| Cricket: Day 1 Thread 10:53 - Jul 19 with 3140 views | Steve_M |
England win the toss and decide to bowl. Hopefully they do a better job than when they put Australia in at Lord's. It would be great - obviously - to get this series back to 2-2.
Whilst we wait, have a look at this catch from the SL vs Pakistan Test:
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 11:00 - Jul 19 with 3109 views | gainsboroughblue |
Regardless of the outcome of this series, I'm not sure we can have any complaints about tosses and batting/bowling in the best conditions.
We do often fluff our lines when we bowl in helpful conditions and end up bowling back of a length. This is a situation made for Jimmy, last test on home ground potentially. |  |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 11:02 - Jul 19 with 3085 views | Vegtablue |
Looking very much like a 3-day match with the weather 😞 |  | | |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 11:09 - Jul 19 with 3062 views | Mookamoo |
BBC - "No team has ever won a Test at Old Trafford after winning the toss and choosing to bowl first." |  | | |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 11:21 - Jul 19 with 3041 views | gainsboroughblue |
That's one down.
599 wickets for Broad. | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 11:28 - Jul 19 with 3014 views | Steve_M |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 11:21 - Jul 19 by gainsboroughblue |
That's one down.
599 wickets for Broad. |
Khawaja hasn't managed to keep up his early series form although he's a big part of the reason why Australia lead 2-1. | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 12:05 - Jul 19 with 2943 views | Melford |
I broke my arm at the end of May so I've watched pretty much every ball of the series so far.
Going full Grandad in Only Fools today, Ashes on the TV and Essex v Kent on the monitor. |  |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 12:28 - Jul 19 with 2897 views | hatch |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 12:05 - Jul 19 by Melford |
I broke my arm at the end of May so I've watched pretty much every ball of the series so far.
Going full Grandad in Only Fools today, Ashes on the TV and Essex v Kent on the monitor. |
Good combo that.
I’m sitting down the front of the huge temporary stand in line with the stumps. Did not expect sunshine when I booked them.
Then off to the Open tomorrow. Decent week (following Essex at Edgbaston on Saturday too!) |  | | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 12:37 - Jul 19 with 2873 views | Melford |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 12:28 - Jul 19 by hatch |
Good combo that.
I’m sitting down the front of the huge temporary stand in line with the stumps. Did not expect sunshine when I booked them.
Then off to the Open tomorrow. Decent week (following Essex at Edgbaston on Saturday too!) |
That stand looks pretty terrifying from the side
https://preview.redd.it/bfeh5319opcb1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp
Someone at my club went to day 4 Headingley then 4 days in Blackpool for Essex Lancs. Lucky git. | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 12:49 - Jul 19 with 2852 views | Steve_M |
My mate went in there during the last Ashes, somewhere near the back on a pretty wet, windy day. It didn't sound much fun. | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 12:59 - Jul 19 with 2823 views | Melford |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 12:49 - Jul 19 by Steve_M |
My mate went in there during the last Ashes, somewhere near the back on a pretty wet, windy day. It didn't sound much fun. |
You can't stand underneath it when it rains either because the water leaks through. | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 13:25 - Jul 19 with 2763 views | Radlett_blue |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 11:09 - Jul 19 by Mookamoo |
BBC - "No team has ever won a Test at Old Trafford after winning the toss and choosing to bowl first." |
Putting Australia in seemed a questionable decision at the time & it looks a bit more questionable now. Australia batting deep with 2 all rounders & Carey at 8. If we get them out for under 300, that's a good result. Pitch looks a belter but has carry, which the Australian quicks will appreciate. |  |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 13:39 - Jul 19 with 2751 views | Gogs |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 12:49 - Jul 19 by Steve_M |
My mate went in there during the last Ashes, somewhere near the back on a pretty wet, windy day. It didn't sound much fun. |
I was in there with my brothers, 1 row from the top last time to see Smith hit 200 for them. It was cold and grey that day. Only consolation was drinking all the booze we managed to smuggle in. |  | | |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 14:05 - Jul 19 with 2664 views | NthQldITFC |
"Bouncy, bouncy!" |  |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 15:55 - Jul 19 with 2600 views | Steve_M |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 13:25 - Jul 19 by Radlett_blue |
Putting Australia in seemed a questionable decision at the time & it looks a bit more questionable now. Australia batting deep with 2 all rounders & Carey at 8. If we get them out for under 300, that's a good result. Pitch looks a belter but has carry, which the Australian quicks will appreciate. |
187/4 at tea. We've got the wickets but the run rate has been too high. Kind of feels like Australia could take the match away from us a bit without more wickets soon.
I'm not surprised they dropped Murphy after they didn't trust him to bowl. | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 16:05 - Jul 19 with 2575 views | gainsboroughblue |
600 for Broady. | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 16:12 - Jul 19 with 2564 views | Steve_M |
Glad he got to do this in front of a crowd given his 500th was covid affected. | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 17:46 - Jul 19 with 2503 views | Steve_M |
Interesting day really, looks pretty even at the moment after those last two wickets but plenty of runs still available for Australia. Would be nice to wrap this innings up tonight.
277/7. | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 18:34 - Jul 19 with 2458 views | Steve_M |
299/8 make that a pretty good day for England, will need to finish this innings off early tomorrow though. That and bat well. | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 20:37 - Jul 19 with 2400 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 18:34 - Jul 19 by Steve_M |
299/8 make that a pretty good day for England, will need to finish this innings off early tomorrow though. That and bat well. |
Still very ebb and flow this series. It felt at time Aus were getting away from us but we kept pegging them back. Shows the advantage of attacking batting as within 10 overs a partnership can really seize the initiative.
A sub 320 score will be handy for us. I think Aus would've wanted a lot more judging from the line up they've gone with. Us (presumably) batting last without facing a frontline spinner could really work in our advantage if it keeps tight. | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 22:46 - Jul 19 with 2324 views | BlueForYou |
I thought having won the toss on a very flat pitch with decent weather on days one & two, we should have batted first. Bat positively, get 400+ & then put Australia under pressure with deteriorating weather at the weekend. This test might only have three days so the draw now looks quite favourable. We’ll see what happens tomorrow! |  | | |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 23:13 - Jul 19 with 2306 views | Radlett_blue |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 20:37 - Jul 19 by gainsboroughblue |
Still very ebb and flow this series. It felt at time Aus were getting away from us but we kept pegging them back. Shows the advantage of attacking batting as within 10 overs a partnership can really seize the initiative.
A sub 320 score will be handy for us. I think Aus would've wanted a lot more judging from the line up they've gone with. Us (presumably) batting last without facing a frontline spinner could really work in our advantage if it keeps tight. |
The lack of an Australian spinner may have influenced our decision to bowl first & bat last, but after Murphy looked so poor at Leeds, maybe not. Another day which emphasises how little there is between the 2 teams. | |
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 23:18 - Jul 19 with 2289 views | HARRY10 |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 11:02 - Jul 19 by Vegtablue |
Looking very much like a 3-day match with the weather 😞 |
Yep, Sat and Sun look to be rained off with afternoon play at best on Friday
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6296575 [Post edited 19 Jul 2023 23:20]
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| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 00:27 - Jul 20 with 2265 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Cricket: Day 1 Thread on 23:13 - Jul 19 by Radlett_blue |
The lack of an Australian spinner may have influenced our decision to bowl first & bat last, but after Murphy looked so poor at Leeds, maybe not. Another day which emphasises how little there is between the 2 teams. |
I suspect the weather outlook had a fair bit to do with it. We need to take 20 wickets and getting amongst them early gives us the best shot at that. Having them 8 down at close on the first day isn't a bad effort as the pitch looked decent and most of the clouds dissipated very quickly. | |
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