The International Cricket Thread

[Gareth]

Looks like we have the balance of team correct in terms of amount of spinners if this innings is anything to go by….the question is whether the spinners are good enough.

Need to get to 200-220 though first

[PaulWinch again]

Stokes on the move.

[Villan For Life]

It was good to get to 246, I think that’s probably 25 runs short of where we would want to be.

The rank amateurs on Talksport2 are saying Root will take the new ball with Mark Wood, I think we are in for an interesting last session.

[Risso]

Well the tail backing up Stokes gave us at least a reasonable total in the cirumstances, looked like it was going to be well short of 200 at one point.

[taylorsworkrate]

Think its a 275 to 300 sort of pitch. England still in the game but obviously the lack of experience/quality of their spinners could get exposed

[PaulWinch again]

Be interesting to see how it goes.

[Risso]

Poor bastard Hartley, first ball obliterated for 6.

[PaulWinch again]

Yep immediately under pressure. To be fair he couldn’t wish for a better captain in this circumstance.

[Risso]

And again

[Villan For Life]

Yep immediately under pressure. To be fair he couldn’t wish for a better captain in this circumstance.

Imagine if Cook were still the captain, Hartley wouldn’t bowl for England again.

[Monty]

Ohhhh dear...

[Risso]

What a waste of a review, ball looked miles away from either bat or glove.

[PaulWinch again]

This is looking tough for Hartley at the moment, but it must have been expected. We’ve got so little experience between Hartley and Rehan.

[Risso]

Yep fairly brutal introduction for him, which it was always going to be. I think we might be staring at a bit of a drubbing here.

[PaulWinch again]

This is the kind of situation where Jimmy would have been great.