Sirloin

Lees must be fucking fuming, he could have been the one getting all the plaudits if he hadn’t been run out

Cloudy this morning…

Ireland one boundary off beating India.

Best England captain of my time watching cricket. Shame his back never let him have the long form career his talent deserved. Wonderful batsman and wonderful captain. Wonder if this means Hales might get another chance? I suspect not.

Yeah be very surprised if they win here.

Foakes out with covid and replaced by Billings.

Pitches are vastly different as well. Test pitches you want it to behave in a different way, to have some movement and pace first couple of days and then break down to allow some spin. Shorter form pitches you want it to be consistent the whole game, and they also make it so it favours the batsman more as people like to see runs in the short form.

Think they just keep telling Bairstow that it’s just an unusually long T20 before he goes out to bat.

England crazy earlier, and not even the maddest innings of the day with Birmingham getting 261 in the Blast.

Highest run rate in a completed Test innings, beating a record from 1902.

Great Test whatever happens.

Like that.

If England lose another fairly quickly here they need to shut up shop.

NZ going to win this, massive England collapse incoming.