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

[andyhinch]

Warner caught behind but no one appealed. Sigh.

Didn’t make much difference :-)

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

What time is play til 7.00?

 

[jimharri]

Oh, for another wicket or four tonight.

 

[waspish]

Need to get another and get Smith in

 

[jimharri]

Need to get another and get Smith in

And out. Quickly.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Disappointing day for England.

The first session tomorrow could be crucial - assuming there’s no rain.

 

[M18CTID]

Disappointing day for England.

The first session tomorrow could be crucial - assuming there’s no rain.

Yep. We need to take wickets primarily but also keep a lid on their run rate. That was one of the issues in the last test when they knocked off the 90 run first innings deficit during the Saturday evening session at around 4 runs an over, closing 34 runs ahead on 124-3. We should’ve been restricting them to around half that, so they still had a deficit to turn around the next morning. Psychologically, I think that was huge and I was surprised the commentators weren’t making more of it at the time.

The weather forecast doesn’t look great for tomorrow afternoon so I doubt we’ll get a full day’s play in.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

Disappointing day for England.

The first session tomorrow could be crucial - assuming there’s no rain.

The schedule and the world cup have mentally shot the players.
I blame the schedule.

 

[RandomJ]

The schedule and the world cup have mentally shot the players.
I blame the schedule.

I blame the batsman not being capable of playing test cricket.

 

[bluemoon32]

I blame the batsman not being capable of playing test cricket.

Agreed