The Cricket Thread 2016

[Villan For Life]

We really need a couple of wickets here.

[Villan For Life]

That was a great, instinctive catch by Topley.

[PaulWinch again]

Yep excellent effort.

[Villan For Life]

Woakes and particularly Broad bowled poorly. Too many long hops and not enough potential wicket taking deliveries. We had them on the rails and let them back into the game.

Clinical batting from Morris though.

[paul_e]

Joe Root really is a remarkable player and I think he'll break all sorts of English, if not world, records. It's quite incredible when you think that he should probably have 5 or 6 more Test centuries than he has.

His back will be the limiting factor, he clearly struggles and there's little chance of that improving over time.

[paul_e]

Woakes and particularly Broad bowled poorly. Too many long hops and not enough potential wicket taking deliveries. We had them on the rails and let them back into the game.

Clinical batting from Morris though.

I think that's really harsh on Woakes, in his first spell he was superb, I'm not sure why Morgan left him off for so long.  Even then we were really 1-2 catches away from winning that, the rashid one in particular was a massive drop and he really should've done better.

[ACVilla]

Woakes and particularly Broad bowled poorly. Too many long hops and not enough potential wicket taking deliveries. We had them on the rails and let them back into the game.

Clinical batting from Morris though.

I think that's really harsh on Woakes, in his first spell he was superb, I'm not sure why Morgan left him off for so long.  Even then we were really 1-2 catches away from winning that, the rashid one in particular was a massive drop and he really should've done better.

His last over, when it really mattered, was horrific.

[DaveD]

The dropped catch by Rashid cost us the game in the end.

[Dave Cooper please]

Two or three dropped catches, one missed stumping and at least one excellent chance of a run-out by Morgan, we really should have won that.
Not going to blame the bowlers too much, they were mostly very good, taken apart a bit at the end by Morris throwing his bat but that happens now and again.

[spangley1812]

We lost the toss that was a shame

Roy gone already to a very poor shot, his place has to be under pressure

We cant keep on relying on Joe Root

[PaulWinch again]

Root fails, it's up to someone else to turn up.

[olaftab]

Good game so far. Could be real nail biter.

[PaulWinch again]

Morgan has had an absolute shocker.

[PaulWinch again]

Stokes needs to play this right, as he struggles a bit against spin.

[olaftab]

Talk about setting yourself up to be dismissed....Morgan made it easy for Wiese.