The Cricket Thread 2014

[PaulWinch again]

Good move from Cook to get Woakes on for the last over.

[PaulWinch again]

England are bowling with good pace here, all of the bowlers between 85-90 mph.

[paul_e]

Another wicket would've been great but if we can keep bowling at this pace and keep a good line and length we'll get chances in the morning.

[PaulWinch again]

Yep excellent day overall. Woakes has definitely put some pace on and really needs to take his chance, and really good to see Jimmy bowl well again. Ballance, Bell and Buttler were excellent.

[Villan For Life]

I thought we could have attacked more in the hour that we had at them after we declared. Five slips and a couple of gulleys would have put huge pressure on the Indian batsmen.

That said it was a good day for England, Bell batted beautifully.

[tomd2103]

I thought we could have attacked more in the hour that we had at them after we declared. Five slips and a couple of gulleys would have put huge pressure on the Indian batsmen.

That said it was a good day for England, Bell batted beautifully.

Only slight negative was that Ali was undone by the short ball again.  Time will tell I guess if it's a real problem.  Small grumble though on what was a very good day for us.

[Dave Cooper please]

If I had power over cricket, I'd remove all appealing. A player is either out or they're not, why should yelling about it make any difference?

No no no no no and, for emphasis, NO!
The appeal is the very essence of cricket. You ask the umpire if the batsman is out, it is written in the very first laws of the great game.

[UK Redsox]

I'd be inclined to get Jordan on fairly quickly.

The Sky analysis of Jordan was interesting. Until they mentioned it, I'd not noticed how jerky his run up is.

Its not just the last couple of strides that are chopped (eg like Singh for India), the whole run up is stop/start.

[fredm]

If Jordan could get a fluent run up I am sure it would add a few mph to his delivery and maybe make him a top class bowler instead of an above average one.

[PaulWinch again]

I think his run up is the way it is because he's had back problems and it's a way of mitigating that.

[Villan For Life]

if we meddle with Jordan's run up we could ruin him as a bowler. We tried it with Finn and look where that left him. He's only just getting back to the bowler he was.

Leave Jordan well alone. If it ain't broke it don't need fixing.

[PaulWinch again]

Why do we not have a short leg in?

[PaulWinch again]

Not a great start so far.

[Villan For Life]

We needed that wicket

[PaulWinch again]

We did, we could do with Broad going on a run now.