Harry Brook

[benjii]

Insane figures this lad is putting up.

[skintsaint]

England making hard work of this. 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Great knock but well and truly swung in India's favour now I reckon now Root's out too.

[Gloucester Saint]

Time for Smith and Overton to be heroes. Siraj doing loads with the ball, incredible given the overs he has bowled.

[egg]

Brook is some player. Not sure we've got enough sting in our tail to win this though. Bethel has had a poor game and left it all to Smith. 

Edited Sunday at 18:26 by egg

[Gloucester Saint]

16 minutes ago, egg said:

Brook is some player. Not sure we've got enough sting in our tail to win this though. Bethel has had a poor game and left it all to Smith. 

Bethell should have been playing more red ball for Warwickshire. Hardly a surprise he’s come in cold and struggled for all of his ability.

[egg]

34 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Bethell should have been playing more red ball for Warwickshire. Hardly a surprise he’s come in cold and struggled for all of his ability.

Yep. I'm not sure who is have wanted at 6 instead though. Jordan Cox perhaps. 

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, egg said:

Yep. I'm not sure who is have wanted at 6 instead though. Jordan Cox perhaps. 

If he stops breaking fingers on the eve of Tests. In fact, he was the original choice for the NZ at #3.

[benjii]

Ah, crap. Nerves.

[benjii]

Umpires trying to shaft us.

[badgerx16]

2 minutes ago, benjii said:

Umpires trying to shaft us.

Several of the England batsmen have done that themselves.

[whelk]

Despite the sledging I quite like this Indian team

[egg]

36 minutes ago, whelk said:

Despite the sledging I quite like this Indian team

I don't mind the sledging. It's part of the game. We just need to give as much shit as we get. 

[tdmickey3]

Good game but we should have won easily but once Brook played that silly shot it all turned sour

[egg]

34 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Good game but we should have won easily but once Brook played that silly shot it all turned sour

The selection of Bethel was the difference for me. Criminal that he was in the team. And the shed load of extras conceded on their first innings. 

[badgerx16]

7 minutes ago, egg said:

The selection of Bethel was the difference for me. Criminal that he was in the team. And the shed load of extras conceded on their first innings. 

We lost by fewer runs than the wides Tongue conceded in 2 balls of his first over.

[Gloucester Saint]

1 minute ago, badgerx16 said:

We lost by fewer runs than the wides Tongue conceded in 2 balls of his first over.

The bowling is a quandry for the Ashes. I’d be tempted to use Archer lightly in the SA white ball series, Wood will have recovered but at 35 can he still bowl mid-90s? 

Woakes may retire if that’s a broken shoulder which it looks like. Overton looked rusty after little cricket for Surrey. Tongue looked both Dog and Duck and world class in his spells. Did a job on their tail more than once though. Cook looked 5-10mph short of troubling Test players. 

Atkinson taking the new ball in Perth barring a mishap is a certainty. How much can Stokes bowl in the winter? 

Dawson didn’t help himself not switching out of white ball mode at OT and then fielding at the Oval. Bashir probably starts but looked innocuous this summer. 

[badgerx16]

2 hours ago, whelk said:

Despite the sledging I quite like this Indian team

If you think this series has involved serious sledging, you are in for a treat in the Ashes games.

[egg]

40 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

The bowling is a quandry for the Ashes. I’d be tempted to use Archer lightly in the SA white ball series, Wood will have recovered but at 35 can he still bowl mid-90s? 

Woakes may retire if that’s a broken shoulder which it looks like. Overton looked rusty after little cricket for Surrey. Tongue looked both Dog and Duck and world class in his spells. Did a job on their tail more than once though. Cook looked 5-10mph short of troubling Test players. 

Atkinson taking the new ball in Perth barring a mishap is a certainty. How much can Stokes bowl in the winter? 

Dawson didn’t help himself not switching out of white ball mode at OT and then fielding at the Oval. Bashir probably starts but looked innocuous this summer. 

Woakes injury is nasty whatever he's done. If it's a rotator cuff, it'll be game over sadly. I'm with you re the bowlers. Archer needs to be used carefully as he and Stokes are our best hope, but they're both made of glass. 

[Whitey Grandad]

If you win the toss then bat first. Surely?

[badgerx16]

2 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

If you win the toss then bat first. Surely?

McCullum and Stokes are redefining the norm.

[Weston Super Saint]

A drawn series was an appropriate result this time.

Both teams have been fantastic and absolute dogshit in equal measure.  There wasn't a clear winner.