International cricket thread

Gas, every member of the England team went up for lbw against Holder, not out, but despite their appealing they don't review! He was out!!

I’d guess a handshake around the 66th or 67th over.

bowlers looked cream crackered

funny captaincy, 5 close catchers for Leach yet fûck all support for Stokes… amazing.

It looked like a draw from very early in the test match...the declaration was bold but partly the pitch and England's attack meant the WI would have to have a shocker to lose today. On to Barbados...

Carey misses out on a century, Australia close on 505/8, looks like a good pitch for batting, will this be just another bat dominated test, interesting to see how Pakistan get on in their first innings.

India are in complete control against Sri Lanka...leading by 342 with 5 wickets remaining in their second innings and it's only day 2. Kohli is still struggling at this level, over 2 years since his last test century, yielding the captaincy hasn't resulted in more runs as of yet.

why are Australians leaving it so late to declare 505/8 after two days play … they can’t lose, why the fûck was Cummins not wanting to have 10-12 overs at Pakistan last night.. inexperienced captaincy ? A strange one as you’d think as a bowler he’d see the importance and value of that..

you’d have to presume Australians will bat on, otherwise why not put a tired Pakistani side in for a few overs batting last night….makes no sense

In the first test Pakistan scored 728 runs over two innings and lost a total of 4 wickets over both innings…252/0 in the second…

I like an optimistic outlook but Cummins has made an error here…

40% of the game time expired… but going into day 3 and not a single innings completed…Australians have the runs, they hold the aces but Australians they are burning their chances.

odds are a draw 4/9 paddy power has it….

Some performance by Bumrah even allowing for the paucity of the opposition.

Australia in total control v Pakistan, they've a huge lead and highly unlikely Pakistan will get the runs but i assume Cummins caution is primarily around so much time left on the game.

Pakistan only need 3.4 an over,,, so they don’t need to go anything approaching aggressive… they don’t need boundaries..

the pitch in Karachi is batting friendly, always has been… day 5 spinners get some assistance.

Nathan Lyon however looks like his goose is cooked, he never was a prolific wicket taker, he averages only 3.9 wickets per test, a great economy rate, 2.96… He has taken 4 wickets in his last 6 innings in international and domestic cricket ….. might prove me wrong but looking like coming up to 35 his goose might be cooked.

Pakistan milk the quicks without risking it, three or four singles an over, and punish the odd bad delivery is all it will take… be interesting to see what field Cummins chooses, stuck between a rock and a hard place… should attack from the outset..too defensive is not the way..

Australia need 3 wickets with 17 deliveries remaining in the test… everyone around the bat…. Hovering over the pitch.

kawaja drops rizwan, a pretty simple chance at this level, a tired looking effort.

Rizwan gets his hundred, chance to run him out previous delivery, sent upstairs with a soft signal of out, he safely home by about two feet ffs… soft signal out ? Where are they getting these umpires.

England win the toss and bat.

Overton taken ill overnight, Matt Fisher replaces him. England from a batting perspective have their tail a little longer.

West Indies remain unchanged..

Crawley goes for a duck, tries to leave the ball but decided too late and the ball catches the edge, ball hits bat as opposed to bat hitting ball.

West indies going all out attacking with their field.

5 slips.

26 of the 85 overs so far have been spin, yet still West Indies won’t bowl the full complete 90 overs in time…

2 wickets have fallen, no weather delays… absolutely not acceptable. If 6 wickets had fallen and an injury we could have been deprived of 10 overs ffs… hopefully an appropriate sanction can be applied… hitting them in their pocket, be it players, Cricket West Indies or whoever, they certainly have been in no rush in between overs, plenty of chatter, gesticulating and head scratching..Jason Holder now holding up the show by spending two to three minutes between overs warming up and stretching. Taking the piss.

Run rate of 2.58 is appalling too, even more so because the number of wickets England have in hand and the docile pitch … 2.58 come on..

I was watching that unfold.. and he has his captain at the other end 20 meters away letting him get on with it saying nothing… “Dan, reign it in, tomorrow is another day and we need you.”

Root is a great player totally but at times his captaincy is oddsville.

England set for a very big score here, should be able to set near 500 for the WI....

Didn’t quite make it in a session but on 89 from 92 so a good chance of a run a ball century…that doesn’t happen all that often..

slowed up but an excellently entertaining and aggressive century…really enjoyable watching this…

England 401/4… they should throw the kitchen sink at it now… set for 500 if they get their mind fixed on a continuing streak of positivity and aggression, nothing to gain by going defensive.

Totally, the key though will too be the timing of the declaration… 500 and Root has to declare, pointless carrying on wasting time… I’ll put money he won’t declare though..knowing him.

Permaul picks up a wicket, no sign of a declaration and they ain’t sending a batsman out just facilitate a milestone of 500… depressing.

Some good games in the women’s World Cup do far, but West Indies can hit the spinners off the square against Bangladesh, were 40/1 off 12 overs, now 73/7 in the 37th, 33/6 off the last 25 overs, absolutely crazy batting, they rely heavily on the top 3, and you could almost argue the tail starts at 6 or 7

Bangladesh giving West Indies a game and some… West Indian ladies 120-8 after 46.3.

getting a bit careless in the last few overs, butchered a couple of handy run outs that they should have converted…

2.84 the RRR… West Indian girls going to need wickets…

Good start to the morning for England, Brooks cuts Leach to Wokes at gully who takes a good catch…A really poor shot, tail ender-esque…it was dying on the big man so he does well to gather it …84-2, England well on top. 2.3 is the run rate.

2.1 now, West Indies really getting bogged down.

Stokes with a shout for lbw, they don’t review when the appeal is turned down, looks seriously close…

it’s out, hitting leg, dead centre, looked out on tv in real time… worst case they’d have kept the review if clipping, umpires call, so silly play, had to have known it was close…… appealing vociferously then captain and bowler talking each other out of the review… mad… that’s what happens when you have a negative captain.

The Stokes one seemed like it was going down. His angle and everything looked off. Sometimes you wonder with the ball tracking. It throws up predicted paths that no one expects from watching the replays. Hindsight of course it's an error not to review. I wouldn't lay any blame on the umpire though.

Another terrible pitch. Putting five days of good crowds before the game.