The Cricket Thread 2016

[OzVilla]

Missing a trick a little here Engand. Clarke is an excellent player of spin and is well out of nick. So why on earth would you bowl Moen and Root.

We've only got 10 overs left in the innings, don't give him an easy ride. Get Broad and Anderson on and try and knock him over, keep the Skippers confidence down. We're effectively letting him have a centre wicket net session. If they're worried about Anderson creating rough for Lyon then bowl him from the Nursary End.

Also takes longer to bowl the overs than them just milking the Spinners for 5/7 runs an over.

[UK Redsox]

No problems, will have them runs knocked off by tea

[PaulWinch again]

It's a terrible cricket wicket.

[taylorsworkrate]

Poor again from Lyth.

[taylorsworkrate]

I sense a complete capitulation again.

Surely Lyth's place must be massively under threat. 1 good innings and 7 failures so far in test cricket

[taylorsworkrate]

Hales
Cook
Root
Pietersen
Bell
Stokes
Buttler
Ali / Rashid
Broad
Wood
Anderson

That would be my thinking for the 3rd test. Obviously Pietersen won't happen, but we really need to shake the top order up. They've been getting away with failure for too long now.

[PaulWinch again]

Lyth fails again then.

[taylorsworkrate]

Lyth fails again then.

From what he's shown so far, he just looks short of quality at this level. I know he scored a hundred against NZ, but that was scratchy and unconvincing.

His record for Yorkshire is decent, but averaging 42 in FC is hardly otherworldly

[taylorsworkrate]

That was pathetic from Cook, it really was.

Looks like we're not even going to make Australia work for their wickets

[PaulWinch again]

Terrible from the top order yet again.

[manic-road]

Can't afford to give wickets away again. Bloody poor

[Meanwood Villa]

So how many runs will we lose by? I'm going for 265.

[taylorsworkrate]

Fuck it. Im not watching this shower of ******. The golfs on

[manic-road]

The top order continually fail, time for changes.

[tomd2103]

So how many runs will we lose by? I'm going for 265.

Think this will be over by end of play today.  The changes the Aussies have made have worked well for them and Marsh's bowling has been pretty impressive.  There is no way we would have made changes like they did after one test, we just bumble along with the same players making the same mistakes.