Cricket Thread

[jimharri]

England will win the series 3-2.

Who's your dealer?

 

[Gundoggin]

I hope the the raucous Yorkshire crowd give the convicts some proper shit today !!!

 

[waspish]

Whoever wins the toss will bowl looking at the clouds

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

Whoever wins the toss will bowl looking at the clouds

Be better looking at the wicket

 

[supercity88]

Buzzing for today. Feel strangely positive despite the score so far. We've played better than them, scored more runs off the bat and just need to iron out the errors. We've got a proper bowling unit with a lot of variation and will be showing the aggression we need following the Lords test. Get at them, win this test and put the pressure on. There's no reason we can't win the series 3-2 the way we play, our luck will change. But we need to put together back to back winning sessions and not take our foot off when we're ahead.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Can we place bets on which over a ball pitches in the batsman's half? or (and this might be a stretch) on a length?

 

[Edghill OG]

Presumably a lot of these are one dayers. Fingers crossed this run continues though.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Hoping we bat first, our bowling isn’t our strongest facet, get 400 runs today & bat on tomorrow, yes it will be tricky but the suns out and they’re missing their front line spinner

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

Don’t understand that decision at all, we’ve just heavily improved our batting line up and had an opportunity to impose scoreboard pressure, our bowling line up is very undercooked with Ali Woakes & Wood

 

[supercity88]

Don’t understand that decision at all, we’ve just heavily improved our batting line up and had an opportunity to impose scoreboard pressure, our bowling line up is very undercooked with Ali Woakes & Wood

I see it the other way. We had Tongue in his second test, Robinson, Broad, Jimmy last time. Stokes couldn't bowl and Root was the spinner. Now we have Wood, Woakes, Robbo and Broad with Moeen as the spinner and Root and Stokes as options if needed. It's a much better bowling lineup based on Jimmy's lack of form and Wood's extra pace. We've lost Pope but the bowlers that have come in should get more runs so overall a stronger side in my opinion. Bowling first is the better option, I feel England are better in general when they chase a score anyway.