England v Ireland Only Test 2023 at Lords June 1-June 4

[NYRB]

Excellent start from Tongue in his opening over.

 

[NYRB]

Stirling launching a counter attack, would be good if he could stick around for a while.

If he is there till stumps , one Imagine Ireland can’t lose this.

 

[NYRB]

Stirling has the ability to blast a 100 off limited deliveries. His natural game is to attack .

 

[corbies]

Is there a bit of Scott Boland in Tongue's bowling action?

 

[NYRB]

Ireland bring up their 50 in 16.2 overs

 

[NYRB]

One of the commentators made mention McCollom has a bit of Kane Williamson about him.

 

[Jim Prideaux]

England on top, but gee Leach is about as inspiring as his parasitic namesake

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Broad using the slope well

 

[Jim Prideaux]

McCollum caught regulation at slip of broad. Used the slope well again, kept it straight against the downward angle.

 

[NYRB]

5 down, McCollom goes

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Another wicket for Broad, he's been the pick of the England bowlers.



Apart from Broad, England's bowling attack hasn't looked all that threatening but they will get the likes of Anderson and Robinson back for the Ashes.

Yeah, agree. Hard t know how much you can read into this due to the opposition and that England are warming up. Broad has used the slope ver well and been accurate from what I’ve seen, but he’s under zero pressure. Leach has looked bog average in not necessarily favourable conditions.

 

[Jim Prideaux]

Bairstow looks laboured behind the stumps, reckon they’ve over thought that choice

 

[NYRB]

The Irish are 6 down

 

[NYRB]

He looks overweight, unfit

Bairstow looks laboured behind the stumps, reckon they’ve over thought that choice

 

[big_e]

711th player to play for England, Tongue bowling.

 

[NYRB]

Campher is pretty handy with the bat .

 

[NYRB]

This time Potts doesn’t get denied . He gets his first wicket of the game.

 

[Jim Prideaux]

He looks overweight, unfit

Yup, he is.

 

[Jim Prideaux]

From what I’ve seen so far;

Broad looks good, accurate, using the pitch and the slope well,

Potts looks mediocre, doubt we’ll see him

Tongue looks like a classic random cc cameo player. Not awful, but a long way off test level.

Leach, not a spinners arseh*le.

Bairstow looks like an out of shape bloke with a gammy leg, which he is.

Stokes, hard to say.

 

[NYRB]

Stuart Broad wants his Michelle Pfeiffer

 

[NYRB]

And Ireland past 150 with 7 wickets down. If Ireland can do the same damage they did here in 2019 against England we might have a game .

 

[NYRB]

The longer Ireland bat here with a 162 run lead the more it frustrates England here .

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

How’s the Irish bowling attack? Any chance of rolling England even quicker?

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

That was fast

 

[Ephemeral Hope]

T20 score in 50 overs. AND all out