[Cricket] Fourth Ashes Test - England v Australia - Trent Bridge

[Titanic]

SMASH... Lyth drives the 2nd ball from Starc for four through the covers

 

[pasty]

You're optimistic!

Oops Duly edited

 

[Titanic]

SMASH... Cook first ball.. drives Hazlewood for four through mid-wicket

 

[jakarta]

I see the Stokes Catch is already on You Tube. Not too shabby.....

 

[alfredmizen]

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very good !

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

Any BETS, chaps?

I have:

Peter Nevill as top Aus 1st Inns run scorer @ 14/1 - value
Eng first wkt to fall at 26.5+ @ evens - wildly optimistic

What odds were "Extras"?

 

[Titanic]

Lunch, Day One.

Australia 60 all out (18.3 overs), Broad 9.3-5-15-8

England 13-0 (3 overs), Cook 4*, Lyth 8* (smashes the last ball for four!)

What a FANTASTIC morning for England

 

[pasty]

Just noticed Smith's strike rate was 200%

 

[simmo]

Well.....is that the greatest EVER session of cricket England have ever had?

 

[KZNSeagull]

very good !

They are on top form today:

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as is Edna:

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[Stat Brother]

That was a tricky session.

England did well to survive, looking down the barrel of a draw.

 

[banjo]

Lunch.

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

At least the Aussies selectors had the sense to pick that guy Extras

 

[pasty]

Another nice little nugget from Sky...

The last time Australia were bowled out before lunch on the first morning of a test was 1896

 

[Simster]

Lunch.

Good morning of test match cricket. Nicely poised.



And lovely to see Lyth and Cook draw level with the highest partnership of the game so far. In three overs.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Stuart Broad - simply stunning. He looked mediocre in the Caribbean but everything has come right for him in this series. Boy's Own stuff.

 

[Triggaaar]

Would love to have taken a price on us batting before lunch

Certainly Sir. Is that lunch on day 2?

Jimmy who?

If Jimmy had been bowling with Broad, we'd have broken more records for shortest innings and lowest score.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Well.....is that the greatest EVER session of cricket England have ever had?

A few of us old gits might remember Jim Laker's 19 wickets in a match as the best ever performance by England, but this morning runs that close.

 

[alfredmizen]

Brilliant comment on the BBC website regarding the Cricket, whilst England are 13-0 at lunch:
"Time for Cook to go. He shows no adventure at all. Should have declared and put the Aussies back in"

 

[edna krabappel]

It's mornings like this that Twitter was invented for

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