Cricket

Buttler really is an absolute freak. Fantastic from Woakes as well.

Bad luck smith. Lol.

Big decision that. Guess it's Buttler's day.

Wonder whether Smith will be fined for some of the things you can make out he's saying under his helmet.

Whatever happened to benefit of the doubt with the batsman? Saw it in the test series too.

Oh man I hope you guys win so I can read some classic rants about 'that fucking caaatch' in the smh tomorrow

They really need to sort the soft signal thing out. Smith was doing fuck all anyway.

Good win again. Buttler will rightly get the plaudits. But Woakes' fifty at a strike rate of 147 went a big way to being the difference there.

Oh dear. The young 'uns just got skittled out for under 100 by an Aussie leggy.

Quite impressive.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2018/jan/23/is-this-the-greatest-boundary-catch-of-all-time-video

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England must have been hung over from last weekend. 8-5 start to innings. FFS

Oh well. They teased us. But deserved Aus win. Wonder what would have happened had England won the toss though.

Was Finch injured?

Woakes' batting was good again. I have to eat lots of humble pie for some of the things I said about the lad in the past. He's a very good cricketer.

Chris Woakes;
every run in thst innings worth £10k
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/jan/27/ben-stokes-ipl-auction-rajasthan-royals

Chris Gayle unsold wut?

Pretty immobile these days, so he needs to score 60-70 every innings to have value.
I also read there is a 2nd bite/opportunity to draft unbought players.

This pitch at Perth is err, interesting

Maxwell back. That’s interesting too. I thought he was persona non grata?

Fair enough. Probably had an extortionate starting price too.

Sharp take that! Ump was diving for cover.

Smith said publicly he needed to 'train smart' of which nobody had a fucking clue what he was on about. Always been one way or another with the selectors but he's probably the closest thing they have to a game changer.

As for now we're gonna lose but I don't give a fuck

Interesting now. Required rate is climbing (5.19 now) and 7 down.

If they get Paine then it'll be very interesting...

This is now interesting. Why hasn’t root bowled? Obviously something in the pitch

Hales you muppet.

Nice. Healy called it on the commentary also.