International cricket thread

hopefully we can now have a nice session and a half of cricket that is free of players staying on the field lying down undergoing minutes of treatment…long drawn out tactical yapping and all the other craic.

the wicket ball was actually a brilliant ball….borderline unplayable. Let’s see can he get a few more..maybe he’s upped the focus… probably realises at 30 it’s last chance saloon. Mind you the amount of gold he’s wearing around his neck…

Indian batsmen constantly adjusting gloves, helmets, footwear, bat handles and so on, making the English bowlers wait. Really make it impossible to have a proper regard for them.

Italy have qualified for the T20 World Cup. The Dutch will join them as they are easing to victory.

Woakes has got Gill! He has been really struggling and badly needed that.

India 145/3 at the end of the day 2.

England on top just about you would say but the game is still very much in the balance. A lot will depend on whether Bashir can get something from the surface on days 4 or 5.

Just 72 overs bowled today out of a possible 90. Disgraceful carry on by everyone.

England not looking threatening this morning but India not exacly accumulating quickly, though Rahul just hit Carse for three consecutive boundaries.

Time to bring Broad and Jimmy out of retirement.

Archer clocking up 94mph. Decent speed for a lad who's "overrated", and, shock horror, 30-years-old.

You should probably watch more than the wicket column. He looked the most threatening of the bowlers today, and has been the paciest in both teams. Curious how you were full of praise for Josh Tongue who went at 6.20 an over in the second innings the last day, which you classed as "respectable" lol

A decent catch by "Smudge" all the same. And Deep's first and third ball "LBWs" have both just been overturned on review. The umpire is losing it!

Time for Joffra to mop up the tail?

Ahhh think the wicket column is quite important, odd to intimate otherwise 😉, ohhh now also it’s curious how I praised Tongue ? Going into this test..the leading wicket taker in the series….So maybe not quite so curious. Again I’m looking at the wickets column….I’ll leave it there. 🙂

Archer back into the attack and their number 9 hits him for 6 first ball.

In others news, not much happening for England but Woakes gets Jadeja ! Some catch by Smith but a tired looking shot..Woakes almost with another next delivery, DRS saves Deep but next ball again and DRS saves again, great bowling, pure bad luck not to have a couple, close, all happening. 😅

Only the ninth time in test history scores are level after the first innings.

How will England cope with the third innings. It's a big part of why they like the bowl first.

Crawley acting the clown here, Archer started the day trying to change a ball after 13 deliveries and Crawley finishing the day with similar nonsense.

Yeah, alot of messing by players and as you say, it's fans losing out.

If - as appears to be the case - the Dukes balls are a crock of utter shite, then neither team can be criticised for regularly complaining to the umpires and, more often than not, succeeding in having the ball changed.

In the pink ball test, the Aussies have managed 50 - 1 from 25 overs at tea.

WI are 16/1 in reply to Australia who made 225 having been 157/3. The Aussie poor batting continues - no batter made 50, though Greene finally got a few runs at 3. They'll likely have enough to beat the WI given their own batting issues but looking ahead to the Ashes they need a few players to start finding some form - it's all ODI or T20 from now on.