The International Cricket Thread

[taylorsworkrate]

England deserve to lose this after their "efforts" I'm the morning session

[UK Redsox]

"Help us Joe Root, you're our only hope"

[Steve67]

Is Joe Root a poor captain but a brilliant player in a crap team? Or is he a good captain with a bag of shit batsmen around him? He confuses the hell out of me. Personally, I am not sure about his captaincy, but who else is there?

Surely that’s enough of Sibley now? Burns too quite possibly. What a disaster.

[PaulWinch again]

Sibley has to go.

[UK Redsox]

From Zaltz........

England's top scorers this year are Root and Burns. The former has over 800 more runs than the latter

Burns and Sibley combined this year have more ducks than Sir Chef had in his entire Test career

[UK Redsox]

I don't know what England do about their top order without any First Class games in which to look at players' form.

After bringing him back, Hameed has to get the rest of the series.

Sibley's gotsta go, so moving Hameed up one and bringing in Pope seams the only option left.

[PaulWinch again]

Yikes Hameed out. Not the return he’d have wanted. But I think ultimately he’s going to be a good player for England.

[PaulWinch again]

It’s weird to say after scoring 9, but he looked alright there given the context of the situation.

[Rory]

From Zaltz........

England's top scorers this year are Root and Burns. The former has over 800 more runs than the latter

Burns and Sibley combined this year have more ducks than Sir Chef had in his entire Test career

Also from Zaltz:

It's the third time this year England's top three have been dismissed for a total fewer than 10.

[aev]

Still, good news that the ECB are really happy with the way the Hundred is going.

[Steve67]

Two things I’ve learnt from this test match:

1/ Virat Kohli has a very punchable face

2/ England have got no balls whatsoever

[Steve67]

Still, good news that the ECB are really happy with the way the Hundred is going.

Yeah, test cricket is dead, long live the Hundred! Knobbers.

[UK Redsox]

Still, good news that the ECB are really happy with the way the Hundred is going.

Not only that, they think that The Hundred will help the Test Team




The Hundred is great for women's cricket (with the disclaimer I made in the domestic thread about some players just making up the numbers).

I don't see anything that it brings to the men's game that T20 doesn't.

[tomd2103]

We're going to lose this.  Simply not good enough and think the test set up needs a re-think.

[Meanwood Villa]

Absolute dolly dropped by Kohli