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Difficult not to feel like England have been shafted here.  Just two wickets all day, old ball doing nothing, so the Aussies whinge at the umpires till it gets changed.  And lo and behold, the "new" cherry starts swinging round corners and takes two wickets in four overs

And they've got an *actual* new ball to come in a dozen overs as well

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RORY! RORY! RORY! Burns made us all sweat through the nervous nineties, but he completes his 100 successfully. By my reckoning, with the exception of Alastair Cook he's the first England opener to score a century on home soil since Adam Lyth against New Zealand in May 2015.

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Am I the only person to be horrified at the numbers on the backs of the players?

I do think it spoils the aesthetic and tradition of Test cricket, and if it was up to me it would have got the thumbs-down, but I'm not as angry about it as some seem to be. At the end of the day, there are bigger problems in the sport to focus on.