Cricket

[jim mk2]

5 down, 43 runs to keep the target under a perhaps manageable 200

[JohnD]

In an Ideal world we'd get Head and Cummins then rain or light stops play for the day. We don't want to be batting tonight 🤞

[simongarnerisgod]

gone back into braindead bowling mode😒

[jim mk2]

225 ahead and counting it’s too many with out T20 mentality batsmen 

[simongarnerisgod]

not a good time to come out to bat,especially with these two🙄

[Gav]

Absolute Theatre - Exhilarating, could go either way this.

Strap yourselves in.   

[JohnD]

Bazball!! 🤠

[simongarnerisgod]

this is when you need a boycott and a tavare to open😁

[chaddyrovers]

Well bowled to get them out tonight and we now have to chase 251. well done England. 

39 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

225 ahead and counting it’s too many with out T20 mentality batsmen 

really? 😂

Didn't we chase more last summer here? 

[den]

Aussies favourites for me. 250 is a long way away.

[AllRoverAsia]

50 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

225 ahead and counting it’s too many with out T20 mentality batsmen 

Jim, we are going to win this and that's coming from a glass 3rd full punter.

Today and 2 full days to go ... surely a team of grannies could do it with their walking sticks.

[oldjamfan1]

There’ll be a couple of twists and turns no doubt but this has been another exhilarating test match. Hopefully we will knock these off without too much fuss tomorrow.

[JohnD]

40 overs should do it tomorrow....

 

..... One way or another 😯🍺

[chaddyrovers]

we need another 224 runs now tomorrow. Thought Crawley and Duckett played the 5 overs very well. Positive but smart cricket 

[Norbert Rassragr]

2 days to get those runs. If we lose now we are terrible.

[jim mk2]

43 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Jim, we are going to win this and that's coming from a glass 3rd full punter.

Today and 2 full days to go ... surely a team of grannies could do it with their walking sticks.

Wish I had your confidence mate. I’ve been following England so long to know anything is possible so it’s always best to fear the worst because the worst usually happens 

[jim mk2]

4 minutes ago, Norbert Rassragr said:

2 days to get those runs. If we lose now we are terrible.

Proper Test batsmen would take 2 days if necessary 

[chaddyrovers]

5 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Proper Test batsmen would take 2 days if necessary 

it will take us 50 overs or so to get them

[47er]

19 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

we need another 224 runs now tomorrow. Thought Crawley and Duckett played the 5 overs very well. Positive but smart cricket 

Yes but some close incidents. Aussies could easily have got 2 wickets. All I ask now, with so much time left, is that the English batters return to time -honoured tradition and protect their wicket like their life depended on it. If its going down leg side resist the temptation to have a switsh at it. If its at your head--duck, don't wave the bat at it..

As long as we stay there the runs will come. Doesn't matter if its in the last hour of the game does it?

[Ianrally]

56 minutes ago, AllRoverAsia said:

Today and 2 full days to go ... surely a team of grannies could do it with their walking sticks.

Or a stick of rhubarb as someone was always saying. 

[Ianrally]

Michael Vaughan is the new Boycott, his criticism of Bairstow, Root or Brook is minimal. They’ve been a let down, say it as it is. 
Boycott is a total hypocrite telling us that Yarkshire is Gods own country but not good enough for him to live there.

I watched a documentary the other day where Vaughan said his overriding ambition when he started was to play for the county of his birth and how proud he was to achieve that. 
Well tell me Michael, geography isn’t your strong point because where I’m standing, Manchester has never been in Yorkshire. 

[chaddyrovers]

17 minutes ago, 47er said:

Yes but some close incidents. Aussies could easily have got 2 wickets. All I ask now, with so much time left, is that the English batters return to time -honoured tradition and protect their wicket like their life depended on it. If its going down leg side resist the temptation to have a switsh at it. If its at your head--duck, don't wave the bat at it..

As long as we stay there the runs will come. Doesn't matter if its in the last hour of the game does it?

but they didn't. 

England should play their natural game and win the game by playing positive but smart cricket 

[AllRoverAsia]

38 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Wish I had your confidence mate. I’ve been following England so long to know anything is possible so it’s always best to fear the worst because the worst usually happens 

Me too, anything is possible , just feel it in my water.

[oldjamfan1]

46 minutes ago, jim mk2 said:

Wish I had your confidence mate. I’ve been following England so long to know anything is possible so it’s always best to fear the worst because the worst usually happens 

Funnily enough Jim in a bizarre way I’m glad we are chasing 250 and not 150

[RoverDom]

From the POV of someone who doesn't wstch a lot of cricket this series has been absolutely thrilling to watch.

I've been using the Father in laws sky go account to watch it but its a faff. If it was on free view I'd watch a lot more cricket. Its a shame sky dominate so much sport. 

 

On another note. Stokes was in the year above me at school. Absolute grade A cunt of a human being (teachers and students deacription) but my god what a fantastic sportsman he is.