Over-by-over report: Join our writers for live updates from the final day at Trent Bridge, with the second Test fascinatingly poised
I doubt it’ll be long before Broad’s noising up the crowd ... actually they don’t need it, cheering him in, and Jamieson fends him off uppishly but there’s no short leg to snaffle the snaffle. Wicket maiden, and is Broad on the cusp of one of his spells? It’s been a while, but he’s still got it in him, I’m sure of it.
“Talking of Dutch words,” emails Jaap van Netten, “gevaldig immediately makes me think of the Dutch word ‘geweldig’. I think the Yiddish explanation is a bit more jubilant, but it still comes pretty close. So we Dutchies must have taken gevaldig and used some of our Calvinistic spirit to tone it down but still end up with a pretty geweldig word.
There’s no spiritual aspect to “stoked”, though – I don’t think – but it does have pleasingly Neighbours connotations.Mitchell works Leach off the pads for one, the only run from the over and one which takes the lead up to 250. Presumably he’s got until the new ball to make something happen.