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[wellinghall]

What a marvellous morning for England :-)

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[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

I must let the rest of the household know that it's on! :)

[gillo]

Could it be the first ever one-day Test?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Maybe if England had forfeited their first innings ...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Are you sure that's wise? ;-)

[helenajust.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad I didn't miss the beginning! Phenomenal.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well quite!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I saw the headline and had to go and check that it actually WAS a test match and that I'd no got it wrong in my head and it was a one-day match!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You can tell it's not a one-day match because no international side would be clumsy enough to throw their wickets away like that in one ...

[hilarityallen.livejournal.com]

My gob was well and truly smacked. And so far, they seem not to be fucking up the batting egregiously...*

* I will allow for the possibility of their batsmen being attacked by mustelids. It's quite a common occurrence. Not so much a middle-order batting collapse (they seem to have fixed that) but a top order batting catastrophe.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Shortest innings in test history with 111 balls :D And England have been doing well with the bat

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

:-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well, we have avoided a top-order collapse in this innings, at least; but the mustelids could still come out and attack the middle order.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Extraordinary stuff. All over by teatime tomorrow?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Or we could bat through until about 5.30, give the rest of the team the chance to rack up their individual hundreds and fifties, then put the Aussies in for a nasty hour before the close.

So it could still be over by 6.15 ...

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Or maybe it will all be over by tea ...