The International Cricket Thread

[olaftab]

WICKATIOOOOOOOO

[olaftab]

You beauty Moeen....has been past it sod!

[PaulWinch again]

Yes!

[olaftab]

England's inadequate bowling strength now showing up. Stokes is struggling as is Anderson due to injury and age respectively. Robinson has been very ineffective, leading to both Root and Brook tossing a few to get the overs in.

[PaulWinch again]

Drop there, not great.

[PaulWinch again]

Bowled Khawaja off a no ball. Poor I’m afraid. A few sloppy mistakes creeping in.

[Behind Bluenose Lines]

Dare I say it: could this start to get tense?

[PaulWinch again]

Feels like it’s moving towards Aus at the moment.

[Jon Crofts]

Could do with another wicket before stumps.

[Steve67]

I'd rather have spent the last half an hour adding another 20-30 on our total and not allowing them to chip 15 off our lead.

Bold move, but with the pitch and weather as they are, I'm not sure nicking a couple of wickets ever looked that likely.

I suspect he was hoping the shock factor might unsettle them, guess it was worth a go.

Yeah, just seemed a little unnecessary on day one. Great day of cricket, though. Hopefully we'll bowl well tomorrow and really put some pressure on.

Our gung ho approach is very exciting but against the best side in the world and in the Ashes, less likely to work against gnarly feckers.  We are bold and brash and I like that against the lesser sides as we put them to the sword, but against the Aussies, we have to be more calculated.

[olaftab]

Another chance missed to add to 2 dropped by Bairstow. He has had a terrible day behind the stumps.

[beness]

After 1 superb catch from Bairstow he has had a poor rest of innings so far. Broad has been pulled up on a few no balls thanks to third umpire. I think the tech (explanation) used in cricket is so much better than football. The third umpire can be heared over the picture we watch and you can see the reason for the decision. VAR has no commenrty on why descisions are reached.

[PaulWinch again]

Got to be honest, it might be the pitch but Anderson and Robinson have been well below par today. Add in the missed chances and it’s been a pretty sloppy day. Going to need a massive morning to avoid getting significantly behind in the game.

[beness]

Got to be honest, it might be the pitch but Anderson and Robinson have been well below par today. Add in the missed chances and it’s been a pretty sloppy day. Going to need a massive morning to avoid getting significantly behind in the game.

Not sure If they will run away with it but that remains to be seen. Love our agressive approach with a 5+per over run rate. We declared on 8 wickets down and to me that was throwing down the gaunlet to them. I would not want to talk Stokes out of what is doing.

[beness]

Full credit to Broady for giving an interview 5 mins after comming off from a very long hard day.