Alex Thomas

Play cricket, ride a bike, enjoy a pint... teach school kids in my spare time. Been known to run the odd quiz night, answers usually correct

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

Blimey, so this is ‘Day 5’?

Sublime from YJB yesterday, let’s hope he can carry on some more… another England player of Caribbean origin making an impact!!

#Ashes #bbccricket #YeahMan

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

Why are Carse and Potts bowling short and wide so much?

I don’t buy the ‘Matty hasn’t bowled in a game for a while’ narrative, because surely he’s bowling ‘areas’ in nets?

Stokes is the only bowler regularly targeting the stumps, hence the 2fer

#brainless
#Ashes
#bbccricket

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

A featherbed, easy-paced, with the odd one staying a little low… surely you’d be wanting to target the stumps more often?!

*Saying this as a 3rd XI slow seamer whose record of hitting said timbers isn’t great*

#Ashes2025
#bbccricket

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

After the 1st day of this Ashes series we were waxing lyrical about our pacy, threatening bowling attack… wickets possible at any time

Three weeks later, and Carse is bowling 135kph wide long hops with a new ball that’s swinging 🤦‍♂️

#Ashes2025
#bbccricket

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

Smith out… is this a McGrath at Edgbaston ‘05 moment?!

#ClutchingAtStraws
#bbccricket
#Ashes2025

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

@MichaelVaughan Brainless batting and lack of situation awareness from the middle order today… totally threw away a strong position.

I’m all for ‘bazball’ but that was pathetic!

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

England playing Brian Lara cricket on village mode IRL… watch out in the crowd!!

#EngVsSA #bbccricket

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

I know this sounds petty in this ridiculous game, but…

Why would you not be giving Buttler as many balls as possible? In 24 balls he’s faced 11. 12 off 13 from the others.

#bbccricket

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

Blimey, this is phenomenal bowling…

I think I’m right in saying SA need to reach 98 to avoid the heaviest defeat in terms of runs in ODIs? @tmsproducer

#ENGvSA #bbccricket

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

Great to see Bethell back to looking in run-scoring form, becoming clear to see the potential he has

Remarkable what playing actual cricket for a few weeks can do for you!

#ENGvSA #bbccricket

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

England’s batters appear to have forgotten how to bat for 50 overs… almost like they haven’t done so for a while

Whilst we’re apparently trying to save Test Cricket, we seem to be doing the opposite for this format

#SAvEng #bbccricket

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

Davina Perrin… remember the name!

Hits the ball as clean as anyone I’ve seen in the women’s game, at 18… seriously bright future ahead

No doubt @C_Edwards23 was watching

#bbccricket #TheHundred #FutureEnglandStar #ThisGirlCan

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

@BoothCricket First two ‘decisions’ of the day equally as bad as well. Dharmasena feeling the need to refer a clear and obvious caught behind, then clearly unsure when he eventually gave Overton lbw…

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

@CamWallis94 Referred one that was blatantly out, and then gave one that he clearly wasn’t sure about…

Fwiw though, I think 2-2 is a fair reflection of the series as a whole. We simply didn’t bowl well enough this week.

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

All players clearly under pressure this morning, but the ones who should be getting it right in this situation is the umpires… but they aren’t.

Shame the best umpires in the world right now are English who can’t use their skills here

#ENGvIND #bbccricket

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

Remarkable game, remarkable series, neither team really deserves to lose it…

#EngvsInd #bbccricket

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

@TheBarmyArmy India batted 100 more overs than England did in this game, and scored 114 more runs in that time… and roughly half of those came when it didn’t even matter

The Oval is gonna get spicy I reckon!

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

@ArgyleBoyo @TheBarmyArmy From two blokes who saw India to a win recently… oh no wait, they didn’t did they

Meaningless centuries, maybe Washington can get a real one at some point

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

@jadunandan12 @TheBarmyArmy Because it is shambolic… team results matter over personal milestones

[Alex Thomas @ails_1987]

@vikramvamsi33 @MichaelVaughan Root has won more games, which is clearly more important… and don’t even start a conversation comparing wickets here and in India!