The International Cricket Thread

[Lsvilla]

Got some after 2+ hours in the q. Virtually all gone will be a sell out for sure.

I tried after work but got fed up of the queue online.

I should have booked as soon as the Notts CEO came in TMS to make the announcement

Now confirmed as capacity reached. I may know someone with spares if you're still interested. PM me.

[UK Redsox]

Thanks, but it’s now too late for me to book tomorrow off

[Rory]

I love playing the Kiwis. They play the game hard but fair and every series is competitive and entertaining.

Yes. My favourite foreign cricket team....and rugby of course.

I don't follow rugby very closely, but I'm not keen on the All Blacks. All that dancing palaver. Just get on with it.

I get that it's part of their culture, but why are the other side expected to stand there and watch? Let them crack on and allow the other blokes a few extra minutes playing soggy biscuit, drinking beer from each other's arse cracks, or whatever rugby boys do before games.

[olaftab]

I get that it's part of their culture, but why are the other side expected to stand there and watch? Let them crack on and allow the other blokes a few extra minutes playing soggy biscuit, drinking beer from each other's arse cracks, or whatever rugby boys do before games.

Love it and I agree.

[UK Redsox]

I don't mind the NZ rugby team dancing around as if they're 15 Aussie goalkeepers.

What I don't like is that the opposition if expected to respect them while the do it.

I'm not saying that the other team should be pointing and laughing. What I'd like is to see teams just ignore it all and carry on warming up.

[UK Redsox]

Meanwhile....back at Trent Bridge

Took longer that hoped, but England make the breakthrough.

Good to see that Boult hasn't come in ahead of Jamieson. Therefore, the record is still on

[Chris Smith]

I don't mind the NZ rugby team dancing around as if they're 15 Aussie goalkeepers.

What I don't like is that the opposition if expected to respect them while the do it.

I'm not saying that the other team should be pointing and laughing. However, I'd like to see teams just ignore it all and carry on warming up.

Surely it would just fire them up even more if teams did that. It’s already an uphill struggle playing the All Blacks so giving them additional motivation seems like a bad idea to me.

[Risso]

I don't mind the NZ rugby team dancing around as if they're 15 Aussie goalkeepers.

What I don't like is that the opposition if expected to respect them while the do it.

I'm not saying that the other team should be pointing and laughing. What I'd like is to see teams just ignore it all and carry on warming up.

If they want to do their dance, the other team should be free to respond or not as they see fit, including pointing and laughing if they feel like it. It's designed to fire up the All Blacks and give them an edge, so why should people solemnly respect that. Load of bollocks.

[UK Redsox]

There's the record for Trent Boult

[LeeB]

I don't mind the NZ rugby team dancing around as if they're 15 Aussie goalkeepers.

What I don't like is that the opposition if expected to respect them while the do it.

I'm not saying that the other team should be pointing and laughing. What I'd like is to see teams just ignore it all and carry on warming up.

If they want to do their dance, the other team should be free to respond or not as they see fit, including pointing and laughing if they feel like it. It's designed to fire up the All Blacks and give them an edge, so why should people solemnly respect that. Load of bollocks.

I'd always thought of how we'd have reacted to someone doing that to us in the Sutton Sunday league, and can only think the response would probably have included humour and violence. They can very much get to fuck with it as far as I'm concerned.

[Risso]

Fucking hell Stokes.

[Risso]

That over has probably just taken the game away from England.

[olaftab]

Yup New Zealand have the absolute correct approach at 9 down. Score another 20 or so and England can only think about saving the match.

[olaftab]

299 doable.

[Chris Smith]

You can’t really ask for from a Test Match than having all 3 results still possible on the final day.