The International Cricket Thread

[paul_e]

Gutted that Roy has gone, I thought he was doing a good job there.

[taylorsworkrate]

Wow. Just wow.

I know Roy is in the team to play in a positive manner, but I am absolutely gobsmacked he has just done that.

[OzVilla]

Jason Roy has just played a kamikaze shot of epic proportions. Quite incredible, Lyon a cert for 5 wickets today.

[Jon Crofts]

Just what went through his mind there? Ridiculous

[olaftab]

Forgive him as he knows not any better.

[paul_e]

In his defence what Australia did well yesterday was make the spinners expensive. As a strategy I like it here because we want Lyon to bowl as few overs as possible. That said the particular ball he attacked and the way he attacked it was poor.

[taylorsworkrate]

Denly just played 2 aggressive shots that went for 4, but they were a lot safer, and the odds much much more in his favour.

I don't mind the aggression, but there has to be some semblance of a thought process.

[OzVilla]

Lyon is comfortably better than Moeen or Denlay. On this pitch treat him with respect. Roy’s shot was worthy of Sunday afternoon in Cannon Hill Park. Crazy really.

[paul_e]

I agree with both of you, I'm just saying i understand why he was looking to smash it away, criticise the shot not the approach is my point.

The 'respect' shown to Lyon is that we don't want him bowling at us so try to hit him out of the attack. Cummins, Pattinson and Siddle are unlikely to take 8 wickets on this pitch without him.

[taylorsworkrate]

Going down without a fight now.

[hilts_coolerking]

I'm looking forward to a quickfire 8 off 3 balls cameo from Bairstow.

[paul_e]

Poor review from Denly, not sure what he was thinking there.

[hilts_coolerking]

Poor review from Denly, not sure what he was thinking there.

That he hadn't hit it

[taylorsworkrate]

I think the old mantra of a "batsman always knows when he's hit it" has been proven to be false since DRS came into the game. There's been times when a batter hasn't hit it and hasn't reviewed and vice versa.

[cdbearsfan]

Game over.