The Cricket Thread 2016

[PaulWinch again]

I'm very impressed by Wood. Good pace and bowling well. I feel sorry for Stokes Bell is having a shocking game.

[Villan For Life]

Good over by Ali

[PaulWinch again]

Moeen once again showing his worth. He's much better than he's given credit for and should have been bowled earlier.

[taylorsworkrate]

Out top order is a fucking disgrace. How dare Tveter Castro pietersen into the the long grass

[PaulWinch again]

Hopefully Cook and Bell can go big. Moeen showed his class today and must be bowled more. Also Wood looks potentially very good and I look forward to seeing his career progress. He offers us the pace we've been missing.

[tomd2103]

Hopefully Cook and Bell can go big. Moeen showed his class today and must be bowled more. Also Wood looks potentially very good and I look forward to seeing his career progress. He offers us the pace we've been missing.

Are you Moeen Ali's agent?

[PaulWinch again]

Ha maybe I should be, because he's massively underrated. He bowled excellently today.

[Chris Jameson]

Out top order is a fucking disgrace. How dare Tveter Castro pietersen into the the long grass

I'll be honest, I really don't know. It's a toughie.

[OCD]

Cook and Bell should be opening. The balance doesn't seem right at the moment - a top order that folds too easily and a middle order that may have to be very good at rebuilding innings.

[tomd2103]

I didn't realise that. In which case he should be removed as captain now.

If things don't go out way in the first hour then it could get pretty ugly.

Cook has previous for it though doesn't he? Remember Kerrigan at the Oval in 2013? I don't think he got a bowl in the Aussies second innings.

Although he is not a selector, he does have input into selection. If he doesn't rate Ali as a bowler then why select him?

I really think it is time for Cook to resign as captain.  I don't think he really has any idea about how to use his bowlers and really lacks the instinct needed for captaincy. 

[adrenachrome]

Out top order is a fucking disgrace. How dare Tveter Castro pietersen into the the long grass

I'll be honest, I really don't know. It's a toughie.

I am running 30 high powered code breaking algorithms in parallel on this one.  This Tveter Castro chappy sounds like an absolute bounder and he should not be pietersoning in the long grass in any event.

[dcdavecollett]

Is this Castro bloke an over-rated tosser as well?

[paul_e]

I didn't realise that. In which case he should be removed as captain now.

If things don't go out way in the first hour then it could get pretty ugly.

Cook has previous for it though doesn't he? Remember Kerrigan at the Oval in 2013? I don't think he got a bowl in the Aussies second innings.

Although he is not a selector, he does have input into selection. If he doesn't rate Ali as a bowler then why select him?

I really think it is time for Cook to resign as captain.  I don't think he really has any idea about how to use his bowlers and really lacks the instinct needed for captaincy. 

He should have gone after Australia, he only kept the job because there weren't really any alternatives.

[tomd2103]

I didn't realise that. In which case he should be removed as captain now.

If things don't go out way in the first hour then it could get pretty ugly.

Cook has previous for it though doesn't he? Remember Kerrigan at the Oval in 2013? I don't think he got a bowl in the Aussies second innings.

Although he is not a selector, he does have input into selection. If he doesn't rate Ali as a bowler then why select him?

I really think it is time for Cook to resign as captain.  I don't think he really has any idea about how to use his bowlers and really lacks the instinct needed for captaincy. 

He should have gone after Australia, he only kept the job because there weren't really any alternatives.

Agree, but I think the alternatives are there now.  Bell needs to pick his form up but he could be an option for the medium term, whereas Root is the outstanding long term candidate. 

[taylorsworkrate]

Out top order is a fucking disgrace. How dare Tveter Castro pietersen into the the long grass

I'll be honest, I really don't know. It's a toughie.

This may be quite surprising, but I was a little bit drunk when I posted that!