The International Cricket Thread

[Jon Crofts]

Watching that Starc catch again off Duckett, Starc really is a fucking horrible cheat.

[PaulWinch again]

I’m not sure it’s cheating, if it were he wouldn’t have been so blatant about it. I think he didn’t realise he’d done it or he didn’t realise it was an issue - probably the latter based on some of the confused reactions from others.

That said no idea why it isn’t obvious that you can’t regain your balance by putting the ball on the ground.

Onto today, it’s got the feeling of being pretty over within 30 mins.

[Jon Crofts]

Nah. He knew and made no attempt to play it down.

[olaftab]

McGrath lost it totally on BBC. Which bit of “have complete control of the ball whilst completing the catching manoeuvre “ he disagrees with? Control of ball and body is required. If for example Starc had landed with his hand over the boundary rope that was a six.

[olaftab]

Watching that Starc catch again off Duckett, Starc really is a fucking horrible cheat.

Same old........

[olaftab]

Onto today, it’s got the feeling of being pretty over within 30 mins.

It could be as pathetic as that or a bit of backbone and about 250+. I can't see Bairstow resisting much post the two who are in and after him it's a very fragile tai. Either way it will be a deserved defeat.

[Beard82]

I think we’ll do well to make it through the first hour. 

We need Duckett and Stokes to play the innings of their life’s and just don’t see it. 

We need to change up the bowling attack for the next game.

I think we were unlucky to lose the first, and with some better decision making it could be different.

[Drummond]

Meanwhile you’ve got Crawley coming out saying we’ll win by 150 runs. Get some humility, or at least be good before you start mouthing off.

It's like Olsen coming out and saying we're going to neat Man City 4-0.

When he's already conceded a Haaland hattrick.

[Nev]

Piss face Ponting having a moan about the catch now. Another reason to dislike the Aussie's, they think they know better than everyone else.

[Monty]

Piss face Ponting having a moan about the catch now. Another reason to dislike the Aussie's, they think they know better than everyone else.

What is it with Aussie sportsmen? I know tons of Aussies in real life who aren't like this at all, but this constant chippy whinging gimmick they do whenever they put on a pair of gym shoes is such a thing. And incredibly boring.

[Exeter 77]

In my opinion Ponting is in that bracket of complete twats in sport along with Savage, Gatlin, and Campese.

[OzVilla]

How many runs have they saved in the field this morning.

[Small Rodent]

Piss face Ponting having a moan about the catch now. Another reason to dislike the Aussie's, they think they know better than everyone else.

What is it with Aussie sportsmen? I know tons of Aussies in real life who aren't like this at all, but this constant chippy whinging gimmick they do whenever they put on a pair of gym shoes is such a thing. And incredibly boring.

They are a country with absolutely zero history. So much is put into sport as a national identity.

[Monty]

Piss face Ponting having a moan about the catch now. Another reason to dislike the Aussie's, they think they know better than everyone else.

What is it with Aussie sportsmen? I know tons of Aussies in real life who aren't like this at all, but this constant chippy whinging gimmick they do whenever they put on a pair of gym shoes is such a thing. And incredibly boring.

They are a country with absolutely zero history. So much is put into sport as a national identity.

Well, a few people there have a bit of history. 40,000 years of it, in fact...

[olaftab]

Why Ben, why? Why not leave it alone!