The International Cricket Thread 2018

[taylorsworkrate]

35 is the lowest ODI total in history. At the moment we are not certain of getting close to that.

[Villan For Life]

A recovery of sorts thanks to Woakes. Marvellous bowling from Hazelwood and Cummins whose combined 20 overs produced 7-63.

[JD]

TFFW

Or as we say Thank F*%k for Woakes. The guy's a legend.

[PaulWinch again]

Blimey that's a shocker.

[manic-road]

Woakes played some good shots in his 78 runs, didn't expect England to get anywhere near the 196 they got after the start.

[tomd2103]

Blimey that's a shocker.

Yep.  We just don't have that killer instinct that some of the great sides in the past have had.  Series in the bag and the foot comes off the pedal.   

[Villan For Life]

Blimey that's a shocker.

Yep.  We just don't have that killer instinct that some of the great sides in the past have had.  Series in the bag and the foot comes off the pedal.   

Hard to disagree, I believe it's an issue across British sport.

[Dave Cooper please]

I think that's a bit harsh, Hazlewood and Cummins just had one of those days where they were almost unplayable for a while and they blew our top order away. It happens sometimes and we battled back well to at least not be humiliated. If we had got Travis Head out for less than, say, fifty we might still have won.

[taylorsworkrate]

Hazlewood and Cummings were exceptional up front. Though we didn't help ourselves, particularly the poor shots from Roy and Root.

Looking to a world cup, this is the sort of performance that worries me. We've been excellent in the first 3 games here and then out of nowhere comes an abysmal effort. It happened in the champions trophy, when we great for 3 games then awful in the semi final. We cannot afford a performance like this in a knockout tournament or we'll just be out.

[PaulWinch again]

Awful fielding from us.

[PaulWinch again]

Great bowling from Curran.

[Richard]

Joe Root Man of the Series hmmm

[manic-road]

Good to win the final game, 1-4 and that today was without Woakes who I think would have been man of the series if he'd been picked today.

[tomd2103]

Good to win the final game, 1-4 and that today was without Woakes who I think would have been man of the series if he'd been picked today.

Not just Woakes, but Wood and Plunkett as well.  When you think there are still the likes of Stokes, Jordan and Finn who are not even in the squad, it just goes to show the strength in depth we have in that format of the game. 

[paul_e]

Happy for Curran, I thought he had a decent series in the tests given how it came about without really getting the rewards so a 5fer in the ODIs will help him a lot.