Plenty of you mentioning Headingley '01. Who will be England's Mark Butcher? Or, more realistically, who can dig in long enough to help them reach tea?
Adam has been watching highlights of Jason Roy's 180 at the MCG: "Chased 350 a few times in 50 overs with a similar batting line up, no sweat"
"Am I right in thinking that in 3 innings we haven't yet had a second new ball...?" Spot on, Justin.
Matt: "To be fair, Matt, it might be five times the total score, but it's not that much more to ask every English batsman to score five times his score from the first time they batted!" Do you genuinely think Joe Denly can be expected to reach 60?!
12.30pm: Just the 359 to win then, for England - that's just over five times what they made in their first innings. Confident, England fans? A strange innings, all things considered, which felt like a collective recovery from the carnage of yesterday morning. Stokes in particular was very impressive with a real Stakhanovite spell that seemingly never ended, but England were sloppy in the field and Marnus Labuschagne played a brilliant, old-school Test match innings to put Australia into a commanding position.
NM Lyon b Archer 9 (25m 17b 1x4 0x6) SR: 52.94
Alfredo: "Half century for Hazlewood, mark my words! "
END OF OVER:75 | 5 Runs | AUS: 246/9
- Josh Hazlewood4 (5b)
- Nathan Lyon9 (15b)
- Ben Stokes24.2-7-56-3
- Jofra Archer13.4-2-40-1
Ben: "@Ross W Menzies, at whose expense? NSW already has Starc, Hazlewood, Cummins, Lyon, O'Keefe & Copeland" Doesn't Jof make it in ahead of big Trent, at least? I know he's a pretty useful Shield-level seamer, but even still...
Round the wicket
Ross W Menzies: "Ben - Root's not good enough to play for NSW. They might take Archer however."
END OF OVER:74 | 5 Runs 1 Wkt | AUS: 241/9
- Josh Hazlewood4 (3b)
- Nathan Lyon4 (11b)
- Jofra Archer13.4-2-40-1
- Ben Stokes23.2-7-51-3
Hazlewood looks like he should be a handy batsman, I always think, but his stats don't back it up at all.
And in comes Hazlewood to face the (chin) music