Cricket Thread

[Citizen Mike]

fucking Root

 

[supercity88]

On a positive, that’s what you get when you don’t produce dead wickets hoping to get to Headingley 1-1 (that’s on the ECB) and give your attacking captain some variety in the attack, especially pace, as ever we can judge better when both teams have had a bat on it but if we can reduce them to under 250, we can literally go on the attack even if the pitch is bowler friendly

The issue has been our poor discipline. Dropped catches. Too many extras. We're averaging more off the bat than the Aussies as a team yet are 2-0 down! I think it's 60 more extras than Australia which is madness.

And as I type this another one goes down. So far we've managed to go on and take the wickets without those drops being costly, but it's simply not good enough. That was filth by Root there.

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

If we lose this after these spilled catches I may be quite upset

 

[BringBackSwales]

Dropping smith head and marsh in a session and a bit is incredibly sloppy. The bowlers deserve better

 

[chris63]

That's going to cost us that dropped catch

 

[wattle]

13 drops and a missed stumping?!!? No wonder we’re losing. We’re making it far far fucking harder than we need.

That’s where the ashes have gone. Totally unacceptable. We’d be on our way to being 3-0 up now if we’d have held of those

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Fuck me Rooty, I’ve got one working leg and even I’d have caught that.

 

[waspish]

We been appalling on catching the ball and Root Bairstow been to two who have dropped a few

 

[Gabriel]

I know the score looks positive, but yet again there are just far too many dropped catches. 100-7 would probably be the Test.

 

[VOOMER]

Our fielding is as poor as ever, it should actually be a source of embarrassment for all involved, but nothing seems to improve.

 

[Iassel]

Glenn McGrath called it in ‘his’ column today, England are just way way too casual about everything and it results in these silly drops.

 

[jimharri]

13 drops in the series so far by England. That's criminal.

 

[Claytop]

Marsh going to end up getting a few here.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

The issue has been our poor discipline. Dropped catches. Too many extras. We're averaging more off the bat than the Aussies as a team yet are 2-0 down! I think it's 60 more extras than Australia which is madness.

And as I type this another one goes down. So far we've managed to go on and take the wickets without those drops being costly, but it's simply not good enough. That was filth by Root there.

The proverbial dolly, if I was coach and we where fielding, there’s no way players would be trotting out after lunch rubbing their tummies, they’d be out ten minutes early warming up on the pitch and readjusting to the light & conditions

 

[BringBackSwales]

No use crying over spilled milk, but spilled catches in the ashes is a different thing altogether

 

[Dr Jacoby]

We could feasibly lose a series 4 or 5 nil which we could easily have won.

 

[jimharri]

No use crying over spilled milk, but spilled catches in the ashes is a different thing altogether

Along with the extras. 16 so far today.

 

[BlueMoonday]

No use crying over spilled milk, but spilled catches in the ashes is a different thing altogether

Don't mind it me, I'm going to the 4th day at Headingley and was worried earlier that it wouldn't get past the 3rd day or would only allow 1 hour of play at best on the 4th day.

Jokes aside, these drops are costing us.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Fuck me when Bairstow does catch one he doesn’t hit it

 

[VOOMER]

Cricket is rightly geared towards T20 and one day cricket, but tests cricket is exactly that a test. We aren't up to it, less and less people are playing cricket and for a multitude of reasons. The main one is the weather, probably followed by piss poor facilities. That said, just like Rugby Union , its run by self serving twunts.