The International Cricket Thread

[PaulWinch again]

I’m sure I’m misremembering but in my time watching England I don’t think I have ever seen the tactic of bowling short stuff at the tail ever result in anything other than leaking a load of runs.

[Villan For Life]

Excellent catch from Bairstow to give Leach a 5-fer

[PaulWinch again]

Well done Leach. Pleased for him.

[PaulWinch again]

Ropey commentary from Prakash there. Boult is a brilliant bowler, Lees gone.

[PaulWinch again]

Top 3 bowled out - it’s just naive batting. If Boult is bowling really well - how about try and sit in and respect the bowling?

[PaulWinch again]

Root gone as well.

[manic-road]

Yet another collapse from the top order, I reckon Stokes and Bairstow will try and counter attack because defending doesn't seem a good tactic at the moment.

[PaulWinch again]

Aggressive cricket yes, but that’s just brain dead.

[PaulWinch again]

People will say you can’t criticise them for this and praise them for Trent Bridge, but you can. This isn’t positive cricket, it’s just idiotic and showing a lack of respect for conditions and the bowlers.

[Martin Carruthers]

Yeah I'm all for us being 'positive' and 'aggressive', but that doesn't mean trying to launch every single delivery out of the ground irrespective of the bowling or conditions.

[Villafirst]

England should've waited for the 20-25 over mark before adopting the aggressive approach. It's not a T20 match! However, yet another failure by Crawley. The guy isn't good enough to open. He needs to be dropped.

[Risso]

This is like us when we won a match playing 5-3-2. One success doesn't mean that you should play that way forever more and not take each game on its merits.

[paul_e]

The failing today was the top order not so much what came after. If you lose your top 3 inside 7 overs you're going to struggle to get a decent score, this has been our problem for a few years now. The openers main job is to see off the new ball, 20-30 overs without loss sets you up to get a decent score, and 3 is the backup if one of them gets an unplayable delivery.

[PaulWinch again]

What Bairstow and Overton have done since shows how stupid the batting was up top.

[PaulWinch again]

I said Overton would add to the batting, didn’t expect this!