The Cricket Thread 2014

[paul_e]

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

not really, this is what he should be doing for the last 10 overs, we just need someone else to do it at the start as well.

[paul_e]

looking at it again the delivery that got Moeen Ali is an absolute beauty, excellently disguised slow leg break, no shame being done by that on your T20 debut.  Lumb was unlucky as well, I doubt many people would've been shocked if that wasn't given, definitely a noise as the ball passed the bat.

[danlanza]

I like the rain.

[PaulWinch again]

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

not really, this is what he should be doing for the last 10 overs, we just need someone else to do it at the start as well.

Well it is, if you come in low down the order in twenty20 you expect to be looking at 2-3 overs, having half the innings because he came in higher up makes a massive difference. This game has become interesting now.

[PaulWinch again]

See that's poor from Bresnan, 3 fine deliveries and then drops short. He bowls short too often.

[PaulWinch again]

But then he closed it out very well.

[PaulWinch again]

Get your yorkers in Dernbach.

[PaulWinch again]

That's the game gone now.

[PaulWinch again]

Awful over from Bresnan and the game is gone. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me that the bowlers who took pace off the ball bowled well and then we save pace bowlers for the death overs. Not good enough.

[PaulWinch again]

Darren Sammy does what Luke Wright should do.

[paul_e]

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

not really, this is what he should be doing for the last 10 overs, we just need someone else to do it at the start as well.

Well it is, if you come in low down the order in twenty20 you expect to be looking at 2-3 overs, having half the innings because he came in higher up makes a massive difference. This game has become interesting now.

The thing is there really shouldn't be a set batting order in t20, you pick the right player for the situation.  Buttler was a good call at the time he came in today because we were in danger of getting bogged down so his big hitting gave us a fighting chance, but that won't always be the case.  In perfect circumstances we'd want to be bringing him in with 100+ on the board and 7-8 overs to go so he can just go for it and try to be the difference between an average 150-160 and a very good 180.  He won't do it every time but the idea of a finisher is to do exactly that and he has the power to be a truly top drawer finisher.  We need Morgan, Hales (although he did well today) and Lumb to find a bit of form at the top and start scoring at 110-120% to build that position.

I didn't watch after the rain delay, I had to do a bit of work, but I don't really understand why Ali didn't bowl on a pitch that was so suited to taking the pace off the ball, seems like we made a big mistake there.

[PaulWinch again]

Started well but going backwards a bit now.

[PaulWinch again]

Make that a lot.

[PaulWinch again]

Jordan should have been in earlier.

[spangley1812]

Jordan should have been in earlier.

Jordan should play every game instead of Dernbach.............