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Thank God I fell asleep and missed that horror movie Stokes lll. Khawaja looks calm and hopefully Head is a cool one this innings and Mitch can produce a repeat his first innings heroics.

Feels like this test should be day 3 or early day 4 with the current state of the match...definitely not  stumps day 2. Cummins is an interesting sort.....individually is inspiring with his own performance, in terms of leading from the front with ball and of late with bat. Tactically not a Tubby Taylor or Ricky Ponting.....but for now, his win/loss record must be more for then against....some say more luck then anything else....but the fella always gives 100% and leaves it all on the pitch in terms of effort.

mikeh, not sure Warner is going  anywhere during this series.....in all honesty if JL had no probs with Warner being Broads bunny and averaging under 10 in the last UK ashes and JL is a hard arse.....a perceived soft touch in McDonald isn't going to drop Warner, who probably is averaging double then what he did in  the 2019 series. Though considering Labuschagne is coming in early most tests.....why not open with Labuschagne and move Smith and Head up the order and bat Green at 5....

Looks like day 3 or most of it, will be a wash out, day 4, half a day of play at best and day 5 another rain fest.....Aust may dodge a bullet here....that would be hilarious if it did happen..... considering Eng have had majority of the luck so far, in terms of winning the toss, and batting or bowling in the best conditions. Plus making Bairstow and Broad angrier ants then what they are now.....and Stokes superman heroics pointless.

It will be a monumental failure on Australia's part of we lose this Test given England's injury woes, weather aside.

there is nothing uglier than a batsman who has lost his eye & ability through age - why would any young cricketer in Australia want to bother being an opener when he knows a 60 year old is going to be there ?
 

TBH DD Aust have handed this match to Eng on a plate.....4/240 all out 263.  A potential 100+ lead whittled down to 20 odd through stupidity... and then Smith an Labuschagne throwing away their wickets through piss poor neglect. If Eng don't win this....irrespective of Robinson's injury....then that will be a monumental failure on their behalf...who knows 150 might be a bridge too far....especially looking at those weather reports for days 3, 4 & 5...more cloud then sun it seems.....Aust just need a way to curb Stokes....

Lets face it, Australia are 2-0 up mainly because of the inadequacies of this England team. They had a chance of putting this series completely to bed at lunchtime yesterday but they allowed England to wriggle out of it and now they are behind in the game I reckon. You would think that they would have learnt from Lords that bowling full at the stumps rather than short is the best way of getting the tail out. That hour of madness after lunch cost Australia nearly 100 runs and then England took vital wickets before stumps. They have absolutely no idea how to get Stokes out once he is established. 

Given that Warner has now got out to Broad 17 times wouldn't you think he might have analysed how he is getting out and done some work to try and combat this? Maybe he has and he is just mentally shot against him. Labuschagne is also a shadow of the batsman he was 12 months ago. Australia need to push the lead to at least 250 which given the brittleness of the tail in the first innings, the work will have to be done by Head, Marsh and Carey.

If the England team can get their act together and provide some support for Stokes who has been carrying them so far, they may well be able to get back in this series. They have shown that they are capable of chasing down 300+ and I think that there are weaknesses in the Australian team that they can exploit over the next few weeks. The rain forecast may also favour England because it will give their depleted bowling attack a chance to rest and come back hard when play resumes.

The Poms should win this in a canter even though they've given Australia every chance to lock it away which we've blown as Freezin says. There's not a whole lot to come after Carey and you'd think the Poms middle order will get their act together at some point.

Enormous momentum swings both ways.Australia with there noses in front,atm.
The biggest difference is our catching is far better,than the English. And our middle order batting is far stronger. 
Mitch Marsh,Trav+Carey.With Stokes being left stranded on his own.
England needs a upper order batsman to occupy the crease.Like Duckett did at Lords.
Great test so far in Yorkshire. Another fantastic English Cricket ground.Great wicket that will be a good,batting deck.If we make it to day4+5.
EPL only breaks for 10 weeks a year.So English Cricket has a small window.To get the attention of the whole nation. 

Everyone made fun of Moin Ali coming back to the England team after being retired for 2 years. Well guess what, he has just induced Australias two best batsmen into silly shots which led to their downfall and could well have struck a crucial blow in their bid to win this test.

Ali often gets wickets when batsmen don't rate him and try and belt him out of the attack and I just can't understand why on earth Labuschagne and Smith of all people gave their innings away meekly when all they needed to do was to milk him and rotate the strike. Even though Smith scored a century at Lords, there is not the aura about him of 2019 and the Poms seem to have a method to dry him up and don't seem to fear him any more unlike the Aussies who seem to be scared of Stokes shadow.

Credit to young Murphy who showed he has the stomach for the fight by keeping his head up during the onslaught and eventually dismissed the England Captain.

Eng match to lose....tall ask by Aust to bowl Eng out....weather will play its part....a few disruptions might alter the batting concentration ....but then the bowlers too. Can see Eng trying to get this done n dusted by tea on day 4....may help Aust....but seems like attack is the way to go on this pitch.