International Cricket

[Ecko]

Embarrassing 

[And Its Smith]

Haha absolutely laughable.  Need to pick players with steel.  This is madness.  Quivering rabbits 

[Bs4Red]

Folding like a shoddily built Ikea deck chair 

[TonyTonyTony]

Wtf ? 6 down ? I’ve been on a zoom call the last 45 mins  - ******* hell 

[Northern Red]

Just now, And Its Smith said:

Haha absolutely laughable.  Need to pick players with steel.  This is madness.  Quivering rabbits 

Like who?

[And Its Smith]

6/4 from 6.5 overs.  

[Red7]

Shocking ineptitude.

[Dolman_Stand]

Reckon Jimmy has his pads on already

[And Its Smith]

Just now, Northern Red said:

Like who?

No idea but not my job to find them.  Certain batsman you don't want to see walking out in these situations.  

Woakes has got some backbone.  Cant see him being caught in the headlights. 

[Super]

1 minute ago, Northern Red said:

Like who?

In fairness Bairstow and Moeen are specialists in failure.

[BanburyRed]

Oh hello, an England batting collapse...not seen one of those for at least.....one test.

[Northern Red]

Just now, And Its Smith said:

No idea but not my job to find them.  Certain batsman you don't want to see walking out in these situations.  

Woakes has got some backbone.  Cant see him being caught in the headlights. 

 

Just now, Super said:

In fairness Bairstow and Moeen are specialists in failure.

But that's my point. Who else is there?

The way the game is run in this country now means that those players aren't being produced anymore. And when they are they're criticised if they don't score quickly enough.

[Dolman_Stand]

Root must be so fed up watching these collapses from the other end.

[Northern Red]

1 minute ago, TomF said:

We should have been looking to go 3-1 in series and yet here we are staring 2-1 down.   We've not bowled well enough and our batting is turgid. 

No doubt rent a gobshite Vaughan will be back lambasting County Cricket scores today...

For once I agree with him, because I think he was getting at the quality of the pitches rather than the batting.

[TonyTonyTony]

From what ive seen of the dismissals, not many players are getting their bats on those Bumrah yorkers. Fantastic bowling.

Ali's dismissal was pathetic tbf

[Lanterne Rouge]

That`s that then.

[SinéadB]

Bumrah has been outstanding today. Really really excellent. 

[Northern Red]

Another one overturned. 

[Super]

When is Stokes back?

[PHILINFRANCE]

1 hour ago, TomF said:

But since those first innings nearly all the scores 2nd time around were 200-300.   I'm sure its part of his wider ploy to suggest we cut down to 8-10 county sides (conveniently the ones that host 100 games) so they can play more red ball cricket. 

Apart from Somerset .

[BanburyRed]

Pathetic from England, fair play India but given them the test.

[Super]

Indian fans really are a classless bunch of idiots. Avoid Twitter for the next few days.

[bearded_red]

I can’t be too critical of these players or this team as they’ve competed much better than I thought they would and have been beaten by a vastly superior team.

The elephant in the room, and the point that I’m confused some people seem to keep missing, is that this is a crap team. One test quality batsman, no frontline spinner, have only played in one test out of four with a pace bowler in the team, still utterly reliant on a (brilliant) 39 year old who is actually finally beginning to show his age in second innings of games. Without our talismanic superhero of an all rounder the cracks in this team cannot be papered over.

 

This is the first year since 2001 that England will fail to win either home series in a summer. Now fair enough, they’ve played the best two teams in the world, but my issue is that I’d advise people to get used to it. The England test team is in terminal decline thanks to the utter charlatans running the game in this country. 

As for the Ashes, look at what’s happened in the second half of this game when the pitch has flattened out. We have absolutely no idea how to win on those pitches. If they win a game in Australia I’d be stunned.
 

Developing test match players just isn’t something that concerns the ECB anymore I’m afraid.

[Lew-T]

We’re just a shambles of a test side. Haven’t had the right balance for years in our batting line up, re-selecting poor players to make it work. Balance, Jennings, Sibley, Lyth, Carberry, Robson, Stoneman… to name a few.

Something has to change. 

[Lew-T]

11 minutes ago, Super said:

Indian fans really are a classless bunch of idiots. Avoid Twitter for the next few days.

They’re unbearable.

[Northern Red]

8 minutes ago, bearded_red said:

I can’t be too critical of these players or this team as they’ve competed much better than I thought they would and have been beaten by a vastly superior team.

The elephant in the room, and the point that I’m confused some people seem to keep missing, is that this is a crap team. One test quality batsman, no frontline spinner, have only played in one test out of four with a pace bowler in the team, still utterly reliant on a (brilliant) 39 year old who is actually finally beginning to show his age in second innings of games. Without our talismanic superhero of an all rounder the cracks in this team cannot be papered over.

 

This is the first year since 2001 that England will fail to win either home series in a summer. Now fair enough, they’ve played the best two teams in the world, but my issue is that I’d advise people to get used to it. The England test team is in terminal decline thanks to the utter charlatans running the game in this country. 

As for the Ashes, look at what’s happened in the second half of this game when the pitch has flattened out. We have absolutely no idea how to win on those pitches. If they win a game in Australia I’d be stunned.
 

Developing test match players just isn’t something that concerns the ECB anymore I’m afraid.

Absolutely spot on.

People are screaming for changes, but who? The cupboard is bare.

[Super]

5 minutes ago, Lew-T said:

They’re unbearable.

Funny when they lose they are nowhere to be seen. Morons most of them.

[Maltshoveller]

7 minutes ago, Lew-T said:

We’re just a shambles of a test side. Haven’t had the right balance for years in our batting line up, re-selecting poor players to make it work. Balance, Jennings, Sibley, Lyth, Carberry, Robson, Stoneman… to name a few.

Something has to change. 

Yeah county cricket and coaching basic technique

We need more quality less quantity in county cricket

Coaches need to teach batsman the basics  Head still /Straight bat 

Rocket science it is not

3 minutes ago, Super said:

Funny when they lose they are nowhere to be seen. Morons most of them.

Sounds like most fans at most sports

[Super]

1 minute ago, Maltshoveller said:

Yeah county cricket and coaching basic technique

We need more quality less quantity in county cricket

Coaches need to teach batsman the basics  Head still /Straight bat 

Rocket science it is not

Sounds like most fans at most sports

Not sure English fans are as bad as the Indians tbh.

[TonyTonyTony]

23 minutes ago, bearded_red said:

I can’t be too critical of these players or this team as they’ve competed much better than I thought they would and have been beaten by a vastly superior team.

The elephant in the room, and the point that I’m confused some people seem to keep missing, is that this is a crap team. One test quality batsman, no frontline spinner, have only played in one test out of four with a pace bowler in the team, still utterly reliant on a (brilliant) 39 year old who is actually finally beginning to show his age in second innings of games. Without our talismanic superhero of an all rounder the cracks in this team cannot be papered over.

 

This is the first year since 2001 that England will fail to win either home series in a summer. Now fair enough, they’ve played the best two teams in the world, but my issue is that I’d advise people to get used to it. The England test team is in terminal decline thanks to the utter charlatans running the game in this country. 

As for the Ashes, look at what’s happened in the second half of this game when the pitch has flattened out. We have absolutely no idea how to win on those pitches. If they win a game in Australia I’d be stunned.
 

Developing test match players just isn’t something that concerns the ECB anymore I’m afraid.

That is a great post, and i agree with all of it. I do wonder where Test match cricket will be in 10 years.

There are significant shortcomings in the England team, but India were really good today. Bumrah is world class and you have to say Kohli captained and managed things well. 

As for the Ashes - absolutely battered