The New Cricket Thread

[Jairzinho]

1 minute ago, Pistonbroke said:

 

TBF to Burns he's looked a lot better as the series has gone on and has tweaked certain things, the lad is obviously learning. 

Ha, yeah. I like him actually. 

 

Certainly got it mentally.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Just now, Jairzinho said:

Ha, yeah. I like him actually. 

 

Certainly got it mentally.

 

He's probably cemented his place on the winter Tours to NZ and SA. Denly not so much although I wouldn't be surprised to see him included. Hopefully Sibley, Pope and Foakes get a chance. Hopefully sam Curran does well in this test, he's certainly got all the qualities to become a very good all rounder at Test level. 

[Chocoholic]

Nasser is a very good analyst and commentator, but I've always got the impression from him from things he's said, that as a captain, he'd throw anyone he didn't like, under the bus.

[Jairzinho]

He was an awful captain. Constantly panicking.

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

56 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

 

He's probably cemented his place on the winter Tours to NZ and SA. Denly not so much although I wouldn't be surprised to see him included. Hopefully Sibley, Pope and Foakes get a chance. Hopefully sam Curran does well in this test, he's certainly got all the qualities to become a very good all rounder at Test level. 

Definitely agree with that list: maybe Zak Crawley as well, possibly instead of Denly. Even though he's an opener, he could be an answer to the problem number 3 role. Ben Duckett seems too inconsistent.

 

Love to see Ollie Robinson in the squad as well.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Decent session being as we were put in to bat, strange decision by the Aussies though. 

[Stickman]

Root dropped twice ...Are the Aussies trying to make sure he's stays on as captain?

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

33 minutes ago, Stickman said:

Root dropped twice ...Are the Aussies trying to make sure he's stays on as captain?

Thrice now!

[Mudface]

1 hour ago, Brownie said:

Denly is just nowhere near good enough is he?

Nope, never has been. It's bizarre that he was brought into the squad in the first place, even more so that he's kept his place.

[Mudface]

Apparently, Burns has outscored all other openers put together - 323 vs 297 before this innings. Good for him, although the competition hasn't exactly been fierce.

[Stickman]

10 minutes ago, Mudface said:

Nope, never has been. It's bizarre that he was brought into the squad in the first place, even more so that he's kept his place.

And yet if Denly today had the luck Root has had up to now and gone on and scored a 100 he'd be on the plane to SA even though he definitely isn't good enough....

 

Agree with what's been said about Burns I wasn't keen on him even after the streaky ton in the first test but he's knuckled down managed to handle the short pitched stuff too and is one of the few successes of the series  

[Manny]

Denly just has stop-gap written all over him. Decent enough player with a good mentality but he's just a bit meh - sooner or later you eventually have to start converting starts into 50s and 50s into 100s and he's just not done that often enough at all. Burns I like. He's been up against a really good attack in this series with multiple opening partners (none of whom have been good enough) and still managed to score 370 runs at 41.

 

All moot though as behind them is a middle order full of no7's. We lose openers cheaply to expose an attacking middle order to tons of pressure and a still-new ball. Desperately needs a rethink.

[Chocoholic]

Cummins bowls Root for 57 after the run rate has been kept down

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

Lazy shot by Curren.

 

Bairstow underwhelms again. Foakes asap, please.

[Jairzinho]

We're absolutely woeful.

[lifetime fan]

England shite yet again. 

[Chocoholic]

Woakesful out LBW, for 2

[Manny]

Pitiful. Typical.

[Jairzinho]

On this track we should have been finishing the day 300-3. 

 

Be all out for less than 250 now.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Pathetic shower of fuckers, no bottle and no clue. Orange Juice this side!

[Trumo]

Mitchell Marsh could end up with a 5-fer on a lifeless batting strip. What exactly do the England players do in team meetings?

[Chocoholic]

For a man who's not played for a while, to be bowling for a five-for with his next wicket on this pitch, is some effort by Mitch Marsh. He's been helped along by England, but still

[lifetime fan]

Every England batsman had got in and then not gone on. 

 

Completely lacking in mentality. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Talk about throwing wickets away, as Jairz said, we should have been 300 for 3-4 on this track after today. Bowling conditions have improved a bit, but Marsh getting 4 wickets! 

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

Not watching this test match, but just seen all the wickets gone so far on Sky News.

 

Absolutely pathetic batting again. Some of the dismissals are a fucking joke.

 

You make them earn their wickets, not just give them away so easily.

 

I'd fuck the lot of them off. Gutless.