The International Cricket Thread

[Steve67]

Just three wickets in the whole day. What a turgid pitch.

[UK Redsox]

Jade Dernbach was part of the Talksport commentary team today. He’s pretty good.

However, the best two young co-commentators are both in the BT studio. Carlos Brathwaite and Steven Finn. Hopefully we’ll hear them on TMS over the summer.

[paul_e]

England need to clean the last couple of wickets up quickly now and try to rush along to a lead of 250+ by lunch. The win is highly unlikely but I'd like us to show that we want to try for it after they've spent 2 days playing for the draw.

[dcdavecollett]

Yeah, we've been the only side going for the win on a dead pitch.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Jade Dernbach was part of the Talksport commentary team today. He’s pretty good.

However, the best two young co-commentators are both in the BT studio. Carlos Brathwaite and Steven Finn. Hopefully we’ll hear them on TMS over the summer.

I think Curtley Ambrose is very good - knows his stuff, doesn't follow the current vogue of talking non stop about very little, and has a great accent.

[PGW]

Jade Dernbach was part of the Talksport commentary team today. He’s pretty good.

However, the best two young co-commentators are both in the BT studio. Carlos Brathwaite and Steven Finn. Hopefully we’ll hear them on TMS over the summer.

I think Curtley Ambrose is very good - knows his stuff, doesn't follow the current vogue of talking non stop about very little, and has a great accent.

I hope we don't hear too much from Carlos....he's skippering the Bears push for T20 glory...lol

[PaulWinch again]

Ah 40-3 that’s more familiar.

[LeeB]

Oh look, there's some life in the pitch, it Collapso time.

[Villafirst]

53/6 pathetic from the top order. Bairstow gone now....rubbish!

[PaulWinch again]

Oh dear

[PaulWinch again]

England just have a fundamental lack of mental strength when things start to go against them. I don’t know what par on this pitch is, but it isn’t 100.

[Gareth]

Thank god there is a Villa fan to get it into 3 figures - massive central contracts clearly just generate batsman who can only play on a flat road….can feel a root & branch deckchair shift coming up in a few weeks

[PaulWinch again]

We better get make early inroads, because this hasn’t been too challenging for Leach and Mahmood.

[Gareth]

Time to flip the batting order?

[Meanwood Villa]

Has there ever been an innings where 10 and 11 are top scorers?