Never seen anything like it today. The ball finding the gap or getting dropped, the umpires not giving clear decisions, Broad and Moeen bowling poorly. Also... Somebody take the gloves from Bairstow and give them to Buttler for God sake
**** it based on today, I would start the next match: Sibley Burns Roy Root Bairstow Stokes Buttler (wk) Woakes Curran Leach Archer Broad is ****ed. He's had his one innings per series splurge already, he's down on pace and his attitude in that second innings was appalling. Ali needs a break, Rashid would get attacked, so Leach is literally the only option for Spin. Denly is not at the right level, and Roy needs to come in at 3. Bairstow is pissing me off with his ineptitude with the gloves. I have never seen a ball go through someone's legs as much since Tim Krul played for Newcastle.
If given a break means dropped then I agree for Ali. Not watched much today but have been listening on the radio and Root should be dropped as Captain. Failing to attack the batsman and surrendering the initiative to Australia...again.
Root has done poorly, however, his bowlers have let him down massively. Anderson he can't do anything about, this was always going to be tough. It's been a really poor day from England.
Im off tomorrow so looking forward to the grand finale . So just looking at the poll results and would love to know your thoughts now ?
Calm down the reality is that smith and australia are grinding this out... england are playing well .
Why not f*ck right off you prick, you've admitted you've been a tw#t to brb and bragged you're coming on here to p!ss the cricket fans off. This is the only site you're not banned from because the mods can't see what an immature c*nt you are. I hope you're going to go squealing to the mods again about me you soft sh!te because if I get banned that suits me fine.
Jeez its only a game cobber. Thats what spirts about bragging rights. Btw ive still got your pm saying sorry, so its a shame youve let yourself down again. Dont take things so seriously . Gooday
Right lets not let baldy derail the thread .. I think its heading for a draw personally.. england will hold out and theres potential for rain in the morning.
Obviously you’re not watching too closely. Smith and the Aussies have played well there’s no contesting that. But they have scored at over 4 an over for over a 100 overs and in Test Cricket that ain’t grinding. England have suffered with Anderson deciding to play before he had his iron lung removed but that doesn’t excuse the limp bowling performance in the second innings nor the lack of leadership from Rooooooooot. Also England’s fielders have ended up just about all holding on to the boundary rope by the end of both innings. We haven’t since Smith settled in in the first innings attacked and crowded the Aussie batsmen.
I get that but austraila collapsed day 1 , so theyve really had to dig deep for 3 days to get in this position ... credit them. Credit englands batsman who will hold out tomorrow i think
10 wickets in 1 day is unlikley is it not? Far too much negativity from the english fans on here ... its far from over ...
