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00:00so the end of lathwell 28 for one
00:06new batsman robin smith
00:10just when it looked as though england were getting off to a reasonable start
00:16and then merv hughes does it again
00:23that's the sort of way he takes them on now hughes will look hughes will speak
00:30with his eyes but he still spoke and the umpire well it's four well i think that was very
00:38thoughtful bowling by merv, terrific short ball straight away to the batsman
00:44i mean robin smith had to fetch that ball from outside of stump
00:47again smith getting forward julian very disappointed but smith did get what looked
01:00to be a reasonable stride in yes i think it's the stride that saved him a bit a first stride there
01:06half a stride it looks as if he's got right forward i don't think he got that far
01:10i think he stood got caught a bit you see that's just a sort of half stride
01:16that's not robin smith at his best
01:22that's two that julian has brought back into the right hander that's that's his great strength
01:31and that's robin smith's great strength
01:41so
01:58yeah it's a cracking shot but poor delivery really on this sort of service look it's a
02:03half volley wide half volley but it's right up there this is an experience by the bowler
02:11so
02:23that'll bring the 50 up
02:34five fours for robin smith
02:35yes lovely shot again very full length good stride by robin smith and plays it beautifully
02:47graham gooch won the toss and there must have been some sort of doubt as to what he would have done
02:53but he settled for batting and uh well if he can get through to lunch with no further damage then
03:00it's been a good start for england
03:07i don't see a much better square cut than that
03:14well this was lovely timing by michael atherton he waited for the ball to turn
03:19nice pace this pitch waited for it to turn
03:22and then just cuffed it with his right hand it nearly got too far away from him actually
03:30another crashing shot from robin smith from the upside
03:37brendan julian needed to bowl the ball it went straight on and went across robin smith but it
03:42was just short and gave him that room and he plays the square cut so powerfully
03:50oh well bowled such an indeterminate shot from michael atherton
04:00you see julian showing there is something there some movement there for the seamers
04:05he hasn't quite the accuracy to keep the pressure on ball after ball
04:08and that's what you've got to do on this type of pitch and the severe test now for robin smith
04:14who is 29 not out
04:21and the great ironic cheer is for smith who actually landed the middle of the bat on the ball
04:30that's where you need to bowl and there's a big shout and it's being given out
04:38that's the flight drags the batsman forward michael atherton goes success for shane warne
04:44and england are 63 foot two
04:49i don't think atherton looked too pleased about that
04:52well it's certainly pad first but then did it go on to the back of the bat or something
04:57towards cinnamon off very confident appeal but that's nothing to go by these days
05:0577 minutes 49 balls two calls
05:13aric stewart is the new batsman it's much more the position he
05:17aric stewart is the new batsman it's much more the position he would like to bat
05:40well i'm not sure he wasn't coming down the wicket anyway but
05:44it turned happily into a full toss and it's what we've been saying
05:48right throughout once england could establish some attacking grip on this uh leg spin bowling
05:56until then they can't dictate
06:02that's a good shot if anything warne has been a little bit short in the overseas bowl today
06:10and on a slow green seamer in this kind you can't afford to be in position of being cut
06:17or pulled
06:23that's well bowled by hughes there's nothing in the pitch and yet
06:27he's still able to have robin smith pushing defensively there and getting the ball away over
06:36and wide of third slip
06:40smith was a little fortunate here that he was on the way up as he was playing the ball the ball
06:45i think bounced a bit higher than what he expected and because he was on the way up
06:49he caught the shoulder of the bat and that helped to push it over the top of the slips
06:57shot
07:12brendan julian the fielder that's one of the reasons he's in the side he's an outstanding
07:15fielder with them and there's a good reply
07:30just a little bit of movement off the seam there and he just found a bit of a gap
07:46the 21st half century in the test cricket and the birds are being dropped made 191 against
07:53the australians in the county game and is back into the half century here
08:0396 for two the man out lathwell who played some quite good shots there in his 20.
08:08michael atherton out for 11. interesting dismissal athertons and pi barry may have
08:13had to make up his mind if in this front on shot the ball has hit the pad and then gone onto the
08:17bat that is difficult side on it looks as though the ball has got past the bat it may have hit the
08:25pad then come back and hit the edge of the bat and flown to boone that's very difficult atherton
08:30certainly looked surprised and he may well have been just a trifle unlucky one for 28 for hughes
08:37none for 40 for julian and warn one for 21. we join play after the luncheon intervals the
08:44second over three runs have been added and may is bowling to stewart
08:51that's the hundred
09:08a good rate of scoring over three and over
09:15oh he meant that
09:19this is an altogether different robin smith it's a different pitch
09:23different circumstances and it has to be said a different approach
09:30well he's now after the bowling he's down the pitch almost as it left in may's hand
09:34and that's because his confidence is high with having a half century of runs behind his name
09:43oh that was a better shot
09:46top hand made that because uh that was one he could easily have clubbed straight to
09:52extra cover just let the top hand lead it wide of him
09:5821 runs have rattled up in what just 10 minutes since lunch
10:09that is a beautifully placed shot
10:14you will not see anything better than that for footwork
10:16that's the footwork
10:23yes lovely footwork down the pitch and just clips it into the gap
10:38alex stewart
10:39this will be interesting now to see how australia respond to this because it's the
10:48first time england have batted first in this series and therefore haven't had the problem of
10:54chasing a total
11:01and shots like that it's just brilliance now and don't this crowd love it
11:10so well before lunch brendan julian was a bowler just bowling the right slot for robin smith and
11:20he's carried on he's bowling it much too straight so when it just offers to swing it hasn't really
11:25swung much just offered to just drift in it drifts right into his legs and he just clips it away
11:31beautifully
11:4115-4 and hit just as hard as most of the others well it was a terrific shot he's actually moving
11:49forward before the ball gets there look he's off he's off he's even waiting for it
11:55he's so confident and positive now i think in his mind he really thinks that he can belt
12:02brendan julian out of the attack
12:08that's four more
12:17too short and the bowlers will play all the time on this pitch
12:22on this pitch well alex stewart will feel better for that but to be fair to shane warne he hasn't
12:28bowled many bad deliveries in this series so far and for a late spinner he's been amazingly accurate
12:34oh well he really will be upset at that stewart that spun a long way it was what did him
12:54and warners got through again the over the wrist spinner the big spinner can do that sort of thing
13:00batsman's eyes light up when they see something a bit offline a little bit short
13:05and they give it some tremendous hammer but the extra spin the width of the spin and a bit of
13:11extra bounce or a little bit of extra pace does the trick yes you see you have to go a long way
13:19across there to hit that ball out and keep it down alex stewart with his feet more or less on
13:24off stump and the ball almost on the return crease at the finish that's a long way to have to go across
13:38graham gooch is the new man this is um a completely different situation for gooch
13:44he didn't open today for some reason everyone says that lathwell has to bat at number one
13:50in the lineup therefore the atherton gooch
13:53opening partnership that's been so successful had to be broken
14:05i'd have got a bit of an edge on that the shout was half going up although
14:11on his left arm over the wicket hit him a very full length
14:15oh must have been an inside edge otherwise
14:19the shout would have continued the umpire might even have been shouting
14:24so
14:35with a nice stroke away down the ground
14:41oh
14:48and gooch repeating shot somewhere to robin smith not quite as powerful
14:59oh wow what do you think of that that is the mark of a very very good young
15:06one of the more brilliant catches you will ever see
15:12yeah we saw two magnificent court and balls up at old trafford
15:16but i think that was probably even better than those two it really was a full follow-through
15:20pulling away it's gone back full length right well absolutely superb
15:26magnificent athlete to take a catch like that