The Official Cricket Thread

[Champ]

I thought you'd sniffed out Trumo's shitcunt reference. Skills

[Yozzer]

Today's highlights with this on...

 

 

 

Beautiful.

15 years old that song. Fucking hell.

[A_S]

Great day for England but really they should be one wicket down Cook was unlucky while Bell and Lyth were truly awful shots....But I'd have took this at the start of the day ......I guess I'm a glass half empty kinda guy...

Shocking decision by Clarke to not put a nervous, fragile and under pressure England batting line up into bat on an obvious bowling conditions and wicket for bowling on.

We'll only know at the end of the game but this could be a decision to rival Nasser putting Australia in at the Gabba in 2002.

Cook said he'd have batted too. The weather rolled in and juiced up the pitch a bit after the coin toss.

 

England still bowled very well and Australia were really poor with the bat, but there's not been any criticism of Clarke's decision, plenty about the performance though, Rogers excluded.

[TheBitch]

I thought you'd sniffed out Trumo's shitcunt reference. Skills

I ignored.

[Son of L8]

We should be asking for 300 at a minimum. Should be good batting tomorrow, and we've got plenty of potential runs waiting in the shed. Go in with a decent sized lead and try to skittle them again.

 

Gutted for Cook most of all. He looked in really good touch and could have made a big score. Freak dismissal.

[George Costanza]

Excellent day for England. Those 2 wickets at the end though leave me uneasy.  The pitch is a good one, whoever gets blue skies overhead when batting should plunder the runs.  Which makes me uneasy about capitalising on this very good day by not building a big enough lead should the sun shine when the Aussies bat again. If it remains overcast through the whole test match then just a lead of 100-125 could well be enough.  Ideally though we want to be looking towards a first innings lead of 200+.

 

Massive morning session ahead.....

[George Costanza]

looking at the met office weather prediction for the 5 days.  Only sustained period of sunshine is the morning of day 3. Overcast for the rest with rain expected for 4th day afternoon

[Dan Vito Corleone]

Anyone who gets out to Nathan Lyon ought to lose half their match fee. He is utter bilge.

[s(k)aturation]

How many runs did they beat us by in the last test?

 

405.

Rogers and Smith made 495 between them.

[A_S]

Would want to keep England to a score of 250 or below to remain in the game. The weather may throw a spanner in the works though, if day 1 is anything to go by. 

[Spy Bee]

405.

Rogers and Smith made 495 between them.

Yeah, but it is an 11 aside game.

[Trumo]

Johnson gets Bairstow already. 142/4.

[thompsonsnose]

Here we fackin go.....

[Trumo]

And now Stokes for a duck.

[A_S]

Guess where I am with all this going on? Yep, work. 

 

Fuck sake. 

[Manny]

Why is the sight of that moustachioed fuckwit like kryptonite to these fucking idiots!?

[King Emlyn]

I'm not gonna be going Saturday am I?

[Jose Jones]

Need a big innings from Buttler here.

[A_S]

I'm not gonna be going Saturday am I?

 

I'm guessing you'll see the game finish, one way or other. 

[Jose Jones]

Fucking hell Root.

[Trumo]

Root gone for 63. 182/6 now.

[s(k)aturation]

I was literally about to type that Starc is a real pie thrower in this innings, which he is.

 

But then he gets Root.

[King Emlyn]

Gonna be lucky to get 100 lead here

[s(k)aturation]

It's looking like a 3-dayer.

[King Emlyn]

Seems to me like patience seems

It's looking like a 3-dayer.

Sure is, I'll be amazed if this goes into Saturday the way it's going