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Jim here to tentatively take your hand through the first session and a bit – think something slightly more affectionate than Tom and Shiv in the back of the blacked out SUV in the Succession finale. Palms lightly brushing, air thick with unspoken feelings. Like I say, slightly more affectionate than that.
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I’ve been up since 5am y’see thanks to a belligerently carpe diem espousing two year old. So, jacked up on three coffees already, let’s kick off with Some Things That We Learnt Yesterday (That We Probably Already Knew)
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(STTWLY(TWPAK) for short, obviously)
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1. Stuart Broad knows when to turn it on. With his place in a fully fit and firing starting Test XI not secured, Marmite’s freshly yeasted brand ambassador and self anointed Aussie goader-in-chief strapped on his bandana and did his thing – prising out five wickets for 51, racking up his 20th five-wicket haul in Tests and his first at Lord’s for more than a decade.
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2. Ireland are undercooked and struggled to get a foothold in the game. Andy Bull’s excellent piece digs into the myriad reasons why. “I don’t know much about red ball cricket,” Lorcan Tucker said before this game began – “I’ve hardly played any in four years.”
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3. Zak Crawley is a flighty and flawed opening bat. A skittish innings comprising of plays and misses and spawny inside edges but also majestic strokeplay – eleven boundaries and a strike rate of over 124 put the pressure on Ireland’s bowlers immediately. The debate will rumble.
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There are plenty of other things to discuss too but we can get into them as the day unfolds. It’ll be fun. Play gets underway in about 40 minutes time.
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Do drop me a line on email or tweet @Jimbo_Cricket
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Key events
28th over: England 160-1 (Duckett 66, Pope 37) Delightful from Ollie Pope, a classical cover drive zings across the carpet for four runs. High elbow, hold the pose. Class.
G’morning to a slightly wistful Ian Cuff.
“Hi Jim
Yesterday just reiterated for about the 100th time that when time finally catches up with Sir Stuart and Sir James it’ll have the same effect that McGrath and Warnie’s retirement did on Oz.
Jimmy can be unplayable but the look Broad gets when he gets a couple of quick wickets is just like a Great White with blood in the water.
Boy we’ll miss them… can I put in a vote now to keep them on board as bowling coaches (if they want to that is!)”
27th over: England 160-1 (Duckett 65, Pope 31) A solitary leg bye off Mark Adair’s first over, sun beginning to burn off the cloud in North London.
26th over: England 159-1 (Duckett 65, Pope 31) Graham Hume bustles in for the first over of the day and his first delivery is cut away for four by the diminuitive Duckett! A tad short and rasped to the fence. A single brings Pope on strike and England’s Vice Captain opens his account for the day with a flick through square-leg for a couple. Seven off the first over. Could be a few hours of hard toil for Ireland in the offing here.
Right, the players take to the field at a slightly gloomy looking Lord’s. Let’s have some play.
Good morning to you Tom Van Der Gucht
“Morning Jim,
Feeling your pain regarding the early rise: my 4-year-old rises with the lark and it’s my responsibility to get up with him and keep him entertained… You know it’s early when you find yourself watching pre-Milkshake Channel 5 cartoons with bleary eyes and a strong espresso for company.
Watching the highlights on BBC2, I was struck by the discrepancy in height between lordly Crawley and the Ewokian Duckett when batting together. I imagine that’s another reason they’re sticking with Crawley as it might disrupt the bowlers’ lengths having to adjust between the two of them.”
Sending solidarity on your first point Tom, and you are right on the second. Mike Atherton was explaining yesterday (far more articulately than I’m about to) that the ‘little and large’ opening pair of Crawley and Duckett does disrupt bowling lengths. Crawley’s long levers and stride makes a bolwer push their length back a bit and that is meat and drink to Duckett who is deft on the cut and nurdle. Just like a left-right hand combo is annoying too, it makes sense.
A bucket-hatted Broad talks us through the different grips for his outswinger and inswinger. Here was me thinking his “new” outswinger was all part of the phoney/baloney war.
Stuart Broad demonstrates the difference in grip and aim for his outswinger and inswinger deliveries 🏏👇 pic.twitter.com/sc2CU8P4Sn
— Sky Sports Cricket (@SkyCricket) June 2, 2023
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This did make me chuckle:
Ben Duckett seeing the funny side of his unfortunate placement in the anthems 😂#ENGvIRE pic.twitter.com/MSDASnzN2r
— England's Barmy Army 🏴🎺 (@TheBarmyArmy) June 2, 2023
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The England players are talking about their Ashes memories in a Sky VT. It’s making me feel very old… Zak Crawley can’t even remember the 2005 series, 2009 is where it all began for him. Time waits for no man.
Preamble
James Wallace
Hello and welcome to Day Two of England v Ireland from Lord’s.
Jim here to tentatively take your hand through the first session and a bit – think something slightly more affectionate than Tom and Shiv in the back of the blacked out SUV in the Succession finale. Palms lightly brushing, air thick with unspoken feelings. Like I say, slightly more affectionate than that.
I’ve been up since 5am y’see thanks to a belligerently carpe diem espousing two year old. So, jacked up on three coffees already, let’s kick off with Some Things That We Learnt Yesterday (That We Probably Already Knew)
(STTWLY(TWPAK) for short, obviously)
1. Stuart Broad knows when to turn it on. With his place in a fully fit and firing starting Test XI not secured, Marmite’s freshly yeasted brand ambassador and self anointed Aussie goader-in-chief strapped on his bandana and did his thing – prising out five wickets for 51, racking up his 20th five-wicket haul in Tests and his first at Lord’s for more than a decade.
2. Ireland are undercooked and struggled to get a foothold in the game. Andy Bull’s excellent piece digs into the myriad reasons why. “I don’t know much about red ball cricket,” Lorcan Tucker said before this game began – “I’ve hardly played any in four years.”
3. Zak Crawley is a flighty and flawed opening bat. A skittish innings comprising of plays and misses and spawny inside edges but also majestic strokeplay – eleven boundaries and a strike rate of over 124 put the pressure on Ireland’s bowlers immediately. The debate will rumble.
There are plenty of other things to discuss too but we can get into them as the day unfolds. It’ll be fun. Play gets underway in about 40 minutes time.
Do drop me a line on email or tweet @Jimbo_Cricket