England vs Ireland - Only Test, Lord's, 24th-27th July 2019

[Oscarman]

Murtaugh might end up on the board at Lords

And there it is!!!

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Onto the honour board Murtagh.

 

[Badesumofu]

Murtagh is on the honours board! This is sublime.

 

[The Passenger]

Little bit of moisture in the pitch but basically Tim Murtagh is bowling extremely well at his home ground, well supported by Mark Adair, against a very brittle England top order.

Murtagh looks pretty innocuous, but he's got 800 first class wickets to his name. He is the very definition of a cratfy bowler.

 

[smasha]

Murtagh with a five fer,unbelievable by the Irish.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Murtagh, get around him. To think I thought Cricket Coach 14 made him way too OP.

 

[VirgilHilts]

Bowled out before lunch anyone?

 

[Bradesmaen]

Can they shorten the ashes into a month now? All tests will only go 2-3 days.

Also surely Adair's nickname is Riggs as the partner to Murtagh..

 

[Van_Dyke]

 

[VirgilHilts]

I'm looking forward to seeing how Olly Stone bowls. In a moment.

 

[Badesumofu]

60 could be under threat here

 

[philreich]

Not a bad performance from Ireland, but to be fair, they're playing a Test minnow .

 

[The Passenger]

7/52. Warne's famous figures.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Gee way to let the pressure off from Thompson

 

[workhorse]

Goodness gracious me

 

[Cleavy]

FFS Thompson

 

[Gak Attack]

Beautiful

 

[Jimthegreat]

Ali is really their number 6?

This Test he is. Stokes and Butler will play the Ashes though.

 

[The Passenger]

Got myself some vision. Very green wicket. A lot of pushing, prodding and nerves from the English batsmen. There are still many questions about their top seven, outside of Root. Likewise Australia has a number of question marks themselves.

Hopefully we get some pitches like this in the Ashes as 1) It will be nice to see the batsmen struggle a bit and 2) it will benefit us (it will benefit England too, but probably us more so). I suspect the wickets in the Ashes won't resemble this, but we shall see.

 

[Richard Pryor]

Billy Murdoch also played for and against England.

 

[Milang_Panthers]

8 down..

 

[SirBont]

How has Broad Made a 100 Wth

 

[Drummond]

Hahahah! This is gold.

 

[corbies]

Rankin has been a problem for England in a Test match before... I mean he was playing for them at the time but still.

 

[Richard Pryor]

How has Broad Made a 100 Wth

His batting ability vaporized after he copped a nasty bouncer that went through the visor and got him full in the face. With that being said his ton was against a compromised Pakistan side from memory so who knows.