The Cricket Thread 2013

[taylorsworkrate]

It was embarrassing all round. Bresnans shot, another joke of an umpiring decision and then a mental meltdown not to review.

To be honest, I think England sort of deserve it for the ridiculous decision to send him in in the first place.

[taylorsworkrate]

Very poor performance so far with the bat. Sadly all too familiar

[PaulWinch again]

Well sounds like we're under massive pressure here, Cook and Trott need to perform and get big scores now. We haven't performed well enough in this game.

[PaulWinch again]

What I fear with England is that sometimes we have an inbuilt negativity in the team, we always go conservative and I'm not sure the night watchman was the right call in this game. Although once again it was a bad decision to give Bresnan out.

[taylorsworkrate]

As much as this is a flat pitch, and it is a batsman's paradise, I was disappointed that we just seemed to allow Australia to score at whatever rate they wanted for the last session and a half of their innings. We merely accepted our fate, and I think that negativity has seeped into the batting.

Root looked like he could get out at any stage, and to send Bresnan in with over 30 minutes left reflects poorly on Trott imo

[PaulWinch again]

Root has got to learn how to get forward.

[PaulWinch again]

I hope it doesn't happen, but this has a Headingly 09 and a Perth 2010/11 feel about it. We look in a bit of a hole, and the batsmen need to dig us out.

[andyaston]

i think we will ruin Root if we continue to use him as opener. He should come in at number 5 or 6. If we could only find ourselves a decent opener.

[PaulWinch again]

I think there was an element of complacency from our bowling in this Test. The Aussie seamers looked much more threatening and Lyon looked good. The seamers particularly looked to be bending their backs more.

[UK Redsox]

Aggers and Victor are superb together on TMS

[PaulWinch again]

Australia are doing a much better job of preventing our batsmen scoring.

[PaulWinch again]

Trott gone, oh dear, we're in big trouble here. KP you have to turn up now.

[taylorsworkrate]

That's another really poor shot from Trott

[PaulWinch again]

We need to take a much more positive approach, it's not just about time we need to get runs.

[PaulWinch again]

KP get your head in the game, that was a horrible shot.