The International Cricket Thread 2018

[Monty]

We need to stop making our best batsman captain just because they're the only non-bowler at won't drop.

[PGW]

We need to stop making our best batsman captain just because they're the only non-bowler at won't drop.

Is that 3 successive ducks for Bairstow now?

[taylorsworkrate]

Another horrific collapse in progress. Well done to the selectors for thinking the batting line up didn't need changing.

[PaulWinch again]

Another bloody shambles after a dismissal. Blimey Bairstow is in diabolical form, and Root not much better.

[PaulWinch again]

Root’s balance is all wrong at the moment, he keeps falling over his front pad.

[Villan For Life]

We need to stop making our best batsman captain just because they're the only non-bowler at won't drop.

Is that 3 successive ducks for Bairstow now?

I think his last four innings have produced 0, 6, 0, 0. Gone downhill since he broke his finger. Boycott on TMS is saying that he’s batting too high and shouldn’t be going in ahead of Stokes. I tend to agree.

[Villan For Life]

131-1 to 181-7 is pathetic. How the hell have we managed to win this series with our brittle batting order?

[thick_mike]

131-1 to 181-7 is pathetic. How the hell have we managed to win this series with our brittle batting order?

Excellent bowling and an equally brittle Indian batting line up.

[PaulWinch again]

It’s another pathetic collapse. Two scores of note and the rest appalling.

[tomd2103]

It’s another pathetic collapse. Two scores of note and the rest appalling.

It has been Paul, but it makes a change that it was the lower order this time and not the top!!  I think they need to have a real think about things going forward as the whole thing seems to be a bit of a mess at the minute with players all over the place and out of position. 

Both Bob Willis and Dominic Cork said on the debate show earlier that Bairstow should bat six or seven if he is going to keep and that Buttler should be coming in before him if he hasn't got the gloves. 

[PaulWinch again]

To be honest Jonny could bat at 11 the way he’s playing at the moment. He needs to get back to the technique he had last summer, as does Root.

[manic-road]

I thought India would be batting by now but a bit of a recovery from England, 263-8.

[manic-road]

Important knock from Buttler this, 51no so far.

[tomd2103]

Great knock from Buttler and shame he couldn't make it to 3 figures.  He has been a definite plus point with the bat this summer and seems to have found his feet in test cricket.  It was interesting to hear him talking on that Mind Games series about finding it easier in limited overs cricket because there are always targets to chase, whereas he described test cricket as more of a "blank canvas".

[Villan For Life]

The contest between Jimmy and Virat Kohli has been fascinating to watch and Jimmy has troubled him. Incredible that he’s not got him out yet.

Cook is holding on to slip catches again, I think the chance he’s just took off Stokes to dismiss Pant gives him another record, most catches in a series. He’s dropped a couple too. The bloke is leaving a very big hole that we will struggle to fill.