The International Cricket Thread

[PaulWinch again]

Impressive first hour.

[UK Redsox]

Atkinson looks the real deal.

Tongue will take wickets, because there's no way the batter can predict where the feck the ball will go.

[paul_e]

More than that, whilst 4-5 out of 6 will be wild the 1-2 an over he gets right includes some absolute belters that would be too good for a lot of people even without the inconsistency that you mention.

[olaftab]

What a stupid shot by Duckett.🤦🏾

[PaulWinch again]

This is getting tricky - we really need Brook to switch his brain on here.

[PaulWinch again]

He hasn’t yet.

[paul_e]

Really poor decision from Root to review that, given how quick he sent it up I thought he must've got a feather edge, no idea what he thought was going to save him.

[PaulWinch again]

We are on the slide here.

[paul_e]

We are on the slide here.

it was a very good spell from Siraj, hopefully we can make some progress with his spell over.

[Villan For Life]

The thing that I don’t understand about this side is that they usually get a solid platform from the openers - Duckett and Crawley have added over 500 runs between them for the first wicket in this series - then the rest seem to get out to brainless shots, like Smith just now.

[Monty]

Especially considering we only have 9 wickets to play with too...

[PaulWinch again]

The thing that I don’t understand about this side is that they usually get a solid platform from the openers - Duckett and Crawley have added over 500 runs between them for the first wicket in this series - then the rest seem to get out to brainless shots, like Smith just now.

Yeah you really need to get the balance of being proactive enough on a pitch like this without being reckless. For that first hour of our batting Crawley and Duckett got it right, even though they were aggressive, since then we’ve played some poor shots. That Smith one is a good example - we’re on the verge of Tea, just think.

[taylorsworkrate]

India in all fairness apart from the opening partnership have massively outbowled us.

[PaulWinch again]

That Smith shot has cost us 2 wickets.

[PaulWinch again]

India in all fairness apart from the opening partnership have massively outbowled us.

Let’s not go over the top there’s a handful of runs in it. You can’t just cherry pick the bit of the innings where they didn’t bowl great and disregard it to support your argument.