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You'd think this is too many, but who knows?

Sundar being allowed to do this is criminal from the England bowlers.

Siraj stitched up good there. You love to see it

Tbf that would be awesome.

Thankfully not too damaging, but yes. One down, three to go before the lead gets near 300.

Need to keep making quick inroads. Any one of these two plus Jajeda and Sundar could take the game away.

Yeah, fair to say. This morning shows that they're not winning enough critical moments in this match.

On a related note, if this does finish 2-2, then it will be the fourth consecutive home series against India/Oz that has finished that score. Speaks of a failure to take opportunities at home against the best opposition that really needs addressing.

Right now, barring a joint mission, I'd give even money that the next words spoken on the Moon will be in Mandarin, not English.

Can't say that I agree. England chased down the target fair and square first Test, India outplayed them in the second, then choked in the 3rd. England have won enough critical moments for this series to be 3-2 or even 4-1.

Not the best start ever, this.

*cue discussion on how things might have turned out if the Americans didn't get von Braun and Korolev didn't die on the operating table*

Bingo. Prescription being more important than fact is a massive problem. And it never ends well.

I think the recent Windies series has shown that the Aussie batting lineup can be got at. It's not nearly as formidable as it once was. The issue is that their bowling attack is easily as good as it ever has been, so much more often than not they're going to skittle you for less anyway.

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-energy-department-misrepresents-climate-science.html Top scientists told AFP Thursday their research cited in a flagship climate report by the US Department of Energy (DoE) was misused to downplay the role of human activity in global warming. The document released July 29 outlines the Trump administration's rationale for revoking a foundational scientific ruling that underpins the government's authority to combat climate change. The paper was written by a working group including John Christy and Judith Curry, who have both in the past been linked to The Heartland Institute, an advocacy group that frequently pushes back against the scientific consensus on climate change. It "completely misrepresents my work," Benjamin Santer, atmospheric scientist and honorary professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in Britain, told AFP. Santer said a section of the report on "stratospheric cooling" contradicted his findings while citing his research on climate "fingerprinting," a scientific method that seeks to separate human and natural climate change, as evidence for its analysis. AFP and other media, including NOTUS, a US digital news website affiliated with the nonprofit Allbritton Journalism Institute, found inaccurate citations, flawed analysis and editorial errors across the document. ... imagine my surprise.

One innings shootout it is, then. Functionally, anyway. Really don't want to be chasing much more than 200 in these conditions.

How many can Brook club before he makes a mistake or gets a good one after tea?

It's worth wondering how many people watch dedicated news channels as a matter of course anyway. That being said, if polling figures are anything to go by the "viewpoints" (as opposed to facts) espoused by places like GBN certainly have some traction.

A lot to do for Smith and Brook here, but they're both capable of it.

As well as this, there's far too little big-picture, long-term thought applied to projects and work that, yes, leads to no good end. The current systems are struggling to deal with the way the world is changing.

Brook is seriously enigmatic. Part of me wants him to change things to look for more consistency, part of me thinks "well, he's already got an average that is among the very best so if it isn't broke, why try to fix it".

Definitely a lot of needle out there right now.

Did a little bit of looking back this lunchtime and didn't realise the recent record in Aus for England is so bad: they've not even won a single Test there for fifteen years and three separate tours. Won't be easy going there again.

As other people are saying, it's spectacular (and must be devastating to opposition morale) when it works.

Hit in the pills. Survives review. Edges just short of slip. Hits next and last ball for six. Interesting Duckett over, that.