The International Cricket Thread

[Nev]

The golden combination of Agnew and Tuffnell had some marvellous stories about tea/refreshments earlier this week. It did seem incredulous to stop though.

[PaulWinch again]

Come on weather give us another proper window tomorrow and then let us hit them hard. I really hope Woakes isn’t injured.

[tomd2103]

Very frustrating day, but the Labuschagne wicket could be huge if there is a chance fir some play tomorrow.

[olaftab]

Another cricket ignoramus question: why the fuck are they stopping for tea?! They've only been playing for two hours - could they not have had a bigger lunch?

OMG you are a proper cricket heathen SE. Dissing tea is a stoning offence.  Tea is an enormous event at a cricket match. All over England today tea is being served with cucumber sandwiches. Sometimes it's the main reason to turn up for a match.

See, people give footy stick, but I'm here to show you all what happens when somebody genuinely irritating starts piping up!

Good point, well made by you role playing😊

[ADVILLAFAN]

At least we had some play today and got a big wicket.

Gives us a chance if there's a few hours play tomorrow.

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah although the weather looks bloody dreadful, so sadly I think it’s done.

[Meanwood Villa]

That was a bit disappointing today. Loads more play than we thought and we did close to fuck all

[Beard82]

Yeah although the weather looks bloody dreadful, so sadly I think it’s done.

It looked the same today - so maybe, just maybe we can get another slice of luck

[PaulWinch again]

Thing is even if we get on when a team knows it’ll only be on go for a short time it’s quite easy to dig in. I think it takes something special for us to win this.

[Villan For Life]

Until we were forced to bowl Moeen and Root, our over rate was shocking, they  bowled 16 overs in 90 minutes which is just too slow. Given the state of the match and the expected rain getting out there for a couple of hours was good but if I were Stokes I’d have had the players zipping through their overs. The more you bowl the more opportunities you will create and you can’t take wickets when you’re sat in the pavilion watching the rain fall.

[Villan For Life]

Thing is even if we get on when a team knows it’ll only be on go for a short time it’s quite easy to dig in. I think it takes something special for us to win this.

Even if we get a dry window light will be an issue as we saw yesterday.

[PaulWinch again]

I think the spinners are probably the most likely. The conditions nullified any seam movement and softened the bounce.

[simboy]

Has anyone heard what’s up with Woakes? He was off most of yesterday …

[olaftab]

Thing is even if we get on when a team knows it’ll only be on go for a short time it’s quite easy to dig in. I think it takes something special for us to win this.

Even if we get a dry window light will be an issue as we saw yesterday.

That’s why I keep saying it would have been better for England to declare at lunch on day 3 and concentrate on taking 10 wickets. If Aussies were all out now with say 100 lead that would be easier to get today than 5 wickets.

[PaulWinch again]

Nah I still think the decision to get the runs was the right call.