The International Cricket Thread

[Monty]

Why Ben, why? Why not leave it alone!

I'm not about to get too annoyed, he's done his job. If the rest of the top order made a few more mistakes on 83 rather than 3 we'd be in a lot less trouble.

[taylorsworkrate]

Yeah in fairness, he's been a bit silly with some of the things he's said in interviews, but in this match he's scored 170+ runs

[Jon Crofts]

This pair need to make 150.

[OzVilla]

Maybe if England had approached their batting v’s game situation as they have this morning in the preceding 9 days of Test cricket we’d be going 2-0 up today.

Taken what’s on offer without taking silly risks.

[Monty]

Maybe if England had approached their batting v’s game situation as they have this morning in the preceding 9 days of Test cricket we’d be going 2-0 up today.

Taken what’s on offer without taking silly risks.

One thing you can't say about Stokes is that he doesn't take responsibility. There he is out there, acknowledging the mistake in the most practical way possible, like he did in the first innings.

[Stu]

Absolutely comical out from Bairstow that

[dr.chekov]

lol

[Monty]

That is the worst bit of sportsmanship I've seen in a while. Why not just roll the ball on the ground?

[Pete3206]

All over.

Unbelivable twattery from Bairstow

[German James]

Bairstow is a fucking idiot.

[dr.chekov]

he really is

[UK Redsox]

Great work by Carey. Bairstow had barely moved when the ball was thrown. By the time he’d left his ground the ball hit.

Pope did a similar thing to de Grandhomme last summer

[Monty]

It's also stupid, infinitely, from Bairstow, who ought to be dropped in favour of a real wicketkeeper.

[tomd2103]

That is the worst bit of sportsmanship I've seen in a while. Why not just roll the ball on the ground?

Don’t think there is an issue with it to be honest.  The ball was still live and Bairstow wandered out of his ground. 

[PaulWinch again]

Use it as motivation to win the game.