Cricket

Another century for Joe Root, gonna break a hell of a lot of records him.

Fair play to Samuels for that send off to Stokes as well Interesting to see what will happen in the second innings!

I know I love Joe Root an all but his last six Test innings are just F***ing immense;

56, 77, 149*, 83, 59, 118*

Six consecutive Test match 50s, including two hundreds. That ever been done before, globally or just for England? 8 runs short at the moment of 2,000 Test match runs with an average well over 50. Doing that in less than 25 matches is nothing short of remarkable either, especially when you think that not so long ago they were pissing about with his position in the side. Trying him all through the middle order when he first broke in, then throwing him at the top of the order for the Ashes then down to number 3 and then settling on 5.

I said it on here a few years ago about Cook and he's not far off proving me right, so I'll say it here about Root as well - Joe Root will eventually become England's leading run scorer in Test match cricket.

Just shows what a great game test cricket is, never expected that end, a welcome victory in atough looking year.

Go ed Ali Cook.

Finally got his hundred!!!

Gonna be a long old summer, old failings, too many dropped catches and stumpings, collapsing under pressure, cook and especially moores on borrowed time

What a complete shower of sh*te the ecb really are  glorified private school jerks of the highest fckin order hope to fck they dont win a game all fckin year , the fans pay to be entertained with a hope of winning have they fvkin forgot this .

The ecb haven't covered themselves in glory but ultimately the only person kp can blame is himself

Not even a massive KP fan but the way the whole thing has been handled along with Moores' sacking has just been absolutely disgraceful.

Strauss getting the Director job is a joke as well, far too close to the current team but I guess Vaughan and Stewart wouldn't have wanted to go near it once they found out the restrictions involved. If I were Jason Gillespie I'd stay well clear as well.

We've been totally outclassed by the Kiwis in this Test but Mark Wood has got his tail up here.

We've been totally outclassed by the Kiwis in this Test but Mark Wood has got his tail up here.

Turned it right round and now we're totally outclassing them.

Cracking Test this.

What a test match! Caught the highlights on channel 5. Lords looked like the place to be today. Great atmosphere!!

What a game, well played to both teams, managed to miss the last wicket whilst taking a piss, never ran so fast in my life..

This Latham has something about him, I reckon he could become a top quality opener for the Kiwi's.

Yorkshire crowd are well into this Test.

Got a proper party atmosphere going.

England obsessed with bowling short, the crowd are gonna get plenty of catching practice this summer.

Really wouldn't be surprised if he eventually becomes England's leading Test run scorer. Still a few thousand runs short of Gooch at the minute though.

Well he finally has!

Well in Ali Cook, don't care what anybody says - he's one of the world's very best

Well he finally has!

Well in Ali Cook, don't care what anybody says - he's one of the world's very best

many congratulations to cookie, i may think his captaincy skills are up there with captain pugwash but cannot fault his drive, concentration and of course ability, here's to thousands more runs

Cooks done well, wish they'd relieve him of the captaincy though and just let him concentrate on his batting. In some ways our little collapse there was a good thing, I was just beginning to delude myself that we might be able to give the Australians a proper game in the Summer. At least those three quick wickets kicked a bit of reality back in.

England's batting giving the Kiwi's slip some catching practice in this innings.

Disgraceful just how many we've edged to their slips.

On a side note, is Trent Boult the twin brother of Stewart Downing?

All out for 350.

Scores level.

What a Test!!!

F***ing superb knock by Jos for Lancs in the roses t20

69 off 33 currently

Need 3 from 3 to win

Buttler brought em back from the dead with this knock


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Single from Jos

2 from 2 now but Liley on strike

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Inside edge scrambled single

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Scrambled single from Jos finishes it

Lancs win by 4 wickets

Big show Maxwell misses a chance of a run out

Cracking game that

That Roses match was a belter.

Well in Lancs.

Whether that works long-term is debatable. So here's what I'd do long-term.

Hales
Roy
Bell
Root (c)
Taylor
Buttler (wk)
Woakes
Willey
Rashid
Tredwell
Anderson.

It looks as if Bayliss is going somewhere down this route with the squad he's, helped, pick for the one day series against New Zealand. Morgan, Billings, Buttler, Finn, Hales, Jordan, Plunkett, Rashid, Root, Roy, Stokes, Taylor, Willey, Wood.

Truth be told, there's a couple in there who I'd get rid of straight away - Morgan for starters. Finn, Plunkett and Jordan have all had plenty of chances and never shown why they deserve their place. Unfortunately, at least one of those three pace men is going to be playing. Out of the three, I'd probably go Plunkett for his extra pace and bounce. Finn should never play again as far as I'm concerned and I think Jordan is too samey to Stokes to have room for them both. I'd also have Buttler in the team just as a batsmen, he's good enough to be in there on his batting alone which allows Billings a run with the gloves.

My team would be;

Hales
Roy
Taylor
Root (c)
Buttler
Stokes
Billings (wk)
Willey
Rashid
Plunkett
Wood