England 2012 Cricket Thread

[PaulWinch again]

This partnership is really really irritating, Jayawardene is doing brilliantly.

[PaulWinch again]

Oh Monty don't drop Jayawardene.

[hipkiss92]

I never expect anything from Monty when it comes to fielding. It's similar to what I experience when Heskey gets the ball in the penalty area.

[PaulWinch again]

Another drop from Monty, this is proving costly.

[PaulWinch again]

We are making a balls up of this.

[PaulWinch again]

Our day just about, but missing so many chances against Jayawardene is bad. We really need to knock them over quickly in the morning.

[Dave Summers]

Being at work, I've not seen anything apart from the 30 mins before lunch and up to Anderson's excellent run out.  Difficult to comment, but for the love of god why the hell is Monty so damn useless in the field?.  Everyone appears to love him as he is "a character" but he winds me up something rotten.   

I would be embarrassed if I was either Swann or Monty today, that Patel has taken the only wickets to fall to spinners.

You can never tell what a pitch is like until both teams bat on it, but from where I am looking, we need to bat very big 1st dig and try and get 500.   8 wkts on the first day is not to be sniffed at and we can build from here, but it should have been much better.

[PaulWinch again]

We need to bat very very well, but first we need to bowl them out quick. We haven't ruined a great position, but we will have if they get another 50. As you say Dave though it's difficult to know a good score until both sides have batted.

[taylorsworkrate]

Yep, could and should have been better.

However, if someone offered 289/8 on the first day of a test in Sri Lanka after losing the toss, I think many hands would have been bitten off.

Jayawardene's innings has been magnificent to be fair.

[PaulWinch again]

Absolutely diabolical batting again. Time's ticking for some of these players.

[Warren Aspinall]

We really are ballsing this up

[PaulWinch again]

This is bloody horrendous. Our batting has been an absolute disgrace since the beginning of the year.

[PaulWinch again]

Is this poor preparation again?

[PaulWinch again]

See I was hoping the series against Pakistan was a blip, albeit a big on. However from the evidence so far they have completely taken their eye off the ball. Strauss has got to be under pressure now.

[PaulWinch again]

See on the one hand I appreciate Swann's and Broad's counter attacking efforts, but wouldn't they have been better served playing for Bell like the Sri Lankans did with Jayawardene? Either way the rest of the batsmen have been an absolute embarrassment.