Just need to play sensible cricket. No wafting outside off stump, leave the short stuff alone and pick off the bad balls. Job done, what could possibly go wrong.
Reality will probably be getting rolled over well before lunch.
Will try and clamber out of the pit to watch, should be fascinating stuff.
Hope you failed to get-up!
This team is at best mediocre. Top 6 out for less than 200 on such a regular basis.
Broad was practically batting from behind the stumps. With his batting having collapsed, his place must come under pressure without a regular return on the wickets.
Ali - if he can't be fucked to be a proper batsmen, then he gets picked on his bowling, and that isn't good enough either.
Bairstow - needs to bat in the top order, the only one who looks like he has ability at times.
Vince and Malan can sit in economy on the way home. Ponting summed Malan up - essentilly saying he offers nothing, so even though he might get out to a good ball, he doesn't do enough to threaten any bowler meaning they can wait until the peach is bowled without fear of him running up a score.
Overton - probably deserves another shot for effort.
Cook - if everyone else wasn't so shit he'd have lost his place. As we have done such a bad job at bedding in Strauss' replacement he has to be in the side but he's playing a dangerous game.
Root - he really needs to convert a few, but he is bar far and away our best batsman.
So basically, we have two good players and one in Bairstow who maybe could be again if handled properly. Nobody in the remaining 8 is showing enough often enough to be of test quality (Woakes clearly can be, he needs to repeat that bowling performance though).