Month: December 2025

🏏🔗 From tannery to Test: the process involved in producing a cricket ball

Dinner (?) Day One. England 196-4.

Root 66 off 120 🙂

England 191-4 after 43 overs.

Starc now the most successful left-arm seam bowler in Test history 🏏

> Mitchell Starc now has 415 Test wickets – the most of any left-arm seamer in the history of the game. He’s overtaken Pakistan great Wasim Akram (414) with his three wickets at the Gabba.

_BBC Sport_

Starc back bowling. Brook out for 31. England 176-4 after 39.2 overs. Stokes comes out to bat.

50 for Joe Root off 83 balls 👏

He just needs that next 50!

England 139-3 after 30 overs.

Crawley out for 76 in the 28th over. Neser bowling.

Day One. End of first session – tea break. England 98-2 after 24 overs and Zak Crawley has reached his half century. Crawley 61 off 80, Root 32 off 60.

Mitchell Starc’s first spell is over. No more wickets lost. England 45-2 after 10 overs. Crawley playing some risky shots though.