Son of L8

Dirty fucking cunt Ramos. The whole momentum of the game was based on them being pegged back in fear of the counter and Mo's pace, so he takes him out of the game and voila, everything changes. Snide cynical scumbag of a player.

We did our very best to lose that, and still didn't manage to. I guess that says something! Let's hope we've got some bad performances out of the way today. We'll need to be a long way better than that to win the final.

How can we be so good, and so bad?

Beauty.

I just got home from a pub night and looked at the scorecard. What in the titty fucking jesus is going on??

Also glad to see Cook carry his bat. It may be true that it's too late, doesnt matter, pressure off, etc, but anything that lends Alistair Cook form and confidence is good news for English cricket. There will be life after the Ashes, and more series to play, and he's the only Test class opening batsman in the country. We need him to be on the up.

Well, time to have a bowl. Hopefully the moisture out there will give Jimmy and Broad a little something extra to work with.

More than ten and a half hours in the middle, passing three players in the all-time run scorers list in the process. Take a bow, Cooky.

Despite contributing a load of nothing through six innings, this one knock has made Cook our leading run scorer in the series. Tells you all you need to know, that! Would rather have had a bowl at them tonight, to be honest. Although now he's coming up on 250, so why not enjoy it. This is all we've had to smile about since the tour started.

Hah, 50 to the pantomime villain too!

200 up off 360 balls. Absolutely vintage Alistair Cook. Broad also giving a fair account of himself here.

It was completely inexplicable. Did he think he woke up this morning and turned into Kevin Pietersen?

What the fuck is the matter with them? Seriously, what is it? 307-6 now. You've got a rock down at the other end and the pitch is placid, just fucking hang around, get yourself in and accumulate. Un fucking necessary.

Not doing a lot to deflect criticism with getting himself out to shots like that...

Vintage Cook innings too, everything he's always been capable of. Just about a month too late.