The Cricket Thread 2013

[taylorsworkrate]

Plus side is this is still a dream to bat

[Lsvilla]

This is really poor captaincy from Cook

What do you suggest then - 4 slips and 2 gully's ?

[taylorsworkrate]

Very odd wicket

[PaulWinch again]

Good wickets for Jimmy's average this.

[DrGonzo]

You won't hear Jimmy complain.  Nor Cook, that's another 2 minutes we don't have to bat.

[taylorsworkrate]

This is really poor captaincy from Cook

What do you suggest then - 4 slips and 2 gully's ?

It's not just the field placings, its the lack of urgency in our fielding. They've been allowed to run too many 2's that shouldn't have been. I also think Swann's bowled largely poorly in this innings, yet hasn't been taken off

Bresnan was bowling ok earlier, he should have been used more this innings

[peter w]

Its all about time. They run two and it takes longer to bowl the next ball than a dot and back to the bowler. What they score is irrelevant, keep them out there.

[PaulWinch again]

See it might benefit us, but why are they going off for light when they have flood lights?

[PaulWinch again]

That's poor from a cricketing perspective.

[taylorsworkrate]

What a waste of electricity

[DrGonzo]

Get them back on.  It's the Aussies who want to bat, let them. 

[taylorsworkrate]

It looked to me as if the umpire said to Cook you have to bowl spin only, or we'll go off. Must have been a tough call for Cook

[Chris Smith]

See it might benefit us, but why are they going off for light when they have flood lights?

It's the umpires not the captains who decide now.

[taylorsworkrate]

It does beg the question what the point of the floodlights are though. Seems to me that the paying spectators are the last people taken into account

[PaulWinch again]

See it might benefit us, but why are they going off for light when they have flood lights?

It's the umpires not the captains who decide now.

I know, but I think from a cricketing perspective with all those people in the crowd it's daft.