The International Cricket Thread

[taylorsworkrate]

Can't someone just go and break the floodlights?

[Zouch Villa]

Can we issue glasses to both Overton and Broad?

[four fornicholl]

I'm saying nothing, but.....

[SoccerHQ]

One more hour to bat this out?

[taylorsworkrate]

Light is going to hold now. With the Aussies getting a bit tired, if we were 6 down at this point I'd give us a chance.

Not with only Broad to come though.

[LeeB]

Those Aussie fans all in the same get up look like a right bunch of ******.

[Nev]

Those Aussie fans all in the same get up look like a right bunch of c***s.

Very few below middle age as well, I noticed that when they were in Brum. Like an antipodean Brexit Party.

[taylorsworkrate]

That's it. Got everything we deserved.

[Nev]

Ooh, Tim Vine is on Pointless look.

[tomd2103]

Ashes gone, but not the series.  We've been second best for the majority of it so far so to come away with a 2-2 draw wouldn't be the worst result.

[hilts_coolerking]

Those Aussie fans all in the same get up look like a right bunch of c***s.

Yeah, stupid sport fans all wearing the same thing to the match.

[hilts_coolerking]

Disappointing but Smith was the difference between the sides, as he has been all series.  We've not once been able to get him early and plough on into the ropey middle order.  Even we when just attacked the other end, eventually Siddle and Lyon stuck with him and set up the win at Edgbaston.

[tomd2103]

Disappointing but Smith was the difference between the sides, as he has been all series.  We've not once been able to get him early and plough on into the ropey middle order.  Even we when just attacked the other end, eventually Siddle and Lyon stuck with him and set up the win at Edgbaston.

Agree Hilts.  When you factor in Smith's form, Labuschagne's unexpected arrival on the scene and the quality of their bowling attack, it was always going to get a tall order. 

Headingley aside, things just haven't really gone our way.  Losing our best bowler in Anderson was a big blow and then rain intervened at Lord's when we looked like we might get a win. 

[PaulWinch again]

I think Bairstow’s time has come now. He got the wicketkeeper’s job because he was one of the best bat’s and it balanced the side. He’s gone backwards with the bat in Tests, so the balance is gone. I’d have Foakes in. Jonny’s kind of lucky Foakes hasn’t come up claiming he’s the best option, as Jonny did in Sri Lanka.

[Monty]

We do need to be better at dropping players. We seem to have a bit of a matey attitude, as if being dropped makes players feel like you hate them, and they have to do things like bowling moon balls to miss out - whereas, speaking of Moeen, sometimes being dropped is a great opportunity to go away and work on your game. This is professional sport, after all.