The cricket thread

skippy76

Let’s hope India peaked to soon

guitars4you

Maybe not enough runs on the board to chase, but will be nice to see Root or Bairstow get a ton in front of their home crowd today

crunchman

guitars4you said:

Maybe not enough runs on the board to chase, but will be nice to see Root or Bairstow get a ton in front of their home crowd today

You've probably doomed them!

It will have to be a Lancashire player who gets the runs (Buttler).

crunchman

Bairstow out first ball. @guitars4you to blame.

RandallFlagg

Nervy start from England, trickier than they probably expected. Should be OK if Root and Vince keep the run rate ticking over and get past 100

RandallFlagg

Vince gone....Wobbly 

SouthpawMark

Vince is fucking useless. Apologies if that’s not a harsh enough assessment. 

SouthpawMark

Paul Farbrace should become a regular on TMS. Legendary stuff. 

crunchman

RandallFlagg said:

Vince gone....Wobbly 

Someone on TMS quoted suggesting Tom Banton.  How do we go about nobbling Vince?

SouthpawMark

crunchman said:

RandallFlagg said:

Vince gone....Wobbly 

Someone on TMS quoted suggesting Tom Banton.  How do we go about nobbling Vince?

The selectors realising that he’s fucking useless? Unfortunately the brains trust of Ed Smith and midget Taylor are more interested in modelling sunglasses that are too small for their heads. 

RandallFlagg

England stuttering along slowly, far from safe at the moment

skippy76

Make sure you leave him in for Tuesdays game

SouthpawMark

skippy76 said:

Make sure you leave him in for Tuesdays game

Khawaja offsets any deficiencies caused by Mr Vince. 

SouthpawMark

Moeen back to being BadMoeen. 

scrumhalf

Someone get a message to that guitarist: stop playing Sweet Child Of Mine and have a go at Make It Easy On Yourself. (I don't think anyone's written a song called Stop Batting Like Twats.)

RandallFlagg

anyone whistling The Great Escape
in hope? All looks a bit tragic with the 3 toughest games to come

earwighoney

Does anyone else think the England team suffers from complacency?  Sri Lanka & Pakistan are in no way strong teams but it seemed England didn't respect their opponents at times. 

The batting in particular today, lots of terrible shots - few seeming to taking any kind of responsibility with their shot selection. 

Great bowling by Malinga today though.  He has a fine belly as well.  Always good to see a portly quick bowler. 

scrumhalf

We seem to be developing into flat-track bullies.

sixstringsupplies

I don't think this changes the complexion of the tournament too much. I think England need 2 points to qualify and out of the three remaining games, they'll win one of them. If anything Stokes should have gone for it when we were 7-8 down, not waiting for last man in at 9 down. Easier said than done! Clearly a difficult wicket to bat on.

guitars4you

wow - what the hell happened ?????  - a bad day in the office - to cocky - not as good as we think - just a blip