The International Cricket Thread

[Steve67]

Brain dead cricket from Stuart Broad.  Flashing away instead of trying to hang around to support Ben Foakes.

[UK Redsox]

Oh Jimmy Jimmy

[UK Redsox]

Brain dead cricket from Stuart Broad.  Flashing away instead of trying to hang around to support Ben Foakes.

These days Broad is either absolutely shit scared or just doesn’t give a flying feck about helping his team with the bat.

It’s not as if he’s facing Ambrose and Walsh. Southee and Boult are skilful bowlers but they’re unlikely to cause physical damage.

[PaulWinch again]

I fear the Stokes reign is going to start with a bashing. NZ showing what resilience is about here.

[Beard82]

Brain dead cricket from Stuart Broad.  Flashing away instead of trying to hang around to support Ben Foakes.

These days Broad is either absolutely shit scared or just doesn’t give a flying feck about helping his team with the bat.

It’s not as if he’s facing Ambrose and Walsh. Southee and Boult are skilful bowlers but they’re unlikely to cause physical damage.

Agree - his job was to support Foakes and was cheap - especially from someone nearly my age

[Ad@m]

Only England could reduce the opposition to 12-4 in the 1st innings and still end up being hammered.

I guess this is what happens when you spend years prioritising limited overs World Cups.

[tony scott]

The new reign has started badly ,the majority of the players have been part of a losing set up to long. We need a radical Change bring players in from successful championship sides uncapped and just experiment Keep Stokes only because he’s captain but give the rest the heave ho, losing is so ingrained in the current set up.

[PaulWinch again]

I mean I’m not happy with the performance, but that seems a touch extreme after one game of a new set up. Also you’re getting rid of Root presumably in that?

[Dante Lavelli]

The quality gap between the county game and test cricket is too big. Players cannot adjust unless they’re afforded the opportunity to learn in the test team. It will never happen but they need to find a away of reducing the number of county teams if test cricket is to be a priority.

[cdbearsfan]

Respectfully, bollocks. All England's successes were achieved with the county game more or less as it is. Sick of seeing the county game blamed whenever England are incompetent.

[Dante Lavelli]

Respectfully, bollocks. All England's successes were achieved with the county game more or less as it is. Sick of seeing the county game blamed whenever England are incompetent.

I should have added that this was something I read in the Sunday Times - possibly from Cook - but it did make sense to me.  The other criticism of the county game was that the four-day game now book-ends the season where the weather is shitter and the pitches are greener.   As a result batters rarely face decent spinners or express pace as the best/only way to take wickets is to allow seam/swing do the work.

Arguably central contracts were the biggest factor in our recent successes, not the county system, and since then 20/20 and the 100 have eroded the four day game even further.

[Risso]

Respectfully, bollocks. All England's successes were achieved with the county game more or less as it is. Sick of seeing the county game blamed whenever England are incompetent.

There's also the point that most other countries seem to play limited overs cricket without their test team turning into a laughing stock.

[UK Redsox]

Quick thinking by Pope to run out ‘de Big Bloke’ first ball

[UK Redsox]

A non-hattrick three wickets in three balls off Broad’s bowling

[Richard E]

Good effort by England this morning, which should ensure that they only lose by about 150-200 runs.