England 2012 Cricket Thread

[taylorsworkrate]

Painful to watch today.

Poor pitch and ordinary batting equally to blame.

[Villan For Life]

Painful to watch today.

Poor pitch and ordinary batting equally to blame.

Not seen any of the coverage but I'm following it on Cricinfo. It smacks of last match of the tour syndrome, they're thinking of the flight home.

[Villan For Life]

Great death bowling by Broad & Dernbach, they both really held their nerve

[PaulWinch again]

That was a remarkable victory. I'd like to add I am not for one moment suggesting Morgan should be dropped from the One day or Twenty20 side, he definitely deserves more time at those. However he needs to go away and work away at his Test game.

[Dave Cooper please]

Superb death bowling by Broad and Dernbach, honestly, that game was lost.

[PaulWinch again]

Morgan dropped for Tests unsurprisingly, I'm surprised Tredwell is included. I don't really rate him, but I suppose he's only back up.

[PaulWinch again]

I agree with Flower that Morgan needs to work on his Test game.

[PaulWinch again]

I've just read Flower's full comments on Morgan and I think he's put it across very well. He's been pretty harsh and said he needs to work out his method in Tests, but at the same time said he's still got an exciting future in the Test arena. So he's made it clear he's got to do a lot of work, but he has a future. Patel and Bopara to compete for number 6 spot as well.

[Villan For Life]

I've just read Flower's full comments on Morgan and I think he's put it across very well. He's been pretty harsh and said he needs to work out his method in Tests, but at the same time said he's still got an exciting future in the Test arena. So he's made it clear he's got to do a lot of work, but he has a future. Patel and Bopara to compete for number 6 spot as well.

The starting XI for the 1st Test will be interesting. An attack of Broad, Jimmy, Swann, Monty and probably Patel ahead of Bopara for me as he's a better bowling option. Nice to have Bresnan and Finn to call on too.

[Villan For Life]

Slighty off theme but there's been an incredible ODI in Hobart between India & Sri Lanka today

Sri Lanka batted first and scored 320-4 off 50 overs which isn't a bad total. India knocked the runs off for the loss of 3 wickets off 36.4 overs. 8.75 an over, a great performance.

[PaulWinch again]

Patel is an interesting selection, I have long been critical of him but he's started to change my opinion of him. I think he was very good in the ODIs and Twenty20s, plus he's a lot more agile in the field than I though it would be. I'd definitely consider him at 6.

[PaulWinch again]

Not England, but Tendulkar has just got his 100th international 100.

[The Left Side]

Not England, but Tendulkar has just got his 100th international 100.

Fair play, I saw a picture of him coming off the field after his first and Allan Lamb was clapping him off, he has been around for donkeys!

[PaulWinch again]

The next few months are going to be important for Swann, he's really dipped over the last year and now that Monty has come back with real form he may be under threat.

[bertlambshank]

He needs to stop being a media whore.