The International Cricket Thread

[Villafirst]

Australia looking more comfortable now. Poor attempt by Pope on what should be a routine catch. The catching has been rubbish in this series.

[PaulWinch again]

This is looking pretty rough right now.

[Drummond]

They are just smacking us all over the place. FFS. I've got tickets for day one at Headingley, Old Trafford and The Oval; at this rate the series could be gone before OT.

[tomd2103]

This is looking pretty rough right now.

Yeah looking pretty ominous in what appeared to be bowler friendly conditions,

[UK Redsox]

Tongue gets a wicket.

Needed that

[Villan For Life]

Tongue bowls Kawaja just on lunch.

Poor performance so far and we need to make things happen the the afternoon session.

[PaulWinch again]

We need a big session here.

[manic-road]

With the conditions I honstly thought we would have had around 3-4 wickets before lunch.

[PaulWinch again]

Warner is taking this game away at the moment.

[PaulWinch again]

Timely! Need a few more.

[olaftab]

The way Smith and Labuschagne are amassing runs it looks as though England did not make the best of their total failure in the first test.

[olaftab]

And Robinson bowling like a parks league player. Maybe should have kept his mouth shut after dismissing Khawaja.

[LeeB]

And Robinson bowling like a parks league player. Maybe should have kept his mouth shut after dismissing Khawaja.

He's just too slow, you could have a cup of tea and read the paper in the between the ball leaving his hand and reaching the batsman

[PaulWinch again]

This is looking pretty desperate.

Robinson looks down on pace to me, he’s never express but when he’s in his grove he’s around 82/83mph. He’s late 70s at the moment which is a big difference.

[paul_e]

Given it's at Lords having Robinson bowling like this whilst Woakes carries drinks feels like a really bad decision.