The Cricket Thread 2016

[Villan For Life]

Three dropped catches in the morning session is poor. 97-5 at lunch looks a whole better that 97-2.

[taylorsworkrate]

This is pretty ordinary at the moment from England. Don't remotely look like taking a wicket

[taylorsworkrate]

This is rubbish at the moment

[taylorsworkrate]

For a good bowling attack, we have too many of these poor days when conditions are flatter.

[PaulWinch again]

Dropped too many chances today.

[taylorsworkrate]

Not good enough from England. Only taken 2 wickets and one of those was the nightwatchman.

In danger of throwing this series away unless they can massively improve.

Cook and Bayliss really need to put a rocket up them during tea

[PaulWinch again]

Not looking great at the moment.

[dave shelley]

320 for 6 now.  Perhaps a chance of a couple more tonight it wouldn't be too bad.

[Villan For Life]

There's some pretty good movement with the new ball.

[taylorsworkrate]

In the game still just about. Not sure we deserve to be. Batted poorly on the whole, bowled averagely at best and fielded shockingly.

Need to keep their lead around 50

[olaftab]

twr I think you are being a bit harsh on England. Yes losing 5 very quickly yesterday was bad but the team showed sort of recovery associated with very good outfits to take it to 328. Today it has been difficult but it's not a bad position. Remember this very good batting strip will take spin on the last two days and team batting last will be vulnerable to that.  All in all couple of very good days of Test match cricket.

[Villan For Life]

Yasir has been ineffective since the Lords test so he shouldn't pose too many problems* but we must get enough of a lead to enable us to bowl Moeen Ali for a long spell whilst rotating the seamers at the other end. There's a job to do with the ball first though.

What really boils my piss is that the final test of the International summer finishes in mid-August. There's a month of the season left and it's stuffed with ODI's.

*if he gets a 5-fer it's not my fault.

[tomd2103]

In the game still just about. Not sure we deserve to be. Batted poorly on the whole, bowled averagely at best and fielded shockingly.

Need to keep their lead around 50

Not sure about that after what happened in the last test. 

[PaulWinch again]

Very poor we look certain to lose this game. The batting just hasn't been good enough for a lot of the series. We're not get anywhere near enough significant contributions from three of our main batsmen.

[Villafirst]

Vince useless again. DROP HIM!