The Cricket Thread 2016

[PaulWinch again]

Terrible Moeen.

[Chris Jameson]

Fucking hell, that was moronic.

[taylorsworkrate]

What a gutless surrender this has turned into.

[KevinGage]

They'll wrap this up this afternoon.

[taylorsworkrate]

Is it too much to ask that Pakistan actually have to try to take their wickets?

[PaulWinch again]

England's cricket since Bayliss has taken over has been really impressive, but I think this game has illustrated our problem. We've got obsessed with over aggression. This situation requires a sensible approach, but we can out frenetically and just slashing at it. I think the whole mentality of the squad needs to be more flexible. All these players can play, but they need to engage their brains. Moeen, Root and Hales were all just stupid. There's no excuse for Root and Moeen they're both experienced players now. The ability to understand the game situation needs to be the lesson from this game.

[taylorsworkrate]

Root in particular has played two ridiculous shots. It's arguable that the one in the 1st innings was worse, as at 118 for 1 we were in complete control.

I don't think Pakistan have bowled well in either innings really. We've made it so easy for them.

[Chris Jameson]

I think Root should be dropped and returned to Yorkshire for the rest of the season. And Bairstow. Both of them to be replaced by Middlesex players.

[paul_e]

What we're seeing now is why they were rushing things a little earlier, there was always going to be a spell like this where we struggled to score against the reverse swing which allows huge amounts of pressure at the other end.  We now need to hang on and get to the end of the day and hope they take the new ball then push from there.  It's a big ask to win this with the wickets we've lost but I can understand why they thought it was worth the risk.

The truth is we were 50 runs light in our first innings and then we let 6,7 and 8 score too many for them yesterday afternoon when we had them on the ropes.  fix those 2 and we'd be looking at another 30-40 runs here rather than 110.

[paul_e]

That's a shocker of a decision on the field, that's a pretty massive edge.  If we'd been out of reviews we'd feel utterly robbed right now.

[paul_e]

Poor from Bairstow, silly mistake after a fantastic innings.

[PaulWinch again]

Unlucky Bairstow, but at least he showed the application.

[PaulWinch again]

This is nearly done.

[PaulWinch again]

I think Broad is completely done as a batsman against anyone who can bowl pace well.

[paul_e]

Needed Broad to stick around a bit but this was lost in the first innings for me, there's a good reason why this would've been the 2nd best chase ever at Lords.