Antiochas III

I always to seven different coloured gel pens with me. Remember moaning that one team used 8 bowlers so had use a normal black pen... Yeah, family from Motherwell

Army Brat. Auld man umpired a lot of games where I at times filled in as 11th, 12th scorekeeper (different coloured pens and all). Mainly in the Hampshire Leagues. Of course there was school

England need to get 367 to avoid follow on. The 300 benchmark is more to do with how long it should take them to get there and even with a follow on, they can save the game by batting out most if not the rest of the match Fact of day - Bell's 5th dismissal this year for 1. Tied record for a year

There is this thing called the follow on. If the team batting second does not get within a certain amount of runs then the other team can request they bat again. In 5 day test that is within 200 3-4 day it's 150 2 day it's 100 1 day 2 innings match 75

I wish I could say I'm surprised.

Be interesting to see what the Aussies do. 9 wickets in hand and unsettled weather on the horizon. Could possibly see them trying to score quick in the first one and a half sessions.

Excellent from Scotland's batsmen. Winning by 8 wickets. Should have been a lot easier though. Munsey's knock for 33 of 12. Death bowling has to be a lot better though

Current Dr Who has done to the Daleks that Voyager did to the Borg. Weakened them so much you wonder how they managed to cause so much havoc in the past

Eh, being against the Tory policy of ethnic voting in a referendum is eh.... Campaigning with Tories?

How was the seeding chosen?

Caught up with yesterday's ICC 20Twenty World Cup qualifiers. Excellent from the Scottish Batsman, after the bowlers done their job. To get the game won in half of the overs allowed is a huge boost, especially as NRR may become a factor. As I think the later game proved Afghanistan is going to be the all important match for this group. Question though is N/R counted as half points and also is there room to move a match start time to later in the day as weather now is not going to allow any play but late afternoon early evening will most likely

I bet Haddin apologised a few times last night. Agree with Lex, this morning's session will likely decided who's in a commanding position

Lunch. Root solid, although dropped second ball. Still give the morning session to Aus but as bad as it looked 40 mins ago

Bell needs to go. Bring in Bairstow or Morgan. Hell bring in Rashid to give another bowling threat but as long as Bell doesn't make the starting XI.

Shocking stat. Last 9 innings for Ian Bell has seen him make just 56 runs. That's a batting average of 6.222. How much longer?

Looks like the morning session is going to Australia.

See there will be no changes to the proposed set-up of the World Cup in 2019 and looks like a 10-team World Cup set to stay. Teams will be Hosts (England) plus the top 7 ODI teams and 2 Qualifiers. As it stands the following nations would battle it out for two spots: West Indies or Pakistan Ireland Zimbabwe Afghanistan Plus the top 4 teams from Scotland UAE Hong Kong Papua New Guinea Netherlands Namibia Kenya Nepal ICC making the SPFL bosses look like geniuses

What the f**k was that

Yeah agree. I think the bigger test will be the winter. After that we will see where England as a ODI team really are with Pakistan and the conditions there.

I think they (England) need be careful as I believe the ODI team looks good, the Ashes are not decided by ODIs. People forget they drew 1-1 with New Zealand in the Test Series. Going to be a cracker though

5 wickets for 4 runs. Absolute mental finish

Well your country does end at the Tweed (not Berwick). Your nation might not but your country does.

Why is the Joker in Suicide Squad anyway? If memory serves he was never in it in the comics as he was "too dangerous"

Just asked Farage/BBC what Farage has against Northumberland. With his wish to stop money going over Hadrians Wall.

Which Morgan?