Cricket

[ToffeeTim]

That was the first time a batsman got out to good bowling rather than poor batting. Great delivery

 

[jaspercabbage]

And that’s why you need to get a move on and runs on the board because you have bumrah bowling to the tail.

It's the sh*t for brains shots to good deliveries that have brought Bumrah to bowl at the tail with a poor total.

 

[summerisle]

Durham close on 155-7.

 

[Eggs]

Durham close on 155-7.

….listening on radio via BBC website, terrific piece of fielding from Hartley in last over to stop a 6, good figures from Green.

 

[summerisle]

….listening on radio via BBC website, terrific piece of fielding from Hartley in last over to stop a 6, good figures from Green.

Just register on Lancs tv to watch it, doesn't cost anything.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Root got out and the rest just collapsed - no fight at all. Awful batting and also unfair on Root that they are so reliant on the one player to save them any time the bowling is good.

 

[f.t.r.s]

Game over

 

[ToffeeTim]

12 bowled dismissals is not acceptable in test cricket

 

[Walken]

Awful effort, England have listened to the noise from the clowns and gone to bat time, they went nowhere as a result

 

[Handball]

Crawley needs sending to Siberia for the way he got out in a close Test Match.
I don't care what the 'ethos' of Bazzbollox is, if you're an opening batsman and it's 50 odd for 2, you use your cricketing brain. If you've got one.

 

[hallamblue]

Game over

Really? Anything over 150 is difficult to get in the 4th innings of a test match. I mean I don't trust our bowling attack because it's not great but it certainly isn't game over.

 

[ToffeeTim]

Awful effort, England have listened to the noise from the clowns and gone to bat time, they went nowhere as a result

It's not necessarily the tactics that are the reason they are getting criticism. I believe the issue is selection and that there are some players who appear to be un-droppable regardless of performance. That doesn't help get the best out of the team.

I personally would drop Woakes Bashir Crawley and Pope and give others a go. I don't think they are performing well enough.

 

[summerisle]

Lancashire 37-1, 5 overs.

 

[jaspercabbage]

Who would have thought you could get batters out by bowling at the stumps?
Or that a slog is not the best shot to play at a ball hitting middle stump

 

[PITA]

We are simply not good enough im afraid.

There you go. You’ve now accepted that England are not the best team in the world. Well done. Maybe you can now stop blabbering like a 2-year old when a batsmen gets out or a bowler bowls a bad ball. It’s a game. It’s not the most important thing in the world.