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Root opens the face to steer Bumrah to third man for a couple. This contest, between two bankers for a World XI to face Mars in Vince’s back garden in Slovakia, has the potential to decide the game and therefore the series.
Root gets a bit lucky later in the over when he tries to flick to leg and gets a leading edge through gully for four.Root remains the prize wicket despite Jonny Bairstow’s extraordinary bish-boshery in recent weeks. One of Root’s great strengths - he has a few - is to stockpile singles, and he flicks Shami into the leg side to move into double figures.
This is a fascinating test of England’s nerve and ability. There are no Michael Bracewells in this attack.That wasn’t, alas, a good stroke from Ollie Pope. It’s the third time in the match that a batter has fallen to the seventh or eighth ball of an over: Thakur last night, Lees this morning and now Stokes.The no-ball strikes again! Jasprit Bumrah has taken a wicket with the seventh and final delivery of his sixth over, which was extended because the previous delivery was a no-ball.
“Look,” says Phil Keegan, “I am very out of touch with the UK, what with living in Vietnam and not even visiting for around 10 years, but what the hell is a ‘a peedie coffee’. Frankly it sounds quite disturbing.”
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