Cricket Thread

[bluealf]

Looking ahead to Thursday, it's almost inevitable that England will now have to make changes. I reckon the orange should be in jeopardy, the green might be out through injury, and the blue are probably safe.

Ben Duckett
Zak Crawley
Ollie Pope
Joe Root
Harry Brook
Ben Stokes(c)
Jonny Bairstow(wk)
Stuart Broad
Josh Tongue
Ollie Robinson
James Anderson

Not sure they will make as many as 4 changes, though, especially if one or two have to miss out through injury.

Can we not just play Bairstow as a batsman, he is a decent keeper but falls short as a true international keeper but he is a dangerous batsman when on form.

We really need to find some new pace bowlers, Anderson and Broad have been amazing and can still do a job but where are the new speedsters?

 

[BringBackSwales]

Looking ahead to Thursday, it's almost inevitable that England will now have to make changes. I reckon the orange should be in jeopardy, the green might be out through injury, and the blue are probably safe.

Ben Duckett
Zak Crawley
Ollie Pope
Joe Root
Harry Brook
Ben Stokes(c)
Jonny Bairstow(wk)
Stuart Broad
Josh Tongue
Ollie Robinson
James Anderson

Not sure they will make as many as 4 changes, though, especially if one or two have to miss out through injury.

Bairstow? We need a proper wicket keeper but Bairstow merits his place as a batter.

 

[Cricket Blue]

2 aging pace man and loads of back up bowlers
injured, a captain who is injured, an out of form batting line up and no decent spinner.
That's the issue

 

[BringBackSwales]

That little lad who was on screen shaking his head - I’m assuming his dad was asking him if he’d like to go to the third test

 

[BringBackSwales]

2 aging pace man and loads of back up bowlers
injured, a captain who is injured, an out of form batting line up and no decent spinner.
That's the issue

Not forgetting no decent wicket keeper and piss poor catching

 

[BillCarlisle]

England have been woeful with the bat, the ball and in the field, mentally weak and battered by a far superior team.

Agreed. We're getting outclassed by this Aussie team and I fear a whitewash may be on the cards.

 

[dadnlad]

got them on ropes here
a wicket hasnt fallen for 2 overs

 

[Cricket Blue]

Agreed. We're getting outclassed by this Aussie team and I fear a whitewash may be on the cards.

The only reason it won't be 6 0 is that there are
5 test matches.

 

[ancoats]

The biggest thing for me is the lack of speed from our main bowling attack, before the ashes we all said we have a good chance of winning the ashes because of Anderson and Broad and Robinson, But the 3 of them bowling at 80mph is like buffet food to the Aussies and help yourself,

Tongue is the stand-out bowler in this test and is bowling at around 85mph but without much test cricket to his name, Sorry Jimmy Anderson And Broad your days are numbered and should step down after the ashes,

Big Big Questions right across the board with the coaching and captaining after the first 2 tests, like I said changes need to be made just to stop the whitewashing on English soil because the Ashes have long gone

 

[Gray]

Don’t think English pitches encourage really fast bowling, that is part of the problem. We produce lots of medium pace trundlers.