Not looking forward to Labuschagne and Smith batting together, but for now, what an excellent day. Archer is ridiculous
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Official Cricket Thread
- Thread starter crazy monkey
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It's never made sense to me that they have these montages of super slow mo highlights on the coverage but don't use those cameras for actually useful things.
A shame that Warner finally put on a decent score, Lambshanks has earned his spot with two good performances now, but the rest still crumbled like paper. It was hard to bat on for sure but you still want to see more fortitude than what these batsmen showed. Khawaja's spot is in trouble next test when Smith comes back.
On the flip side, it's great watching all these amazing fast bowlers
The bowlings been great but Burns and Roy really flung their wickets away there. I don't think there's that much in the pitch so England just need to bed down until the ball gets old.
Yep. Not forgetting County cricket is not good enough to produce quality.
That's burns dismissal was ridiculous
Stokes looks in pretty decent nick here. Certainly the most comfortable of the batsmen this morning. Although the ball is starting to do a lot less.
Fuck me that was a kiss of death, mental shot by Stokes to what was wide filth.
I don't think County Cricket is to blame. I don't know that it is good enough, but we have Jason Roy opening - a middle order batsmen who averages below 40 in FC cricket. We have Joe Denly at 4 who nobody wants. Bairstow has underperformed for most years of his Test career. Buttler averages 32 in FC cricket.
People aren't - Burns aside - being picked due to County form. The selection is nuts.
People aren't - Burns aside - being picked due to County form. The selection is nuts.
I mean Australia had the excuse that it was a perfect day for bowling in England yesterday, although that really doesn't excuse the paucity of their performance. This is the exact opposite, it's perfect batting conditions, and the ball is seaming just a bit.
Because he was coming in after about 8 overs anyway because their openers aren't great and everyone they played at 3 failed?
Because people are stupid and started to believe the utter bullshit about "your best batsman should bat at #3"
I mean I know Warner played and miss all yesterday morning, but Denly is making it a bit of a performance art piece.
Denly finally puts bat to ball. Wasn't a great shot at all. Really shouldn't have driven at it.
I think both side should just put the drive away for the rest of the match. Do a Cook, nurdle and cut.
Labuschagne proved yesterday, in worse conditions, that it's possible. So little patience in either team.
