The International Cricket Thread

[taylorsworkrate]

Imperative not to lose a wicket tonight

[paul_e]

As others have said, fair play to Burns, he's been in terrible form all summer but has pulled something out of the bag here and been excellent.

Cummins with the new ball is dangerous and Pattinson has got a bit of movement (and been their best bowler) but Lyon has been poor and Siddle just requires concentration when he's bowling like this.

[PaulWinch again]

Great day, brilliant effort.

[taylorsworkrate]

Yep, really good day. Solid sensible batting.

Bloody annoying that the aussies got a couple of wickets they probably wouldn't have if the replacement ball hadn't swung like a middle aged couple trying to rediscover the spark in their sex life, but Stokes and Burns did excellently to calm the situation.

Bat for as long as possible and get a big lead. The pitch will turn a lot as the game goes on.

[Villan For Life]

That’s set up nicely for us to bat them out of the game tomorrow. If we can bat through the first hour with no alarms then we should be in the box seat.

[SteveN]

Great effort by Burns, with that stance he's the modern left handed version of Henry Horton.

[olaftab]

Very impressed with Burns today. Yes he played and missed a few but that didn’t faze him. He deserved his century and hopefully will continue tomorrow. Lyon was getting some turn today so it points to a turning pitch on day 4 and 5 so it’s imperative that England get a lead of minimum 100 tomorrow.

[Steve67]

Great day, brilliant effort.

Seconded.  Important to push on and use scoreboard pressure, specially if we have no Jimmy to bowl.

[taylorsworkrate]

Jimmy still has a chance of being able to bowl in their 2nd innings.

On a different note, can umpires be replaced during a series?
Their performance over the 2 days has been utterly dreadful.

[UK Redsox]

Joel Wilson was only promoted back up to the Elite Parnell after a couple of post World Cup retirements

I think Aleem Dar was a late injury/illness call up

[Villan For Life]

Joel Wilson was only promoted back up to the Elite Parnell after a couple of post World Cup retirements

I think Aleem Dar was a late injury/illness call up

For a series as big as the Ashes the top ranked umpires should be used.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Was surprised that the Aussies pretty much just used 4 bowlers,  thought it meant they were jaded towards the end of the day, like England had been.

[cdbearsfan]

Didn't realise in the ground that the Root one that the Aussies claimed but didn't seem to hit anything actually hit the stumps but didn't dislodge the bails.

Ha ha ha.

[olaftab]

Umpires are not making anymore mistakes these days than they did in the past it is just that they are exposed more due to technology. 20 years back they made just as many mistakes but no one knew any better. That’s all.

[taylorsworkrate]

Id say the general standard of umpiring is very high.

These two have had absolute shockers in this match.