Cricket

[StreetEndBlue]

Abysmal day for any Lancs and England fan so far.

Lancs totally deserve relegation. Utterly atrocious in the Championship all season.

 

[Blues Harp]

We can be critical of some of our batsmen, but hang on a minute, this Indian bowling attack is rather tasty.

We are pretty damn good at ODI and 20/20, but we have forgotten how to defend properly in Test cricket......now 4 down....

 

[summerisle]

England 51-4, Cook out to a dreadful shot.



Worcestershire 31-3, Bailey with 3-15, now 91 ahead.

 

[ToffeeTim]

What a shambles

 

[summerisle]

Wickets.

 

[Connor]

Sack the ECB

 

[Toast]

So up until yesterday, this test was showing as 'sold out' for the first 3 days. Loads of empty seats, clearly.

It's literally 5 mins from my house, and I'm off work today.

Fuming.

 

[toffeejack]

they need to sort this out, how long are they going to just keep chopping and changing the batting line up expecting that to fix the issue? It's obviously deeper lying than that.

 

[Toast]

Reviews all gone...

Could do with actually getting skittled quickly here as its dead cloudy and perfect for a Jimmy spell.

 

[toffeejack]

Well done to the bowlers again for actually doing the batting, extraordinary. Why don't they just flip the batting line up upside down, give it a go?

Think Curran and stokes will be key tomorrow, stokes could do with bowling slower to get more seeing. Woakes would have been good here.

 

[summerisle]

Close : England 246, Curran 78, Moeen 40. India, 19-0.
Lancashire 6-0, need a further 306 to win.

 

[ToffeeTim]

That was absolutely shoddy batting from the top 6 and then absolute tosh at the end from broad. Most of those would have been wides in limited overs.

 

[StreetEndBlue]

Collapse after collapse. Yet England think it's a good idea to keep Mark Ramprakash in situ as batting coach.

Now I know he can't go out and bat for them (thank god given how garbage he was at Test level) but we've gone even further backwards as a batting line-up since he was employed and can't think of many players he's improved.

I've just noticed he's applied for the Middlesex coaching job and pray he gets it and is out of the England set-up asap. Perhaps he's got wind his days are numbered? He was a huge failure as a player at Test level and now it seems Ramps has been just as bigger a failure as a coach too.

 

[flibbyflob]

We can be critical of some of our batsmen, but hang on a minute, this Indian bowling attack is rather tasty.

If we are calling this lot tasty then we are stuffed next summer against the Aussies as they have a real attack.

 

[Joey66]

.....as in football, the best players do not necessarilly become the best coaches. I have no idea how capable a coach Ramprakash is.

He was an average batsman......