The Official Cricket Thread

[Jairzinho]

He isn't shit, Woakes. Just "meh". Nothing there that suggests he's a bowler at this level.

 

We're getting bowled out for 42 here by the way.

[Total Longo]

Why didn't Finn get a game? Seems perfectly set up for him.

[Stickman]

Hopefully England can bat all tomorrow as I'm going on Saturday .....

[Stickman]

Why didn't Finn get a game? Seems perfectly set up for him.

That's England for you I'm afraid they tend not to do the obvious and I know you can't argue with what's gone on but you pick your best bowlers for the conditions...and that pitch was perfect for Finn...

[Rico1304]

I know a few people with spares for tomorrow if you're interested.

[lifetime fan]

Bell looking in great touch.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

Need to bat all day tomorrow and try and get a lead of 200+. Great work by the bowlers this morning, some of the stuff Anderson and Broad was throwing down was borderline impossible to play at.

 

We are fighting the weather as well though, the forecast isn't good. But by making such a huge dent in India today we might have gained a chance.

[Jose Jones]

Need to bat all day tomorrow and try and get a lead of 200+. Great work by the bowlers this morning, some of the stuff Anderson and Broad was throwing down was borderline impossible to play at.

 

We are fighting the weather as well though, the forecast isn't good. But by making such a huge dent in India today we might have gained a chance.

 

With the weather forecast it would be better to get a 150 run lead by tea, then start bowling.  Get a session in to get some wickets, then hope for a bit of cloud cover the next morning to polish them off. 

If there's 100 or so for England to get in the second innings would only need to squeeze in 20 overs over the final two days at some point.

[Ian Sea]

Sky should get Ponting to replace Warne on commentary.

 

Great day yesterday, hope the weather is OK today so we can push on and get a big lead.

[Stickman]

England need to dig deep here and get a good lead, you don't want to be batting last here chasing 150 plus....

Ali softened up by again by short pitched stuff.....

[Spy Bee]

If England can get to 70-80 ahead without losing anther wicket Buttler could take the game away quite quickly. If India get a couple of quick wickets they are right back in the game.

[Spy Bee]

Off for rain, I think if England score 20 more without loss, then India are in deep shit.

[Jairzinho]

I think they could be bowled out without adding another run and India would be in deep shit.

[Spy Bee]

I think they could be bowled out without adding another run and India would be in deep shit.

Won't be easy batting fourth on this, but yeah, it's definitely England's to lose already.

[Vincent Vega]

The forecast is good for tomorrow, which is utterley awesome being as I am there, but looks pretty shocking for Sunday and Monday. Bat until the end of the day today, with a lead of 150 to 200 and then bowl them out cheaply again tomorrow, jobs a good 'un.

[Yozzer]

Fucking Manchester.

[Jairzinho]

Slog for 10 overs tomorrow morning then declare.

[Son of L8]

Ugh. Play abandoned for the day, doesn't bode well for a result assuming it teems down on Sunday and/or Monday too.

 

Have they never considered erecting an invisible waterproof force field over cricket grounds for just these situations? Come on ECB, get with the times.

[Jairzinho]

You mean, a roof?

[Yozzer]

Remember the time they played under a roof in a T20 game a while back, I think one of Chris Gayle or Afridi hit it? Is it a dead ball or classed as a 6 in that instance? At least we'd get away with playing Mitchell Johnson by top edging it onto the roof.

 

Also, Geoffrey Boycott has got Twitter:

https://twitter.com/GeoffreyBoycott

 

Should make very interesting reading when we've got 1 slip in place to a tail-ender.

[Stickman]

Ugh. Play abandoned for the day, doesn't bode well for a result assuming it teems down on Sunday and/or Monday too.

 

Have they never considered erecting an invisible waterproof force field over cricket grounds for just these situations? Come on ECB, get with the times.

Sort of like that show Under the Dome?....

[Jairzinho]

What the fuck are we doing?

[TheBitch]

What are we doing?

 

(I'm in work so don't know)

[Jairzinho]

Well we blocked for the first hour. Rather than having a massive swing and then declaring. We've picked up a bit with the new ball, but we've still only scored 50 in an hour and a half.

 

Got Boycott on the radio saying he hopes we get bowled out, and I fully agree. We won't make a positive decision so hopefully it'll get taken out of our hands. Unfortunately India aren't looking very threatening, and are probably fairly happy with the fact we're still batting.

[Spy Bee]

I don't think this is a wicket that it's easy to core runs on. You can score a bit quicker with a hard ball, but generally it's very tough.