The Cricket Thread 2016

[Jon Crofts]

That first ball of the final over cost the game, destroyed him, shocking delivery.

[The Left Side]

What a last over

[paul_e]

Brathwaite will get the credit but that's a truly pathetic effort from Stokes and Willey and Jordan gave us a chance.

[PaulWinch again]

Ah well they did well to get that far. Terrible terrible way to lose though.

[TopDeck113]

Yep, let's all blame Stokes.  Yet 20 overs ago the consensus was that England were 30 runs light...

[four fornicholl]

He was trying to bowl with a sodden ball,the dope

[PaulWinch again]

It was a terrible over, but took guts to bowl it. They need to make sure there is support around Stokes now.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Good to see the West Indies women's champions celebrating with the men on the pitch

[Proposition Joe]

Brathwaite will get the credit but that's a truly pathetic effort from Stokes and Willey and Jordan gave us a chance.

With hindsight, you didn't want the bowler of the last over to be bowling cold, so maybe Stokes should've taken the second last and Jordan the last.  With 20/20 hindsight of course.

But, in any case, F, F and indeed S.

[UK Redsox]

World Cricket is way better when the West Indies are playing well.

[beness]

Stokes took a couple of great catches to keep us in the game. It was a hard last over to bowl no matter who bowled it. Not impressed with the line and length he chose but there you have it.

 At least England got there and tried to (and almost did)defend a small target.

[Chris Jameson]

It was a great game just a shame the rest of the team let the Yorkshire players down!

[paul_e]

Stokes took a couple of great catches to keep us in the game. It was a hard last over to bowl no matter who bowled it. Not impressed with the line and length he chose but there you have it.

 At least England got there and tried to (and almost did)defend a small target.

That's the important bit (in bold) bowling onto the legs of pretty much anyone in iT20 is asking to get slogged out of the ground.  If he'd bowled full outside off or a few short ones I'd be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt but he bowled the 1 line that was guaranteed to fail.  I'm convinced they were trying to tempt Brathwaite into some slogs in the hope of catching him on the rope, but that makes no sense when they needed 3-4 boundaries to stay in it.

[Proposition Joe]

World Cricket is way better when the West Indies are playing well.

I agree.  Rather them than the Aussies or India all day.  It's a shame they don't play this well in proper cricket though, where they're still a bit of a basket case.

[taylorsworkrate]

Im a huge Stokes fan, but that last over was indefensible. Its acceptable to miss your length trying to bowl a yorker, but if you miss it outside offstump then we win. I have no idea Why he was trying to bowl at the stumps.