The Cricket Thread 2013

[PaulWinch again]

Absolutely fucking atrocious.

[Meanwood Villa]

This is an object lesson in letting your opponents off the hook. Farcical.

[paul_e]

Finn bowled really poorly in his spell which has set this up, Agar looks really confident now.

[PaulWinch again]

We look mentally weak.

[Brend'Watkins]

A shambles, that's what it is.

[Olneythelonely]

Pathetic tactics, pathetic bowling, pathetic captaincy. We would be one of the shittest test teams in the world without Jimmy.

[PaulWinch again]

Cook you owe us a massive hundred for the utter shambles you've made of the last hour or so. Unbelievably bad.

[PaulWinch again]

We have to end this now, this could kill us for this match in terms of mentality.

[Monty]

This has been astonishingly poor. We should be out of sight, and now they have a lead and are surely favourites to win.

[paul_e]

I don't know what to think just yet, the reality is having seen the conditions I doubt many people would've seen 215-9 as us having bowled badly.

I also don't think australia had any thoughts of being in this position when they were 117-9

Finally I think we had no idea what to expect from their 11 and got our bowling plan to him totally wrong.

[PaulWinch again]

Whichever way you look at it, to allow the last wicket partnership to put on an unbeaten 100 run partnership is appalling. The England team should get an absolute bollocking at lunch.

[Chris Jameson]

Pathetic tactics, pathetic bowling, pathetic captaincy. We would be one of the shittest test teams in the world without Jimmy.

No we wouldn't, that's just silly.

[paul_e]

Whichever way you look at it, to allow the last wicket partnership to put on an unbeaten 100 run partnership is appalling. The England team should get an absolute bollocking at lunch.

I agree completely, I'm just not sure if this is a disaster in terms of the series, or even the match itself.  What I'd be looking at from an England point of view is that there's no danger in the pitch now.  yes we took a glut of wickets this morning but that was on the back of a worldy from Swann and as good a spell of swing bowling as you'll ever see from Jimmy, with the Pattinson wicket showing why aiming for the stumps against a genuine tail ender is a massively underused tactic.  We need to get this last wicket quickly after lunch, that much is clear, but I'm sure England are a lot more confident of this pitch than they were at lunch yesterday.

[PaulWinch again]

Our body language looks absolutely appalling as well, they need to have a long hard look at themselves and come out with a lot more effort and desire than they left the pitch with.

[PaulWinch again]

This really is horrific.