The International Cricket Thread

[Stu]

Another! I’ll post more moans

[LeeB]

Today has been like time warping back to the 90's, half expecting to see John Embury turn up

Was thinking the same. England with no ideas and no intensity, meek, and Australia in full control.

Also Stuart Broad’s comments on the Edgbaston pitch about it being slow are showing him up. Great conditions for seamers today and he’s delivered fuck all.

AND ANOTHER FUCKING THING. The home of cricket? Lord’s? Fuck off. A stuffy, silent symbol of a past age, a place where England never play well.

I was getting pissed off at the number of time Lords being 'special' was mentioned before midday

[PaulWinch again]

Those two wickets are handy but need to run through them and I don’t see it. I also see us being about 200-6.

[olaftab]

Lords is not even a proper cricket field. F in stupid squarish rectangle.

[Monty]

Fun though all that was, electing to bowl and your opponents getting to 330-5 is pretty poor.

[Stu]

Today has been like time warping back to the 90's, half expecting to see John Embury turn up

Was thinking the same. England with no ideas and no intensity, meek, and Australia in full control.

Also Stuart Broad’s comments on the Edgbaston pitch about it being slow are showing him up. Great conditions for seamers today and he’s delivered fuck all.

AND ANOTHER FUCKING THING. The home of cricket? Lord’s? Fuck off. A stuffy, silent symbol of a past age, a place where England never play well.

I was getting pissed off at the number of time Lords being 'special' was mentioned before midday

It’s special to the unending legions of foreign players scoring 100 runs against England and getting their name up on the board, that’s for sure.

[TonyD]

Looking forward to Oz declaring just before lunch so they can have a go. 

[Steve67]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but perhaps the Broad/Anderson combo should be consigned to the Ireland's and not the Australia's.  That said, who else have we got?  Wood isn't fit enough. Potts?  We have been underwhelming so far. 

[Beard82]

My biggest concern going into this series, which is currently panning out to be accurate, is we'll really struggle to take 20 wickets in a test against them.

[Jon Crofts]

Men vs Boys.

They’ll put 450/500 up and we’ll make 200 if we’re lucky.

[Steve67]

Men vs Boys.

They’ll put 450/500 up and we’ll make 200 if we’re lucky.

Or we'll make 200, and declare!

[Stu]

Fun though all that was, electing to bowl and your opponents getting to 330-5 is pretty poor.

You want fun? Don't go to Lords etc etc.

Sadly we threw it away at Edgbaston because we were never going to put on a show at this dismal mausoleum

[PaulWinch again]

We just don’t look at it. The concept of “Bazball” is about intensity, aggression, and front footedness. That today was none of those things - it was casual, unprepared, and just weak. It also makes the stuff Crawley came out and said look even more stupid.

Nowhere near good enough.

[Villan For Life]

I think our attack is still undercooked, Jimmy in particular is a rhythm bowler who needs overs in his legs which his injury robbed him of. Broad thrives when the crowd is boisterous which you will not get at Lords and Robinson is a trundler who bowls the occasional Jaffa. Tongue bowled some lovely stuff and Stokes is a perpetual worry.

The forecast for tomorrow is poor so I suspect the Aussies will make the most of the conditions on Friday and run through us, their attack is good and Lyon will dominate.

[Beard82]

I think our attack is still undercooked, Jimmy in particular is a rhythm bowler who needs overs in his legs which his injury robbed him of. Broad thrives when the crowd is boisterous which you will not get at Lords and Robinson is a trundler who bowls the occasional Jaffa. Tongue bowled some lovely stuff and Stokes is a perpetual worry.

The forecast for tomorrow is poor so I suspect the Aussies will make the most of the conditions on Friday and run through us, their attack is good and Lyon will dominate.

Agree with all of this, and the risk is well play the "mindset" rather than the conditions/circumstance.  Hope Im wrong