The International Cricket Thread

[Stu]

Edgbaston selling day 5 tix for £25 if anyone fancies it…

[cdbearsfan]

Might be worth mentioning on the नायक और खलनायक forum.

[olaftab]

Stu has ben banned from Naik aur Budnaik for suggesting keema nan is actually a nan.

[Steve67]

I'd like to see Bethell get a chance to see what he can do before the Ashes comes around.   

Is Mark Wood injured?  Would like to see him and Archer work in tandem and for them to get some overs in, again, before the Ashes.

[olaftab]

FFS Brook gone now

[taylorsworkrate]

A predictable lack of fight today

[PaulWinch again]

It’s been pretty weak.

[taylorsworkrate]

Though again, must be said that India's seamers have thoroughly embarrassed ours in this match

[PaulWinch again]

Stokes on the stroke of lunch ends any hopes.

[taylorsworkrate]

Stokes has had a shocker of a match with bat, ball and his captaincy

[PaulWinch again]

Stokes was doing fine there, he was playing the right way and got out, it happens.

[taylorsworkrate]

Stokes was doing fine there, he was playing the right way and got out, it happens.

I think there is a bit of an elephant in the room with his personal performances over the last few years. Besides that excellent innings at Lords in the ashes, his batting form has been pretty poor since he became captain. That's been largely offset by good captaincy and decent results but he does need to start scoring some runs.

[PaulWinch again]

Daft shot Woakes.

[cdbearsfan]

Windies are even more useless than England.

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah they are badly short in batting.

I’d be inclined to drop Bashir from the next game - I’m not sure this is helping him at all.