The Cricket Thread 2016

[Chico Hamilton III]

I wonder if today is England's traditional Associate Nations fuck up.

Looking like it

Jesus, 3 wickets in an over

[paul_e]

pathetic run out as well, we do like to make things hard for ourselves

[PaulWinch again]

Bloody hell, brilliant run out our best player. We are getting ourselves into serious trouble now.

[Villan For Life]

Oh FFS England!

[Chris Jameson]

I worry about us a bit here

We could be 600 for 0 having bowled the opposition out for 20 in a Test and you'd still be worried Paul!

[PaulWinch again]

Maybe, but losing 3 wickets for no runs which include your best player is a bit of a crisis. Stokes better get some runs now.

[paul_e]

fuck it, I will no longer comment on players ability to play a specific type of bowling because I think I've just given the team the greatest jinx of all time.

[Villan For Life]

What was that? A short, slow long hop. What a mess.

[DaveD]

England rivalling Villa for ability to shoot self in foot

[PaulWinch again]

What an utter utter shambles. We need an absolute miracle to get any runs now.

[paul_e]

What an utter utter shambles. We need an absolute miracle to get any runs now.

We need Ali to stick around now and hopefully the others can score a few around him, they're all capable of scoring quickly so we need 1 or 2 of them to click.

[paul_e]

get through the next over or 2 safely and then we need to just go after them for the last 5-6 overs and try to put up a score we can defend.  I still think we can look towards 130-140 but it's a big ask.

[paul_e]

Interestingly Vince, Stokes and Jordan have all gone to balls that have 'stuck' in the pitch, if that slow bounce holds for the quicks as well as the spinners then we can still get out of this.

[DaveD]

Ali giving us a slim chance here.

[paul_e]

Brilliant over there, I did say we had people capable of scoring still.