Cricket Thread

[waspish]

Listened to Pope just now talking about it’s a pitch that you have to bat first, it’s a pitch that you feel your never in, the pitch is slow, the ball doing bits!

Now I’m certain there was a pitch last year or year before where I remember a England players saying the exact same thing as pope then got all out for around 320 then when the opposition got in the pitch looked totally different flat easy to bat on did nought and ended up losing it!

So anyone thinks 350 is good if we get anyway near that I’m waiting till we bowl on there and see how the pitch is on day 2 hopefully late in day two!

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

 

[BringBackSwales]

What a crappy score to end the day on; 99 not out.

Better than 9 and out

 

[domalino]

Listened to Pope just now talking about it’s a pitch that you have to bat first, it’s a pitch that you feel your never in, the pitch is slow, the ball doing bits!

Now I’m certain there was a pitch last year or year before where I remember a England players saying the exact same thing as pope then got all out for around 320 then when the opposition got in the pitch looked totally different flat easy to bat on did nought and ended up losing it!

So anyone thinks 350 is good if we get anyway near that I’m waiting till we bowl on there and see how the pitch is on day 2 hopefully late in day two!

With the heatwave this weekend there’s a good chance this pitch is virtually unplayable by Day 5, India need to speed the game up or beat England with 1 innings.

 

[ancoats]

The wicket looks like a minefield to bat on for a first-day test at Lords, I don't understand why we are producing wickets like this; the bounce is so uneven and tricky to time, Also, it will take spin and turning corners,

England needs 350 plus, and then bowl a good length and aim to hit the wickets, bringing LBW and clean bowled into the game with the dodgy bounce

 

[Winchester]

Thank goodness we have Joe
I mo we would fall apart at times without him

 

[KS55]

What a crappy score to end the day on; 99 not out.

I get the impression that whenever Root is on about 100 overnight he usually gets out fairly quickly. Could be just me. Anyhow we need him to buckle down and keep going all day.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Sleepless night coming up for him!

This is the 18th time in test cricket that a batsman has ended the day on 99 not out.

On all the previous 17 occasions the batsmen have made a century

 

[the plasterer]

This is the 18th time in test cricket that a batsman has ended the day on 99 not out.

On all the previous 17 occasions the batsmen have made a century

First time for everything then, :-)), Root won't have lost any sleep whatsoever overnight, he is just too good

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

What a crappy score to end the day on; 99 not out.

Bet Zak Crawley would swap with him!

 

[BringBackSwales]

Bet Zak Crawley would swap with him!

I’d swap Zak Crawley for an 84 year old Geoffrey Boycott

 

[heslops barnet]

First time for everything then, :-)), Root won't have lost any sleep whatsoever overnight, he is just too good

Apparently he never sleeps well during test matches…..

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

11:02 before the first ball is bowled.

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

4 off the first ball, ROOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTT

 

[waspish]

Bit streaking first ball reached his 100 the best England batter ever for me

 

[johnny crossan]

Stokes is such a plonker, could have easily given his wicket away just then and now he's played all round one.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

You’d do well to defend that ball.

 

[waspish]

Stokes bowled great ball

 

[waspish]

We seem to lose an early wicket start of new session! Law of averages Smith will fail here as in under 30

 

[domalino]

MIght be for the best with the injury etc.

Smith and Root need to get us to 350 though.