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[rickjames]

I'm actually quite excited about this, purely because of the whole 'unknown' factor and we've no real idea about how the Dukes is going to behave. Suspect you'd still wanna have a bat first and see how it goes

[justnotcricket86]

I may or may not have decided to take a late lunch and watch the first 30 mins of play on the tablet. Especially if we bowl first

[iand123]

Bit of rain around looking at the forecast for the duration of the test. Typical British summer!

[petehosk]

Well - actually Woakes doesn't feel that he has had enough bowling under his belt so will not play according to Root.

So Cook, Stoneman, Westley, Root, Malan, Stokes, Bairstow, Ali, TRJ, Broad, Anderson.

[t2ylo]

Heading down to the beach bar to watch the opening session - it's the only place with sky sports - tough gig

[rickjames]

Harmy style https://streamable.com/esnet

[TGB1997]

Interesting to see that Roach was bowling cross seam in the first over, will still be interested to see how long the pink ball will swing for especially when Jimmy gets his hands on it

[TGB1997]

It's definitely flying off the bat seems anything outside the ring is four

[justnotcricket86]

And so it continues

[ppccopener]

These games are great if you like supper rather than lunch

And if your out early doors you can get really stuck into a pie about 8 o'clock

[TGB1997]

Looked like a bit of nut, shame as he looked very positive before that

[rickjames]

30-1 after 5 overs. This feels weird.

[Kieron_BT]

Anybody using anything different to ESPN that automatically updates rather than having to refresh all the time?

[TGB1997]

Anybody using anything different to ESPN that automatically updates rather than having to refresh all the time?

I normally follow the Skysports websites live updates as you get clips of the wickets and 50s or 100s when they happen

[justnotcricket86]

https://www.ecb.co.uk/matches/4323#overview

This is the best for me. Cricinfo is utter (No Swearing Please) since the redesign