The Cricket Thread

[Dinowolf]

100 partnership

 

[Dinowolf]

Root passes 50

 

[Dinowolf]

Stumps

183-2

 

[Tredman]

Morgan retiring. Genuinely changed the trajectory of English cricket.

 

[Tony Towner]

Tremendous captain and the right time. He always said he'd go when he didn't deserve his place in the side for his batting. Good on him for honouring his word, you can't leave a player like Livingstone out to accomodate him, to his credit he knows it

 

[Trips]

Definitely the correct time. Roy, Salt, Bairstow, Root, Malan, Stokes, Livingstone, Buttler and probably Billings all look better batting options now before you even look at players not in the squad (cough, Hain)

He's been a superb captain, and revolutionised our white ball game. Hopefully we keep him involved with the set up

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Scurran finally has his first ever century in any format.

101* off 65 balls, think he might have got the memo

 

[Dinowolf]

Rain delayed start.

Play to start at 1:30pm

183-2
Pope 81 n.o.
Root 55 n.o.
partnership 132

 

[Dinowolf]

Pope gone 82

185-3

 

[Dinowolf]

17 off that Boult over

brings up England's 200

 

[Tony Towner]

Can't be too critical as he's played well, but he's been bowled through the gate twice this Test

 

[Dinowolf]

52 partnership off 39 balls

 

[Carrotdude]

Something to work on for sure but the one today nipped back quite far

 

[Dinowolf]

50 for Bairstow off 30 balls

2nd fastest in Tests for England behind Botham (28)
6x4s and 2x6s

 

[Sniffer]

Unreal stuff from Bairstow.

 

[Dinowolf]

England win by 7 wkts

Bairstow 71 n.o. (44)
Root 86 n.o. (125)

113 runs in just over an hour.
against the World Test champions.

Astonishing performance

 

[Tredman]

FFS nipped out to go to see one of the kids new school, come back and its finished!

Waited all flipping morning for this.

 

[Tony Towner]

Such small margins in the series. If our greatest seam bowler possibly of all time plays then we get bowled out for 100 in the first innings and get hammered.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Such small margins in the series. If our greatest seam bowler possibly of all time plays then we get bowled out for 100 in the first innings and get hammered.

Well Overton was actually out they just didn’t review it (arguably should have been given, pitched on middle stump, hitting leg) and Bairstow had multiple lives.

Think we were just the better team though. Southee was average, Jamieson injured and they didn’t even pick Patel for the last 2. Mitchell and Blundell caried their batting otherwise could have been a demolition.

 

[Dinowolf]

Such small margins in the series. If our greatest seam bowler possibly of all time plays then we get bowled out for 100 in the first innings and get hammered.

Nah, Leach would have come in and done his batting business