didn't score enough. Even after those late Broad wickets it wasn't a situation that couldn't be resolved with a bit of application from just one batsman. As it is, the pitch is still pretty good, Jimmy is not in a...

The first session might go, but there'd be an extra hour at the end, on a dry pitch. Not sure much time is going to be lost really, not enough to prevent a win for either side anyway.

Anyone still agree with this? The only way back into this is for a bit of rain and cloud before 11 tomorrow IMO. Even then, we'll need a lot of luck.

There's the chance. Sigh.

1) The game has progressed quickly so Australia will be getting those runs on a 3.5/4 day old pitch, not a 5 day pitch. 2) The pitch is behaving quite benignly 3) England threw away chances to take the game by the throat too many times in their second innings. Watch Australia show them how it's...

:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Which is why that is nowhere near enough. Australia will end up knocking these off relatively comfortably. The number of times we've been poised to take control and then lost a wicket - we needed one or two of those partnerships to develop further. It didn't happen, and now we'll lose.

Indeed. I think we're well out of the game tbh. But let's face it, I'm hardly likely to turn it off am I? It's Ashes cricket on a work day. Have a word with yourself eh?

I'd call it a sub-par score. We need 300 IMO. Anything less and really this game is done.

Bollocks

I've wrestled with my thoughts on that declaration and my conclusion is the same as yours. I don't agree that we left 50 runs out there. It could easily have been 15 (or less as it was with the Aussie final 2 wickets). In contrast, we had battered nearly 400 on a very hot day and Australia...

Is it though? We've got runs on the board, it's boiling and their openers will be knackered.

I guess this is the sort of option you have when you've put 400 up on day 1. Like.

Could have been very different had there not been the review system in place (or had Root not got a glove to it) when that LBW was initially given about 10 minutes after those two wickets.

What do we think then? 280?

Yeah I like Harry Brook. He's used up a life now though thanks to Head helpfully channelling his Sussex form into the game.

When you say "interesting" you mean "problematic". Because I think what you also mean is "Brook is going to be out to Lyon shortly".