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Decent session for England, 302-5 at lunch.

9 for Friday, ancient city wrong.

Labuschagne gets his ton, gets caught behind off Robinson on 102 but gets his third reprieve of the innings as it's a front foot no ball. He doesn't get to add many though as he is finally out lbw off Robinson for 103. Aussies up to 251-3 and it is bloody roasting. Bowlers look knackered already.

That might be the worst attempt at a throw I've ever seen from Mahomes. Chargers quickly up to midfield.

I really can't fathom why teams don't take an easy three points, stuff the "analytics". I'd much rather be 7 points up than 4.

Posted before about my workmate's ongoing saga with his new Ping irons. He was custom fitted at the EK branch of American Golf last May and was originally told 6-7 weeks for delivery. 8 weeks comes and goes with no contact from the shop, so he contacts them to be told there was a delay and it would be August. He wasn't pleased, but thought at least he would get the last couple of months of the season with them. September arrives, still nothing from the shop, once again he has to contact them for an update this time it would be late October/early November delivery. Rinse and repeat in mid November, this time when he phones they tell him the clubs are definitely arriving in the country on 10th December, and should take 5 days max to reach the branch. He phoned on Monday 13th to be told they won't be in until March. He is understandably seething, especially at how shite the customer service has been throughout.

I'll be submitting my team in between Christmas and New Year when I can cheer myself up a bit from the usual festive season depression. I will of course be rewarding the survivors from this year's team for their outstanding loyalty by including them again next year, possibly even promoting a couple to captain/vice captain roles.

Yep, the first one wasn't simple by any means but it was right in his gloves, has to be held on to. Actually surprised to get out of bed and find that England were only 1 over short of the 90.

The rwo drops more than cancel out the brilliance of the one he did take.

Feel sorry for the bowlers tbh, they have all came charging in but as usual the pink ball offered nothing in those conditions. They've done a decent job of curtailing the run rate, but they also did that for most of day 2 in the last test then lost a lot of runs in the final session as the bowlers tired.

They were talking last night about the poseible punishments if they were to bowl as slowly as they did in the last match. Root being suspended for a game would be the most likely.

9 for Thursday, PM wrong.

God knows what they will come up with if she has to sit it out. I said to the missus, does AJ even have to dance? It's all down to the public vote anyway and you can bet 99.9% of folk who vote have already decided who they will vote for.

Watched It Takes Two earlier, AJ suffered an ankle ligament injury on Monday and is having to walk with a crutch. She was in bits and imo there is only a miniscule chance of her dancing on Saturday.

We all know Wood is made of glass but it is ripping the pish a bit that he isn't ready to play again, especially with an extra day rest after the first Test finished early

One change for Australia for tomorrow with Hazlewood injured, Jhye Richardson takes his place. England still to confirm the team, but Anderson and Broad have been added to the squad with Mark Wood rested.

8 for Wednesday.

It's like Sheffield Utd last season, spent plenty for little substance.

They haven't looked much better than tonight when everyone was available. They spent £8m on a centre back who couldn't get a game for Burnley. Spent 5m on Gunn from Southampton when one of the few positions they had proven top flight quality was with Krul in goal. Also supposedly a hefty loan fee for Kabak who didn’t look anywhere near EPL quality last year at Liverpool.

One of the most pointless things in the history of pointless things is Norwich making it into the top flight. They have been garbage the last couple of times they have gone up, unsurprisingly tbh as they do very little to add to the squad to give it a chance of being competitive.

Back in my bowling club member days I used to do the odd volunteer shift behind the bar. There was one guy nicknamed "two scoops" who always drank sweet black and tan, and it was cans of Sweetheart Stout that we used. The nickname came from him asking for and downing two scoops of Old Mull whisky while we were pouring his order.

Not a chance imo. They'll just alter the rules to allow teams to sign players short term if it gets to the point that practice squads are fully used up.