Lionator

Hope Stroll wins just for the laughs

Don’t worry, there’ll be a safety car before that happens

What a crap sport, safety car every time there’s a bit of drizzle. The woke have taken over and won.

That’s another unreal call from the umpire. Stokes genuinely didn’t have a clue it’d hit his pad.

We can still save this!

Brook is world class but can look absolutely hopeless when the ball is doing something.

Seems like it’s already been decided that Archer will come in for Carse. England want flat decks because Bumrah would destroy us on one that is nipping around.

It’s a touch of arrogance/confidence. I don’t think we expected our bowling to be as poor as it’s been. Let’s be honest apart from one good spell from Tongue at Headingley, it’s been absolutely woeful. Most of our batters are flat track bullies as well (and bloody good ones at that), you only had to see what happened in the Pakistan series, what happens to these players when the conditions don’t suit them.

Yes smarty, the second in that case

First of the ‘Pearson generation’ to go into management apart from Wellens (who himself is impressive)?

That’s a ridiculous ball. Why did Deep not play the first test?

This Bangladeshi umpire has actually been class. Annoying, but class.

Crawley you maniac

The problem is, players like Duckett and Brook cannot play defensively, it’s not in their repertoire. We will have to attack. And we can win but I doubt it now.

Scared of a team that can chase 370 is one thing, but they’re at 591 lol.

Being cowards.

The way England play means they’ll offer you chances even on a flat deck. While unlikely I give us 25% chance of winning. Likely 110 overs so just about 5 an over which is easy for us.

Seems obvious that the sustainable way forward for this club is through the academy, even if we end up as a feeder club for a few years, it’ll keep us ticking over financially

absolutely mental by the way. He scored 86 off 30’odd balls the other day too.

500 would be a crazy amount to chase down, I think we can do it but not sure we will. We won’t play for a draw, that’s for sure.

Anyone who played in the June internationals isn’t playing ie Abdul, Bilal, Mads etc

It’s fine, little risk of rain and the cloud will help India if anything.

India need to go at at least 5rpo here. Way too slow.

I think it is the frustration that irritates me because he could be even better than he is. Against Glamorgan the other week he got his first hundred. Given the pitch he could’ve knuckled down and made it a big one, possibly even a double ton with his ability. But he just decided to leather every ball and got caught.

Honestly the most brain dead cricketer I’ve ever seen