Off Topic Cricket Thread

Repoens the debate about Foakes, but you just can't fit 12 players into an 11 man team

 

Or just proves you need a specialist wicketkeeper

 

Maybe, but at the cost of 50+ runs an innings when you bat? Foakes is decent, but not in the same class as Bairstow with a bat in his hand.

 

Get in there

 

Needed that. Had a feeling this session was going to see the game go away from us. Need to wrap this innings up now (easier said than done, but they effectively have 3 No.11s after Cummins)

 

What a pudding of a pitch this is mind.

If you wanted a pitch designed to negate a positive, attacking approach, and take cricket back to the slo-mo days of the early sixties, this would be it. I've not seen anything like it.

But we've had the chances and should be batting now, as their last three would have struggled under pressure. You rarely get away with missing as many against a team probably better than you are.

Robinson looks woefully short mind. Slow and no threat at all, especially on a pitch where hardly anything bounces. I'd have had Potts in for him next game. Wood and Mahmood, if he's fit, have to be considered. Need some pace I'd say.

Looking like we'll need rain to get out of this, as even Cummings looks as if he could bat all day .

 

Only took me to write Robinson off!

 

Coventry City probably could

 

Aye, there's the rub!

 

Don't want to say I called it but.....

 

Something to watch while it's raining at Edgebaston.

https://www.youtube.com/live/yoArKnwLCBQ?feature=share

 

Liam Livingstone is outrageous.

Play resumes at Edgbaston and Ducket has gone.

 

****ing hell we are wobbling like **** here.

 

So dark. Not sure they should have been back out.

 

Probably not, but the lights and people paying a lot of money has changed the game.

Crawley going was the blow for me. Ducket deserves his chance, but I can see him nicking to gully and third slip all summer against these taller quicker bowlers.

Need a decent first hour tomorrow or it could be done.

 

Classic....

 

Durham doing well in reply to 195 so far.

95-0

 

125/1. Doing brilliant

 

Turner just gone. But Robinson is a quality batter.

 

Lees gone. Starts to rain, covers on. Lancashire ahead on DLS.