The International Cricket Thread

[UK Redsox]

Foakes has turned into a pretty useful lower-order bat, hasn't he?

Number 7 isn't really lower-order

[Monty]

Foakes has turned into a pretty useful lower-order bat, hasn't he?

Number 7 isn't really lower-order

Lower-middle then if you like.

[PaulWinch again]

Foakes is a bloody decent bat.

Stokes has been fantastic, got the balance spot on.

[PaulWinch again]

Delighted for Foakes, also his perceived weakness was against real express pace. A century against that attack is massive.

[tomd2103]

Delighted for Foakes, also his perceived weakness was against real express pace. A century against that attack is massive.

Yep.  A certain G. Boycott had a nice big slice of humble pie tonight after his comments earlier in the week.

[Risso]

One more wicket for Anderson and he's the highest (pace) wicket taker ever. Tied with Glenn McGrath at the moment. I can see him getting over a thousand wickets.

[cdbearsfan]

One more wicket for Anderson and he's the highest (pace) wicket taker ever. Tied with Glenn McGrath at the moment. I can see him getting over a thousand wickets.

He's already nearly a hundred clear of Glenn McGrath?

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/93276.html

[Meanwood Villa]

Is it including ODIs?

[cdbearsfan]

Aaah maybe that's it, apologies Risso.

https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/283980.html

[Villan For Life]

Is it including ODIs?

No, those are all test wickets. He took 269 wickets in ODI’s

[Villan For Life]

FFS that’s a tight no ball call, a beautiful delivery to not get Markram.

[cdbearsfan]

The link I put up originally was just test wickets, assume Risso was on about all international wickets.

[PaulWinch again]

Anderson obviously is great. But Robinson is a seriously good bowler - if he can fix and sustain his fitness he’s a massive asset.

[tomd2103]

Great win that, especially after getting drubbed in the first test just last week.  The decision to leave Jansen out of the side was inexplicable from the South Africans.

[Villan For Life]

For all of the media hype around “Bazzball”, that victory was built around perfect bowling and batting.