The International Cricket Thread

[taylorsworkrate]

I think Sangakarra is my favourite pundit now. He’s excellent.

He's one hell of a quality person too.

His cowdrey lecture from a few years ago is majestic.

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What do we think? We dont want to be chasing too many in the 4th. Need at least 420 I think.

[PaulWinch again]

I think Sangakarra is my favourite pundit now. He’s excellent.

He's one hell of a quality person too.

His cowdrey lecture from a few years ago is majestic.

Yeah he’s very impressive.

[PaulWinch again]

What do we think? We dont want to be chasing too many in the 4th. Need at least 420 I think.

Yeah I think we need to try and get to 400 odd if we can.

[hilts_coolerking]

What do we think? We dont want to be chasing too many in the 4th. Need at least 420 I think.

Yeah I think we need to try and get to 400 odd if we can.

I think we should just aim to bat all day again.  Keep the Aussie bowlers out in the field for another full day or as near as possible.  That would get us c. 250 in front.

[PaulWinch again]

Well yes ideally, just think that is a big ask.

[paul_e]

What do we think? We dont want to be chasing too many in the 4th. Need at least 420 I think.

Yeah I think we need to try and get to 400 odd if we can.

I think we should just aim to bat all day again.  Keep the Aussie bowlers out in the field for another full day or as near as possible.  That would get us c. 250 in front.

I think that would be dangerous, the weather reports for Sunday and Monday suggest we could lose overs on the afternoon of the 4th and morning of the 5th. What I'd hate is for us to have a lead of 150-200 and not win because we run out of time.

Personally I'd tell these 2 to stay sensible and bat as they are until Lunch, that should see us with a 60-70 lead and then after lunch I'd say just go for it and smash them out of the game.

[hilts_coolerking]

What do we think? We dont want to be chasing too many in the 4th. Need at least 420 I think.

Yeah I think we need to try and get to 400 odd if we can.

I think we should just aim to bat all day again.  Keep the Aussie bowlers out in the field for another full day or as near as possible.  That would get us c. 250 in front.

I think that would be dangerous, the weather reports for Sunday and Monday suggest we could lose overs on the afternoon of the 4th and morning of the 5th. What I'd hate is for us to have a lead of 150-200 and not win because we run out of time.

Personally I'd tell these 2 to stay sensible and bat as they are until Lunch, that should see us with a 60-70 lead and then after lunch I'd say just go for it and smash them out of the game.

If the forecast is not good for Sunday and Monday then surely the best idea is to get a lead which could conceivably see us win without the need to bat again or, if we do have to, to knock off not very many.  I reckon we just keep going.  Maybe give them 20 minutes tonight, if we get that far.

[PaulWinch again]

The Aussie pace is definitely a bit down.

[PaulWinch again]

Stokes gone, that’s bloody annoying.

[taylorsworkrate]

Was a pretty poor shot from Stokes. He had looked so good up until that point. He looked furious at himself, a big innings was there for the taking.

Time for Bairstow and Moeen to contribute some test runs.

[paul_e]

What do we think? We dont want to be chasing too many in the 4th. Need at least 420 I think.

Yeah I think we need to try and get to 400 odd if we can.

I think we should just aim to bat all day again.  Keep the Aussie bowlers out in the field for another full day or as near as possible.  That would get us c. 250 in front.

I think that would be dangerous, the weather reports for Sunday and Monday suggest we could lose overs on the afternoon of the 4th and morning of the 5th. What I'd hate is for us to have a lead of 150-200 and not win because we run out of time.

Personally I'd tell these 2 to stay sensible and bat as they are until Lunch, that should see us with a 60-70 lead and then after lunch I'd say just go for it and smash them out of the game.

If the forecast is not good for Sunday and Monday then surely the best idea is to get a lead which could conceivably see us win without the need to bat again or, if we do have to, to knock off not very many.  I reckon we just keep going.  Maybe give them 20 minutes tonight, if we get that far.

I don't disagree, the worst case though would be for them to get in at that time but only 100-120 behind. If we're batting after tea it has to be with an aim of not batting again so we need to push the score along, especially given that the pitch looks better for Batting than Aussie bowling at the moment (but I suspect we're looking forward to bowling again on this one).

[PaulWinch again]

Rotate that strike gents.

[taylorsworkrate]

Just allowing them back into this.

Moeen really does need to contribute here.

[taylorsworkrate]

Falling apart now.

I cannot see how Moeen justifies his place in the team. That was pathetic.