Ashes tour.

[Pies4shaw]

Hick’s 12 made 120, so they ended up with a 15 run lead on with the first innings. Cummins finished with 5/24 and Siddle 4/31.

In their second dig, Had’s 12 is 0/35, with Warner 20 and Harris 11.

[Pies4shaw]

Harris out for 15, caught Burns bowled Pattinson. 1/40.

[Pies4shaw]

And that’s the lunch score.

Meanwhile, England won the toss in the one-off test against Ireland and is 9/81.

[Donny]

1/51. Warner28*, Labu 6*.

[Donny]

4/85.

Warner 52* from 89 balls. Patto 2/15 from 10 overs.

[Donny]

Head and Patterson both failed to score. Labu 6.

[Donny]

Chris Tremain has 2/21 as Warner goes, for 58.

Pucuvski 13*.

[K]

...
Meanwhile, England in the one-off test against Ireland...

... all out for 85. Stunning flat-track bullies.

Ireland in reply are 2/45 (18.4).


This could be a very low-scoring Ashes. There is no good Test batting lineup in world cricket today, just loads of flat-track bullies with no defensive techniques.

[K]

And Ireland have just drawn level, two wickets down. They really should look to build as large a lead as possible if they want to win this Test, rather than just embarrass England, which has already been achieved.

In the England innings, flat-track bully Bairstow was out for a duck (as were Ali & Woakes). Then again, their one Test-quality batsman, Root, made only two. On debut, flat-track bully and serial bad boy Roy made 5. No doubt his batting was "f***ing embarrassing".

Murtagh got 5/13 (9).

[Donny]

5/145.

Pucovski 28*, Carey 23*.

The Braddins lead by 130.

[Pies4shaw]

So, Had’s 12 made 170 (Pucovski 37, Carey 26; Marsh 5/34, Pattinson 3/19, Tremain 2/27). At Stumps, Hick’s 12 are 2/35 (Bancroft 25*, Burns 0, Smith 8, Wade 0*; Cummins 1/14, Siddle 1/3), chasing 156, so they need another 121 to win.

[Donny]

Wade out for 7 to Holland.

Bancroft 33*.

3/51, needing 104 to win.

[Donny]

4/94 at lunch. Trailing by 61.

Bandy 52*, Marsh 11*.

[Donny]

Although his 5fa included 3 of the tail, Mitch Marsh could play himself into the Test top 6 if he gets good runs, here.

[Donny]

4/113. Trailing by 42.

Bandy 58*, Marsh 23*.