Cricket

Nice bit of fight this session, lovely

Have to say, if I were an England bowler, I'd be bowling slow full tosses until the cunt with the trumpet fucks off.

Red ball reset

This has been so dull

Dull pitch. But we still seemed to find it easy enough to get out.

20-odd for 1 is an improvement...

You just know it's typical England when you look at the BBC Sport front page and see a headline of the form "X & Y look to build..." and X & Y aren't the two openers. Admittedly it's not as bad as seeing "Stokes and Bairstow try to stage a recovery" or similar.

Crawley is opening

84-1 is much better than traditional England have been doing recently

Quite nice to see, although I'm still dreading a collapse

Yes, my point was it is rarely ever "Crawley and Lees...." unless that's followed by "...fall cheaply but Stokes & Root steady the ship".

Are England going to try and win this? 250 lead and then leave themselves 2.5 sessions to get the Windows out.

'Watch the windows, Tino!'

Would say you want a lead of at least 250 before thinking about a declaration, if he does then Leach is going to be vital

This is Root though. Lead of 350 minimum before declaring.

One can hope for a carrot dangler of 250 odd and hope that Leach could do something on a pitch thats still flat

Hard to see 10 wickets falling in two sessions on this pitch.

But I guess anything is possible....

^ that was bound to initiate a collapse

Don't really know why I'm still watching this, it's as dead a game as any

God I love Leachy

YES YES YES!

Curtlys description of that Blackwood hoick as 'extremely terrible'. Lol

Woakes is so benign without the Dukes ball on English pitches.

I’ve no idea why Mahmood keeps getting named in the squad and not being picked.

Ah, the duality of England

Death, taxes and Root being at the crease before the 5th over of a test innings...

I'm readying my 'FFS England' comment for deployment.