Lionator

Blockading all food into a place sounds like an attempt at that? Let alone the mass artillery strikes at those queueing for the limited food amounts let in. People will obviously disagree (and that’s fine) so I won’t argue too much. As for the second part, at this point it would be very likely his replacement would be similar, although it seems the other party pre 2023 were a lot more willing to engage.

Gonna need Rishi to dig in for a big one I think.

The argument is that the only way to stop them is for people to physically stop them and obviously unarmed, starving Palestinian civilians can’t do that and nobody else will so the slaughter will continue indefinitely. While I wouldn’t have said what Bob vylan said, the leadership behind the actions of the IDF is the worst of the worst and the sheer evil and idiocy of the Hamas actions of October 7th gave Netanyahu the excuse he needed to finally aim to exterminate the people that live in Gaza, as that’s what will keep him in power and out of prison.

Is the pitch doing very little again?

Sounds like there’s absolutely zero planning which is very on brand.

If we can squeeze out a win then the gap will be gigantic at this stage. Seems like Derbyshire have let it slip yesterday too. If Gloucs can get another quick 150, they might fancy their chances bowling last.

Only difference is that team wouldn’t be in a position where we’d need 300+ in the first place.

The bowling still needs a lot of work but the batting is probably one of the top 10 greatest batting line ups in test history. India bottled it at important stages of this game, we didn’t.

Trump is right at this point. Someone needs to stand up to BN even if he’s doing it for purely narcissistic purposes.

Probably their morning. Gonna want those maximum bowling points and a 150+ lead if possible. At least there’s something happening with the pitch.

One would suggest he has no chance of ending the Ukraine war before neither side is in acceptable position, so he’s contrived this whole situation to make him look like peacemaker supreme.

Just a bizarre couple of weeks, nothing seems real anymore. What was the point in all of that? Despite the rhetoric, the US was obviously never going to invade, and nobody actually knows how degraded the enriched uranium is. That’s two wars in two months where it’s just basically been two pointless missile trade offs before stopping. Time for diplomacy again maybe?

Yeah Richard Rae said in the first hour yesterday Rehan was playing solely as a batter as he had a finger issue.

Macron also doesn’t have to stand for election again so has little to lose. He did also say Iran can’t have nukes but what USA did was illegal. He tends to have better relations with countries like Iran. They’ve had many ding dongs over the years to be fair have Trump and Macron.

Interesting that Macron has called the US strikes illegal. No love lost currently between him and Trump. Our spineless government think that but daren’t say it as they’re scared to upset Trump while the German chancellor fully supports them. Weird times.

Dont lie mate, we never got close to scoring 380 🤣

Kellaway is a lot of fun, bowls 3 balls right armed and 3 balls left armed.

Sending out a night watchman, great banter from us.

Sounds like archer is coming straight back in

I thought yesterday was our worst day of the season but today has been hands down the best, and there’s been lots of good days. These are the halcyon days, drink it in.

Their attempt at drawing the line under this whole fiasco hopefully. We just need the Israeli’s to stop now.

Players like Thakur have no business in this team if they can’t get a few runs. Where’s Yadav, Ashwin, Arshdeep?

From this position, we want 500+ and be in a bat once position. Absolutely magnificent stuff. Pressure is the only thing that’ll win the game as the pitch is dead.

His average is actually better than Patel and Budinger’s but his issue was always his strike rate. He wouldn’t get into this team. Great guy though, incredibly clever and won’t have any issues outside of the game. I believe he also plays in the Notts league now.

Can see india declaring tonight and giving England 5-6 overs at this rate.