The International Cricket Thread 2018

[Villa Lew]

He was lucky today, but that was a superb knock from Kohli, still fancy us to win it, as long as we don't have any daft run outs!

[Steve67]

Isn't it about time Broad and Cook were dropped? I'm also not sold on Joe Root as captain either. 

[Chris Jameson]

Kohli gets his ton, Malan should be ashamed.

I’m sure he’s not feeling too great about it but hope he doesn’t feel ashamed, he’s no need to be. Cricketer drops a catch, it happens, a lot.

[paul_e]

He was lucky today, but that was a superb knock from Kohli, still fancy us to win it, as long as we don't have any daft run outs!

Brilliant knock from him to be fair, the sky analysis was great, showing that he came out of his crease to smother the seam movement and be on the ball before the late swing that was giving the rest of them so much trouble.

The bal lthat got Cook was good but Cook wasn't convincing and his form for the last couple of years is all about a couple of massive scores 'hiding' how often he's been out in single figures.  The stream of poor openers at the other end has saved him from a lot more criticism.

I said last night that it was a wicket setup for Broad at his best, what we got was Broad looking like he couldn't be arsed with it. If Woakes can get some overs under his belt he'd be in as the replacement for me.

[olaftab]

Kohli is pure class and absolutely the best in the world at the moment.

[tomd2103]

He was lucky today, but that was a superb knock from Kohli, still fancy us to win it, as long as we don't have any daft run outs!

Brilliant knock from him to be fair, the sky analysis was great, showing that he came out of his crease to smother the seam movement and be on the ball before the late swing that was giving the rest of them so much trouble.

The bal lthat got Cook was good but Cook wasn't convincing and his form for the last couple of years is all about a couple of massive scores 'hiding' how often he's been out in single figures.  The stream of poor openers at the other end has saved him from a lot more criticism.

I said last night that it was a wicket setup for Broad at his best, what we got was Broad looking like he couldn't be arsed with it. If Woakes can get some overs under his belt he'd be in as the replacement for me.

Broad and Cook have been the same for some time now Paul.  It seems like they have to reach crisis point where they come under heavy criticism for them to produce anything like their best.  They coast along doing pretty poorly until they start getting criticised in the media.  This then fires them up and they have one good game and the 'haters' are proven wrong.  Place in the next series secured, they go back to coasting mode until the next crisis comes along. 

[UK Redsox]

I didn't hear it explained why Broad only bowled 10 overs.

Did any of you hear a reason ?

[taylorsworkrate]

Shambolic start to the day

[paul_e]

Oh look, our best batsman gets caught cheaply, lets double down on the fuck up we made in the field yesterday.

I suspect we'll be setting them a target of about 150 and they'll make it with ease.

[taylorsworkrate]

Really poor. Bairstow played the same shot that Root stupidly got out to his 1st ball also.

Trott made me laugh on the debate show last night, saying England would look for a lead of 400!!!

This batting line up isnt capable of scoring 400 in pretty much any conditions. Its terrible

[paul_e]

Malan is in his 'danger zone' right now, once he gets over 25 he generally goes on to get 50+ and we really need him to do that today. If this pair can build a bit of a partnership we might be able to give ourselves something to bowl at but they need to get us to lunch first, which is a big ask given how we've played so far.

[PaulWinch again]

Really poor from Root and then absolute insane for Bairstow to nearly fall into the same trap twice.

[tomd2103]

Malan is in his 'danger zone' right now, once he gets over 25 he generally goes on to get 50+ and we really need him to do that today. If this pair can build a bit of a partnership we might be able to give ourselves something to bowl at but they need to get us to lunch first, which is a big ask given how we've played so far.

Really hope Malan can get a big knock here as everything seems to be going against him at the moment.  We are teetering on the edge of being in real trouble at the moment.

[taylorsworkrate]

That has to be the end of Malans run in the team. He's looked really poor all summer.

[paul_e]

Yep, he isn't scoring enough runs and he really needed to see us through to lunch here.

I get the argument that catches sometimes go down but the Kohli drop yesterday was a complete game changer, we were destroying them at the time and taking their best player for a low score (keeping his poor performances in England going) would've been a dream. For it to go into his hands and him to just not get fingers round it is just poor technique. The one Cook dropped a few deliveries later was much more forgivable, came through very quick and moved in the air so it never went into his hands.