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I look forward to seeing how we ruin Pope. Force him to open?

Expertly cursed.

Ireland going great guns in the T20.

That was mainly down to Buttler calling Philander a knobhead.

South Africa’s batting has been worse than England’s recently, England really should finish this off tomorrow.

Pope getting completely Buttlered by the tail here. Would have got a century if Woakes was in the side.

It’s just so frustrating as they clearly have the talent to be amongst the best Test team in the world, but time and again it’s just piss poor application. Bairstow should be nailed on in the side in all formats, but there is just something not right there at the moment. Dropping him to domestic cricket might not sort it out as his CC average is very good. I think they need to look at the captaincy as tactically they are inept, and also look at giving some of these more senior players a long rest making it clear that it’s not an excuse for them to get T20 contracts in the meantime.

Yeah seems so. But he should be back in for the next Test, and I think they might have to make some changes in the bowling lineup as well.

Well given they were shit in New Zealand as well I don’t think the illness has had much impact. Bairstow is averaging 12 against balls that would go on to hit the stumps over the last couple of years. That can’t continue and he needs to go away and work on that. Pope should not have been dropped. We can’t keep picking people on reputation and not performances.

They have to make some big changes in the side now. Especially if this gets embarrassing when we bat.

Sam Curran really does make the most of his bowling talent. Long term replacement for Broad?

Best thing I’ve seen this year was the BBC NI series on The Troubles. Thought Succession was great as well, not really watched much apart from that that was good.

So happy for Iheanacho, he’s clearly a very good player and has just had rotten luck for us so far.

Bunch of useless twats.

Pissed it away this morning. Stokes and Pope were cruising and just threw their wickets away.