Kid in the Riot

I've been watching three hours straight and would have to agree. It can be painful watching cricket on the sub-continent but this is a joke with not much prospect of a result. Stokes/Blackwood was the liveliest it got. Until now, fair play Lawrence!

Agree with that. Worst sporting event I've ever attended. I get reinvited into hospitality every year and turn it down. Another three horses destroyed at the festival this year. Bemuses me that horse racing doesn't get pulled up on the safety record more. Over 5k horses killed in racing in this country in the past 20 or so years. Piss poor. Then again the links between Conservative party donors and horse racing are well know, I suppose.

That's believable. England do travel in huge numbers. Must have been a few thousand in Galle in 2012 but by the time the series got to Colombo they estimated 7k England and the ground was packed. Must admit I enjoyed India in 2016 more when there was probably only a couple of thousand in Mumbai and even less in Chennai, maybe as few as 500. More authentic being away and outnumbered by home support. As nice as Barbados is, I'm not too gutted to not be there as the island must be like one big England football away day at the moment. The Test I'd have chosen would've been the next one in Grenada, much less developed island, more chilled, and less England!

This is what happens when you give the likes of Stokes a strong base to work from. Mental amount of English there, must be 10k

Citing "sporting integrity" as the reason. You couldn't make it up...

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Scorecards at 11

It was a perfect example of a seasoned and talented amateur against a heavy handed but limited pro. Conlan outboxed Wood, but the latter always had that winning shot in him. Wood's lack of head movement, standing there to be hit, will surely see him found out at a higher level, but it'll be good to see him give it a go

That's really worrying. Wasn't a hard shot at all and Mick just collapsed. Concerning.

Looks serious this....

Wow. Conlan gave Wood a shoeing in that round till the knockdown.

Last 4 been tricky to score but Wood really has no defence... needs a ko surely

KITR stole the kids pens and paper scorecard is back

On a roll ain't he.... ?

Well, that was an uneventful two rounds. ?

Wow! Oh Mickey!

You just know 5 minutes in the ringside seats are all gonna be on their chairs like meerkats as a massive scrap breaks out in the crowd!

It does, but even more so, why keep them out there unnecessarily when a positive result wasn't on the cards? Anyway, should be a better wicket Weds at the Kensington Oval.

From listening to Collingwood it sounds like we were pissed off with the quality of the pitch (rightfully) and maybe this was a small slice of revenge. As Butch is pointing out now though, have we injured Stokes in the process by keeping him out there unnecessarily? Next Test in four days time? Daft keeping them out there

Yet again we're heading for a main event start time of post 10.30pm for a fight in the UK. Absolutely baffling. Should be 10pm at the latest. No other sport would market itself in this way. Refuse to believe having it this late does anything other than harm viewing figures. Especially this time of year.

Interesting Braithwaite saying it was disrespectful of Eng keeping the Windies out there for so long. Think I'd agree. Why did they start the last over needing 6 wickets from 6 balls? Bit embarrassing. Realistically at least 5 overs kept they should have called it a day, surely? We never looked like taking wickets.

Has been for sometime imo. He's brilliant on athletics comms too. Fancy Wood too. Seems like a decent amount of Irish have made it over so should be some atmosphere.

#TearsForTone tonight ? Looking like four wins for England in the past two championships, with two of those obviously coming against Italy. Incredibly poor overall, though Eng did at least put up a good fight today.

Oh, Leachy baby. Here we go!