Cricket Thread

[balotellishaircut]

Oh well, a game of two halves like they say.

 

[domalino]

Talk about momentum shifts. At lunch we were 105 ahead with 9 wickets left, drinks break after tea aussies need only 13 more than that, also with 9 wickets left

The wicket that killed us was Pope. Duckett going after lunch… it happens. Pope needed to just see out 5-10 overs as the guy who was in and settled, and we’d have gotten to that 30 over mark where the ball gets softer and stops moving so much.

Instead he threw his wicket away and we’d had 2 fresh batsmen against Australia with their tails up, they brought Starc back because they knew it was a key spell.

Just like yesterday as soon as you get past 30 overs the ball stopped moving and Atkinson and Carse put on 50. If we’d been 3 down when we got there not 7, this game would have gone very differently.

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

Our batting is fragile. Always has been. Rob Key's son, Crawley is a walking wicket so exposes Pope, too early.
Pope would be a decent 3 if we had an opener but he's invariably facing the first over of the innings.

 

[jaiguruKun]

Imagine what the England dressing room will be like when this is over!

 

[jimharri]

We need to face facts. The stark reality is, we're just not at their level.


Stark/Starc; geddit? I don't just throw these posts together, you know? It just seems that way.

 

[domalino]

Our batting is fragile. Always has been. Rob Key's son, Crawley is a walking wicket so exposes Pope, too early.
Pope would be a decent 3 if we had an opener but he's invariably facing the first over of the innings.

Pope is a 5/6. He’s been overpromoted because we don’t have any 3s but England would be much better off with a third opener, given how often one of Duckett or Crawley get out cheaply.

 

[East Level 2]

Imagine what the England dressing room will be like when this is over!

Three days on the piss rather than running around in the heat all day.

 

[dickie davies]

The bowlers are just knackered. They gave everything yesterday and were bowling this morning. You can’t have an all pace attack and only give them a sesssion rest between innings.

They were hardly flogged to death

 

[BringBackSwales]

Imagine what the England dressing room will be like when this is over!

McCullum will be sat with his feet up and sunglasses on telling them it’s fine, it’s the way we play. Fucking aussies, when you have them down you put your foot on their throats and keep pressing, we had them down and effectively tickled them with feathers

 

[bluemoon32]

So the bowlers are telling the batters, if you're going to be shit, we're going to be shit

 

[dadnlad]

Imagine what the England dressing room will be like when this is over!

do they really bother it doesnt look like it more time for golf just said on bbc that after poor day with bat do you talk about it in dressing oh yes reply well not learning then

 

[Bluewonder]

England have too much talent to be so poor at actually winning games. The players' mentality is a joke.

We'll lose this series by 3 or 4 games and McCullum will be gone.

 

[Don Karleone]

Pathetic, not watching anymore of this

 

[meeesh]

This is embarrassing now, been shite at bowling for a long time now

 

[LangleyBlue1970]

What a shambles this is.

 

[GornikDaze]

Who plays cricket in the footy season ffs!!!

#shambles

 

[blueinsa]

Belting pitch, not and that’s not sour grapes. Imagine having tickets for days 3/4 and 5 ffs

 

[meeesh]

Belting pitch, not and that’s not sour grapes. Imagine having tickets for days 3/4 and 5 ffs

Pub it is

 

[bluemoon32]

Just going through the motions, the body language of the England players is dreadful

 

[dadnlad]

England have too much talent to be so poor at actually winning games. The players' mentality is a joke.

We'll lose this series by 3 or 4 games and McCullum will be gone.

will he be bothered deep down