The Cricket Thread

[nidge]

Crawley out for 5, plumb LBW. Idiot reviewed as well.

 

[mark87]

Crawley has to be dropped surely.

 

[nidge]

Crawley has to be dropped surely.

Even if he wasn't losing his wicket cheaply every innings he should be dropped just for reviewing that, it was as plumb LBW as you can get.

 

[Dunc2610]

That review was just desperation! Don't get more plumb than that!

 

[mark87]

Even if he wasn't losing his wicket cheaply every innings he should be dropped just for reviewing that, it was as plumb LBW as you can get.

Think reviewing it was a sign of desperation on his part as he knows he's walking a fine line.

 

[nidge]

Think reviewing it was a sign of desperation on his part as he knows he's walking a fine line.

Yeah I can understand that but blimey he just has to accept it as that is one of the worst reviews I have ever seen a batsman make.

 

[nidge]

However with Pope and Root at the crease England have an opportunity to put the game beyond South Africa.

 

[mark87]

Yeah I can understand that but blimey he just has to accept it as that is one of the worst reviews I have ever seen a batsman make.

And it's cost the team as we've lost another review so makes him look even worse.

 

[nidge]

Ohh Root.

 

[mark87]

Root should've known better not to go for that.

 

[thebenjamin]

Hell of a catch

 

[PCozzie]

Stokes giving his wicket away again.

 

[mark87]

Wickets falling...

 

[nidge]

And there goes Pope.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

On this occasion, this is largely down to it being a three day game and the chase for a win so i'm not going to criticise too much. Even so, a tad more control would have been good, even though it's a three day test match, given how quickly we bowled them out, we could have spared ourselves a bit of time. Unless the tail puts on a substantial amount this is going to be a one innings shoot out.

 

[mark87]

Agree with the commentators that it doesn't look that dark but hey ho

 

[PCozzie]

On this occasion, this is largely down to it being a three day game and the chase for a win so i'm not going to criticise too much. Even so, a tad more control would have been good, even though it's a three day test match, given how quickly we bowled them out, we could have spared ourselves a bit of time. Unless the tail puts on a substantial amount this is going to be a one innings shoot out.

Really we needed this to be a three-innings match having skittled them. I know we wanted to get on with it, but if we'd slowed down a bit and batted until tea tomorrow we'd have had a lead of 200+ and four sessions to bowl them out for an innings victory. It'll probably end up being about a 50 lead now and SA have a chance to set us a tricky 250 to chase in two sessions.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Really we needed this to be a three-innings match having skittled them. I know we wanted to get on with it, but if we'd slowed down a bit and batted until tea tomorrow we'd have had a lead of 200+ and four sessions to bowl them out for an innings victory. It'll probably end up being about a 50 lead now and SA have a chance to set us a tricky 250 to chase in two sessions.

That's pretty much what I was getting at

 

[nidge]

England only need 83 more to win.

 

[Timbo Tottenham]

I always said I liked Crawley