International cricket thread

I was thinking much the same about Holder, so much promise and talent but erratic and inconsistent.

At least Mayers is showing some fight, if the WI get anywhere near the England total, it will be a one innings shoot out.

Mayers threw it away there...

They gots the tail wagging a bit three wickets remaining and the possibility of eating into Englands lead… three wickets in hand so any advantage if any will be nominal you’d imagine for both sides…interesting stuff..

Yes the tail is certainly wagging

England batsmen will be under some pressure now…. England had taken the crease with 30/40 runs ahead like they could have that would have been a seriously valuable head start.

Looks like weather will play no further part so I’d imagine a result is probable.

Roach isn’t a batsman, his average a shade over 11… just scored 21 from 66 here now though, not in much peril…29.65 the average for Da Silva and he’s scored 54…good efforts.

I didn't see the WI get this size of a lead at all. This will really put it up to England, I had them favourites. It would be great if Da Silva could get his century!

Da Silva given out, they all walk off, he thought he was out, not out! Overton then throws the ball at Da Silva in frustration.

All this after he had smashed Overton for consecutive boundaries to get his century!

Crawley gone! 14/1...

32/3

looks like England’s goose is cooked. Lees with a strike rate of 15.0 and averages 16 in his 4 test innings…. Needs a score… 40 deliveries for 6 runs…. Doesn’t suggest a guy confident in the international headlights so far.

41/4… bad to brutal.

he has a couple of gigantic FC scores Lees but blessed not to be following Stokes back, almost chopped on….62 deliveries for 11 runs..

275 is his top score in FC cricket but he only averages 34.5….

not a single wicket would or could you put down to a good ball… absolutely dreadful batting only.

Just when England were trying to build an inning, first Bairstow and then Folkes...Miles out!!! England 6 down and still 10 behind.

5 for Mayers! Hard to believe what's happening not withstanding England's recent collapses. This is worse than Australia.

I said this when the pushed or be shoved moment happened to Cook when he was captain.

You judge a cricket captain on their field settings, toss decisions, bowling changes, a bit on player selections, declarations. Cook was woefully bad at declarations, he cost them a match in the India series that led to him being pushed but otherwise be was an ok captain. Not great but ok.

Roots field settings, toss decisions, bowling changes, selections (or non selections) and declarations, they are all terrible. He is bad at captaining a cricket team.

His fields are always picked apart, especially the slips. Toss decisions have always been conservative. He had been selecting his mates for years (don't get me started on Broad & Anderson), and he's always too safe with declarations because he's is afraid of losing matches to save his captaincy.

The crowds are down but the interest is not, they were making the point during the Antigua test that it is harder to get to the Sir Viv stadium in North Sound, as opposed to the recreation ground which is right in the middle of St Johns, during the World Cup in 2007, the ICC overcharged for tickets and brought in a lot of petty regulations, one of my favourite stories was that when Ireland beat Pakistan and Bangladesh beat India, all the tickets were pre sold as a meeting of Pakistan and India on a Sunday in Barbados, but it ended up where no one turned up and TV revenue was way down because the seeding didn’t go to plan and Ireland beat Bangladesh in front of a few people and a few dogs