God help me - the Test Cricket thread

[ElwoodBlues1]

Yep,  not test standard batting EB,  but I wouldn't be too harsh as I don't think our batting unit would have done well either.  Poms looked very short of a gallop and the lack of preparation really showed out.  Our bowling was effective but lengths still didn't look full enough at times and Lyon lacked penetration.  Going to be interesting to see what happens when the pill gets older and the decks unresponsive.

Prof, Watched Hameed and Burns vs India and NZ in England and they are not good enough to be playing at test level. Their batting is all about Root and his record out here isn't great. Stokes is short of a gallop but the others have been playing test cricket and I can't see them providing much opposition. It's up to their bowlers to make up the slack but this isn't England with green tops every game and with no Archer they lack firepower for Aus conditions.
Agree our batting is rubbery but I still think we will eek out enough runs to have the edge.