The International Cricket Thread

[tomd2103]

Oh well.  Don't suppose there is any chance of that bad weather forecast for tomorrow arriving pretty sharpish and lasting for a couple of days?

[Risso]

How in the name of god has Lyon got 400 test wickets? Don't get me wrong, he's a good bowler, but 400 wickets?!

He’s better than ‘good’, but he’s also played 101 tests

I'd guess that a quarter of those are probably against England.

[tomd2103]

Should at least be a bit of entertainment with Stokes and Butter at the crease while it lasts. 

[Rory]

How in the name of god has Lyon got 400 test wickets? Don't get me wrong, he's a good bowler, but 400 wickets?!

He’s better than ‘good’, but he’s also played 101 tests

I don't think he is better than good, to be perfectly honest. Good isn't an insult, he's a good test bowler for Australia, which automatically makes him one of the top 5-10 in the world.

But 400 wickets is unbelievable for someone who isn't as good as spinners Warne kept out of the Aussie team.

[olaftab]

Oh well.  Don't suppose there is any chance of that bad weather forecast for tomorrow arriving pretty sharpish and lasting for a couple of days?

There is hope if it can go to Sunday but a long shot.

[olaftab]

Simply not good enough. With Stokes and Buttler now gone the end is near.

[Rory]

Maybe we should just stick Woakes as an opener. He can't do much worse.

We're meandering towards 300, which is a respectable second innings total. But we dropped the ball with 147 in the first.

I know it's tough, but if you have a top order that cannot fucking bat, only put them in when it's a road, not when it's 50/50.

[tony scott]

Out played Root and Malan good innings ,Root is not the man to captain England, “but who else is there ?” is the cry.  Why not try the Irish guy from the T20.

[Meanwood Villa]

Fell into the trap of hoping for good news when I woke up this morning. Normal service resumed.

[PaulWinch again]

Disappointing that they couldn’t do better in that first hour before the nee ball. Ultimately that second innings score was alright, it was the first that killed us. You can’t realistically get that far behind the game and hope to claw it back.

[simboy]

Out played Root and Malan good innings ,Root is not the man to captain England, “but who else is there ?” is the cry.  Why not try the Irish guy from the T20.

I agree with the first part, Root isn’t a good captain. I don’t agree with the second part, Morgan wouldn’t make a good test captain now. It would be a backward step.

James Vince captains his county side as does Rory Burns. Neither are particularly dynamic and cannot (should not?) hold their place in the side.

Ben Stokes is the obvious choice and did well over the summer but probably wouldn’t want it. Buttler isn’t the best keeper in the squad. So you’re left with? Woakes? Malan? Pope?

That’s a problem with prioritising the white ball money making game and marginalising the red ball, there’s very little to choose from when it all goes wrong … w

[Risso]

And Root has said he'd bat first again, and not pick Broad. Of course you would Joe, that's why England are so hopeless.

[Nunkin1965]

We can't even say that we collapsed on the beginning of the fourth day due to the new ball.

So over the duration of this test match we've formed one decent partnership of note out of twenty opportunities.
Thats dreadful.

[PaulWinch again]

The pink ball Test gives us our best chance, but the batsmen need to get runs. It doesn’t matter what bowling line up you pick if Australia are never under scoreboard pressure.

[nigel]

I don’t think we should have expected much…

“England have a notoriously poor record at The Gabba, and have only won two test matches at the ground since the end of the Second World War. Many of their defeats have been heavy and only seven England players have scored centuries at the ground.”