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6th over: West Indies 6-0 (Burns 3, Jennings 3) Gabriel resumes his third over with a lifter that is left on length by Burns. Although he has modest figures this winter – his average is 26 – I think Burns has done enough to stay in the team for the start of the Ashes. He looks comfortably batting at different tempos, and so far today he has 3 from 23 balls.
“Thanks, Romeo, for looking up the rules about slow over-rate penalties, but my main point still stands,” says John Starbuck. “They don’t publish their reasoning and scoring. In an age when we can hear the third umpire’s words for DRS, it would help everybody, including offending teams, if we all knew what was actually going on. Secrecy invites conspiracy theories.”
Play will resume in five minutes’ time.
Written by Rob Smyth (now) and Tim de Lisle (later)
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2019/feb/09/west-indies-v-england-third-test-day-one-live under the title “West Indies v England: third Test, day one – live!”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
