******Cricket Thread******

[kippaxwarrior]

England to score under 250 is 6/4....

What's the odds them scoring under 100?

 

[Gray]

Lancashire wickets usually assist the spinners as the games get to the later stages.

We will be lucky to survive this unless we get some divine intervention.

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

We’ve got a run. The comebacks on.

 

[RandomJ]

Was at work but let me guess Root just stood there in slip sulking while passively watching Smith get a double hundred?

 

[Postman Pep]

Lancashire wickets usually assist the spinners as the games get to the later stages.

We will be lucky to survive this unless we get some divine intervention.

Especially with Starc and his big mongy feet creating footholes galore for Lyon to exploit. Unless we bat for 2 1/2 days we're relying on some good old Mancunian weather to keep us in it going to the Oval.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Hazlewood looking very dangerous.

 

[Gray]

Was at work but let me guess Root just stood there in slip sulking while passively watching Smith get a double hundred?

Not really a captain is he, and look what it has done to his batting.

 

[meeesh]

He needs to be released from International duty with immediate effect

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Arf.

 

[bluemoon32]

Weak as piss ffs

 

[lancs blue]

Opening batting from both teams has been shambolic.

 

[M18CTID]

Sky have made too much out of Stokes’s innings at Headingley. It was a phenomenal knock but there’s every chance it will go down in vain as we face a 2-1/3-1 loss. It seems to be on repeat with Stokes’s interview when the series hasn’t even finished yet.

Realistically, we have to bat at least 100 overs and pray a few sessions are lost to rain.

I never bought into the idea that the momentum swung towards England after that test. Even Shane Warne was saying it. Don’t get me wrong - there are precedents for that to be the case such as Botham in ‘81 and Edgbaston in ‘05 but with Smith coming back for this test I had a feeling Australia wouldn’t have too many problems getting it out of their system.

BUT....I don’t blame Sky or anyone else for milking it. It was an astonishing victory pulled from the jaws of defeat and whatever happens in the rest of this series doesn’t negate that.

 

[blueinsa]

Same batsmen, same shite.

 

[jimharri]

We’ve got a run. The comebacks on.

Now now, behave.

 

[mat]

The cheat returns and normal service resumes.

 

[SWP's back]

Opening batting from both teams has been shambolic.

Surprisingly. Our first wicket average of 12 is better than the Aussies 8.8.

 

[SWP's back]

Same batsmen, same shite.

You won’t be saying that when Roy gets his treble ton, in 89 balls.

 

[M18CTID]

You won’t be saying that when Roy gets his treble ton, in 89 balls.

Plus Overton has a high score of 138 in first class cricket. Nightwatchman my arse!

 

[meeesh]

You won’t be saying that when Roy gets his treble ton, in 89 balls.

Balls or innings ?

 

[jimharri]

Nothing that two or three centurions tomorrow won't fix.

*heads off to google "rain dance"*