The Cricket Thread 2013

[Ads]

Tremlett needs to be back playing ready for the return trip in Aus. He will cause them all sorts of problems with his height down there.

[KevinGage]

In the short term, it might be worth tinkering with Trott swapping places with Root.   

Trott plays in near enough the same manner regardless of the game situation (and regardless of form).  It's frustrating, but that caution can be well suited to opening the batting.  And he's done it before for Warwickshire.  Root can play with caution too but -as we've seen- he can get bogged down and then that builds pressure.  Trott is by no means explosive, but he will look to score. 

For Root, when he starts defensively, it seems to be harder for him to get motoring.  Going in at three might give him more freedom. 

Ideally you'd want at least one opener who looks to take it to the opposition, but the candidates out there aren't a vast improvement in that regard. 

On the plus side, although the batters have been below par for most of the series so far, there does seem to be a degree of resillience there. That last morning at Old Trafford apart, they don't look like getting rolled for ridicuously low scores as per Australia's first innings at Lord's.   Get the score up to 260+ this morning and that might still be a competitive score on this wicket.

[PaulWinch again]

Well it's time for our team to turn up now, we've lost 6 consecutive days to Australia and we need to look at ourselves. That's the batsmen and the bowlers, we need to knock them over cheaply and then we need to actually put runs on the board.

[PaulWinch again]

I still don't think that pitch is a bad pitch and 100-1 shows that clearly, it was shocking batting and it's up to bowlers to save us.

[PaulWinch again]

Oh and a message to Cook, we have to attack them and not go on the defensive. That's how Australia got wickets and it's the only way we will.

[PaulWinch again]

All out, we've put on no runs. Time for the bowlers to turn up, because we've been piss poor for 6 days in a row.

[Dave Cooper please]

Well we are out and about 150 short of a decent score on this wicket unless I've read it all wrong because it doesn't seem to be doing much.

Up to the bowlers again to get us into this.

[PaulWinch again]

Pitch it up Broad.

[PaulWinch again]

For fucks sake Broad, pitch it up.

[paul_e]

All the noise is that whilst there's no sideways movement the ball isn't coming on to the bat regularly, which is same I've heard about this ground before, the pace taken out of the delivery on the bounce seems very inconsistent.

[taylorsworkrate]

Broad bowling like a moron at the moment. Obviously taking his lead from our batsmen

[PaulWinch again]

There you go! Warner gone!

[taylorsworkrate]

Broad bowling like a moron at the moment. Obviously taking his lead from our batsmen

Knew that would work

[PaulWinch again]

Keep it pitched up Broad.

[Andy Poole]

Broady!! Rocky has gone.

Hghest score batting first this year at Durham is 267. However Yorkshire posted 339 in a fourh innings to win.