The International Cricket Thread 2018

[beness]

Woakes on fire again.

[Villan For Life]

Honours just about even after day one.

I thought we lacked ideas in our attack during the afternoon session and it wouldn’t have surprised me if we had gone wicketlless for the rest of the day. Stokes bowled poorly as did Rashid. It’s probably a pointless comment to make but we missed Curran and the variety that he offers.

[Meanwood Villa]

Good first session for England there.

[Stu]

Bumrah the ever bowling has a really weird action.

[PGW]

Poor shot from Jennings there

[tomd2103]

Bad decision from the third umpire there.  You could see that Kohli's fingers weren't where the ball bounced.

[taylorsworkrate]

Yet another horrific batting display. Anything over 200 really is a triumph for England these days.

Fair enough its done a bit and India have bowled well, but why are all the batsmen going out there in ODI mode? Why do English conditions seem so alien to English batsmen?

India could just declare their second innings for 0 and they'd still have far too many for this pathetic batting lineup to get

[PaulWinch again]

A truly embarrassing effort with the bat, awful.

[Meanwood Villa]

Good middle session for India there.

[Villan For Life]

A damning statistic quoted on TMS just now. We average more in white ball cricket than test cricket in the last year. We average 287 in tests and 301 in 50 over cricket. Utter shite test batting.

[PGW]

A damning statistic quoted on TMS just now. We average more in white ball cricket than test cricket in the last year. We average 287 in tests and 301 in 50 over cricket. Utter shite test batting.

I didn't know that but you can hardly say that it's surprising.

[Villan For Life]

End of day two & we are almost 300 runs behind. Utter shite.

[tomd2103]

A truly embarrassing effort with the bat, awful.

Yep, but not really a shock is it?  I thought they were being a bit optimistic in the SKY studio after India's innings saying that England needed to post a big score and put pressure on India in their second innings. 

This kind of collapse has happened on a regular basis for some time now and it's hard to see what the answer is really.  Telling stat came up that the last opening partnership century stand was in 2015. 

[Risso]

Rubbish from start to finish.  Tone set by the appalling Cook and Jennings again.  Root unlucky to be given out, looked like it bounced a couple of inches before hitting the fielder's hands.

[paul_e]

Rubbish from start to finish.  Tone set by the appalling Cook and Jennings again.  Root unlucky to be given out, looked like it bounced a couple of inches before hitting the fielder's hands.

Only just catching up on the play from today and I agree completely.  I put a huge amount of the blame for our test decline on the openers, they've been consistently poor for a long time now, and Cook is part of that because quite a few bowlers seem to have worked him out now.