Cricket Thread

[DMA's]

Grounds flat, team look flat what an awful session. Utterly depressing.

 

[domalino]

Crawley would seem the obvious candidate to me personally. Move bairstow to opener.

You might as well just drop Bairstow then, because he's not an opening batsman.

 

[jaiguruKun]

Who are you dropping for Foakes?

For the first test, Crawley and pushed Pope to top of the order.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Who are you dropping for Foakes?

You're not going into a test match without a spinner, so it's not Ali.

Bairstow was the best batsman in the world last summer, so it's not him.

Stokes is the captain, so not him.

Woakes has to be there because Stokes can't bowl.

Crawley, who has a worse test batting average than Foakes or Buttler

 

[DMA's]

Henry Moeran
BBC Test Match Special commentator
What's frustrating the England fans so much isn't losing - people can live with that, albeit it's of course disappointing. But seeing a team packed with so much ability being undone by failing at the basics is just exasperating and feels so avoidable.

Pretty much sums it up for me.

And me. Get the feeling this team aren’t interested in putting in the hard work and doing the “boring” drills. Fucking off to Scotland to play golf a week before the ashes said it all

 

[BringBackSwales]

Woakes has bowled well today and was out of the attack way too long

 

[DMA's]

Woakes is some cricketer. Most under rated player we have had over the last 5 years imo

 

[Gabriel]

Who are you dropping for Foakes?

You're not going into a test match without a spinner, so it's not Ali.

Bairstow was the best batsman in the world last summer, so it's not him.

Stokes is the captain, so not him.

Woakes has to be there because Stokes can't bowl.

They did last week, didn't they?

 

[SWP's back]

13 dropped catches for England in the series and 118 extras have done for England

We’re basically having to take 13 wickets per innings against the world test champions.

 

[DMA's]

You might as well just drop Bairstow then, because he's not an opening batsman.

Neither is Crawley, average in the 20’s. At least bairstow opens in white ball cricket

 

[BringBackSwales]

was that atherton or Hussain

?? Mel Jones

 

[domalino]

200-4 by tea.

244-4 Fixed that for you mate

Oh look you were both wrong.

 

[SWP's back]

was that atherton or Hussain

Sky have the very worst fucking coverage. I keep swapping between that and Channel 9 (Aussie) and the Aussie coverage is less up the Australian’s arses.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Neither is Crawley, average in the 20’s. At least bairstow opens in white ball cricket

As does Buttler, as could Stokes. When Stokes starts an innings mainly blocking he is a much better batsman

 

[SWP's back]

You might as well just drop Bairstow then, because he's not an opening batsman.

Happily.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Oh look you were both wrong.

Yep it was a great session for England that

 

[jimharri]

Thank God for that; Marsh only made a further 106 after the drop.

:-(

 

[Iassel]

Oh look you were both wrong.

I’m not sure pointing out that it was even worse than the doomsday predictions is a good idea?

 

[M18CTID]

Oh look you were both wrong.

240-5 wasn't a bad shout though ;)

Now if we can skittle the rest of them for, say, another 50 or 60 runs it's back on!

 

[domalino]

I’m not sure pointing out that it was even worse than the doomsday predictions is a good idea?

Last I checked 240/5 is not worse than 244/4