Any cricket fans out there?

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Been watching the ashes this week. Need a hand hold 😂😂

Yes but I can't watch or listen live, I'd be useless the next day. We call it Ashes lag. I've got highlights on to record but it's not looking good...

Watching it now. Will stay up until 2z told my boss I’m going to be tired for the next month. And probably depressed too!

Finally Burns made a catch!

I have become nocturnal. I listen to TMS through the night, then again to the highlights podcast the following day because I have an unfortunate tendency to doze off...

I bloody love cricket.

Don't you just love Google's optimism

I found my tribe!

What a pleasant surprise to wake up to that score this morning!

Jerbie it makes a change doesn't it?!

Checking in!

A better day today, but also a reminder that England don't have any top class batters other than Joe Root.

Burns got a brute of a delivery on the first day but why was he playing across the line to the first ball of a test match? And it sounds like he played a bad shot today too.

I put it on, try to stay awake but if I wake up in the night it’s on

Pleasant surprise waking up this morning. Great fight back. Excited for tonight!

All these late nights, feels like having a newborn again 😂

I'm watching the "highlights" now

@Jerble

What a pleasant surprise to wake up to that score this morning!

Yes, it was. We can't come any worse than second, can we? Always look on the bright side..............

I don't have BT sport or Sky. Went to two days of test matches in the summer, one of which was where Joe Root batted all day at Lords.

Sadly I cannot see England regaining the Ashes this winter.

Used to stay up watching a few years ago until 3am. Can’t manage to stay up past 11pm these days 😳. If I get up a bit earlier I can catch the last hour. Not that we miss much, England are always rubbish in Australia.

Anything better than 4-1 or 3-0 would be an overachievement for this England team IMO. The batting is, on paper, just too weak. Only Root would make the 2010-11 team.

Root is good. Hameed and Pope are young and I hope will improve. Not convinced by Burns or Malan (loose strokeplay).

Every England team, even the awful ones in the 90s, had at least two reliable run-makers. The bowling is good but bowlers need a score to defend.

I actually reckon this is one of the weakest Ashes touring teams I've ever seen. I'm wondering what's been happening in English domestic cricket over the last decade - there does seem to be a lack of talent in the test side, and this really isn't a vintage Australia.

Sorry for the pessimism

@llangollen21 I didn’t have BY sport either but bought a monthly pass just for this. Hahaha.

@TomPinch agree the batting line up is weak. Burns is a joke quite frankly. But at least they have come back strongly rather than completely collapsing.

Yeah - a good effort by Root and Malan. But I'm told the Gabba pitch tends to have settled by day 3. So they were batting on a flatter track against the old ball.

There is a new ball tomorrow and the pitch will start to deteriorate. So it's going to get trickier.

(And to be fair Australia did bowl very well on day 1.)

Come on Stokes!

Going to torture myself by staying up until lunch

I love cricket, my son plays and I never miss a match. I record the Ashes then watch it bit by bit in between school runs and other chores. I am running a day behind so am careful not to get updates on my phone. I have always wanted to go to the Boxing day Ashes match.

I couldn't sleep last night and ended up watching the 30 mins with the Aussie 150 and England pair now just turned on for the Root wicket. I'm bad luck!

@caringcarer I love it too. It’s been such a rollercoaster of emotions this week. There really is nothing like it.

@LaPufalina can’t believe the last 30 mins. It’s mind boggling

oh Stokes!