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Shocking by Cook... 2 drops off of Broad

2 minutes ago, Super said:

Absolutely shocking from England. Root needs to learn from this he has had a nightmare with his captaincy. Also day 5 you expect your spinner to come into the game.

A lot of shoddy stuff today, some awful sub-standard stuff. 

Can't stand Stuart Broad... Can't be the only one

2.75 the draw... Very nice

Some shocking bowling...

Stop bowling Moeen...

1 minute ago, Super said:

Not doing anything.

He's stopping them score 5 an over...

Bowl Moeen all day...

Not much of a prospect tomorrow imo... we could declare now and not lose... we do not lose this test match or even come close

Moeen Ali is a sublime cricketer. 

250 lead. Look to build now and bowl 2/3 overs at them this eve. 

33 minutes ago, Tomarse said:

Another 40-50 should make for a cracking final innings 

Going to get a hell of a lot more by the looks...

3 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

Bairstow's is up there with the very worst dismissals that I've ever seen. 

Ridiculous shot

Some of the most hideous shots I have seen in a long time played this afternoon

I think 240 wins it for England...

At what point do the British media pick up and pick on Joe Root for failing to convert so many 50s?? Because they will... anything to kick an England captain down

36 minutes ago, cheshire_red said:

England effectively 84-4 and the Windies are 10/3 with bet365

For a reason...

5 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

Just catching up after a few days away.

What happened?

One of the advertising screens behind the bowlers arm broke and kept on showing the advert even when manually turned off, would just flip back to the adverts... took about 10 mins of one old man probably in his late 50s stood on a metal structure trying to fix it before they could continue 

TRJ must be seething he was dropped...

Never seen a test match held up for this...

Woakes in for TRJ today, nice to see him back - feel sorry for Toby though. Done nothing wrong at all.

Expecting some rank batting by WI early doors if they bat first... I suspect we will be batting whether we win or lose the toss.

1.3 for Floyd win. Have a friend who is a sports trader who has pretty much put everything he owns on the win...

5 hours ago, hodge said:

If talking about England in general why not? Can't say I've seen it said anywhere they wouldn't play county cricket. 

Because when they all have the big IPL contracts, getting paid peanuts (even the big contracts over here are small in comparison) then why would they?

Gayle was the biggest name we've had over here batting in ages and only came for a few... I can't think of many top quality foreign batsman like the Warners etc that have came over here. There's literally nothing to entice them over here. Their weather is just as good in winter as it is our summer, travelling the other side of the world for 6 weeks is pointless.

In general the test playing players are away roughly 6 months a year, it would take some serious money to increase that time... Like the IPL give but we simply cannot

1 hour ago, hodge said:

Frustrating how you can see a Somerset side go from having Trescothick (in prime), Buttler, Kieswetter, Thomas, Trego (in prime) overseas players including Ponting, Smith, Langer, White, Pollard, Jayasuriya, heck even Whilloughby and Kirby were excellent for us. Yet all we hear from the club is how much money we're making yet we don't seem to see where the money is on the pitch anymore. Get a world class overseas player in for the year, get another quality T20 player in for the campaign. Go get someone like AB de Villiers, Quinton de Kock, Steve Smith, David Warner if you're looking for a batter. Someone like Trent Boult, Cummins, Starc for a bowler, just make a statement with the overseas signing for once.

No chance they'd play over here

What an awful bowling over. 

Patel so good... one of my favourite cricketers to watch. Superb technically.