Cricket Thread

[Citizen Mike]

we are the walking wounded

 

[M18CTID]

26 behind - I'd have taken that at lunch!

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Send the rest off and just have Wood and Stokes vs Marsh and Cummins.

The rest is academic.

 

[Claytop]

What would you back us to chase?...

 

[jimharri]

I suppose you can see the logic in Stokes' tactics here. Block block block is not much use when you're nine down and 60-odd behind.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

5 catches for Smith, didn't look like dropping any of them.

Now for Broad vs Warner again.

 

[MCFC1993]

The fact we're only 26 behind is a miracle.

Super Stokes.

 

[GornikDaze]

What would you back us to chase?...

30?

 

[Manc Born & Bred]

If only we could hold relatively simple catches and not bat like schoolboys...

 

[SWP's back]

What would you back us to chase?...

73

 

[GornikDaze]

73

I have to admire your optimism ;)

 

[M18CTID]

What would you back us to chase?...

Less than 100!

 

[jimharri]

Right. Bowl the Aussies out for 150, leaving nearly 180 to win. Simple.


And then get bowled out for 110!

 

[CarlosTevez'sEnglishTutor]

Root is a serial loser. Thank fuck he's no longer the captain, we'd have fallen on our sword by now in this match.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Well done Ollie Robinson for just letting the master do his work.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Carrying a few injured players.

 

[waspish]

250 we can chase because surely we can’t keep batting like Lemons for ever more! Law of averages though we can’t rely on stokes AGAIN seconds innings..

 

[MCFC1993]

With Stokes' game management batting, we just need 1 or 2 of the batsman to put in a score, can't be that hard surely, a couple of 50's would do.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Genuinely think we need them out for a <200 lead.

Do not trust the batting at all.

 

[cleavers]

Nice one Stokes. Fuck knows what the rest of them are up to.

I thought Wood's aproach was fine, not much else to be done really.

To be only 26 behind is a result given how the batting largely failed again.