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[Dr Jacoby]

Team for the next test? Pope in for Roy, Anderson for Woakes, Bairstow to open, with Buttler taking the gloves?

Anderson will definitely play but I worry the Roy experiment won’t come to its end until after the series.

 

[squirtyflower]

Tbf, they have recognised this and are trying to change, but it's in their blood. Lots of aussies tweeting congrats to Stokes.

Good for the fair bit ones, but their on pitch reps are cunts to a man. Ergo the dismissal of Bairstow in the semi final, was he moaning about that?

 

[Bluemoon dan]

So is anyone going to the real Old Trafford for the next test then? Going on the Friday so really pleased there's something on the game and it isn't a dead rubber.

 

[Tarzan41]

Team for the next test? Pope in for Roy, Anderson for Woakes, Bairstow to open, with Buttler taking the gloves?

Archer batting at 8 is a worry

 

[jimharri]

So is anyone going to the real Old Trafford for the next test then? Going on the Friday so really pleased there's something on the game and it isn't a dead rubber.

I'd say to anyone on here that if you've got tickets for days 3 and/or 4, enjoy yourselves. Day 5 might be pushing it, unless the occasionally iffy Manchester weather intervenes.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

England had an appeal left I think. All the more reason why it was baffling not to give it.

That's poor from the umpire, then. I only watched the last 15mins or so and assumed Root & Bairstow had already wasted ours, as you do. Maybe the umpire thought the same!

 

[crooky]

That's poor from the umpire, then. I only watched the last 15mins or so and assumed Root & Bairstow had already wasted ours, as you do. Maybe the umpire thought the same!

Surely they don't take that into consideration. It's just a decision in the moment and one under massive pressure. Thankfully it was a massive cockup!

 

[denislawsbackheel]

So is anyone going to the real Old Trafford for the next test then? Going on the Friday so really pleased there's something on the game and it isn't a dead rubber.

I’m there on day two.

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

Just shows in any sport you need lady luck on your side. The fumbled run out, the wrong review and the umpire missing a nailed on lbw. All in the last two overs. But what a game and what an innings by Stokes, a proper man and a proper hero.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

England had an appeal left I think. All the more reason why it was baffling not to give it.

What does number of appeals left have to do with the umpire making a decision?