*Official* Second Test at Lord's

[Spark]

Yeah okay that is a bad way to get out

 

[GIMH]

Beautiful. Lets run through them now I've got things to do.

 

[Maximas]

ffs why did he even play at that? I counted about 4 brain farts in 3 minutes there from Clarke

 

[vic_orthdox]

Funnily enough, that's the sort of bowling you'd see from England back in the 1990s as well...

 

[Arachnodouche]

aah **** it. 300+ run defeat coming up then.

 

[Cabinet96]

That's why the remain positive approach is flawed.

 

[Spark]

aah **** it. 300+ run defeat coming up then.

Quite. Night all.

 

[Spark]

That's why the remain positive approach is flawed.

Not sure it's "remain positive" so much as just bad batting

 

[Jono]

That's unforgivable from Clarke. No less stupid than skying a ball to mid on.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

That's why the remain positive approach is flawed.

Bit of an extreme example I think. You can be positive without feeling the need to play everything. Khawaja has been positive I think.

 

[Cabinet96]

Am I the only one who thinks the Root calls from the crowd sound a bit like boos?

 

[91Jmay]

Good captaincy from Cook there. Root and a leg slip. Root is also certainly more than a part timer - similar in quality to Steve Smith.

 

[Spikey]

That's unforgivable from Clarke. No less stupid than skying a ball to mid on.

id argue its more

 

[NUFAN]

That's unforgivable from Clarke. No less stupid than skying a ball to mid on.

Its slightly less stupid IMO, but so soft from the skipper, not what we needed at all.

 

[Spark]

That's unforgivable from Clarke. No less stupid than skying a ball to mid on.

It's kind of hard to know what he thought he would achieve with that shot

 

[NUFAN]

Oh we needed to bat 120-130 overs Boof, thought we needed to make 120-130. #aussiebattingunitthoughts

 

[GIMH]

Am I the only one who thinks the Root calls from the crowd sound a bit like boos?

Yeah they do. The mighty whites had a player called Zoumana Bakayogo and some TV comms questioned why we were booing him where in fact we were chanting zooooooooooom

 

[Jono]

id argue its more

Its slightly less stupid IMO, but so soft from the skipper, not what we needed at all.

fight it out pricks

 

[Ruckus]

bahh who cares, its not like clarke needs to prove to anyone he can bat for a long time, and we were never going to get close anyway

 

[Jono]

bahh who cares, its not like clarke needs to prove to anyone he can bat for a long time, and we were never going to get close anyway

See Cook vs. India - 1st test in India 2012 for what the captain saying "we aren't pushovers" can do for a series.

Sure a Clarke 130-150 may not have changed the course of the series, but it wouldn't have hurt!