The International Cricket Thread

[Villan For Life]

Our attack looks incredibly ordinary.

Away from home our attack is incredibly ordinary.

[Gareth]

Think we are witnessing the last throws of Roots captaincy….who should be next?

[Villan For Life]

Think we are witnessing the last throws of Roots captaincy….who should be next?

There’s no credible alternative which is also part of the problem

[PaulWinch again]

Collingwood seems like a nice genuine bloke, but he struggles to read the room. “One of the best days I’ve seen in an England shirt” - the pitch might be tough, but fucking hell. If ever there is evidence we need someone from outside the dressing room to come in and shake things up that is it - along with our woeful cricket.

[PaulWinch again]

Absolute road where we struggle to pry tailenders out - of course we’re already a wicket down.

[paul_e]

I'm not really sure why Lees is there, I've seen nothing in his stats or play to suggest he was ready to make the step up to international level and getting out twice to the same trap is pretty poor.

[PaulWinch again]

To be fair good session from England. Lees was very promising then had a couple of horror years, so I suppose it’s a bit of next cab off the rank.

[paul_e]

Small lead at lunch and, with only 1 wicket down, that might be the best session with the bat England have had for 18 months.

Need to follow it up with another good session now, if we want to try to win the match we really need a to be going at 50-60% strike rate for the rest of the day to end with a lead of 200ish.

[PaulWinch again]

Dead pitch yes - but nice to see the top order getting runs.

[LeeB]

[UK Redsox]

Third defeat in a row for England Women

To progress from the group stage, they now need to win their last three games and hope other results go their way

[PaulWinch again]

Yep England seem like quite a stagnant team - a lot of players who have been around a long while.

[UK Redsox]

Yep England seem like quite a stagnant team - a lot of players who have been around a long while.

Yep.

As I posted when the squad was announced

DOC Jonathan Finch ....""The England Women's A series that ran alongside the Ashes enabled a wider group of players to compete for a place in the squad which has made for some tough calls on selection."

All very well saying that, but they then basically picked the same players as usual

It's at the point now where the opposition can have an early bash a Ecclestone, then just play her out if need be.
The rest of the bowlers aren't feared.

Fielding appears to have gone to pot as well

[PaulWinch again]

You would hope the Hundred, and the increasing money attached to that, will start to broaden out the talent pool.

[UK Redsox]

Craig Overton is ill, so Matt Fisher joins Saqib Mahmood on dey-boo