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Damn, if they follow on then Root won't get a chance to go ahead of Sir Alistair and Mick Vaughn

Wheels have come right off for Sri Lanka

Who has Saturday tickets?

Let alone Sunday...

Wots happened to Bazball ? Surely they must have enough confidence in bowling the Sri Lankans out cheaply again … ?
Or does Pope want a chance to get into double figures … !

Yep, Pope and Lawrence want a chance of a trip to Pakistan

Good job Vaughan isn’t a selector then !

Suspect they'll be there anyway, but neither has covered themselves in glory in this match.

Lawrence possibly signalling an aversion to Pakistan?

Yep, only conclusion is that he doesn't like spicy food.

36/2 must seem strangely familiar to Joe Root.

Roooooooooot

McCullum taking on England white ball sides too

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/sep/03/brendon-mccullum-england-cricket-white-ball-coach

59 years ago today Geoffrey Boycott was the OG Bazballer:

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/gillette-cup-england-1965-252442/surrey-vs-yorkshire-final-368638/full-scorecard

Made a change from his usual 5 Not Out at lunch.

Yep, it's like he said, 'that style of play is too easy'.
'Let's see how few runs I can score in a complete day?'

Nice day for batting

Dan Lawrence really doesn't want to be on that plane to Pakistan.

Tell that to the umpires.

Such a great speech from Flintoff giving Hull his England cap.

And a ton from the pontiff

Pleased for Pope; he's had a rotten series so far. Needed this score, mind.

Bizarre batting display this morning.

giving away wickets in the style of traditional England teams.

Wow. Stopped listening to watch the vuelta at 290-4. Just checked in to see how we were doing. Classic England collapse.
Let's see what the bowling is like in these conditions now.

basically the same here. I feel like we are so reliant on Brook and Root that when they don't perform, we look quite fragile.

some good moments today though, Pope surviving that review with the ball pitching outside leg and then the inside edge miraculously missing the stumps. excellent stuff. Sri Lanka somehow smiling through it all, but maybe they were confident that the wickets would come soon enough