The International Cricket Thread 2018

[PaulWinch again]

Brilliant effort Cookie, excellent performance in final Test. Root could really do with a hundred.

[tomd2103]

Brilliant effort Cookie, excellent performance in final Test. Root could really do with a hundred.

He has looked like his old self in this test and that concentration and determination to score runs that he has had through so much of his career has been back.  What a way to sign off!! 

[Villa Lew]

Well done Cookie, brilliant, can't remember seeing any other batsman  getting an applause like that, fully deserved. I would imagine he's the only batsman in test history, to get 5 runs to reach his century in his final match.

[paul_e]

Brilliant effort Cookie, excellent performance in final Test. Root could really do with a hundred.

Agreed, it's a shame he's gone to lunch in the 90s, that has the potential to play on his mind a bit.

[tomd2103]

Everything crossed here for Cookie, he's getting close!!

Same here. If he gets a ton he will become only the 5th player in the history of tests to score a century in his first and last test.

Another couple of landmarks:

15th second innings century which is the most in the history of test cricket
Has passed Sangakarra to become the 5th highest scoring batsman of all time and the highest scoring left hander.

[manic-road]

Can't remember a longer standing ovation at a game of cricket.

[paul_e]

Root dropped on 94, Cook looks like he's just having a net right now, he's quite clearly relieved at having made his decision, looks a totally different player.

[Jon Crofts]

Declaration?

[PaulWinch again]

Well done Root. Needed that.

[PaulWinch again]

Fitting for Root and Cook to go back to back! Well done Cookie, legend.

[Villan For Life]

A fitting tribute from every member of the Indian side, to a man they lined up to shake Chef’s hand.

[Risso]

Quick trivia question for those of you not listening to TMS.  What's the lowest individual score that has never been registered at test level?

[UK Redsox]

Bairstow has been rubbish since his finger injury

[UK Redsox]

Quick trivia question for those of you not listening to TMS.  What's the lowest individual score that has never been registered at test level?

It was somewhere in the 220s a few years ago

[UK Redsox]

That looked like a no-ball. When the first spike touched the ground, the heel was in front of the line