Friday morning in the oval, and the floor echoes the baritone rumpel of thousands of painful moans. It was prompted by repetitions on the large screens of the soil of a certain type of delivery with a very specific result, on this occasion by Akash Deep. The ball snapped off Ben Duckett’s thigh from the inside of Ben Ducket before storming mercilessly into the next part of his anatomy and with agonizing results.
The game was stopped for a few minutes, while the pain was waned and the opener regained his serenity (the blow certainly did not make him careful at all, and in the end Ducket had survived a review for LBW, sprayed down the route and completely missed a wild swing, a front edge drop in Gully and Reverse scooped for six).
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On Thursday evening, a completely different sound was heard, Chris Woake’s’ screaming of the pain after he ended up clumsy on his left shoulder after cutting a ball back from the border edge near the press box at the end of the Vauxhall. News after a scan overnight were not good and confirmed a complicated transfer. The bowl’s route for recovery is expected to take several months to navigate, which means that it is excluded from another trip to Australia for the ash. At 36 Woakes, the oldest member of the English squad is and has reached an age in which only a few injuries are not complicated.
Under another full house in the Oval on Friday, many hundreds wore a white headband that was sold to have money for the charity for mental health and in memory of the former Surrey and the England -Dough Graham Thorpe on his 56th birthday. A player who gave so many fans of Cricket so enjoyed his life almost a year ago almost a year ago.
In 2003, Thorpe scored 124 against South Africa here in his last test, a knock that he described as “the best innings I have ever played” in the long run “. Many of the more mature members of this amount will also be raised to greet him on the wrinkle, and ended a absence of the English team of more than a year and the next day to greet him. A few weeks later, Thorpe was interviewed by Donald McRae des Guardian. “When I look at the context and the circumstances that surround this knock, I’m really proud,” he said. “It was a sweet, sweet day.” But he also spoke about “many times when I just said:” Shit, the game tears me off. “
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Cricket is usually not what is referred to as the guilty pleasure. Little is shared with Emily in Paris, the latest novel by Lee Child Production Line, Saturday evening by Whigfield or Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food. But although this was a wonderful, convincing day of the test cricket, very much the sporty equivalent of an already delicious ice cream, in which people seemed unnecessarily determined to add a variety of vertebrae, cookies, chewing and chunks, it was impossible to observe it without being aware of its context, which it had in context. Of the players passed and present who were not here. Why we wore these frontal ligaments.
Shortly before lunch, Deep Duckett released him and sent him on the way with a few selected words that was delivered around his shoulder with a superficial arm. After Joe Root had an exchange with Prasidh Krishna -who played with the additional pressure to be a peripheral part of this team, and after the missed the last two games, after which the bowler was led by Kumar Dharmasena, which in turn was a number of animated conversations between the Sri -Lanka circumference and a variety of Indians and a variety of Indians Indians and a large number of Indians and a variety of Indians.
It was difficult not to return to Shubman Gill’s justification for his own encounter with Ducket and Zak Crawley at Lords a few weeks ago: “It wasn’t just out of nowhere and we didn’t intend to do it at all, but they play a game to play them to win, and there are many feelings.
And here we sit in our charity straps and observe how these people pull their layers away, expose themselves and talk to us.
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Despite the irritating rain after tea, this was as good as we were in many ways, measured by Bang and Buck. But it was one that combined the sweetness and the bitter. A day of great entertainment, which warms up with an underflow of large emotions, memories that warm us and also those who warm up to us and those who warm, the pleasure, pleasure and guilt.