The International Cricket Thread

[Risso]

Damnit, great catch to be fair.

It'll be interesting to see how Bairstow bats now. Stokes has come in and been a lot more defensive than we've seen, is he playing the Root role of anchoring the innings so they can flash at the other end or will we reign it in a little?

Somebody needs to stick around. 120 on this would leave us in the 270s, and I doubt that will be enough.

[Jon Crofts]

Damnit, great catch to be fair.

It'll be interesting to see how Bairstow bats now. Stokes has come in and been a lot more defensive than we've seen, is he playing the Root role of anchoring the innings so they can flash at the other end or will we reign it in a little?

Somebody needs to stick around. 120 on this would leave us in the 270s, and I doubt that will be enough.

Need at least 300 here.

[PaulWinch again]

Cummins showed the standard needed from the bowlers. He was outstanding.

We need at least 270 here. I don’t think Australia will find it easy to score against our attack. But we need something to defend. Root’s shot was so disappointing given what they had managed to do before it. We let them back in unnecessarily.

[Steve67]

There’s an awful lot of time left in the game to take 5 wickets and score, shall we say 275 runs. Dig in, tough it out, stop giving wickets away.

[olaftab]

This match is going to be a classic nail biter. Anything under 250 and Aussies  get them easily, 300 plus and it's England's.

[LeeB]

This match is going to be a classic nail biter. Anything under 250 and Aussies  get them easily, 300 plus and it's England's.

Agreed mate

[PaulWinch again]

Oh dear Bairstow gone. We really need Moeen to turn up here.

[Risso]

Well that's buggered it.

[olaftab]

Not good now.

[PaulWinch again]

Yep disaster.

[LeeB]

Bollocks

[PaulWinch again]

On the plus side the last two wickets have been good deliveries. We need another 40 odd here.

[Risso]

If Moeen can smash another 30 with the tailenders hanging about for 20 between them, it'll make it interesting and give us something to bowl at at least.

[Steve67]

There’s still pretty much a day and a half left. Nowhere near enough runs at the minute.

[UK Redsox]

Jim Maxwell is brilliantly bonkers at times