England Cricket Thread 2011

[PaulWinch again]

For fucks sake Cook.

[taylorsworkrate]

Test cricket is clearly the best form of the game, this series is demonstrating why.

Test cricket is the sport I enjoy watching more than any by a large margin.

A series like this, between two excellent sides playing great cricket at a ferocious intensity is heaven.

[taylorsworkrate]

Fuck Cook gone.

I hate Test cricket.

[PaulWinch again]

We need two or three batsmen to step up in this innings and get us a score of above 300.

[taylorsworkrate]

Bell in at 3.

[taylorsworkrate]

Please no more wickets tonight.

[spangley1812]

Poor from Cook, suddenly the Ashes tour seems a long time ago................

[taylorsworkrate]

Poor from Cook, suddenly the Ashes tour seems a long time ago................

He's had a couple of poor games, but the form he had through the ashes and against Sri Lanka can't last forever.

India have bowled in the perfect areas to him though.  Full and swinging.

[VillaZogmariner]

Broad took 5 wickets for 0 in 16 balls

[taylorsworkrate]

Broad took 5 wickets for 0 in 16 balls

In this game and the last, where he's bowled a full length, he's looked as good as any quick bowler in world cricket.  If he can be consistent, and continue to improve his already more than useful batting, what a player England will have.

[taylorsworkrate]

Wonderful days play.

India slightly ahead at the moment, with the lead around 40 and Trott unlikely to bat again.

However a good morning session tomorrow and England are in control.  Hopefully the weather will be good again as batting seemed markedly easier today than yesterday.  Although the pitch still has enough in it.

Also a couple of signs of uneven bounce coming in,  India have to bat last so any lead of over 200 and England would have a fighting chance.

[taylorsworkrate]

A great write up of a great day

http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-india-2011/content/current/story/525306.html

[Dave Cooper please]

That was a fantastic days play, again.
India still ahead, but they have had the best of the conditions all the way through this series so far and still England are hanging in, if we could only win a toss on a humid. cloudy morning.

[taylorsworkrate]

That was a fantastic days play, again.
India still ahead, but they have had the best of the conditions all the way through this series so far and still England are hanging in, if we could only win a toss on a humid. cloudy morning.

If only.  If we'd have bowled on the first day I don't think India would have got much beyond 150.  Looking an absolutely crucial toss they have won.

[Yossarian]

I was at Trent Bridge today and I am not sure what the most extraordinary thing I saw was; Stuart Broad's 5-0 off 16 balls or the size Mike Gatting has ballooned to. The word corpulent does not do him justice, he was Channel Five shockumentary size.