The New Cricket Thread

[Bjornebye]

Wow cracking bowl 

[Mudface]

Fantastic delivery from Woakes.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Yeah, Woakes bang on the money to clean bowl Lewis, WI 4/1. I can see the Windies being all out for around 150, maybe less. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

That ball kept low as well, quite a few have. Not good news for the Windies as their taller lads struggle against uneven bounce. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Fuck, Wood dropped Gayle off Woakes bowling. 

 

Roy off injured now, with what looks like a hamstring problem. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Gayle just swinging the bat, If it wasn't for him the Windies would be on less than 15 runs off 9 overs, that dropped catch may prove very costly indeed. 

[Mudface]

25 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

Yeah, Woakes bang on the money to clean bowl Lewis, WI 4/1. I can see the Windies being all out for around 150, maybe less. 

With Gayle on 120...

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Just now, Mudface said:

With Gayle on 120...

Problem is, England bowlers are trying to get Gayle out instead of just keeping him quiet and making it hard to swing his bat. Target the others and hope Gayle gets frustrated. Giving him height and width to swing his bat is madness, especially when this looks like it will be a low scoring match. 

[Mudface]

Yeah, he's not exactly a grafter. Keep it tight and bore him out.

[lifetime fan]

Gayle gone. 

[lifetime fan]

Hope gone too. 

[Mudface]

Poor that they had to appeal that. What's happened to the umpires in this tournament, they've been shocking.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Umpires just handing decisions over to others, wankers. 

Up top I'd say it was a mixture of Inexperience from Archer and shit captaincy from Morgan. Looking better now, especially that Gayle the slogger has departed. These two at the crease are decent, need to break this partnership up as soon as possible, then the Windies are truly in the shit. 

[Jairzinho]

These two need to be batting in the 35th over.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

England bowlers just going through the motion at the minute. Hetmyer and Pooran building a nice partnership without any great worry. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

2 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

England bowlers just going through the motion at the minute. Hetmyer and Pooran building a nice partnership without any great worry. 

Typical England, let them milk the runs. One of Woakes or Archer should have been back by now. Our old inadequacy at work.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

1 minute ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

Typical England, let them milk the runs. One of Woakes or Archer should have been back by now. Our old inadequacy at work.

Morgan is a shit Captain mate, I've always said it. The power of the England batting line up gets him out of the shit loads of times. When we bowl he just seems to set fields the bowlers don't want and never has a chat with them about hitting a good length instead of trying to take wickets by tempting batsmen into loose shots, at this level you just let batsmen get lots of runs once they have spent some time at the crease. Windies have been cruising along at nearly 8 an over since Rashid/Stokes were introduced. 

[Jairzinho]

We've made this far, far too easy for them.

 

They were fucking 60-3, and in a blink of an eye they're in a reasonable position.

[Jairzinho]

7 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

Typical England, let them milk the runs. One of Woakes or Archer should have been back by now. Our old inadequacy at work.

It's a painting by numbers style.

 

Rather than go for the throat and bowl them out for 175-200, we let them cruise their way to 275-300, thinking we can chase that down. It's true that we can, and probably will. But it just seems so negative, and lacking in flexibility.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Yep. If we don't get wickets soon we'll be chasing 280, which is way more than the start hinted at. 

[Jairzinho]

Intelligent captaincy > excel spreadsheets.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

When you see a West Indies batsmen wearing a floppy cap at this form of the game then something is wrong. Spinners from both ends, seriously! 

[Jairzinho]

Well, we've got a lucky breakthrough from a terrible shot. Presumably the tactic will continue.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

1 minute ago, Jairzinho said:

Well, we've got a lucky breakthrough from a terrible shot. Presumably the tactic will continue.

 

Gifted wicket, but no doubt Morgan will put it down to his astute captaincy. The pressure was building mind, Root has actually bowled better than Rashid but has gotten away with some terrible deliveries n all. That wicket is important though, don't want the Windies having too many wickets left going into the last 15, that would be Mayhem, especially if Russell is on his game. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

6 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

When you see a West Indies batsmen wearing a floppy cap at this form of the game then something is wrong. Spinners from both ends, seriously! 

I cursed Hetmyer there.