The International Cricket Thread

[Gareth]

5 now - well bowled CW

[Villa Lew]

Well done the Villa man.

[LeeB]

The way Wokes has bowled since coming back it looks like a mistake not playing him in the first two tests, especially given the first was at his home ground

[olaftab]

All done. 5 for Woakes. Well done that man.

[olaftab]

The way Wokes has bowled since coming back it looks like a mistake not playing him in the first two tests, especially given the first was at his home ground

Isn't he a superb  team man and so effective when given the chance but totally underrated. A sort of James Milner of cricket.

[Gareth]

Massive day needed now, minimum is parity by close and still 3/4 wickets in hand please England

[tomd2103]

THAT WAS NOT A NO BALL. Woakes denied his 5th by a bad call.

Might have my England / Bears / Villa tinted specs on, but having seen the replay, I don't think it was either. 

[Villan For Life]

The way Wokes has bowled since coming back it looks like a mistake not playing him in the first two tests, especially given the first was at his home ground

Isn't he a superb  team man and so effective when given the chance but totally underrated. A sort of James Milner of cricket.

It's a shame that his career coincided with a pair of bowlers who have taken almost 1,300 test wickets between them.

I met him back in May at a Hockley Social Club thing, he really is a lovely guy.

[Villan For Life]

Duckett gone for 1

[Gareth]

In next test news England have substituted Tongue back into the Worcester team mid March vs Leicester…presume they want him to have a bit of bowling before Test….arrived with Leicester 8 down and they lost those 2 before he got a bowl….sure he’ll be batting by about tea though :-)

[paul_e]

The way Wokes has bowled since coming back it looks like a mistake not playing him in the first two tests, especially given the first was at his home ground

Isn't he a superb  team man and so effective when given the chance but totally underrated. A sort of James Milner of cricket.

It's a shame that his career coincided with a pair of bowlers who have taken almost 1,300 test wickets between them.

I met him back in May at a Hockley Social Club thing, he really is a lovely guy.

I suspect the main reason he's not been played significantly more is that he's seen as too similar to those 2 so the selectors keep dismissing him in the hunt for something different. Which is ok but given how effective he is (at home) it seems like ideology trumping reality. What I find weird is that they then settled on Robinson, who surely has the same problem. I'd find it less frustrating if we were playing with 2 from Wood/Archer/Stone/etc every test.

[paul_e]

We could do with getting the scoring rate up a bit (given the weather forecast) but I reckon this has been decent from Crawley and Moeen. To give us a chance at a result we'd really want to be over 200 by tea so we can then slog for a while and put them in for 10-12 overs tonight.

[paul_e]

Obviously the review saved us but that decision to give Crawley out was fucking awful.

[Risso]

Mo batting nicely now.

Almost certain to be out in the next 2 overs now I've said that.

[olaftab]

Moeen gets to 3000 runs and plus 200 wickets, apparently the 4th player to do this for England.