The Cricket Thread 2016

[paul_e]

Luke Wright - lets not forget that he has played 51 T20i's and has a poor batting average and middling at best bowling figures, it's not as if he hasn't had a number of chances to prove himself.

[Villan For Life]

The Saffers won the toss and we're batting. Broad and Woakes in for Jordan and Willey.

[PaulWinch again]

Morgan is such an odd player when he's in form he's absolutely brilliant, but when he's out of form he's absolutely diabolical. There's no middle ground with him.

[PaulWinch again]

Bloody hell this is a classic England collapse.

[PaulWinch again]

Up to Root, Ali, Woakes to save this, but the one problem with this batting line up is when it goes wrong it really goes wrong.

[Villan For Life]

Huge pressure on Root here. If someone can stick around with him then we still have an outside chance of posting a total.

[PaulWinch again]

I love this batting line up when things go right, but other than Root they all seem pretty flaky when things start to go against them. They need to work on that.

[Villan For Life]

I love this batting line up when things go right, but other than Root they all seem pretty flaky when things start to go against them. They need to work on that.

It's the same with the test team. They lose wickets in clusters and over the last few years our batting has collapsed so many times which is frustrating.

[PaulWinch again]

Good knock from Woakes there, shame he went. The remainder of the tail need to support Root.

[PGW]

The girls have just lost by 5 wkts with 7 balls to spare.

[montague]

Is it the law that Cricketers have to start each sentence with "Look"

[PaulWinch again]

Joe Root really is a remarkable player and I think he'll break all sorts of English, if not world, records. It's quite incredible when you think that he should probably have 5 or 6 more Test centuries than he has.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

We could do with a Broad super-spell.

[montague]

Superb fielding from Woakes

[PaulWinch again]

Interesting game now.