The International Cricket Thread

[Monty]

Stokes is a legend. Him and Williamson gone in the same series is real moment.

[PaulWinch again]

He has been a remarkable cricketer. Shame he’s going to go out with a defeat.

[PaulWinch again]

Stokes is opening??

[Nev]

I've already been called a misery but turning a first class test into a something of a testimonial is a bit disrespectful to the oponents and the game itself.

Stokes has been immense and deserves all the plaudits going, I just don't feel that this has been timed right at all.

[PaulWinch again]

Out for 30. But smart and right tactically as well as emotionally. Still very low chance for England here, but he’s given us a start and in the form he was in the right approach.

[Monty]

Out for 30. But smart and right tactically as well as emotionally. Still very low chance for England here, but he’s given us a start and in the form he was in the right approach.

Both a team man and a total kamikaze madman right to the end. What a guy.

[PaulWinch again]

Oh dear Bethell that’s a shocking leave. That’s the game I would think.

[PaulWinch again]

What is going on with this order??

[Aldridge Villa]

His final innings pretty much typifies him. Alas , a very blunt knife retired to the drawer.

[PaulWinch again]

I don’t really get this now. Brook is playing a shot a ball.

[PaulWinch again]

And now he’s out. Like I say, don’t get it.

[taylorsworkrate]

Absolute pathetic, performative arrogance from England.

The sooner McCullum and Key fuck the fuck off the better.

[Nev]

Awful stuff, throwing the game away.

[taylorsworkrate]

I don't mind Stokes playing the way he did. With his batting regression it was his best chance at getting some runs.

To use a world class batsman like Brook in that way is a disgrace though

[Holte132]

Maybe I'm reading something into all this that isn't there, but I'm wondering whether Stokes was told to retire and he is taking his revenge on the authorities with this team performance.