The International Cricket Thread

[Risso]

Wicket for Leach. We can’t, can we...?

[PaulWinch again]

I don’t think we can win, but we can shift the momentum for the next game. Stokes’ hundred was excellent.

[cdbearsfan]

I don't like a concussion sub and certainly not when the fucker came out to bat again. If you are retired hurt, you are retired hurt. That has always been the case and we shouldn't swap now.

I don't agree, just because something has always been the case doesn't mean it needs to remain such. We wouldn't have substitutes in football on that basis. Sport, generally, is taking concussion far more seriously than it used to, and that can only be a good thing in terms of preventing problems in later life as happened to Jeff Astle, among others, and about a million American footballers.

He felt he was okay to bat but now feels he should be looked at. You shouldn't take any chances with a head injury. It's not like they've gained any advantage anyway, losing their best batsman.

[olaftab]

I don’t think we can win, but we can shift the momentum for the next game. Stokes’ hundred was excellent.

Exactly. The very positive  takes are Stokes and Archer. Those two in top form are enought to defeat the Aussies in the 3rd Test providing....



providing Smith is sent home.

[Villan For Life]

It’s looking very murky at Lords.

[UK Redsox]

Cricket is moving in the right direction with concussion substitutions.

Football needs to bring in temporary substitutions to allow for head injury assessments. This shouldn’t even need any discussion, it should just be brought in immediately

[PaulWinch again]

I don't like a concussion sub and certainly not when the fucker came out to bat again. If you are retired hurt, you are retired hurt. That has always been the case and we shouldn't swap now.

I don't agree, just because something has always been the case doesn't mean it needs to remain such. We wouldn't have substitutes in football on that basis. Sport, generally, is taking concussion far more seriously than it used to, and that can only be a good thing in terms of preventing problems in later life as happened to Jeff Astle, among others, and about a million American footballers.

He felt he was okay to bat but now feels he should be looked at. You shouldn't take any chances with a head injury. It's not like they've gained any advantage anyway, losing their best batsman.

100% agree. He should never have been coming out again.

[paul_e]

I don’t think we can win, but we can shift the momentum for the next game. Stokes’ hundred was excellent.

Exactly. The very positive  takes are Stokes and Archer. Those two in top form are enought to defeat the Aussies in the 3rd Test providing....



providing Smith is sent home.

Not massive scores but I'd say Buttler and Bairstow put in very important knocks as well. Drop Denly, push Roy and Root down 1 and bring Sibley in and I think we're looking in much better shape now. It's a touch harsh on Denly who hasn't completely bombed but Root needs to go back to 4 and Denly isn't good enough for the top 4. If Roy struggles at Headingley I'd bring Crawley in at 3 and then, going forward, it'd be 2 from 3 of Roy, Buttler and Bairstow. We need to find a way to get a top 3 that are seeing off the new ball consistently and if that means being a bit ruthless then so be it.

[PaulWinch again]

Roy dropping that catch tells you everything about where his mind is at.

[Villan For Life]

How long before they shake hands and call it a draw? There’s nothing happening really.

[PaulWinch again]

Leach hasn’t had an awful lot to do, but he’s been good. He’s brought some real control to the attack.

[PaulWinch again]

If he’s fit and he wants to play Jof will be a Test star for the next 10 years. He also makes us a threat abroad, he’ll get so many wickets. Absolute superstar.

[PaulWinch again]

Let’s not bowl him now though Joe, it’s bloody daft. Rest him up for the next game.

[paul_e]

How long before they shake hands and call it a draw? There’s nothing happening really.

Until those 2 wickets I'd have said at 7pm but now I'd keep going, break this pair and we're into the bowlers. Cummins and Siddle are decent but can be pressured, I wouldn't fancy Lyon of Hazlewood to last long with us surrounding the bat and bowlers giving it everything.

[taylorsworkrate]

Pitch ultimately too flat to bowl a side out in that amount of overs. With the rain it was effectively a day 3 pitch.

Leach and Archer have made a huge difference to the attack, and if we can find some runs from somewhere we still have a good chance in the series.