The International Cricket Thread 2018

[manic-road]

Todays game reduced to 21 overs each side, Woakes and Stone took a bit of a battering in the first three overs.

[paul_e]

I can't work out why we put rashid on there, he got the wicket but surely at this point keeping the runs down is more important. I hope that aggression doesn't hurt us here because we've completely bossed this for about 10 overs and put them into a really shit position.

[paul_e]

That one was brutal from Woakes, right on Chandimal's foot.

[manic-road]

I can't work out why we put rashid on there, he got the wicket but surely at this point keeping the runs down is more important. I hope that aggression doesn't hurt us here because we've completely bossed this for about 10 overs and put them into a really shit position.

Rashid ended up with 4-36, pretty good considering te reduced overs.

[manic-road]

Early start tomorrow, 05:15am Sri Lanka-England hope the rain stays away for a change

[paul_e]

I can't work out why we put rashid on there, he got the wicket but surely at this point keeping the runs down is more important. I hope that aggression doesn't hurt us here because we've completely bossed this for about 10 overs and put them into a really shit position.

Rashid ended up with 4-36, pretty good considering te reduced overs.

He actually did fine but I still don't like the idea of a leggy bowling at the death.

[Ads]

Managed to get myself 4th Day tickets for the test at Old Trafford for the Ashes in the ballot. Whooop!

[Villan For Life]

Managed to get myself 4th Day tickets for the test at Old Trafford for the Ashes in the ballot. Whooop!

Well done! I’d buy a lottery ticket too if I were you.

I’m going to day three at Edgbaston.

[paul_e]

From what I've seen across these ODIs it's fairly clear that Woakes is the leading bowler in this squad, our quicks look toothless without him today.

[UK Redsox]

England getting the collapse in early

Currently 84 runs behind DLS par

[PaulWinch again]

Well this is an absolute horror show.

[paul_e]

there was, from what i watched earlier, a fair hint of 'on the beach' about the performance, it was fairly obvious that we'd already won the series and the intensity just wasn't there.  Stokes bowled a couple of overs where it looked fairly clear that he was taking a chance to try out some variations he's working on and Sam Curran seemed to be do similar at one point, in the field was the bigger issue, it wasn't the England team we normally see and the score they managed reflected that lack of urgency.

[PGW]

I noticed earlier that Australian woes continue to mount...in 1st T20I v Pakistan all out 89 chasing 156

[PGW]

Bit of troubling news coming out of Sri Lanka this morning in the 2 day game v a SLCxi whereupon Ben Stokes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/46042953  has been forced to retire hurt after being struck on the arm.
As the article said he has come back out to bat,so hopefully no alarm bells, 22* at moment with Ali 39*
Earlier in the day Root retired out after bringing up his 100 but Jennings out for a disappointing 13.

Currently 301/5 chasing 392

[Villan For Life]

There’s a good option on the BBC sport website where you can select your starting XI for the first test. It’d be interesting to see what others come up with!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/45771859

I went with, assuming that they’re all fit:

Jennings, Burns, Root, Buttler, Stokes, Ali, Bairstow, Rashid, Woakes, Curran & Anderson.