The Cricket Thread 2016

[PaulWinch again]

I hope Morgan is ok, that was a bad one

[ACVilla]

It was and he didn't look at all right walking off.

Starc is also very visibly upset by it all.

[Proposition Joe]

Morgan should not take apart again today, you can't risk it with those types of injuries.

[PaulWinch again]

That'll knock all the air out of the game. The principal concern is Morgan's health. Hopefully he's just a bit groggy.

[PaulWinch again]

Think we're buried here.

[cdbearsfan]

Game over.

[Proposition Joe]

Moeen gone, doesn't look like we'll make much north of 100 at this rate.

[Proposition Joe]

Rashid uses a V12.  Isn't that a kids' bat?

[PaulWinch again]

Pretty dismal end to the summer.

[Proposition Joe]

The day started badly and went downhill from there.  No point in having all this batting depth if they (Morgan, Stokes and Rashid excepted) completely bottle it.

Aussies will knock this off in about 15 overs.

[Chris Jameson]

Pretty dismal end to the summer.

A summer that seemingly everybody wrote off? I'd say it's merely disappointing  losing the decider in a five match ODI series against the world champions.

[taylorsworkrate]

The batting collapse was inevitable after Roy ludicrously failed to review his LBW (absolutely horrendous umpiring btw). I'm not sure about batting first at 10:30 in mid September.

It has been an exciting summer of cricket all told. We have to keep moving forward in the same vein now.

[tomd2103]

Just a quick comment on the passing of Brian Close.  Didn't see his playing career, but have read a bit about him.  Amazing to think he was 45 when he faced that onslaught from the West Indies and did so with no helmet or the body protection we see today.  My two favourite stories about him are Mike Brearley's one when he said Close used to stand at short leg and instruct fielders around him to catch the ball if it hit his body and went up in the air and Michael Vaughan's one today about when he was a young player at Yorkshire struggling with LBWs.  He said Close, then in his 60's, got in the nets and began batting with no pads on. "Only way you'll learn lad".

[adrenachrome]

Just a quick comment on the passing of Brian Close.  Didn't see his playing career, but have read a bit about him.  Amazing to think he was 45 when he faced that onslaught from the West Indies and did so with no helmet or the body protection we see today.  My two favourite stories about him are Mike Brearley's one when he said Close used to stand at short leg and instruct fielders around him to catch the ball if it hit his body and went up in the air and Michael Vaughan's one today about when he was a young player at Yorkshire struggling with LBWs.  He said Close, then in his 60's, got in the nets and began batting with no pads on. "Only way you'll learn lad".

I have a vivid memory of that series. On a number of occasions he seemed to let the ball hit him in the chest, and then refuse to show any reaction to the bowler. 

[spangley1812]

Former England one-day captain Paul Collingwood and former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene have been appointed to the England management team as consultants, the England and Wales Cricket Board has announced.