The International Cricket Thread

[olaftab]

It’s not the usual mix of England fans at Edgbaston today. Majority is Brit Indians who have simply swapped their tops and bought a St George’s flag. Let’s hope it stays that way😉

[Villan For Life]

That flick for 6 by Roy to fine leg was sublime.

[Villan For Life]

It’s not the usual mix of England fans at Edgbaston today. Majority is Brit Indians who have simply swapped their tops and bought a St George’s flag. Let’s hope it stays that way😉

They seem to have all brought football scarves outside the ground. As they are backing England it shows how unpopular the Aussies actually are!

[Risso]

They're just playing Hi Ho Silver.  Nice.

[Risso]

Ticking along nicely at 6 an over.  Not sure how long Bairstow will last as having got a twinge he's clearly just going to batter everything he can for a boundary.

[Risso]

Just the 21 off the over so far!

[paul_e]

Bringing Smith on deserved that.

[LeeB]

This is fucking marvellous

[PaulWinch again]

This is unbelievable!

[Villan For Life]

Wasted review there but hopefully it won’t affect us too much.

[Villan For Life]

60 runs off the last 25 balls

[Proposition Joe]

Uh oh. I wish I hadn't followed England so much from the 80s onwards, because I always get the feeling that 1 out can quickly become all out, especially against the damn Aussies. Need Arundhati to carry his bat.

[paul_e]

Starc takes loads of wickets, no issue with that, but he doesn't have throw down some shit as well. 2 of those boundaries for Root were really poor bowling to a new man.

[Villan For Life]

Wasted review there but hopefully it won’t affect us too much.

And Roy could have done with it there!

Didn’t like his dissent though and a fine will surely be issued. It was a shocking decision from Dharmasena but he should have walked.

[Villan For Life]

The Aussies have a long stop for Morgan whilst facing Starc. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in international cricket before.