English Cricket Thread

[Arthur Crabtree]

How times change. Flower or Moores would never have sent Sam Curran out to bat at six, or Atkinson at 8 or even Archer at nine. Where are all the batting allrounders intended to fiddle a few balls in the middle overs?

Good start for the England openers.

[Arthur Crabtree]

96 from the openers off 15 overs felt like a revolution when Gilchrist and Warner were doing it. Just standard now.

[andy]

112-0 bethell goes past 50

[Arthur Crabtree]

Hundred for Duckett. Looks a good effort, but top three maybe scoring a bit slowly given they are so much on top.

[alfie]

270/1 ....nine overs to go. Shooting for 350 I suppose. Must be quite a road (I have only watched odd bits so far) so many as they can get , eh ?

[andy]

361-3 with 2 to go big score this root with ankther half century now too

[Arthur Crabtree]

Good start for Indian batters. Going to be a close one...

[Durhamfootman]

finally get a wicket

They might run through them now..... there's someone called Virat Kohli coming in next. Not a name I'm familiar with, so he's probably not very good

[Arthur Crabtree]

Rohit gets a ton.

Still looking a close contest with 19 overs left.

[sussexpob]

12 an over required... Big ask now..

[Durhamfootman]

this new chap Kohli did okay, but needs to learn how to manage run rate a little better

too much for India to do, and Curran is helping himself to wickets as they make a token effort at hitting every ball for six

[Durhamfootman]

England's cruise control possible mostly thanks to Buttler's 41 off 13 balls.

I was hoping for 350 with 10 overs to go, but Buttler took them to 387..... life in the old dog yet. I'm pleased for him

[Durhamfootman]

27 run win

high scoring game

[Arthur Crabtree]

Good effort. England doing well at the back end of both innings.

Odd that Acko was the most economical, but wasn't close to bowling out.

[bigfluffylemon]

Rarec series win v India.