The International Cricket Thread

[olaftab]

Spent a decent day at Trent Bridge today albeit England were disappointing. Not sure why Stokes decided to field as both weather and pitch favoured batting. Very impressed with Mitchell. He’s going to be a major player at Test level in the next few years. Broad is really wasted and should not be in the Test team as he offers nothing.

[Lsvilla]

Spent a decent day at Trent Bridge today albeit England were disappointing. Not sure why Stokes decided to field as both weather and pitch favoured batting. Very impressed with Mitchell. He’s going to be a major player at Test level in the next few years. Broad is really wasted and should not be in the Test team as he offers nothing.

Ha ! Sharon and I were there too. Not the best was it. Probably not a bowling day obviously but Latham said he would have done the same and if Root catches Blundell on 0 things could have gone differently. Clearly looks a decent pitch however, so the important thing is to come back strongly tomorrow and then make a proper fist of it when we get a go. A good test for this team to see whether they've developed any sort of backbone and can respond well with the bat to scoreboard pressure.
I should add that I'm not optimistic !

[UK Redsox]

Daryl Mitchell’s dad is John Mitchell, the Rugby Union coach

He’s certainly making the most of a chance to play international cricket fairly late in his career 

[olaftab]

Spent a decent day at Trent Bridge today albeit England were disappointing. Not sure why Stokes decided to field as both weather and pitch favoured batting. Very impressed with Mitchell. He’s going to be a major player at Test level in the next few years. Broad is really wasted and should not be in the Test team as he offers nothing.

Ha ! Sharon and I were there too. Not the best was it. Probably not a bowling day obviously but Latham said he would have done the same and if Root catches Blundell on 0 things could have gone differently. Clearly looks a decent pitch however, so the important thing is to come back strongly tomorrow and then make a proper fist of it when we get a go. A good test for this team to see whether they've developed any sort of backbone and can respond well with the bat to scoreboard pressure.
I should add that I'm not optimistic !

Pity we missed each other but nevertheless it was a good day specially weatherwise. My next Test day is at Edgbaston on July 1st against India. A test match that should not be happening IMO. We initially bought tickets for the first day of South Africa match but ECB  have moved that to Old Trafford and bent over backwards to accommodate India.

[simboy]

Had a lovely day at Trent Bridge yesterday, despite Stokes’ decision to bowl first. We never really seized control of the game, even when we got wickets NZ never really strangled - 100 in first and last season and close to in the middle session.

I think its my favourite ground to watch test cricket at in England, that and Sofia gardens.

[Lsvilla]

Spent a decent day at Trent Bridge today albeit England were disappointing. Not sure why Stokes decided to field as both weather and pitch favoured batting. Very impressed with Mitchell. He’s going to be a major player at Test level in the next few years. Broad is really wasted and should not be in the Test team as he offers nothing.

Ha ! Sharon and I were there too. Not the best was it. Probably not a bowling day obviously but Latham said he would have done the same and if Root catches Blundell on 0 things could have gone differently. Clearly looks a decent pitch however, so the important thing is to come back strongly tomorrow and then make a proper fist of it when we get a go. A good test for this team to see whether they've developed any sort of backbone and can respond well with the bat to scoreboard pressure.
I should add that I'm not optimistic !

Pity we missed each other but nevertheless it was a good day specially weatherwise. My next Test day is at Edgbaston on July 1st against India. A test match that should not be happening IMO. We initially bought tickets for the first day of South Africa match but ECB  have moved that to Old Trafford and bent over backwards to accommodate India.

Spot on.
Going on the 2nd. Also 9th. And 16th. Plus Oval on the 12th. And Bristol on the 27th. Before Rennes on the 29th ! May need some help in the garden in July haha.

[PaulWinch again]

Ragged stuff and a shocking drop from Potts.

[PaulWinch again]

England, when we bat, will get less than 250 here.

[Nev]

Further to my comments about Gough, I feel Sky Sports heard me and decided to bring Swann back to make realise that Gough isn't so bad after all.

[cdbearsfan]

Moving from Michael Holding to Darren Gough is like when we replaced Christian Benteke with Rudy Gestede.

[Risso]

Ragged stuff and a shocking drop from Potts.

Agreed, I'd have been embarrassed not to have caught that and I was shit at cricket.

[Richard]

He might pick up some more wickets in this innings and he's a bit of a cult hero but I just don't rate Jack Leach at all.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

This will go down in history as one of the classic toss decisions.

[olaftab]

Going on the 2nd. Also 9th. And 16th. Plus Oval on the 12th. And Bristol on the 27th. Before Rennes on the 29th ! May need some help in the garden in July haha.

Brilliant. You have your summer sorted better than me. I had a ticket for 9 July but gave it up as the day clashes with the next Eid therefore family priority .

[Richard E]

This will go down in history as one of the classic toss decisions.

Toss decision in both senses of the word.