The sixth wicket partnership between Jonny Bairstow and Joe Root was very important for England. It was a pivotal point for England in this innings. England was not looking good at 176/5. The good thing is Joe Root is still in the middle. He has already scored 96. I believe he’s going to get to his hundred very soon. Jonny Bairstow played a quick innings of 78 runs from 78 balls. Joe Root took a more classic test cricket approach. He has played 142 balls to get his 96.
England has scored 363 at the loss of eight wickets. I would say this is a decent score. If England can get to 400 I would say they would be really happy.
I mean seriously dude? England declaring first innings with 2 wickets still left. I don't know why they are in so hurry to declare the innings. Root and Bairstow rescued England when game was slippig away from them. England scored 393 runs with RR of 5.04. Khawaja had a terrible WTC final and will be looking to score some runs today.
I don't get this, England had 8 wickets already down and what more runs the last two wickets can put to the England score?
In a test match, sometimes you have to make aggressive decisions and this is what the England captain does. I am sure that England's back-of-mind plan was that they will take 1 or 2 Australian wickets by the end of the day but it did not happen.
England still has the upper hand in this match and if they can quickly take some wickets in the half session tomorrow morning, they could have more grasp on this match.