The Cricket Thread 2013

[PGW]

Oh and Cook wasted a shocking review.

Joe Root should have just told him to just walk off. That wasted review could prove to be invaluable later in the day.

[PaulWinch again]

Our opening partnership has been absolutely awful throughout this series.

[taylorsworkrate]

Not good from Cook. He was a long way from blocking that one. He's having a poor series so far

[paul_e]

I do think we need to play positively though, because the more runs we get and the quicker we get them the less the Aussies can attack.

This is the key for me, I think England have a bit of a habit of 'defending deep' in these situations when actually you need to counter a little.  If we can have a run of 8-9 overs going at 4-5 they're going t0o start getting nervous of us chasing it down and their field becomes more defensive and takes the pressure off.

Trott seems to have come out with the right attitude though and is looking to score off the poor balls, if he can keep this going for a few overs the aussie approach will have to change.

[taylorsworkrate]

Root does tend to get himself into a shell sometimes.

[PaulWinch again]

I do think we need to play positively though, because the more runs we get and the quicker we get them the less the Aussies can attack.

This is the key for me, I think England have a bit of a habit of 'defending deep' in these situations when actually you need to counter a little.  If we can have a run of 8-9 overs going at 4-5 they're going t0o start getting nervous of us chasing it down and their field becomes more defensive and takes the pressure off.

Trott seems to have come out with the right attitude though and is looking to score off the poor balls, if he can keep this going for a few overs the aussie approach will have to change.

Exactly and unsurprisingly we have dug into our trench now, 13 off 11 overs. It means that Australia can have ultra attacking fields and it's a poor way to try and bat out the day. We need to put pressure back on Australia here.

[taylorsworkrate]

And Trott gets out to a really poor shot down the legside.

Yet another pathetic top order start

[fredm]

Wholly negative attitude from our bowling in the first innings, our batting in our first and now just trying to bat through 98 overs without even trying to put some doubt in the Aussies minds.
Oh and Trott gone now as well!

[PaulWinch again]

Pathetic again from Trott, our top order have been desperately poor as a unit. If they were bowlers one of them would have been dropped by now. This simply isn't good enough, if you dig yourself into a trench the pressure on the next man coming in is horrendous.

[UK Redsox]

Root does tend to get himself into a shell sometimes.

He's spent too much time with Sir Geoffrey

[taylorsworkrate]

Its not good enough anymore from our top order. I get the feeling that one or two of them know their place is secure no matter what they do.

[taylorsworkrate]

Can't see the weather helping us. Forecasters appear to have botched that up

[PaulWinch again]

Its not good enough anymore from our top order. I get the feeling that one or two of them know their place is secure no matter what they do.

Yep I completely agree, there is too much security in their position for some of the batsmen.

[PaulWinch again]

At least with KP there he will try to attack.

[MoetVillan]

fucks sakes