The Cricket Thread 2016

[Villan For Life]

Game over, ironic that it was two DRS reviews that decided this test.

Well played Bangladesh, they deserved to win that.

[Nev]

That was an excellent review from Cook. I didn't think it was out, but what do I know?

As much as me. They didn't waste much time cutting to the shipping forecast R4.

[Villan For Life]

That was an excellent review from Cook. I didn't think it was out, but what do I know?

As much as me. They didn't waste much time cutting to the shipping forecast R4.

I'm now tying to decide what to do with myself for the next hour and a half. I don't fancy going to work early!

[PGW]

Who would have thought it, this game decided on 2 reviews. Excellent game well done Stokes and England

[paul_e]

I didn't get up because I'd decided it would go that we'd take the new ball, hand it to Stokes and Broad and the 10 and 11 would get blown away by the swing, having watched the highlights I reckon that's pretty accurate.

As much as I don't understand why Cook didn't use his spinners more aggressively yesterday a new day with a new ball and couple of tailenders to bowl at was always going to be about the seamers.

[Villan For Life]

I didn't get up because I'd decided it would go that we'd take the new ball, hand it to Stokes and Broad and the 10 and 11 would get blown away by the swing, having watched the highlights I reckon that's pretty accurate.

As much as I don't understand why Cook didn't use his spinners more aggressively yesterday a new day with a new ball and couple of tailenders to bowl at was always going to be about the seamers.

We didn't take the new ball, but if they'd scored a further 10 or so runs then I think we would have.

I did question why, at 5.20am this morning I had bothered to get up to watch it!

[paul_e]

Ok that's a surprise, I guess they were getting a lot of reverse from the old ball then.  I did have an alarm set but I turned it off just before I went to sleep.

[Villan For Life]

Ok that's a surprise, I guess they were getting a lot of reverse from the old ball then.  I did have an alarm set but I turned it off just before I went to sleep.

Watching yesterday's play, the ball didn't start reversing until the last 10 overs. Stokes got plenty of reverse movement in the first innings but there was less reverse movement in the second. Of greater concern is Cook's lack of faith in his spinners. There are another 6 tests in Bangladesh and India before Christmas and he needs to show faith in them and let them tie up one end between them.

[AVH87]

Vaughan claiming 'India will whitewash England 5-0 if England play like against Bangladesh'.

What a load of rubbish, Bangladesh is a tough place to go and we got a good, albeit narrow win.

[paul_e]

I generally have very little interest in anything Vaughan has to say.  He's the cricket equivalent of Savage as far as I'm concerned.

[Villan For Life]

I generally have very little interest in anything Vaughan has to say.  He's the cricket equivalent of Savage as far as I'm concerned.

He was a hero of mine for a long time. I thought he was a fantastic captain who had the knack of making something happen and of course the memories of the 2005 Ashes series will live long.

However since then he's turned out to be an odious twat. He's not even a decent pundit either.

[paul_e]

I generally have very little interest in anything Vaughan has to say.  He's the cricket equivalent of Savage as far as I'm concerned.

He was a hero of mine for a long time. I thought he was a fantastic captain who had the knack of making something happen and of course the memories of the 2005 Ashes series will live long.

However since then he's turned out to be an odious twat. He's not even a decent pundit either.

I never even thought he was that great a player, was just sure of himself enough to be a decent choice as captain when there were no other options but he was never more than an average test batsman for me and he never should've been anywhere near the ODI team, for a top order batsman to play the number of ODIs he did and not get a century is about the biggest indicator of why we were so shit at that format for so long.

[Dave Cooper please]

Vaughan claiming 'India will whitewash England 5-0 if England play like against Bangladesh'.

What a load of rubbish, Bangladesh is a tough place to go and we got a good, albeit narrow win.

You see that is just underestimating and demeaning a Bangladesh team who have made some great strides in the last couple of years.

[UK Redsox]

Is Batty injured or do England want to boost the batting by bringing in Ansari ?

[PaulWinch again]

Is Batty injured or do England want to boost the batting by bringing in Ansari ?

I think it's a bit of a fact finding exercise before India.