Cricket

Sun shining, pitch drying, Derbyshire deflated and Lancs making hay with Davies 77 and Jennings on 40. Plenty of time to set up a declaration which I'm sure Lancs will want to give their fledgling bowling attack a taste of trying to bowl a side out to win a game.
 
Alex Davies threw it away somewhat but made a fine 86 to help Lancs build a strong position. Fellow opener Keaton Jennings is still there on 74* and Josh Bohannon has a start with 20*.

191 for 1, the lead up to 215 and the best part of 25 overs left today. (Not exactly sure on the overs but about that number). The cloud cover which temporarily replaced the sun seems to have dispersed again and the sun is peeping out now and again as I watch. Maybe an opportunity for Keaton to go on and make a century?

Great last knock for Ian Bell, out for 90 - unfortunately playing on to his own stumps to be dismissed - it would have been nice if he'd just got those ten more on his last red ball innings for Warwickshire.
 
England lost the toss as they have almost every time this summer, an incredible feat considering it's 50/50 each time. Australia chose to bowl first.

Write this one off, incredibly weak team without such big stars as Morgan and Buttler when you consider Stokes and Roy already missing. Joe Denly doesn't inspire much confidence and Sam Billings may be better suited to 50 overs. Moeen captaining and possibly well up the order too.
 
Lancs close on 312 - 6, a lead of 336. Some cavalier batting saw Davies, Jennings, Bohannon and an out of touch Vilas give their wickets away, while young Lavelle moved too far in front of his stumps as he attempted to work Luis Reece to the legside and was lbw. Only Rob Jones was out to a defensive shot, caught at slip off the leg spin of Critchley. That left just enough time for George Balderson to come in and make his first half-century , finishing on 56no off just 46 deliveries, while Danny Lamb was 16no.

Another excellent day and all set up for tomorrow.

Can't be bothered watching the T20 game!
 
Rashid is seriously underated because of his economy, but he saves so many runs for the other bowlers with the wickets he get. If Australia can't beat us when we're not even arsed they have no chance.

No idea why they constantly stuck with glenn 'the no show' maxwell.
 
Had no chance and so it proved, noone takes those rankings seriously it was two nil when the sides were anywhere near full strength, but rankings are largely useless anyway as no account of a wide range of variables. Incentive and motivation are hugely affected in dead rubbers - mean more to the losers for pride usually, despite what the commentators say

The lack of any crowd negates a lot of the home advantage as to an extent does winning the toss every time. This was a pale shadow of a team they beat tonight with the guts ripped out of it.
 
Blue Shoes said:
Ali was captain though, should have kept going with himself. Ah well, we didn't take this seriously and still nearly got a whitewash with half our team missing.
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Had no chance and so it proved, noone takes rankings seriously it was two nil when the sides were anywhere near full strength, but rankings are largely useless anyway as no account of home and away plus a further wide range of variables are totally ignored. Incentive and motivation are hugely affected in dead rubbers - they mean far more to the losers for pride usually, despite what the commentators say

The lack of any crowd negates a lot of the home advantage as to an extent does winning the toss every time. This was a pale shadow of a team they beat tonight with the guts ripped out of it. Denly did as well as anyone bar Bairstow but take all the explosive batting away from any side, and in Buttler, Morgan, Stokes and Roy they've more or less surgically removed it from this one, and you're left with a pitiful skeleton.

Perhaps lacking their real skipper and the edge needed when a series is truly on the line meant the fielders weren't quite as keyed up and as match sharp as they should have been. Dead rubbers can have a bad effect on winning teams, conversely the losers often can win them - perhaps salvaging some pride means more. Most of the commentators I've read agreed they badly missed their missing star players and it was, rather predictably a lacklustre performance, they were second best all night.

The batting predictably without all four explosive players looks to have suffered the most as Rashid again returned top bowling figures.
 

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