At least they're not running away with it as we probably all feared at the start of today. We need Smith out before the end of the day at the most since he can have a monumental innings. Then, in our second innings (whenever that will be) we need to target around 3-4 an over to build on before we go full Bazball.

At least it gives some cricket viewers a chance to gloat about being right. And keep Anderson away from India.

Down in a Hole by Alice in Chains would be appropriate with the current owners.

I'm amazed it got called at all. So many tackles in League are round the neck, or 'seatbelt tackles'.

Who will be the next captain and coach then?

I get the feeling we'll get to about 8 wickets taken but run out of time.

They bid for one of the recent ones, but they were not as strong as Qatar apparently. I think it was that one they went for. They needed Rupert Murdoch to fill some brown envelopes with some dollars.

Is there a decent, in form opener right now? Someone like that could be a number 3 for the short term. Out of the squad though, I can't think of who would work. Ali would not, as going 1 down early would almost make him an opener which is silly.

Unchanged squad announced, so Bairstow can drop more catches and endanger a result.

2 days to get those runs. If we lose now we are terrible.

I hear that Threads has taken off, and revived Zuckerberg's empire. He is a terrible, pernicious person but watching Elon Musk lose his mind is funny. As Twitter appears to fall into a far right conspiracy theory mindset it is in danger of being the next MySpace.

More idiotic batting from England by the looks of the score. All this game needs is Smith or Kawaja to have a good day and we are knackered.

Bairstow really needs to be out of the wicket keeper's gloves. You may as well not pick a wicket keeper his form is that bad.

Isn't that an old heavy metal band?

Smith is a dirty cheat, but you should say hats off to him him when he has one of those amazing games. Credit where credit is due and all that. Laugh at him when he has a stinker and gets out for single figures. At least England never lost a war to a bunch of flightless birds.

We need bowlers, as Anderson is finished. Bazball is fine against lesser teams but against there needs to be intelligence about the situation. We've lost the ashes due to stupidity.

Duckett gone for 83. My gut feeling is it'll be over by 4 o'clock. I can't see an epic finish like Stokes and Leach.

Count me out of this. So many of these are scams, or linked to scams. I have a friend who invests a bit in one called XLM or something like that, which proper traditional banks are apparently investing in. There may be some legit ones, but I'm not getting involved as it would be the same as me betting on a Kabbadi tournament.

We will lose this one. And Anderson should retire. Brilliant on occasion but we need a younger, athletic fielder, and a really fast aggressive bowler. Surely there's someone in the county game who can do that. Wood is a bit injury prone and hit and miss, and Archer is sadly finished before he started. The next generation need to be in now.

Their bowlers seem to be in better form of han ours, which is bad when you are facing the likes of Smith.

I hope the orange powder stuff is environmentally. Maybe he can have a go at the Aussies since our bowlers are doing pretty badly

My money is on Broad getting Warner out, after giving him a torrid time.

Lord Lucan, Shaergar and Jimmy Hoffa.

It did feel like that 😁Every time some 6 foot 5 rugby player type came into view, I thought "don't stand in front of me please."

Rammstein were immense last night. Unlike the UK concerts last year they played at night, so the lights really shone and the set list was better than last year. The only bad thing was by being in the standing area, I seemed to end up with a tall guy in front of me and a short person behind. I didn't want to stand right in front of them. https://youtu.be/JBtQZODD6Yk