The Official Cricket Thread

[Guest LFD]

I think if Brendan McCullum and Michael Clarke were captaining these teams instead of Cook and Doni, the match would be over by now.

[Rico1304]

Bumble commentary gold here, the Accrington Eye!

[lifetime fan]

Bumble commentary gold here, the Accrington Eye!

 

I've the sound turned off, my phone resting on the pc discretely watching it in work.

[Rico1304]

They are doing the usual Lords test camera shots

Of London, he's called Wembley Prenton Park, the Eye the Accrington Eye (only built 2 weeks ago) and then said that they were amazing and could see huge distances. Hence when London Zoo came on it was the Kruger National Park and a canal was Venice.

[Spy Bee]

Loves a last day scrap does Moeen!

[Spy Bee]

Some crazy fields from Dhoni here. 3 slips in and everyone else on the boundary. Has he bet on a draw?

[Indian Red]

This one is slowly slipping away. Have been leaking runs all innings. Need a breakthrough

[TheBitch]

What a sickener.

[Jairzinho]

Good captaincy from Dhoni. Ball doing fuck all off the pitch or in the air. Never seen either of these players play the short ball particularly well, have a couple of overs of bouncers until the new ball. Few decent deliveries from Sharma there.

[TheBitch]

Yeah it was a great over.

[Spy Bee]

Good change of approach from India, good that England are making a fight of it, but I think India will still win.

[Jairzinho]

Root and Ali had to get us within 100/120 for a real chance. Our tail just isn't built for this sort of situation.

[Guest LFD]

Root has been brilliant this series.

 

Even in the first innings he was wrongly given out. 

[Stickman]

Got to fear for Ali now at this level isn't that the second time he's got out taking his eye off the ball?

Things like that spread very quickly in international cricket.

[lifetime fan]

Prior you twat.

[lifetime fan]

This made me laugh on the beeb feed.

 

 

1. 13:51: 

   Eng 193-5

   I'm trying to think of every name I've heard mentioned as a potential replacement for Cook. In no particular order...Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Joe Root, Stuart Broad, James Anderson, Matt Prior, Chris Read, James Foster, Ravi Bopara (honestly), Eoin Morgan, Chris Woakes (seriously), Varun Chopra, James Vince, Andrew Gale, Daryl Mitchell. There's more I've forgotten too. Does the lack of a standout candidate show the mess that English cricket is in right now?

[Stickman]

All the stick Cook is getting is meaning Prior is getting a pretty easy ride....he needs to go as his wicketkeeping is pretty shite too.

[Manny]

Pretty much every team in world cricket now has tail-enders who handle the short ball better than any of these mongs do.

[Stickman]

Brilliant from Stokes the fucking prick

[TheBitch]

Fuck off Prior.

Fuck off Stokes.

 

Root is gonna be left stranded here.

[Manny]

Fuck off, each and every one of you utterly useless, moaning, whining, overhyped bastards. Ishant fucking Sharma is bouncing us out on a slow Lord's pitch.

 

For fucks sake. We got broke last winter make no mistake. Spineless wankers.

[Son of L8]

Remind me again why Jordan was dropped for Stokes?

[TheBitch]

Or Root isn't gonna be left stranded.

 

Fucking awful. I'm going to bed.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Brainless boparaesque batting

[Son of L8]

Fuck off!