The International Cricket Thread

[hilts_coolerking]

Fuckin ell Mo you useless prick.  He needs a hatful of wickets now if he's going to play more this series.

[paul_e]

That's really poor from Moeen.

[manic-road]

Fuckin ell Mo you useless prick.  He needs a hatful of wickets now if he's going to play more this series.

Yep, a fucking shocker. England have a chance to get a good lead and it looks like they will fuck it up.

[manic-road]

England are batting like they think the job is half done once they got above the Aussies score. Pathetic shot selections.

[hilts_coolerking]

Bairstow under pressure for his place now too.  Looks like the lead is going to be a slim one.  Woakes is mighty but Broad and Anderson (assuming he bats) won't last long.

[taylorsworkrate]

Fucking shit shot from Bairstow too.

So much for the strength of our lower order. Just handed the advantage to Australia on a plate

[OzVilla]

Well we’ve tossed yesterday’s hard work away royally here.

[taylorsworkrate]

They batted in a proper test match manner yesterday, and it was a good day. Why then have they decided to bat like fucking ****** today?

[hilts_coolerking]

This where the Aussies put on 160-odd.  Mind you, they did have one of the all time greats at one end.

[paul_e]

This is why I always think England need to accelerate a bit in games like this, we have a bad habit of giving away cheap wickets.

Across the 2 innings so far we probably let them get 100 more than they should've and now we've gifted them cheap wickets when we should've been looking at getting another 70-80. I'm not sure i like us giving away the best part of 200 runs like that.

[PaulWinch again]

Absolutely pathetic from Bairstow and Moeen. They have ruined all our work.

[taylorsworkrate]

The only one who has been got out today was Burns.

The other 3 dismissals were village cricket.

[PaulWinch again]

Does Moeen actually practice batting anymore?

[Risso]

Shocking morning so far. No surprise to see Ali out again ridiculously easy, he looks like he’s never played cricket before at the moment.

[Brend'Watkins]

We’ll be lucky to get a lead of more than 50. Very disappointed in Bairstow. He’ll need a good 2nd innings to keep his place.