Due to start soon from Perth. Expected crowd of 30,000 and it’s on BT Sports. Will Stokes and Buttler go back in ?
We bat first and Stokes Buttler and Brook play. They seem to be playing their second squad bowlers but we’ve our proper team out. C’mon England !!
https://www.vipstand.se/live-sports-stream Link there for those wanting to watch as it's not on hesgoal. It's been a joy so far. It would be against anyone but means more against Australia. They are playing silly shots.
BT have only got telly rights for these 3 games so may rely on Fox commentary or whichever channel it is. Gower may be on his way though
It's gonna be tight. Probably should have appealed, very sporting of us especially against the Aussies
Made hard work of it considering after playing the Windies on Friday, Australia have rested half their team today ready for the second T20 on Wednesday.
Too close for comfort. Game should have been out of reach. After our openers gave us such a good start.
Yeah Will Smith and Labuschagne play on Wednesday ?… that’s a question and not a statement involving a MIB !
I would expect to see Cummins, Hazzlewood, Starc, Zampa and Maxwell. Could be 5-6 changes from today with our full strength line up today facing a much tougher prospect. Labuschagne got a century other day in state Cricket.
It just seems automatic these days that a toss winner bats second assuming conditions were as good as today. On that basis, we did very well today but the big mister bowlers will be out on Wednesday
That incident with Wood and Wade was strange. Wade almost certainly heard Wood coming to take the catch and it looked like he deliberately impeded him to prevent it. His arm was out and it looked blatant to me. Wood didn’t look too pleased with it but the umpires decided nothing was wrong. I’ve never seen that happen before so I’m not sure what could happen. Are there grounds for giving the batsman out in those circumstances? It would have been very annoying if Wade had then gone on to win the match for them.
Should’ve appealed the obstructing the field one, was as blatant a case as you’ll ever see. Though, the third umpire should really make the call because you only see how blatant it is on replay. Not sure Stokes should be in the team, and dropping Malan down the order didn’t work.