The International Cricket Thread

[PaulWinch again]

I find it really odd they’ve picked Overton over Potts here. The latter would have been good here.

[paul_e]

maybe, but a big part of the problem here is losing Woakes. He's not been at his best but he's still been an important player and he generally does ok at the oval. I think his injury hs been a key part of why this test has gone away from us, along with too many dropped catches.

[PaulWinch again]

Washington is ending this.

[PaulWinch again]

Badly captaincy and bowling at the end here.

[Holte132]

The comms on sky said that Washington's 100 in the last test had given him confidence. I said at the time - but not on here -  that we shouldn't have bowled so gently to them just so they could get their tons. It's test cricket, not a charity game!

[olaftab]

And once again Crawley shows why he will never be a top Test opener.

[PaulWinch again]

That’s a shame, but that was a tough time to bat. It’s still just about doable.

[taylorsworkrate]

Oh just fuck off Crawley. Pisstaking prick

[PaulWinch again]

He got a good ball.

[PaulWinch again]

First session is huge. I don’t think we can lose more than one wicket.

[Meanwood Villa]

We'll win this. I love this England team

[PaulWinch again]

Oh just fuck off Crawley. Pisstaking prick

I don’t really understand this comment - how is he pisstaking?

[olaftab]

He got a good ball.

He got hoaxed. You’ll expect someone like him to have two brain cells and not fall for a bouncer field setting. I have to agree with rather succinct description from  taylorsworkrate.

[PaulWinch again]

Nah it’s confirmation bias, you don’t like Crawley and that’s influencing it. It was a superb ball. Crawley had played the right way, and he was very good in the first innings. You can debate his merits as a player, but “pisstaking prick” makes no sense.

[Olneythelonely]

He got a good ball.

He got hoaxed. You’ll expect someone like him to have two brain cells and not fall for a bouncer field setting. I have to agree with rather succinct description from  taylorsworkrate.

If that was the case, no bowling plan would ever work. It was a brilliant ball in an incredibly pressured environment. If he’d have been bounced out, then you could call it brainless but would still be weird to call it “pisstaking”.