Cricket

Crawley will top score in the 2nd innings and save himself for another series.

Yes. And you'd have to say it's been working pretty well so far.

To be fair, this whole Baz ball bollocks began when we had a total first innings disaster against NZ.

Bazball is a gamble that has luckily paid off each time.

It's going to fail spectacularly soon (and then semi-regularly), and then they'll go back to the drawing board.

£5charitable donation tickets for Day 5 if it gets that far

https://www.lords.org/lords/news-stories/england-v-south-africa-day-five-ticket-information

They might as well tell people they'll get £500 and a car just for turning up, for all the chance there is of Day 5 happening.

With the unlikelihood of Day 5 play, Lords could offer a free thylacine.

How the fuck has he dropped that

That's one of the most comical drops I've ever seen.

Not that it mattered much. England's tail mopped up efficiently if not spectacularly. SA to have a lead of 100-odd for not many by close of play today.

Terrific how the clouds have suddenly disappeared and the sun's cracking the flags now England have started bowling.

Hoping Broad loosens up, he looks like the one who's just turned 40 atm.

Yeah, the bowling isn't looking particularly threatening right now.

Annoyingly, the ball is still swinging quite prodigiously, but England's bowlers aren't putting it in the right place. Wasting it.

Stokes is so good

And also so fragile. He didn’t look great at the end of that over.

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Stuart that is an absolute worldie

Outing his father as a massive racist. Fair.

These bowling tactics have to be binned.

What do we reckon? Three down by lunch?

Very nice here today. Expecting quite a few more wickets but hoping for a root masterclass. And some biffing from the others.

Double digit Eng opening stand: things are looking up.

Lol.

He's got to go, hasn't he? They can't keep giving him a chance to prove himself capable when all he's doing is proving the revers.

Before I even checked the OBO I knew exactly who this was referring to.