Cricket Thread

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

Very unlucky but England are bang in trouble now.

Yeah, below par on scoring but also dropping wickets too quickly in terms of time. You have to make the Aussie bowlers suffer in terms of make them bowl lots of overs / sessions. We need to be batting tomorrow morning.

 

[Don Karleone]

Oh ffs

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Oops

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Do well to make 300 now.

 

[Iassel]

Collapsed

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Bairstow going to hit a double ton here ; )

 

[willipp]

Does this make Jonny Bairstow officially the best number 7 in test cricket?

He’ll need to prove it now.

 

[dickie davies]

Here it comes!

All out for 220

 

[WickyWain]

Do well to make 300 now.

Do well to make 250!

 

[supercity88]

Yeah, below par on scoring but also dropping wickets too quickly in terms of time. You have to make the Aussie bowlers suffer in terms of make them bowl lots of overs / sessions. We need to be batting tomorrow morning.

For all the criticism of their tactics, they've been superb. Stop us scoring quickly, force us to play the typical test strokes - rotating the strike etc - that we're shite at and therefore pick up wickets. Ultimately teams have allowed us to score boundaries and we've managed to and amassed good totals. Instead, we're losing wickets regularly.

That was a really poor shot from Stokes, he came in and rather than dig in for a bit and let the scoreboard tick over with singles, he went for the big shots to stick it to them and has lost his wicket.

It's the way we play, and that's fine - it's been better than being 40-5 as we were so often under Root! But we need to still be batting tomorrow if we're to win this test.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Do well to make 250!

Do well to make 200!

Too far?

 

[zandvoort blue]

Why did he review that? He knew he'd hit it.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Do well to make 300 now.

Not going to happen. This test is already slipping away from England. At this point, I'd settle for 250. And I'm not even sure they're going to make that.

 

[Iassel]

What’s the refunds policy like for the later tests?

 

[Gareth Barry Conlon]

That's poor from Stokes - no need to go after that one.

 

[WickyWain]

Do well to make 200!

Too far?

I'll settle for 177 ;)

 

[waspish]

Don’t look good this now need the rest to put on 150 at least on a flat pitch

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Phewww

 

[ancoats]

Crazy by Stokes and England we are now facing an uphill battle with a big problem now, do we just bat and just slow their momentum down

 

[Dr Jacoby]

I'll settle for 177 ;)

We made it! :P