******Cricket Thread******

[meeesh]

6 wickets in the next 3 or 4 overs would be nice.

They not playing Ireland today mate...……………………………..:)

 

[lancs blue]

Whereas the pitch at headingly is set up for sub 200 scores. Surely not. I have to admit I really don’t get it.

No, the murky conditions on day 1 helped the bowlers, the collapse on day 2 is down to shit batting.

 

[jimharri]

They not playing Ireland today mate...……………………………..:)

To be sure, to be sure.

 

[M18CTID]

6 wickets in the next 3 or 4 overs would be nice.

We’d still balls it up but at least there’d be a glimmer. Chasing 270 or 280 in the past, you’d think it would be game on but these days it seems a near impossible task.

Anyway, is this the same Ben Stokes that was bowling yesterday?

 

[jimharri]

Just had a quick google (Oo-err!) about lowest scores in a first innings in a winning test match (I know, humour me!). If we do somehow manage to pull it off, we'll be only third on that list.
1. England scored 45 and beat the Aussies by 13 runs in Sydney in 1886/7. And no; I wasn't there.
2. Australia scored 63 runs and beat England by 7 runs at the Oval in 1882.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Why can't these twats practice forward and backward defence and leave wide deliveries .Its basic schoolboy stuff

Boycott had it right on 5live extra. He was saying when he was batting his first thought was always don’t get yourself out and wait for the bad balls even if it meant waiting a while.

He said kids are being coached to play 20/20 now and learn the reverse sweep before learning how to leave a ball. I watched the Stokes dismissal earlier and was scratching my head at the shot he played. In test matches that ball was a leave all day every day.

 

[Sir peace frog]

Just had a quick google (Oo-err!) about lowest scores in a first innings in a winning test match (I know, humour me!). If we do somehow manage to pull it off, we'll be only third on that list.
1. England scored 45 and beat the Aussies by 13 runs in Sydney in 1886/7. And no; I wasn't there.
2. Australia scored 63 runs and beat England by 7 runs at the Oval in 1882. And yes; I was there

 

[Daz_Blue]

1 BURNS
2 SIBLEY
3 NORTHEAST
4 ROOT
5 POPE
6 STOKES
7 BAIRSTOW
8 RASHID
9 ARCHER
10 BROAD
11 ANDERSON

 

[Nellies left peg]

Boycott had it right on 5live extra. He was saying when he was batting his first thought was always don’t get yourself out and wait for the bad balls even if it meant waiting a while.

He said kids are being coached to play 20/20 now and learn the reverse sweep before learning how to leave a ball. I watched the Stokes dismissal earlier and was scratching my head at the shot he played. In test matches that ball was a leave all day every day.

Cant think why Stokes would even attempt to go for that shot with his bat so far from his body.Boycott is absolutely right although the likes of him Tavare and Atherton were always pilloried for their slow run rates .There is always a loose ball coming sooner or later and patience is a virtue few seem to possess nowadays

 

[BigOscar]

But is it any more testing than a one day pitch when they regularly score 300+?

It's not just the pitch, the main difference is the lack of fielding restriction and the different ball. Playing risky shots is a lot less risky if the ball does nothing and they can't put fielders in the areas you want to hit it.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

1 BURNS
2 SIBLEY
3 NORTHEAST
4 ROOT
5 POPE
6 STOKES
7 BAIRSTOW
8 RASHID
9 ARCHER
10 BROAD
11 ANDERSON

I wouldn’t be averse to seeing Sibley, Pope and Northeast in the side but Leach hasn’t done much wrong in his short test career.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Cant think why Stokes would even attempt to go for that shot with his bat so far from his body.Boycott is absolutely right although the likes of him Tavare and Atherton were always pilloried for their slow run rates .There is always a loose ball coming sooner or later and patience is a virtue few seem to possess nowadays

I remember watching that match saving knock from Atherton when he batted all day. It was test match batting at its finest.

 

[mccity]

Looks like Root broke Archer

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Utterly rancid performance by England.

Time for Root to step down from the Captaincy, and now it looks like he's over- bowled Archer.

 

[blueinsa]

Boycott had it right on 5live extra. He was saying when he was batting his first thought was always don’t get yourself out and wait for the bad balls even if it meant waiting a while.

He said kids are being coached to play 20/20 now and learn the reverse sweep before learning how to leave a ball. I watched the Stokes dismissal earlier and was scratching my head at the shot he played. In test matches that ball was a leave all day every day.

Add in the fact these players are millionaires from white ball cricket meaning they really are not that arsed about being all out for 67.

Especially either the comfort of a central contract behind them.

 

[Nellies left peg]

I remember watching that match saving knock from Atherton when he batted all day. It was test match batting at its finest.

Was that the one against South Africa with Donald and Pollack in their prime?

 

[BigOscar]

Hard to imagine Root remains captain after this series, his batting seems to have fallen off a cliff since taking over

 

[Nellies left peg]

Having played cricket at quite a good local level there is nothing worse as a bowler to see a batsman confidently leave a ball just outside off stump and returning to your mark to bowl again

 

[MeatnSpudsMCFC]

Fuck sakes.

 

[RandomJ]

Well done Root. Already bowled Jofra into the ground. Fucking brain dead.