International cricket thread

True. One thing that might hamper England… the light is looking very gloomy there in Nottingham…

if it ends up Leach and Root bowling… might as well give it up.

will definitely have a go early. But if key wickets go early, might get more defensive.

a more interesting Day 5 than I thought possible after Day 3.

After a solid enough start England lose a couple of extremely cheap wickets…Root will be particularly unimpressed as will his teammates as he gave catching practice to Trent Boult to see himself c&b back to the dressing room for 3… poor shot to a poor delivery.

We can safely assume no chance of even trying to chase it down

He’s scattered the field… two slips and no close catchers… this could backfire on NZ… this pair put on another 40 and it’s England in poll position… with their long tail they are not quite yet..

it like a 20/20 finish. boundaries galore

There’s no way this would have happened under last management.

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not so sure

I was wrong. Great to see a team try

All it is a fixture to raise a few bob and give Dutch players experience.

im not sure I’d be too enamoured as an English bowler running in, breaking my bôllocks just outside Amsterdam, in 29 degrees which I am reading it is… absolutely nothing in it for England…

id be a little suspect about the England lineup… they have only picked two out and out bowlers, the rest are batsmen or all rounders….save themselves knocking over the Netherlands for 140 ? Or am I being too cynical. They sure as shît don’t need the extra runs. David Willey is at number 9. Averages just under 24 with the bat and takes less then 2 wickets per match.

yes England played here when our team was of lesser aptitude but we still gave em a game, and were competitive.

this is absolute murder.

Amateur hour by the Dutch groundstaff. 18 overs are lost due to the pitch not being covered properly and rain getting in on the pitches..

How does that happen... ? covers just need to be in situ... not leaking and secured properly...

Each innings 41 overs now...

I didn't really see any aggro. A two minute discussion about a beach ball is what I saw with a slightly over officious steward tbh, and pitch invaders get taken out far, far worse in other sports, plus they're a pain in the arse anyway so fupp em.

Morgan failed again, Netherlands have brought a bit of respectability back to the score line with a couple of good deliveries. Still a cakewalk but much more sedate scoring from England now (obviously they don't have to do anything else but I think they'd have preferred the wham bam thank you ma'am)

Just as I type that Ali is putting the accelerator down.

Alot more chat about Morgan and his place in the side, on batting alone he doesn't and hasn't for some time merited a place and he looks all over the place with the bat, he's not helped by the fact that his replacement Butler is in fine form...Interesting to see if he makes it to the T20 WC.

His very good. But they are really feeling the loss of Warne, bumble and holden. All the English commentators are very similar.You could listen to holden all day

Pietersen and the lad with the high pitched voice on the ipl are dreadful.