The International Cricket Thread

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Catch that!

[Villan For Life]

Jimmy takes a wicket with the first ball of the series.

[PaulWinch again]

Decent morning.

[Monty]

After the sheer stress of the Ashes and the current Villa nightmare, this nice, steady, incremental and close game is a reminder of why cricket is important. It's good for the soul.

[PaulWinch again]

Curran  is class he’s always on the money.

[olaftab]

This is a dangerous stand by de Kock and Pretorious.😉

[paul_e]

Archer has been poor so far, which is frustrating, he's the bowler we want firing when things get a bit flat like this.

[PaulWinch again]

They’re counter attacking well here.

[Steve67]

Archer has been poor so far, which is frustrating, he's the bowler we want firing when things get a bit flat like this.

I saw his 'beehive' earlier, only two balls from his whole spell were hitting the wickets.  Far too short. We are not using his pace properly, complete waste of a man.

[Steve67]

Commentators curse!  Mark Nicholas talking up Ben Stokes, out next ball.  Did the same with Joe Denley. Posh twat.

[aj2k77]

England's batsmen are shit.

[Steve67]

England's batsmen are shit.

I'm really pleased that we have a world class Coach in Chris Silverwood to sort them out.  (sarcasm alert!)  Absolutely appalling.  None of what is happening at test level is working for England, Root through to Silverwood needs a head wobble and Ashley Giles can do one as well.

[PaulWinch again]

Another fine batting display.

[Villafirst]

Why isn't Archer bowling? The ball is getting softer. Root baffles me at times with his captaincy.

[Villan For Life]

Why isn't Archer bowling? The ball is getting softer. Root baffles me at times with his captaincy.

Root isn’t on the pitch, he’s ill. Stokes is the Acting captain.