The Cricket Thread 2016

[olaftab]

Well done Moeen very good 50.

[PaulWinch again]

Excellent 50 from Moeen. Yet again he's doing an excellent job of weighing in with runs down the order.

[olaftab]

52 partnership for 8th was good. Need another 30 or 40 from last two wickets.

[UK Redsox]

400 up. That's a good effort from where they were.

Weather's looking crappy for Sunday, so England need to get close to 500 and then look to bowl the Aussies out twice

[LeeB]

Ha ha, good throw twat.

[PaulWinch again]

Moeen once again proving his value. In fact I think he's batting far too low in the order.

[olaftab]

You praised him too much. Gone.

[PaulWinch again]

Still did a massively important job. Getting us beyond 400 was vital.

[Havencheese]

England in a very healthy position.

[Havencheese]

Enjoyed Woods attempt at a reverse sweep last over.

[tomd2103]

430 all out.  Would have definitely taken that before the start of play.  Some good innings in amongst that total and a few demons will have been exocised. 

[cheltenhamlion]

I am going with a bold prediction of 430 all out. I also haven't looked at the score since I last posted!

Boom!

[PaulWinch again]

Very good end to the innings there. Moeen's form with the bat has been pretty good lately, let's hope it translates to the ball. But it's really important that Cook keeps faith with him.

[PaulWinch again]

Jimmy a bit all over the place. Good from Cook though getting Wood and Ali into the bowling early. He's got to use them plenty this afternoon.

[Proposition Joe]

Can see Aussies declaring on 600-2 sometime tomorrow evening.