Alex

How is it? If you get the market value of the property.

Here’s a little quiz you might like to have a go at, Michael: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/49761310

That Dangermows is tragic even by the standards of that ridiculous fucking message board

It was anti-semitism rather than racism?

Depressingly predictable

Dropping Bairstow is what should happen. Irrespective of who of the other two options replaces him behind the stumps. That’s not binning him forever but there’s no way he should keep his place on current form. I actually think Foakes provides the best answer in terms of keeping and batting at 7/8. We’ve got more than enough attacking players (a place could probably still be found for Buttler) and Foakes can hang around in a style not dissimilar to Jack Russell. He also averages about 40 in first class cricket iirc. Bairstow has the talent but I’d force him to be a specialist batsman or nothing. He’s obviously a bit of a bell-end who has been pandered to by Root and the selectors though so he’ll probably retain his place.

It’s years since I’ve been able to sit through more than about 30 seconds of it

So one of his best performances in a Liverpool shirt was a pre-season friendly against inferior opposition?

All he is saying is give Bruce a chance

Hand-shandy Andy

Amazing to think it’s the first drawn series for 47 years

Seeing them try and pretend to celebrate was good

How many points are we off 5th though?

Burns’ catch though

It’ll be all over pretty quick I’d imagine with ball being new and the bowlers refreshed. Barring something special from Buttler that’s nowhere near enough runs on the board

Expecting this to be horrific

Looks like a good opportunity squandered at this stage

Bit harsh on Overton like. Curran coming in is fair enough. How Bairstow keeps his place is beyond me

Might be wrong but I thought I’d read he’d decided to pack in after he was released. He’s a perfect example of a talent not being nurtured because he’s a red ball specialist. You can hardly blame Lancs though. If they put a lot of resources into a player like that there’s precious little for them to gain from it bar a bit of kudos if he makes the test side

It definitely seems to hold a lot of appeal for people who seem to know nothing about what it entails. There’s a lot of talk about the notion of our being failed by our politicians and our political system and there’s obviously a lot of merit to that view. But, fuck me gently, a lot of people make virtually no effort to find anything out about it for themselves. Yet they’re still vehement they’re in the right. It would be a crazy stance if it wasn’t important

Hameed’s retirement pretty much sums up the state of English cricket

They didn’t have DRS back then

I’ve got the brains, you’ve got the looks. Let’s make lots of money.