The Cricket Thread 2016

[JD]

What a waste of money and an embarrassment. Southee is not great a bowler and England made him look like the best bowler in the world. On to Monday and England v Scotland at Hagley Oval back home in Chch. I'm started to get worried even they will beat us now. 

[PaulWinch again]

My God that's the most embarrassing result ever, what a fucking disgrace. Every one of them should be ashamed.

[PaulWinch again]

The thing is that is that bad of thrashing that players and coaches careers are genuinely on the line now. I might put sone money on Scotland.

[PaulWinch again]

Moores hasn't done much since he came back to suggest he's the man. One Test series win against a poor India team is unacceptable.

[tomd2103]

My God that's the most embarrassing result ever, what a fucking disgrace. Every one of them should be ashamed.

Really poor from England.  It's as if they had written the first two games off as losses before the tournament even started and just gone through the motions.   

[tomd2103]

The thing is that is that bad of thrashing that players and coaches careers are genuinely on the line now. I might put sone money on Scotland.

I do have to question how seriously some of them take the one-day format.  I think some of them genuinely see it as a step down from the test arena and approach it with that attitude.  Their central contracts are based around the Test game so that is where their priorities seem to lie. 

[paul_e]

On a different track hopefully that is the slap around the face that the entire lot of them needed to force them to get their heads right.  The talent is there, it's the application and mental preparation that's missing.  There's a whole pile of poor performances there with only Woakes and to an extent Root coming out of that with the ability to say that they gave it a go.  Finn and Broad need to look at what they did with the ball and realise that you just can't do that to the biggest hitter in world cricket, regardless of the target being pathetic you can't just gift McCullum 6s like that.

[aj2k77]

That wasn't a game of cricket.

[pooligan]

Can it get any worse than today! Totally outplayed  and humiliated from start to finish .I can't recall  seeing a bigger thrashing ever.

I was starting to think that nobody else had noticed just how poor Moen Ali is performing. As someone earlier remarked he has one good knock in about every 15 and i would say his bowling is nothing special. Morgan ,like Cook does not merit a place in the team on his form .As for Finn, well all i can say ,is if that had been Rankin who bowled like  that we would never see him play for England again

The way we are playing you would'nt be confident of us beating Scotland on Monday

[PGW]

I'm just too disillusioned to want to make any comments on this thread at the moment....aaaaaaggghhhhh

[tomd2103]

Just watching 'The Verdict' on SKY now.  Calls for Tredwell and Hales to come in, but that's just shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic.  Fragile batting line up, Finn and Broad erratic, and Anderson and Woakes there to be smashed if the ball isn't doing anything.  Depressing stuff all round. 

[steffo]

To read this thread Moores is the Lambert of England. 4 attack bowlers no variations. Shocking. We are playing 1990's cricket.

[aj2k77]

Another team scores 100+ off the last 10 overs, we can't even see out the last 10 nevermind do anything with them, we've already thrown our bat at everything and anything in the first 15 overs and fucked it completely up.

[bertlambshank]

If you think England are bad Pakistan are 1-4.

[Villan For Life]

Moores was the wrong appointment last year and his record since then is poor with only a test series win against a poor Indian side providing anything of any note.

He was a poor coach last time and he's a poor coach now. The players look like rabbits caught in headlamps. They have no answer to the changing modern one day game and are stuck 10 years behind other top sides.

With Bangladesh getting a point from the abandoned Aussie game we could now struggle to make the quarters.