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[petehosk]

Time for sleep but enjoyed watching Warner - he's well up for this one and in ODI mode!
Bowling and fielding is average but you can only bat what's bowled at you.....and DW is looking in fine fettle!! 

[uknsaunders]

100 before lunch for Warner. The only way he wasn't going to score a ton was if renshaw blocked it out. Renshaw bats like Cook with less shots if that's even possible. Crowd were booing him when it was getting tight for Warners ton. Pakistan were village,  misfielding,  4/5 men on the boundary.

Lucky to be here to watch it 

[manno]

Nothing shot......

[uknsaunders]

Crowd are bored now Warner out.  Renshaw furiously blocking and khawaja leaving everything in sight (when he isn't being dropped). 

[manno]

Crowd are bored now Warner out.  Renshaw furiously blocking and khawaja leaving everything in sight (when he isn't being dropped).

Ha! At least youll have the memory of that first session for the rest of your days.

[brokenbat]

100 before lunch for Warner. The only way he wasn't going to score a ton was if renshaw blocked it out. Renshaw bats like Cook with less shots if that's even possible. Crowd were booing him when it was getting tight for Warners ton. Pakistan were village,  misfielding,  4/5 men on the boundary.

Lucky to be here to watch it 

You gonna stop by the spartan bat making station they were showing on TV?

[uknsaunders]

Third ton of the day,  we'll bowled Yasir Shah.

[uknsaunders]

You gonna stop by the spartan bat making station they were showing on TV?

Haven't seen it anywhere,  is it outside in the kids area?

[manno]

Third ton of the day,  we'll bowled Yasir Shah.

Very good

[uknsaunders]

Very good

First day wicket and all that but he's simply not been consistent enough. There seems to be a little bit in it for him but he hasn't bowled enough in the right place and  going for 4 an over.

[Number4]

Nothing shot......

Renshaw is the type of batsman Australia has needed though not great to watch

[skip1973]

Renshaw is the type of batsman Australia has needed though not great to watch

Exactly, we really started to go backwards again the minute Chris Rogers retired.

[uknsaunders]

Renshaw is the type of batsman Australia has needed though not great to watch

To be honest it's been a strange knock. He blocked furiously for 3 hours and particularly after getting pinned by amir he's looked a million dollars. Obviously a lot better than the morning session suggested. He nearly ruined everyone's fun!

Handscomb looks an organised player,  but he does play back an awful lot. Not sure how he would cope with the moving ball well up to him but he doesn't have to worry about that at the moment.

[smilley792]

Remember this day people ! 3rd of January 2017. The day test cricket died.

A 20 year old at the beginning of his test careers being booed and accused of ruining everyone's "fun" by ensuring he keeps his wicket rather than risk it to get an attacking batsmen on strike.


160 plus at the end of the day and the Aussies near 400, but they would have rather he risked it early on. To keep the crowd interested.

A sad sad day. @ProCricketer1982 is right. Proper test cricket is dead.

[Calzehbhoy]

Australian crowd booing an Englishman on the first day of a test... Not much strange about that....   😉