The International Cricket Thread

[PaulWinch again]

It also sends the message of surrender.

[Meanwood Villa]

It's bollocks. We've got to find a way to get him out if we want to win the last test. If we somehow get out of this intact.

[PaulWinch again]

Bloody hell he’s out. What a fucking player he is though.

[Meanwood Villa]

Hallefuckingjulah!

[PaulWinch again]

As an aside for us to go from 170-2 to 300 odd all out is terrible.

[PaulWinch again]

Hell of a catch from Bairstow.

[Monty]

It also sends the message of surrender.

To be honest, I fucking surrender. We're up against something not human.

[PaulWinch again]

That’s the perfect start, and hammers the final nail in the coffin.

We don’t deserve to win the Ashes we’ve been fucking rubbish.

[dubont]

0-2. Root gone.

[PaulWinch again]

Root gone as well. Brilliant delivery, but this team has been poor at Test cricket for far too long.

[Martin Carruthers]

Stokes is going to be busy again.

[PaulWinch again]

The other general theme in this series is that Australia have bowled much better as a unit, not exclusively but for the most part. Generally there has been a massive drop off from our opening bowlers to the rest.

[Villafirst]

Crazy thing is, the weather saved the Aussies at Lord's. England had them on the ropes and with another 10 overs would've won that test. Anderson only bowling 4 overs at Edgbaston has screwed England. You take Cummins out of their team and it would be massively different.  Fine margins as they say.

[hilts_coolerking]

Root gone as well. Brilliant delivery, but this team has been poor at Test cricket for far too long.

Come on now, we beat India 4-1 last summer.  We beat Sri Lanka away 3-0 in the winter.  There are good results and performances but we have to acknowledge that Australia are a far stronger team than us.  In particular they've got the world's best batsman in the form of his life, a surplus of high quality quicks and an off-spinner who has taken 300+ wickets.  On top of that we're missing our best bowler.

We've turned in some genuinely shit performances, don't get me wrong, and English cricket has some major structural problems but to say we've been poor for far too long just isn't the case.

[OzVilla]

If we had a half decent top order we’d have been tough to beat at home. Smith aside, this Australian side isn’t all that. But we’ve the poorest top 4 in living memory and our all time leading wicket taker missing.

We just arnt good enough.