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Well the captain has already suggested he wouldn’t pick Alastair Cook if he was a young lad coming through at Essex.

He’s a certainty to play in the One Day Cup, as he has the last two seasons. Frankly, with the injuries around to the bowlers they’ll be struggling to raise an eleven for that tournament so anybody can get a game.

Rew’s 6th Championship hundred, he’s 19. Zak Crawley has 5.

He’s been having a shocking season, not that the internet is ever a great barometer but he’s came in for a lot of stick from Yorkshire fans. Good to have him back though, think he’ll have a lot of bowling to do this week with the attack Somerset have (understandably) picked.

Dom Bess back on loan.

King is there.

Jesus wept.

Double post

England have won three series in Pakistan, one of them being one of their most famous ever wins in the dark in Karachi. It is highly disingenuous to suggest England have been regularly thumped during any of the times that those more stodgy England batsmen have played in. They have been a highly successful team at home for over two decades. Clearly they had been pitiful in the eighteen months before Stokes and Mccullum took over and they’ve had a great year and are a much better team now. This shouldn’t lead to exaggerating how poor they’d been before, or suddenly there is only ever one way to play the game. After all, if they do go on to lose this series it will be Australia’s first win here since 2001.

That is an absolutely staggering performance from where the were start of Day 2.

No different to how it’s been all day, in fact it’s probably getting brighter.

They declared after five balls as I assume they were declaring at the end of the over and the six off the previous ball was in the car park and they couldn’t find it. Assume they decided it wasn’t worth sticking around for five minutes just to face one ball and then walk off.

Shut on days 3 and 4 of championship games this season.

Well, what a remarkable day for Somerset from where they were overnight.

There’s certain things supporting Somerset that you just fail to believe any other club would do, your best batsman getting himself run out chasing a third the ball before lunch in this situation is a fine example of this.

I thought I saw him, but decided I was imagining it!

Best white ball tournament in the world strikes again.

What a game, you can keep your crisp packets bullshit.

If Middlesex pull this off it would be truly incredible.. They probably ‘should’ win from here..

Surrey could get 300 here, ridiculous.

Bring in relegation for Middlesex.

Good to give those pricks a battering.

Leeds fans having to deal with him, that could be genuinely incredible viewing.

Not exactly fair on the two teams that only get to play Middlesex once is it.

Does Lawrence even make their best team in the championship or T20? Part of me fully behind anything that is bad for Essex though tbf.