The Cricket Thread 2016

[taylorsworkrate]

Umpires need to be strong here. Do not allow them to waste time so they dont face another over

[cheltenhamlion]

Bang. And the opener is gone!

[manic-road]

That was a good day's play, great knock by Moen and nice to get the wicket before close of play.

[Dave Cooper please]

There must have been a temptation to bowl first having won the toss, cloudy conditions today with the forecast for the rest of the game being hot and sunny.

Below par score but Pakistan have a long tail so knock a couple over early and it's game on.

[tomd2103]

Well played Mo.

Lovely innings at a crucial time. Now don't throw it away!

To be fair to him, he's produced some good knocks at crucial times during his time in the side. 

When Stokes is fit, numbers 6-11 are looking pretty settled now.  1-5 is looking anything but that at the moment though. 

[PaulWinch again]

Sounds like a super knock from Mo.

[Villan For Life]

With regards to slow over rates I think all players should be hit where it hurts, in the pocket. Otherwise why not play on until all scheduled overs have been bowled? The light at 6.30pm is generally OK and if it's murky, they use the floodlights anyway!

Umpires need to be strong and some things like the Vince referral yesterday seem to take an age to resolve. It'd wouldn't take much to remove some delays. Players are used to time cut off restrictions in ODI's and T20's so they should easily adapt in tests.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

This looks a good pitch with naff-all swing. Could be a hard day...bring on Woakes.

[UK Redsox]

The subject of a recent discussion between Daggers and Tuffers

I am finding Charles slightly less annoying these days

[taylorsworkrate]

Been crap so far today

[Chris Jameson]

I am finding Charles slightly less annoying these days

Same here, now I've got used to his voice. I think James Taylor is excellent, obviously rather he was healthy and still playing but he's a very welcome addition to the radio team, hopefully he'll eventually replace Swann (or better still Vaughan) on the TMS team.

[taylorsworkrate]

Unbelievably poor drop from Hales

[Villan For Life]

Unbelievably poor drop from Hales

It was, as they say a dolly.

[taylorsworkrate]

Come on this is getting silly now England

[taylorsworkrate]

What is going on? Why is our catching so pathetic?