The International Cricket Thread

[taylorsworkrate]

We've lost 24 wickets in this series so far. How many of them have been genuinely got out, rather than wickets poorly thrown away? Compare that to Australia, who we've had to work so hard to prise wickets out.

[Monty]

Three singles and two twos an over gets you over a run a ball, when they spread the field you knock off those easy runs. That was the essence of Bazball last year. Instead, this year, they've just completely lost perspective.

[Paul.S]

The Aussies were rattled and we gift them wickets with some terrible shots. There’s a time and place for playing 1 day shots and it’s when we’ve gone past their total. They’re still at it as well. Ridiculous!!!!

[PaulWinch again]

Think Brook - Christ almighty.

[Monty]

Why is Brook batting like a desperate T20 player then guffawing like a moron?

[olaftab]

Why is Brook batting like a desperate T20 player then guffawing like a moron?

Because they are mostly T20 players?

[PaulWinch again]

Just leave the fucking short ball.

[taylorsworkrate]

We were in such a good position, we were looking at a sizeable lead especially with Lyon injured. Just 45 minutes of sensible cricket and it was all there for the taking. Will be lucky to get within 100 of their total now

[Monty]

For the love of God Brooks, just stop it! This is pathetic!

[PaulWinch again]

Stokes uses his brain. I think he needs to explain what the approach is to his team, because I think some have lost sight of it. We need to be ruthless and aggressive, not stupid and aggressive.

[Meanwood Villa]

Chucked some wickets away but overall we're back in the game so more pleased than I was yesterday

[PaulWinch again]

It’s our day but it should have been more our day. Root is clearly a world beater, but that’s two fucking brain dead dismissals. Think.

Also worth remembering our last 4 will probably get about 10 runs between them against Starc.

[Beard82]

Stokes uses his brain. I think he needs to explain what the approach is to his team, because I think some have lost sight of it. We need to be ruthless and aggressive, not stupid and aggressive.

I was really disappointed with Root - he should know better, he much better than that - and should have brought to the game what Stokes did. 

[PaulWinch again]

It’s scary from Root - how many examples do you need to see your mentality is off. Hopefully 3 (with the no ball dismissal) will do it

[paul_e]

I think Strauss has just summed things up nicely, this time yesterday you had people genuinely talking about England losing by an innings, today we've won all 3 sessions and people are still upset, we probably have 100 runs more than if we'd been conservative and history has shown us that when we play defensively against Australia it doesn't work. In reality we're probably going to go into the 3rd innings at some point in the 2nd session tomorrow and the game will be in the balance, which is how it should be with 2 good teams.