Cricket Thread

[Stelea]

Brook now batting like a desperate tail ender

 

[waspish]

I’m so entertained.

Am that entertained there is steam coming out of my ears

 

[Summerbuzz]

Sort of reminiscent of Mark Hughes' last game, this.

Ridiculous attacking tactics falling short? How about more of the same?

No? Ok, how about all of it.... and then a bit more.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

If England want to simply give Australia the Ashes why don’t they just say so and have done with it? If I were English and paid whatever you have to pay for a day’s cricket at Lords these days I would be raging …

 

[jimharri]

I look forward to hearing Stokes and McCullum explaining this farce.

 

[BringBackSwales]

All you have to do as aussie captain is put most of your fielders on the boundary, restrict the run scoring and bowl short and the wickets will come to you. No need for slips, gullies, short legs etc. We on the other hand allow them to score runs with ease. The difference in field placings must be worth 50 to 100 runs advantage to them every innings

 

[wattle]

I love what England have done over the last year or so under stokes but this is embarrassing and disrespectful to the game. Brook can fuck off batting like a tail ender. Hopefully early signs are that stokes has his sensible head on

 

[Ajm1985]

yeah yeah but your entertained

Always viewed Root as being the anchor, while the rest fuck about but nope, it's spread. It's why I wanted Foakes, as aside from his keeping, he can slow it down

 

[Protein Junkie]

Every time I commented on the First test we lost a wicket :-)

 

[Bluemoon dan]

Lucky. How many more warnings do we need?

 

[Don Karleone]

Does that look like it shouldn't have been given out to anyone else?

 

[Ajm1985]

Fuck me, Stokes have a fucking word with him. Actual captain him

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Does that look like it shouldn't have been given out to anyone else?

If you look really closely, sandpaper can be seen under his baggy green.

 

[domalino]

I thought my rage had peaked with Roots dismissal, but Stokes deciding this is the innings he’s going to play sensibly and get his head down - after the entire upper order threw away their wickets trying to play the way he wants them to - is making it worse!

 

[BringBackSwales]

I like a drink, but WinViz is positively fucking alcoholic

 

[Ajm1985]

I thought my rage had peaked with Roots dismissal, but Stokes deciding this is the innings he’s going to play sensibly and get his head down - after the entire upper order threw away their wickets trying to play the way he wants them to - is making it worse!

And while Brooks dicks about at the other end

 

[RiversideBlue]

Steve Smith would never cheat.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

I thought my rage had peaked with Roots dismissal, but Stokes deciding this is the innings he’s going to play sensibly and get his head down - after the entire upper order threw away their wickets trying to play the way he wants them to - is making it worse!

Imagine the backlash if Brook had been bowled by Green a few overs ago. It was a “shot” that wouldn’t have looked out of place in a poor standard of club cricket.

 

[waspish]

I thought my rage had peaked with Roots dismissal, but Stokes deciding this is the innings he’s going to play sensibly and get his head down - after the entire upper order threw away their wickets trying to play the way he wants them to - is making it worse!

Correct!

It’s weird he tells his team to play attacking cricket go hard or harder and he plays sensibly!

 

[waspish]

Steve Smith would never cheat. View attachment 84930

There caught in my book