[Cricket] **** England v Australia, 1st Specsavers Ashes Test, Edgbaston. Official match thread ****

[The Wizard]

Calamity.

 

[Mackenzie]

Useless.

 

[studio150]

Stokes gone 97/7

The Ireland 1st innings isn't looking like a one off

 

[LlcoolJ]

"start the car!!!!"

 

[zefarelly]

will We make 100 ?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Fair play Smith has done a double worldie innings, but always worth betting against England, for they have zero in the way of mental strength. Flakey as furk. Pathetic.

 

[The Wizard]

Ton up

How anyone can say one bad day cost England this match? We had them 120-8 on the first day and let them get to a score that kept them in the game, we were 280 odd for 4 when batting and lost 6 wickets for less than hundred, yesterday we bowled terribly and let the game get away from us, today we’ve batted like idiots.

Aside from the first 2 hours it’s been a calamity of a test match

 

[Thunder Bolt]

[tweet]1158364338207580161[/tweet]

 

[Milano]

Wake up call.
Was Anderson fully fit to start with?
Root is a great batsman but I’m not sure about as a test captain.
Bairstow is not a test match player.
Ali needs dropping to help him, another match like this might destroy the bloke. Lyon showing England what SHOULD have happened yesterday.

 

[studio150]

England management just making a quick call to Jason Gillespie for pointers on how to conduct a post match interview after a very poor batting performance,

 

[essbee1]

Disgraceful, just utterly disgraceful.

 

[Simster]

I really do hate all the cheering for the pointless boundaries. All it shows is that even way down the order, England can't be arsed to even try and be attritional. Just put your fking bat out and say "get past that" FFS.

 

[The Wizard]

Not entirely sure why Woakes is playing so positively

 

[Milano]

I really do hate all the cheering for the pointless boundaries. All it shows is that even way down the order, England can't be arsed to even try and be attritional. Just put your fking bat out and say "get past that" FFS.

This with bells on. Only 2 maybe 3 of our batsmen have the mentality required to BUILD an innings. Smith does not take to the pitch and swish 6’s. He is annoyingly patient. Too many of ours do not cherish their wicket, they only know how to play limited over.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

A poser for all the cricket experts on here. Who is there on the county circuit good enough for England and can bat for more than 30 mins with out trying to hit out as per T20.

You asked this question about 20 pages ago, and I answered it then. Nick Browne of Essex.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

It’s infuriating that Smith etc more than likely cheated against England and we haven’t benefited from the ban.

Same goes for South Africa.

 

[The Wizard]

Absolutely superb bowling from Lyon, it’s a real shame that Ali couldn’t bring this for us yesterday could have been a very different game.

Shouldn’t even be sending Jimmy out there

 

[Luke93]

Why is Jimmy coming out? Game has gone.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Once again we show how well we fall apart, best in the world.

 

[The Wizard]

Poor Jimmy, sad sight to see the great man clearly in pain having to try and bat for 4 hours. Disgrace on the rest of the team