The England Cricket Thread

Cosimo · 28 Dec 2015 at 09:03

Elgar gets a century and 190-7.

rickjames · 28 Dec 2015 at 15:18

I love Joe Root. God he's good.

manic111 · 29 Dec 2015 at 12:14

Who's the really slow talking commentator on Sky? He is hideously boring

JRS · 30 Dec 2015 at 08:53

Well, England have had worse starts to a bowling 5th day than that....34 minutes, four wickets and, what, 9 runs?

Cosimo · 30 Dec 2015 at 09:28

Just one more wicket wanted.

Cosimo · 30 Dec 2015 at 09:42

Broad, 174 all out and the match!

rickjames · 2 Jan 2016 at 08:49

Eng win toss and bat, Anderson in for Woakes.

Cape Town looks gorgeous.

rickjames · 2 Jan 2016 at 15:44

300-5, good recovery from Stokes and Bairstow, both batting great.

Jimbeam3678 · 3 Jan 2016 at 08:57

Stokes is smacking them all over the park here. Superb cricket

Jimbeam3678 · 3 Jan 2016 at 09:48

Stokes 162 NO and still smashing them all over the place. Brilliant brilliant cricket

rickjames · 3 Jan 2016 at 10:08

This is madness

Jimbeam3678 · 3 Jan 2016 at 10:11

Anyone told Ben this isn't 20/20 ? 193 NO

Jimbeam3678 · 3 Jan 2016 at 10:18

Thats the 200 for Stokes

BaZ87 · 3 Jan 2016 at 10:39

Not regretting waking up for that :cool:

From the first over it was carnage.

Jimbeam3678 · 3 Jan 2016 at 11:27

I put it on whilst on call thinking this will be easy watching ! How wrong I was!

Yas786 · 3 Jan 2016 at 12:04

Geezus how is it that SA are the number 1 test team in the world?? Playing like they are the worst test team at the moment. England for a change are looking the better team after being spanked by Pak late last yr lol.

Well played England, now try and win the series??? SA are atrociously bad, it showed when they got beaten by India a few mths back lol v

rickjames · 3 Jan 2016 at 12:14

Their cause isn't helped by a whole manner of things, politics mostly...

BaZ87 · 3 Jan 2016 at 12:18

What a way to end it. He gets dropped going for a 3rd 6 in a row but is run out after expecting the catch to be taken.

MarcLister · 3 Jan 2016 at 12:30

I'm guessing Morne Morkel now knows exactly how many of the spectators behind him are Barmy Army after that hilarious drop that went for 4! :cool:

BaZ87 said:
What a way to end it. He gets dropped going for a 3rd 6 in a row but is run out after expecting the catch to be taken.

You can imagine the banter between the two of them later on:

De Villiers: I didn't expect to run you out.
Stokes: I didn't expect you to drop me.

Yas786 · 3 Jan 2016 at 12:35

rickjames said:
Their cause isn't helped by a whole manner of things, politics mostly...

Also losing Steyn won't help them either. But they are not the team they used to be, Amla has been pretty atrocious with the bat since he was made captain, haven't seen him make any decent runs for some time. Curse of being a captain I guess lol.