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I'm John Flaagny, welcome to the Test Match special podcast, looking back on the opening

day of the third test here at Emirates Old Trafford. To combo here the thoughts of Carlos

Braffoit and Michael Vaughn and you'll get reaction from Wollipop who battered so well

today and I'll be joined by Sir Andrew Strauss to tell us about Red for Roof Day.

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England closed the day, put in on 258 for 4, partnership worth 136 between Pope and

Butler still going on, they'll resume tomorrow as they're really boydying and after a bit

of a sluggish first couple of sessions, Pope 91 not out, Butler 56 not out and earlier

on Cibli was out for Norton the first over, LBW to Roach, Root was run out for 17 of Direct

hit that just trimmed the bales and he was out by a couple of feet I guess for 17, Stokes

was bull by Roachable at cut back at him for 20 that was 92 for 3 and then 122 for 4 when

Burns was brilliantly caught by a Cornwall, a reflex catch, one handed at slip off the

off spin a chase for 57 so the new ball was taken but only a few hours was a bold with

it before the umpire decided that light wasn't good enough the batsmen seemed rather surprised

by that and I think maybe the the fielding team has well but anyway that's the umpire's

decision it's entirely in their hands these days and the first day therefore closed at

258 for 4, so where do we start? Let's start with Michael Vaughan who was off his long run

a bit, Ron how do you assess today's play Michael?

Unless light comes into play which I'm just seeing the umpires take the light that we're

in now which is a glorious evening in Manchester I think that session will have cost the Western

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