The International Cricket Thread

[Risso]

We look like one of those countries who you don't really think of as playing cricket.

[PaulWinch again]

Bairstow runs out Root and then does that.

[PaulWinch again]

I’d missed that we left out Brook - good decision…

[dubont]

77-4.

We've had it.

[PaulWinch again]

Well done Jos top effort.

[PaulWinch again]

This level of ineptitude is something else.

[PaulWinch again]

Sri Lanka don’t have their two main bowlers.

[paul_e]

Buttler has had a terrible tournament, Root nearly as bad and no one else in the top 6 has really stepped up to fill the gaps, all just getting starts and then holing out in silly ways.

[PaulWinch again]

5 down - fucking embarrassing. Really really fucking dreadful.

[PaulWinch again]

Livingstone has been a brilliant pick at 6.

[Lsvilla]

Poor. Woeful. Shambolic. Choose your adjective. Scrambled minds. Names in a hat selection. No game plan to bat 50 overs.

[LeeB]

It also underlines just how good a captain Morgan really was.

[Gareth]

All that 50 over preperation they did was soooo totally worth it.

Hope all those ‘new’ cricket fans they attracted in the bag of spanners competition don’t lose interest in the game or the England Rainfinders sponsored by Custard Creams

[Lsvilla]

It also underlines just how good a captain Morgan really was.

Yep. However much Rob Key gets praised for the appointment of Baz to coach the test team the appointment of Mott is also on him. Sack him immediately after this tournament and get Morgs in as coach for the WI tour in December to build for the T20 World Cup next year and shape a team for the next World Cup in SA.

[PaulWinch again]

This is going to be the worst World Cup defence ever. Fucking embarrassing- half arsed approach to the game. Those Ireland games pre tournament prime example - a. Why playing Ireland given we were going and b. Then not getting any of your team to play. Arrogant, embarrassing, and utterly pathetic.