The Cricket Thread 2016

[tomd2103]

Not a great day for England, but after the sedate nature of most of days of the last two tests at least the game should move on pretty quickly.  Not playing two frontline spinners may prove to be a mistake.

[PaulWinch again]

Ali is our frontline spinner. You can choose to agree or disagree on that, but England see him as our best spinner, so they have selected what they deem our best spinner. I think they're right, but that's my opinion. His batting today was excellent and vital.

[aj2k77]

I think our batting line up will get blown away by the Aussies unfortunately this summer.

[paul_e]

To be fair pwa he said not playing 2 spinners was a mistake and I agree, I'd have gone with Rashid in place of Stokes here

[PaulWinch again]

Moeen needs to work on his consistency. When he bowls well he's great, but when he doesn't it's horrid.

[PaulWinch again]

Some brilliant catches from Jordan and Moeen.

[Villan For Life]

That slip catch of Jordan's was excellent. Another great spell of bowling by Jimmy but why was Moeen bowling after tea? We gifted them 30 runs.

[tomd2103]

Ali is our frontline spinner. You can choose to agree or disagree on that, but England see him as our best spinner, so they have selected what they deem our best spinner. I think they're right, but that's my opinion. His batting today was excellent and vital.

Disastrous start here.  Persisting with Trott is not going to do anyone any favours and it is causing chaos in the top order. 

For the record I was suggesting playing Moeen Ali and another spinner instead of Stokes or Jordan. 

[tomd2103]

Moeen needs to work on his consistency. When he bowls well he's great, but when he doesn't it's horrid.

In terms of bowling Paul, he's still very much in the development stage so he's going to have days like that. 

[PaulWinch again]

Christ terrible start.

[Villan For Life]

FFS!

[john e]

It's not going well

[Villan For Life]

Five down and that's 18 in the day

[spangley1812]

shambles

[PaulWinch again]

Fucking terrible. Other than his century Bell has been awful this series.