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

[johnmc]

What number down the order is Stokes?

 

[bavarian blue]

Surrounded by baying India fans , not good. At least I won't have to pay £6.80 for my next pint.

 

[waspish]

India want it more we got players who can’t or who ain’t good enough to realise the situation and bunker in for a massive score! Talking about our first innings! Hameed looks good till he hits 50 then goes now where Ali and Bairstow got the skill to stick around but can’t be bothered to fight! Anderson Root Robinson stand out players!

 

[gazinho]

Shitshow again, set up by the horrendously poor scoring rate before lunch then that run out followed by the inevitable collapse by the worst test match middle order of my lifetime, awful

 

[Gabriel]

We're going to win I can feel it in my bones ;)

How’s your osteoporosis now? ;-)

 

[kevin horlocks wand]

Shitshow again, set up by the horrendously poor scoring rate before lunch then that run out followed by the inevitable collapse by the worst test match middle order of my lifetime, awful

it’s a mindset in the test team. especially without the character of stokes .

they have come out today and played negatively again following a sound foundation last night.

they looked like a team that didnt want to lose and at best they may be able to get a draw.

they don’t play positively , bogged down by some good bowling especially bumrah but at no point do we put India on the back foot and try and play some shots and make the opposition think about us for a change .

shite

 

[Gray]

What number down the order is Stokes?

He saw the writing on the wall and got out before the ship sank.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

The elephant in the room, skittling though our admittedly piss poor batting line-up.

 

[supercity88]

I feel for Joe Root. The openers do okay but the middle order then collapse...again. Or the openers crumble and the middle order managed to scrape a few or also collapse. Meanwhile he's there carrying the team with the bat...again. And he's also a pretty poor captain. So many things need to change with this test side for it to challenge the India, NZ and the Aussies. The Aussies have their own issues but they have enough good players to score 300 and avoid constant collapse and good enough bowlers to take ten wickets.

The extra pace of Wood/Archer would have been good in the second innings and Stokes is of course a big loss. But Woakes, from little cricket and very little test cricket, has shown that unfortunately Moeen and Bairstow shouldn't be in this test squad. They just don't offer enough.

I don't know what the solution is to the current problem. I think losing the Ashes in Australia tends to be the catalyst for major change so we might not have to wait long for a complete reset. I'd be surprised if Jimmy goes beyond this winter.

 

[ancoats]

i did say england would not win yesterday but i think a draw was possible
but this england batting line up is shocking and goes into panic mode to easy when a wicket goes down

so many things to pick out of this test and england should not be in this mess after bowling them out for 191 in the first innings. there is no stead ground to build something and a captain that people keep saying is the best captain england have had but then pick holes out of him in the field