It's The Ashes (again)

[Ted Maul]

What was Bairstow doing? Ridiculous. Australia will get called out, but why? They've played to the rules. Bairstow hasn't. It's idiotic and it's potentially gonna cost us. Pratt.

Both umpires are looking away, it's 'out' to the letter of the law but it's basically a mankad.

So it's legal and within the rules of the game and yet another avoidable England dismissal. If we do go on to lose this Test we've only ourselves to blame. It feels like England have lost these two Tests rather than Australia winning them with outstanding cricket. We've beaten ourselves and that's what makes it so frustrating.

How would you have reacted if Cummins had whipped the bails off to run Stokes out at the non strikers end? It's in the laws, but for me there's a way to go about it. Shite tactics and for once I'm not going to blame England. The umpire is unclipping the bowlers cap FFS, neither of them are paying attention.

I'd criticise stokes for leaving his crease before the delivery had been bowled. You simply do not give the opposition any chances to take easy wickets.

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The Lord's crowd need to put their Pimm's down, grow up and stop booing Australia. How about support your own players for once. Prawn eating Southern softies.

They're lucky it's at Lord's in fairness. It's not the way to do things, unless I've missed Carey throwing the stumps down every time he's caught the ball.

This Australia team are great but they're so much better than snide shit like that.