First Test: England v Pakistan, Lord's.

[sussexpob]

What's the weather looking like today? It's rainy in Bristol...

Judging on a whatsapp group I am part of, a friend going to london was told to bring an umbrella with her for the weekend.....so I guess its raining.

[yuppie]

England need more from their 2 best bowlers here. Anderson seems to be bowling a different length that was used successfully by the Pakistan bowlers.

[yuppie]

Poor bowling again from these 2.

Trying to hard?

[sussexpob]

Someone needs to tell these Pakistan batsman that all of this wearing down the bowlers, waiting for the ball to go soft, and keeping wickets in hand to setup for a big score this afternoon may be all well and good, but pan the camera to the exits, the women and children are flooding out.

[sussexpob]

Wood took his 1 wicket an innings. May as well haul him off now

[Arthur Crabtree]

Wood's 29th wicket in 12 games takes out Sohail. Asad and Azhar together so Pakistan's two most experienced bats. A big wicket for England. Break these two soon and it's game on.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Specialist pace bowlers who have a worse bowling average than Wood who have played ten or more games.

Paul Allott

(David Capel too but he was a bit of an all rounder).

[sussexpob]

Specialist pace bowlers who have a worse bowling average than Wood who have played ten or more games.

Paul Allott

(David Capel too but he was a bit of an all rounder).

I think it was Strauss this week who highlighted the need for long term thinking, and singled out that Woakes hasnt played well away so far. Hence I guess Wood is playing.

Is long term thinking therefore picking people who are injured for 4 winters in a row? And who as yet have struggled to perform at home.

Only listed away match Wood took 2/134 btw.

[sussexpob]

Bess comes on for an over, maybe should have had a wicket. Stokes pre-mediated the move at slip, and ends up moving from the spot the ball bounces. Encouraging start from Bess.

[sussexpob]

Is Anderson carrying a niggle btw? Not seen him hardly today

[sussexpob]

Pakistan look keen to take Bess on, but so far all three attempts have lead to half chances. And just as I say, Anderson is on

[sussexpob]

And Anderson gets Azhar

[yuppie]

Bowling a more consistent length than this morning

[yuppie]

Dam it, lost my stream for the game. Only couple of overs i have seen of bess. Big ask for him at 20 years of age.

Has some impressive first class stats. High hopes for him or desperation from England?

[Alviro Patterson]

Someone needs to tell these Pakistan batsman that all of this wearing down the bowlers, waiting for the ball to go soft, and keeping wickets in hand to setup for a big score this afternoon may be all well and good, but pan the camera to the exits, the women and children are flooding out.