The Cricket Thread

[markysimmo]

Bye bye Ashes, there will be no heroics this time

 

[markysimmo]

Root is, in my opinion, a very poor captain.

Wtf was he doing with the light roller inbetween innings too

 

[nayenezgani]

Fair play to Ben Stokes, again. He's a better man than Broad.

 

[markysimmo]

The 3rd umpire has had a fudging shocker

Clear as day Overton hit one into his bat and he wasn’t going to overturn it, bl8nd clam

 

[markysimmo]

Minimum of 35 overs left and 4 wickets needed

The light will start to deteriorate in the next hour or so too so 35 might not be bowled

 

[markysimmo]

186 balls

 

[StephenH]

Buttler fell asleep
Archer has been ineffective and a waste of space this game

 

[Seedy Ron]

Minimum of 35 overs left and 4 wickets needed

The light will start to deteriorate in the next hour or so too so 35 might not be bowled

Old Captain Kiss-of-death reporting for duty.

 

[markysimmo]

Buttler fell asleep

Nah great bowling from Hazlewood, he set him up good and proper

 

[StephenH]

Nah great bowling from Hazlewood, he set him up good and proper

But Buttler is better than that!
He was sloppy
Hazlewood is quality I agree!

 

[markysimmo]

We’ve actually shown some application today
Burns, Root our for ducks and Stokes for 1has killed us
Everybody else has batted well and hung around

 

[markysimmo]

20 left !!!

 

[Notmegov]

14 left

 

[markysimmo]

Once again shows that cheating in life does pay and get you what you want in life

 

[Seedy Ron]

Once again shows that cheating in life does pay and get you what you want in life

Warner's become absolute brick, so it's not done him any favours.

Better team have won, other than Stokes' test, they've outplayed us for the most part.

 

[Parklaner81]

It sounds as if we put up some fairly decent resistance, I'm far more used to England rolling over with a whimper when there's a day to bat out. So to get within potentially a handful of overs is something to take at least. Just sod's law the 3 in-form batsmen scored 1 between them...

 

[nayenezgani]

Once again shows that cheating in life does pay and get you what you want in life

Hahahahahhah

 

[StephenH]

Warner's become absolute brick, so it's not done him any favours.

Better team have won, other than Stokes' test, they've outplayed us for the most part.

This!

Steve Smith's batting was from another world and spooky to watch.

 

[Grays_1890]

We carried Butler, Bairstow and Roy, any team doing that would struggle, had any of them come to the party we would have done alot better in this series.

 

[StephenH]

We carried Butler, Bairstow and Roy, any team doing that would struggle, had any of them come to the party we would have done alot better in this series.

All white-ball specialists.
It down to the powers that be to build 'a proper' England Test Team.
Not sure it will happen as the money is not there.
The Ashes test are few and far between and the rest don't pay.