England Cricket Thread 2018

[westham,eggyandchips]

Would you rather we lose 3 - 0 then?

Yeah, I think I would.

I'd rather they showed some spirit and save us from utter humiliation.

We've already been humiliated by losing to one of the weakest test sides in the world.

We have real competition for bowling places.

We really dont. We still rely heavily on Broad and Anderson, the back-up bowlers either don't produce or get injured.

We probably would have gone into the first test with Jennings opening and Bairstow at 3.

We still might given the scrambled thinking behind squad and team selection of late.

[Bend it like Repka]

Yeah, I think I would.

Well that's your choice, but that's like saying you'd rather see a West Ham side 6 - 0 down at half time lose 12 - 0 than at least win the second half 1 - 0 to complete their punishment.

I never get that logic. People have paid good money to go out there, they deserve a performance. I want to see players responding.

You seem to have forgotten some of the famous Ashes whitewashes where the players minds were literally on the plane rather than the pitch in the 5th tests. It was humiliating as an England fan. I'd rather have some fight thank you.

We really dont. We still rely heavily on Broad and Anderson, the back-up bowlers either don't produce or get injured.

In the Ashes we will have Woakes/Woods and Curran fighting for one place. I'd call that competition.

We still might given the scrambled thinking behind squad and team selection of late.

I think if they pick Jennings again even they realise their credibility will be shot beyond all repair.

[The Old Man of Storr]

Apologies for my late post regarding the Gabriel - Root spat - Good on the England Captain in not letting Gabriel's insults get to him - Gabriel is now being charged by the ICC over his homophobic comment .

Joe Root , modern day hero if you ask me .

[Bend it like Repka]

It's funny isn't it. Root probably just made it as an off the cuff comment about how pathetic his sledging was, and it's become a much bigger thing.

I'm not sure he intended to be a gay rights activist, but it's working out that way for him.

Edit, I've just watched the footage and I'm probably doing Root a dis-service. He properly pulls Gabriel on the comment.

Fair play.

[sendô]

I've caught very little cricket of late since I binned off my sky sports subscription, but it seems the same old problems for England are still there as BILR has pointed out - we can't handle fast bowling on hard, fast pitches, and our management have no real long term plan and are chop changing the team around haphazardly, hoping against hope that they'll magically fall upon the right combination to win test matches.

The Sri Lanka series worked because we went with a plan - 3 spinners on pitches that will spin. In the West Indies we needed fast bowlers, it''s taken us until the series was lost to play a quick.

Our saving grace against Australia in the summer will be that our conditions will naturally nullify the full effect of their fast bowlers, and that they wont be able to handle our swing bowling, but it will mask over our continuing problems that don't look like they're about to be fixed.

[wolf359]

Decent start by WI in the 1st odi, scoring relatively slowly but only one down.

Shouldn't this thread by renamed - 2019?

[wolf359]

100 for Gayle, looked completely out of touch at the start, was dropped on 9. This is a road though and England should be able to chase down a big score.

[Jonah]

They're going to need a bigger bag at this rate.

[wolf359]

England chasing 361 to win. 23 sixes in the WI innings.

[smuts]

One to forget for the bowlers. Plunkett, Wood and Moeen not at the races today.

[wolf359]

One to forget for the bowlers. Plunkett, Wood and Moeen not at the races today.

It was a road on a tiny ground with the wind favouring the short boundary. Lets see how England bat before we judge.

[wolf359]

Several 'chunky lads' (David Lloyd) on the WI side, they don't look like international athletes.

[wolf359]

Ton for Roy, with a six off 65 balls, making up for the Gayle drop, nice stuff. I'd give him a go in the Tests at 3.

[smuts]

It was a road on a tiny ground with the wind favouring the short boundary. Lets see how England bat before we judge.

Wasn't judging at all...just said it's a game the bowlers will want to forget and some of them struggled a bit. It must be hard for cricketers to get months off for the winter and get straight back into the groove.

Roy making up for dropping Gayle.

[smuts]

Great knock from Roy. Root going well at the moment.

[SoulCircus]

Despite all those sixes Gayle still got to his century 35 balls slower than Roy. The old fella doesn't like running anymore.

[wolf359]

England win by 6 wickets, Joe Root with the easiest 100 he'll ever score, never broke a sweat despite getting it at slightly more than a run a ball. Out slogging a marginal high one with one needed.

Again on this ground on Friday, should be another 350 odd job.

[Bend it like Repka]

England are going to have to start thinking if Roy should open in the Ashes. Even if he blasts an 80 every third innings and fails in the other 2 it will be better than Jennings.

[Clacton-ammer]

England are going to have to start thinking if Roy should open in the Ashes. Even if he blasts an 80 every third innings and fails in the other 2 it will be better than Jennings.

Our Nans would be better than Jennings.

Roy as a test batsman??? I guess the same was said of Buttler and he is doing ok.

Was a bit of stroll last night for our batsmen due to Roy's great innings, they played it our very professionally, boring to watch the last ten or so overs, but very professional. Would have liked them to put their foot down a little purely to smash them and for entertainment value.

[westlondonhammer]

Cracking result yesterday... we are a really impressive unit.

Got to feel T Curran will play the next game. We don't need two full blooded quicks... someone who can take pace off the ball and bowl an accurate slow ball can often be a huge asset. Stokes was the only one who did that well yesterday.

Roy to open in the Ashes? Difficult one... it's a different kettle of fish opening in the long form. Gayle did it for years without breaking a sweat and Warner transitioned across quickly enough... so the top ones can do it. Nobody else has done enough or looks good enough short term so maybe time to give him a go. We should beat the Aussies, even with an experimental opening pair.