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That seems to be about the size of it, in the Anglosphere anyway. I suppose in other linguistic areas of the Internet it might be a little different.

Unfortunately he's (almost always) doing it inside the serve clock time.

Hopefully that is a turning point.

Why Draper is consistently going to Cilic's FH side (which he's lethal on) I cannot fathom.

...that's starting to look like a rather optimistic outlook. Come on Jack, sort it out. (Though Cilic is exactly the kind of player he didn't want to have to play early doors.)

Keep on with those reverse mockers, he's just put Siraj into the stand. I think there's a gap in quality between county and Test batting that better batters than Rehan have failed to bridge, but who knows? He brings more to the side in batting and bowling than Bashir though, so I stick with like for like.

Rehan for Bashir, I would think. No point in compromising what is still a strong batting lineup for the sake of including more than one spinner. Agree Bethell deserves his chance, and Archer (fitness of course depending).

Certainly agree you need to play the situation. Just see far too much reactionary stuff being piped in every time this team seem to be in a bit of a pickle that sometimes then seems a bit daft (and, oddly enough, not revisited by those who pipe it in) later.

It works rather more often than not. There's still a lot of batting, and a lot of play left. Let's not be too hasty to rush to judgement.

It does seem to happen more often than not, though usually there's something of a score on the board when it happens because of the playing style England have adopted - today is a bit of an exception there. These two looking to steady things a bit and see off the new ball. They're both the kind of players that can then score faster as time passes.

I may have underestimated the possibility.

23 British singles players entered. Maybe two or three make it to the second week?

The England batting lineup is at least as good as the Indian one here, and the Indian attack sans Bumrah is certainly no more threatening than the English one. If they don't at least match this first innings total, it'll be because of sloppy errors - which is of course possible.

Yep.

Looks like a nailed on draw now unless the England batting line up have a total meltdown, twice.

Shouldn't have talked a junior member of the squad into cheating tbh

For what it's worth, this is actually a pretty good representation of wider UK polling data - from the stuff that I've seen in UK polls, around 8-10% of the UK population at large share the same belief, so it tallies. It's just unfortunate that might be a big enough number to shape policy now and in the future. And yes, Brandolini's Law applies a lot in this case.

Damn, sorry about that. It's an archived example of this article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01830-5 All of the programs and ideas mentioned here still exist now; however I have no confidence that they'll still exist in five years time, or even sooner, which is rather my point and why I'm speculating that it might be a better idea for the UK to back a different horse long term.

I'd be interested in knowing why.

https://archive.is/ohLG8 The administration of US President Donald Trump is hacking away at funding for research institutions — aiming, it says, to eliminate waste and bias in government-funded research. This is disrupting science in ways that are rippling well beyond laboratories and lecture halls. Here, Nature’s Careers team looks into some of the figures that might indicate wider disruptions to the scientific enterprise. Are the UK's "closest ally" really worth sticking with in terms of science at the present time?

It's true that dehumanising fellow humans rarely ends well. However, the question then arises whereby exactly how do you work towards a less tribal world where that dehumanising does not occur (as must be done) without likewise dehumanising those who want to retain the status quo?

He was good enough to hold up an end to allow some very good quicks room to do the job, for the most part. Swann was actually a strike bowler.

Funny how this keeps popping up. Not sure why a vibe that has (by and large) made a team from a total wreck to a winning one excepting very rare circumstances against the very best teams away from home deserves such ire. There's been a lot of spinners who have shown promise in the counties but then not repeated that at Test level. One of those ongoing conundrums, Swann aside.

One thing this all is showing is that Atkinson and at least one of Wood or Archer is needed to supplement this attack. I would add finding a quality spinner, but that seems like a unicorn hunt right now.

Need another breakthrough or two before close to have won the day, I think.