Important events
7th about: South Africa 34-0 (Markram 17, Rickelton 14) There is a bowling change. Carse replaces Archer. Rickelton welcomes him by lifting a movie over the square leg for four. Carse adjusts his line and length and Rickelton Bunts a few to the field player halfway before he is beaten by a beauty that makes a good length straight to defeat the bat. There is only one slip with the second catcher in a short position. Rickelton is aware of the danger and plays the last ball with soft hands.
6th about: South Africa 30-0 (Markram 17, Rickelton 10) Mahmood changes corners to bowling around the wicket fishing in the left hander Rickleton. He wants to prevent him from offering every width and also has a leg slip in place. His first ball hits the outer edge before Rickelton tears a single on the ground with a straight bat. Mahmood then causes Markram some problems with a lifter than spoons in the room on the off-side and a fuller ball that floats the pads of the opener. Good competition there is.
5th about: South Africa 29-0 (Markram 17, Rickelton 9) Markram has been held in a cage so far, but he climbs in a short ball of Archer and runs for a flat six behind square leg. That followed a cut double and then a single from Rickleton. Then a wide bone side came and suddenly Brook felt the need to adjust things – the slip goes out and a catcher comes at short midwicket. Markram has now confronted so many balls if he had to reach 50 on Tuesday. Different types of game here.
4th about: South Africa 19-0 (Markram 11, Rickelton 6) ‘Oooooh’ sounds around Lord’s while Mahmood shoots a past Markram’s stiff rear foot. Lift and squeeze the deck. Markram does not find it as easy as he did a few days ago. A wide leg side is followed by a late cut that is kept up to two thanks to a diving car at Deep Third.
Brook then burns a review with a HBLER. It was a complete ball that was back in Markram, but the repetition showed that it was missing by a mile down. Mahmood closes the transition by beating the outskirts of Markram again.
What a pressure on.
3rd about: South Africa 16-0 (Markram 9, Rickelton 6) Markram picks up his first border of the day with a little push from his hips. Despite the rain, it bows along the deck and smith beats to the Midwicket rope. Archer drags his line a bit wider and gets one to shoot back in Markram, causing a little discomfort of background of a length. Markram then comes on the front foot and although he does not timely timse his straight ride, she collects three after the middle.
2nd about: South Africa 9-0 (Markram 2, Rickelton 6) It is Mahmood from the end of the daycare center. He is pretty tight with his height for the first five balls, but is struggling with his line. Markram stops him for a single and Rickelton bumped a few. The left hand then climbs into a wide dross and spreads a cut for four past point.
1st about: South Africa 2-0 (Markram 1, Rickelton 0) Archer beats Markram with a full ball that hides and forms away. The rest of the over has been struck around a good length. One bunny on the leg side and the last ball of the set is tickled into a fine leg for a single.
The players go their way to the middle.
Jonathan Agnew and Alastair Cook on TMS express their sympathy for Sonny Baker who ever coughed up the most expensive figures from an English debutant. He fell, but it still feels a bit hard, given the team lost because of their batters.
Anyway, we will continue. Jofra Archer will bowlen from the end of the pavilion. Aiden Markram will be upstairs.
Lord is usually full. Two briefs in place, field players in the deep fine at the back on either side of the Wicket.
Worth to remind everyone what happened the last time the proteas was on this ground.
Why not, right?
The sun is shining although the Hovercraft cover is still hanging on the field.
It has been one of those London days where they are constantly due to the base of gas lamps. It’s gloomy, it’s sunny, it’s wet, it’s dry, it’s sultry, it’s fresh. To decide!
On TMS, the gang that England had first had to beat after winning the throw. Hmmm, both skippers were dead on a bowl.
Our first e -mail of the day is from regular correspondent John Starbuck:
Daniel. Good afternoon,
Well, it didn’t go well, right? A prediction that the match would start at 13:00, already destroyed by events. It simply appears that very little is predictable in international cricket, especially when England is involved. Let’s all cross our fingers, except when we email it; Although typing an e -mail with crossed fingers might become a transition ritual for Oboers.
According to Harry Brook and Stuart Broad on Comms, Sonny Baker was not dropped because of the slice he received two days ago.
The argument is that the fuller length of Saqib Mahmood at this pitch will be a handful.
South Africa has two spinners. That’s … interesting. Lord’s is not really a grip on the surface. The bowlers in reserve are Kagiso Rabada (equipped) as well as the young Kwena Maphaka and Codi Yusuf. But can’t beat them. So Senuran Muthusamy comes in as much for his Willow-Hantinage as his Orb-Peaking (just go with it).
Teams
England: Duckett, Smith, Root, Brook (C), Buttler (World Championship), Bethell, Jacks, Carse, Archer, Rashid, Mahmood.
South Africa: Markram, Rickelton (WK), Bavuma (C), Breetzke, Stubbs, Brevis, Bosch, Muthusamy, Maharaj, Burger, Ngidi.
England wins the throw, have a bowl
“We think it will hopefully have a bit at the start,” says Harry Brook.
He says it is a “new day” and that the “series starts today”. It actually started on Tuesday, but we know what he means.
Sonny Baker, after getting a lot of tick, fog out and is replaced by Saqib Mahmood.
Temba Bavuma also wanted to bowlen. “We will just have to do a job with the bat,” he says.
The wounded Tony de Zorzi, as well as the unwell Wian Mulder are absent in the team that did the work on Tuesday. Mathew Breetzke and Sunaren Muthusamy enter the fight.
Matt Hughes has done his best Tillakaratne Dilshan -impressions by getting a lot of scoops for us.
Here he lifts the lid on a dispute about signing sessions in the hundred:
And here is a yarn about the restructuring of the County Championship:
Delayed start
The sun can shine, but the outfield is still a bit wet.
That means we have the pitch at 12:45 pm playing on our way at 1:15 pm.
What did you make from Harry Brook’s seemingly Blasé remarks after their heavy defeat on Tuesday?
The skipper said: “Not ideal. Not a good start to the series – one of those bad days and we must continue as soon as possible. “
Look, I understand that players should not consider disappointing results. And that looking is healthy. But wouldn’t a little apology have been welcome to the paying public? Could he not acknowledge that an international game is expensive and time -consuming, that many people would have taken a day off, that some children may have watched England for the first time?
I am not saying that Brook must serve prison. After all, it is only cricket. But a kind of recognition for their abject show would have been welcome.
The spider this week
The covers started after a number of heavy but short showers. So while we wait for things to start, why not go into this week’s spider.
It is really yours on the magic of Cricket Scorecards. I have always loved them. I like to look at them. I like to fill them with small names and numbers. So I decided to write about them with the help of two legends of the vessel.
I hope you enjoy it:
Preamble
Daniel Gallan
Ready or not, here there will be another! England was nonsense two days ago. After they had been released 131, they were toned by Aiden Markram in a seven-wicket rout.
The good news is that there is little time to consider that result, because the boys are back. It is a crazy schedule, one that varies players, test journalists and so much from the paying audience. But that’s the modern game and we’re going.
England has to improve today in just about every department in the house of Cricket, but it is their batting that needs a serious reconsideration. As Mark Butcher said on Tuesday in Headingley, they don’t acknowledge that it is a little bit of weakness to turn on the brakes a bit in the innings, but she is often the wise to do. If they roll, they don’t look. But when they have to take the balance and consolidate, they are a mess.
Can they correct their mistakes today? If not, they will lose the series with a game.
There is a little mizzle in the air around West -London, but we have to get a full competition.
I am excited to start things today. If you want to contact, send me an email. In the account that this English team can show a little humility and common sense? Or is that nonsense awake in Baz’s era? Let me know.
Play starts at 1 p.m..
Throw, team news and other bits come.
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