The Cricket Thread 2014

[PaulWinch again]

It's been a really poor display and selection today.

[peter w]

Picking Luke Wright misguided to say the least. It's clear that he's hopelessly out of form, whether you rate him or not.

[peter w]

Christ almighty. Stokes is clearly a player suited to the longer form of the game but is nowhere near good enough for this shorter game level. Also, why did we lose our bottle and not go with spin early on again? They learnt from what we did and are doing it to us. Just as we stopped. Bloody crazy.

[PaulWinch again]

Moeen Ali should have been playing definitely, we also should have had Parry in the team at the very least.

[peter w]

well that was another waste.

[PaulWinch again]

As bad as we were today, you've got to love comments on the BBC thread, 'England's complete inability to play spinners in limited overs cricket cricket doesn't bode well for the World Twenty20'. I'm guessing that person didn't watch the ODI series from just last week.

[spangley1812]

Broad out of the rest of the T20's in the Windies due to a knee injury

gotta be a doubt for the World Cup with Root..........

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Most of today's team played as if they only knew Rounders.

Gah.

[paul_e]

I agree with the Luke Wright comments, he shouldn't have started, Ali in for him would've been much better.

My bigger concern is that we seem far too rigid with the batting line-up.  Buttler shouldn't have come in when he did, he's the finisher, you want him there in the last 5-6 overs not coming on when we need to solidify things after a top order collapse.

I thought the bowling was ok, 160-170 looked about par for that pitch for me we just got the tempo wrong for the fist 7-8 overs and left ourselves with far too much to do later on.

[Dave Cooper please]

Take it we lost the baseball then?

Meh.

[OCD]

I agree with the Luke Wright comments, he shouldn't have started, Ali in for him would've been much better.

My bigger concern is that we seem far too rigid with the batting line-up.  Buttler shouldn't have come in when he did, he's the finisher, you want him there in the last 5-6 overs not coming on when we need to solidify things after a top order collapse.

On the other hand, Bopara's playing well and we don't seem to be getting the most out of him in that finisher role. I would rather he be higher up the order and given the chance to construct an innings. 

[PaulWinch again]

I agree with the Luke Wright comments, he shouldn't have started, Ali in for him would've been much better.

My bigger concern is that we seem far too rigid with the batting line-up.  Buttler shouldn't have come in when he did, he's the finisher, you want him there in the last 5-6 overs not coming on when we need to solidify things after a top order collapse.

I thought the bowling was ok, 160-170 looked about par for that pitch for me we just got the tempo wrong for the fist 7-8 overs and left ourselves with far too much to do later on.

I actually think Buttler needs more overs to get in, look at the ODI when he had a chance to settle before launching his assault.

[PaulWinch again]

Looks like we're bombing against spin again.

[PaulWinch again]

Hit straight England for fucks sake.

[PaulWinch again]

Buttler supporting the view he should be higher up the order.