England v South Africa, First Test at Lord's

[pasty]

Philander drops a dolly from Bairstow

 

[Titanic]

Philander drops a dolly at long off... Bairstow gets a life on 7... could be costly!

164-5, lead 261

 

[Titanic]

Ali gone for to Maharaj 7... 180-6, lead 277.

Turned through the gate.

 

[pasty]

Ali b Maharaj 7

180/6

England lead by 277 runs with 4 wickets remaining

 

[Titanic]

Dawson bags a pair.

Missed a full bunger from Rabada.

181-7

 

[pasty]

Oops.

 

[pasty]

WTF? Be lucky to get a 300 lead at this rate

Broad gone. 182/8

 

[Titanic]

and now Broad first ball... 182-8 at lunch, lead 279.

7 wickets for 63.. not quite the session England had planned!

 

[Southern Scouse]

Going to be a great finish!

 

[knocky1]

Well, well. Certainly not predicted on here.

 

[Mackenzie]

Very unexpected, a combination of a pitch deteriorating and the panic of a collapse. Hopefully we can sneak past 300 and that the pitch continues to misbehave for SA.

Makes for a better game imo.

 

[big nuts]

I'd be fairly confident setting them 320 or more. Even 250 on this pitch would be tough and you would make the bowling team favourites

 

[pasty]

Interesting stat from CricInfo

England batting in first session of day:

D1: 82/4
D2: 101/5
D4: 63/7

All other batting sessions combined: 394/2

 

[jakarta]

I'd be fairly confident setting them 320 or more. Even 250 on this pitch would be tough and you would make the bowling team favourites

I said this & got shot down in flames still the wisdom of NSC will surely prevail.

 

[BensGrandad]

Hopefully the wicket will allow England to do the same with SA and bowl them out cheaply.

 

[Titanic]

One thing it does do is take the pressure off new captain Root... the Comm Box Captains always want ridiculous early 'attacking' declarations.

 

[Titanic]

208-8... lead 305

That Bairstow drop has been huge... 42*

 

[knocky1]

A nice knock from Wood.

 

[pasty]

A nice knock from Wood.

He looks to be thoroughly enjoying himself too

 

[Titanic]

Wood clean bowled by Rabada for 28.

Bit of a wild yahoo.

227-9, lead 324