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That's fortunate but similar to Rahul's in first innings. Brook looks ready to be sensible and capitalise on the bad balls.

Should incorporate reserve days into cricket ie tomorrow when it's warm and dry

Rain looks to be wiping out the first session.

Weather doesn't look the best this morning. Might get more play in the latter sessions but a sensible England just bats normally, not so aggressively.

The people that were there before them have been sacked or left the party. And they're the only ones left...

With England looking a tad tired does anyone reckon Wood and/or Archer come back for Lords? Bumrah likely to come back for us, and you'd expect Deep to keep his place instead of Krishna. I doubt we'll see such high scoring on a Lords pitch unless they've completed flattened that too

I thought Marcal left permanently.

Only to not lose. Whatever target we set (higher or not), if rain affects England's innings it lessens the time they can chase or for India to bowl them out. I still don't know what target will be good enough if the rain stays away Lead of 285. If we can get a lead of 500 by middle of third session I'd sit comfortable. Can't give England a full four sessions, and even I'd be surprised if England pulled that off in one day.

Fighting the good fight for ever more man

Sabalenka's ability to recover is impressive. Both sets she's been down 4-1 or 4-2 and then just powered her way back into the game.

Oops...

IT'S A FRIENDLY TO GET MATCH FIT.

Yep agree and it's already been evidenced tonight, on both counts. She looks a lot more composed in rallies and stronger on the return. But some of the chances to have winners were missed in the game after she broke.

Not quite the steam rolling I expected!

Absolutely love the Zaltz Incredible how quickly he accesses stats when on the radio. He's like the Susie Dent of cricket.

Although I've just seen the weather forecast and it looks shite.

Gotta get our target by 5pm. Put England into bat late on and try and snare a few wickets like this morning.

We need target of 600 minimum these days

Great figures for Siraj and Deep

I can sense England getting fairly close to the 1st innings total. We go into bat and put up a paltry 200-250. Then England go on to win at ease when they really had no right to at the end of day one.

Krishna is useless

Charlton 23rd Aug Birmingham is 29th Aug. West Brom 26th Sept

same funnily enough. Still waiting for Rhys James to go on it.

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Bad light.