Cricket Thread

[levets]

All on Brook this wank way of getting out Him and Root were cruising.

Not forgetting our fielders dropping so many catches during India’s 2nd innings

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Oh and I hereby award Woakes the Grand Order of the Zaba. Arise, Sir Chris.

 

[levets]

Going to caught here going for it! Woakes can’t even run

Can you only have a runner when it’s a leg injury?

 

[DTKOAG]

Both teams would get walloped by the aussies.

 

[xgorton]

I am sure I heard Nasser Hussain say it would have been a travesty if England had won this test.

Ummmmm.

True colours shining thru.

FS are you a reformer ?

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

FS are you a reformer ?

No haha i just dont like Nassar Hussein bias commentary towards India.

Many others have noted it aswell in this series and others.

 

[bluemonkey71]

Harry Brook !

Root threw his wicket away aswell.

 

[heslops barnet]

Root threw his wicket away aswell.

Agreed but without those 2 we wouldn’t have been anywhere near winning?

 

[heslops barnet]

Both teams would get walloped by the aussies.

Not sure the current Aussie batsmen are as good as previous ….

 

[stan bowles]

Going to into the Ashes without a decent spinner is a worry. Don't we have anyone waiting in the wings ?

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

The prime reason we lost this was the folly/arrogance of picking Bethell who has played virtually no first class cricket and when he did play he averaged 11 !!! Surely someone needs to ask Keys/McC/Stokes the question!!

Absolutely right. That and Smith unfathomably playing like he’s never held a bat before…
One other thing, which I suspect is not going to be universally popular, but, once they’d seen that pitch, Anderson should have been flown down straight away.

 

[eastmanc]

Woakes’ injury was the prime reason though.

Both Woakes injury and the dropped catches cost England dearly. Catches win matches as the saying goes.

 

[bluemonkey71]

Agreed but without those 2 we wouldn’t have been anywhere near winning?

Totally agree. Root was a tired waft and Brook bottomed it. Funny they were talking about his bat before it happened aswell. Exciting end to the test.

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Both Wakes injury and the dropped catches cost England dearly. Catches win matches as the saying goes.

38 extras in the first innings wasn’t great either.

 

[eastmanc]

38 extras in the first innings wasn’t great either.

True, but I agree with other posts on here that say 3-1 would have been really unfair on India.

 

[Cassandra]

Thought both umpires a little suspicious today. Taking so long on decisions. Overton should have got the benefit of the doubt.

Fine margins in the end, an almost identical ball tracking yesterday wher the umpire had given not out.

That said, I saw a statistic where 66% of the runs were coming (I assume for India) and our bowlers were constantly bowling either straight or at the legs/body with little cover behind square on the leg side; compare that to India today where nearly everything was outside off stump, and largely pitched up.

 

[JOGAMIGMOG]

Can you only have a runner when it’s a leg injury?

Was thinking the same listening on the radio at work

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Both teams would get walloped by the aussies.

In Australia. Neither side would be thrashed in home conditions.

 

[jimharri]

Extremely annoying, that. I'm not bothered about a drawn series maybe being the correct outcome; that win was there for the taking. Twice. Lunch on the second day, we were 92/1, in reply to India's 224. We should have been looking at a lead of 150+ on first innings, probably 200. We ended up with a lead of 23. Not enough players used their heads, and were dismissed playing daft shots. Again, yesterday afternoon, we were 301/3 (effectively 4), needing 73 more runs for the win,with Brook and Root cruising along. Brook then loses his train of thought, and gets out to a crazy shot. Getting beat by an innings, or by 300 runs, would be (in some ways) easier to accept as we would never be in with a chance of winning such a game.

 

[Manc baggie]

Extremely annoying, that. I'm not bothered about a drawn series maybe being the correct outcome; that win was there for the taking. Twice. Lunch on the second day, we were 92/1, in reply to India's 224. We should have been looking at a lead of 150+ on first innings, probably 200. We ended up with a lead of 23. Not enough players used their heads, and were dismissed playing daft shots. Again, yesterday afternoon, we were 301/3 (effectively 4), needing 73 more runs for the win,with Brook and Root cruising along. Brook then loses his train of thought, and gets out to a crazy shot. Getting beat by an innings, or by 300 runs, would be (in some ways) easier to accept as we would never be in with a chance of winning such a game.

Totally agree with you. Harry Brook throwing away his wicket was the pivotal moment yesterday & was completely unnecessary. Just brain dead cricket that exposed the rest of the team. Pretty shameful to have lost 6 wickets, for 66 runs in 23 overs.