Cricket Thread

[antspider]

Bloody hell

 

[bert's broken neck]

Last chance saloon now - Stokes and Smith need to buckle down and play test cricket not this Bazball shite.

 

[chris63]

Lucky. Dropped catch.

 

[jimharri]

Is anyone really surprised? Seriously?

 

[waspish]

This pitch is mad Aussies bowling well but hitting the pitch a lot harder than yesterday! Think we have played a bit to loose! We look totally rattled! Maybe that 99 lead from 1 at lunch just made some of our players thought one of the others will get a big innings and give us a big lead! Need to lead those wide balls early in the innings really

 

[Don Karleone]

Same fucking ball

 

[BringBackSwales]

Our batting in both innings also begs the question why we only had one warm up match, and that was England v England. Surely batters need more matches than that to get their touch in proper match conditions in another country with a different ball to what we are used to?

 

[waspish]

Is anyone really surprised? Seriously?

No Australia in Australia are not going to not come out today and bowl as poor as the first innings apart from starc who Carried them!

 

[BringBackSwales]

3 wickets since I got up, ffs.

If only you’d stayed in bed!!

 

[jimharri]

We lost our last five wickets in the first innings for 12 runs. Yes, they're tailenders, but you'd still expect 50 or 60 runs from the second half of your scorecard, surely. Now we've lost 4 wickets for 11 runs.

#LondonBuses

 

[chesterbells]

Is anyone really surprised? Seriously?

By Crawley getting two noughts? Not one little bit.
“FFS Crawley”

 

[chris63]

Pope, Brook and Root all out to the same ball. Wide outswinger. All should have been left.

 

[Nightmare Walking]

Stop flapping. We already have enough runs to win this.

 

[jimharri]

So; what's the bare minimum we'll need to make it a contest? 250? It seems a long way off at the moment. Yes, I know we prised them out for little more than half that in their first innings. But will they bat as badly again?

 

[AlthamBlue]

If only you’d stayed in bed!!

Went and made a brew and not lost anymore, so far!

Stokes for fucks sake!

 

[chesterbells]

Went and made a brew and not lost anymore, so far!

Stokes for fucks sake!

Ahem

 

[Don Karleone]

Went and made a brew and not lost anymore, so far!

Stokes for fucks sake!

 

[chris63]

Got a feeling where going to lose this.
I did think the Aussies would win the series 3-0

 

[city5189]

You can only hope our bowlers can do the same.

 

[bert's broken neck]

Just like the last test match in this new Perth stadium this will be over in 2 days.