RoverDom

Nail on head and I'd question anyone who would happily share a dressing room with him. If it was my daughter in those photos the debate would be whether he was allowed to join the wheelchair basket ball team. This sends a horrible message to younger kids that you can treat women however you want and still earn millions

About 5 episodes in to Designated Survivor on Netflix. Really good watch so far. Interested to see how they spin three series out of it though.

If VAR is only going to be used for clear and obvious errors, then refs have to stop using it as a safety net to wimp out of decisions.

I haven't heard anyone use that for so long - I actually started to think it was something I'd made up when I used it the other day so I'm so glad to see this clip

Nope, mainly watched tests and occasionally ODI.

I've never watched T20, how does it differ to the Hundred? It's only an extra 20 balls isn't it?

Watched some of the Hundred last night, was not a fan.

Loved that. Fantastic entertaining series. I was hooked throughout.

If cricket was decided on the pitch and not by the weather this would be set up for an absolutely thrilling last 2 hours to decide the ashes. Still a cracking watch though!

He dropped it. Not sure why he appealed it

However this finishes, I'm really going to miss this series I think it's been fascinating from start to finish.

Yeah but that batting allowed Khawaja to bet loose and score at blistering rate of 1.8 an over. I understand it at the end of the day running down the clock. Come back in the morning and go for it. But that first session was dull as can be and they're still 50 runs short of England at the same stage.

There is of course a balance. Labuschanges 5 off 44 (and counting) won't help attract new test cricket fans (and I say that as someone who can watch a Mark Selby safety battle)

Root managed 11 balls....

Think I'm partially agreeing with Jim 😱😱 I enjoy the front foot approach but when you've just lost a wicket or two why not ease off for few overs and build back into it? We seem to play into the momentum that the bowlers build up when they get a wicket. I wouldn't enjoy the aussie approach where they had 1 run for 5 overs at one point but atleast some attemp to protect your wicket would be nice. It's the pass it out from the back at all costs mentality, sometimes you just need to smash it into row z

20 is generous. Two had gone within 5 mins of that post.

This aged well

I was following it as far as "If the" then lost it.

At Lords we were aiming pelters at the head of a one legged tailender. Why is it all of a sudden dangerous to play in, for example, light rain to top order batsmen?

It's a soft sport.

Also man up and play in a bit of drizzle

I'd rather watch slow boring cricket than no cricket at all. It needs to build more flexibility into its timing so you can finish a game. That includes not letting teams get away with a slow over rate.

Can categorically say that he absolutely is and could find you a dozen teachers that would say so (and much worse). As a sportsman though fantastic.

It was C4 in 2005 then it went exclusively to sky at some point before the next Test

2005 was the first bit of test cricket I properly watched. I remember it being the school holidays. I'd have been 13 and I think we still only had 4 channels so it was just by chance i put it on but after the first time I remember just getting up every day and going to put the cricket on. I wasn't the only one either. That was the moment to capitalise on the new found interest instead they took it off free to air TV and my interest in cricket became a passing glance at the big events. I'd say this series has done a lot to capture people's attention again and from my point of view it has been an entertaining series even when we've lost. Its a shame that the sports approach to time and scheduling has resulted in it fizzling out. Imagine what it would have done for interest in the sport if it was 2-2 going into a decider with momentum in the favour of the under dog. Now we're playing for a draw and the Aussies retain the ashes by default.