Cricket Thread

[KS55]

Mike Denness bravely dropped himself and avoided Lillee and Thomson.

 

[Winchester]

Another win
Keep em coming lads!

 

[KS55]

Another win
Keep em coming lads!

Is it the change of coaching arrangements or just different personnel? Jennings is transformed.

 

[plongo]

A centimetre or so from being out very early on

That's cricket

 

[dickie davies]

That's cricket

Absolutely and he took full advantage of it

 

[M18CTID]

Didn't Gower and Botham keep having the great West Indies team and Australia? Sometimes the other lot are just better!

Australia were pretty average during the Gower/Botham captaincy years. Windies on the other hand were the best team by a mile during that era

 

[M18CTID]

A centimetre or so from being out very early on

Roughly about the same as that pivotal John Stones clearance against Liverpool then

 

[Winchester]

Is it the change of coaching arrangements or just different personnel? Jennings is transformed.

No idea

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Australia were pretty average during the Gower/Botham captaincy years. Windies on the other hand were the best team by a mile during that era

Warne and McGrath vs Dean Headlry and Robert Croft.

Hard for Atherton or Stewart to do anything as captains in the Ashes in the 90s.

 

[M18CTID]

Warne and McGrath vs Dean Headlry and Robert Croft.

Hard for Atherton or Stewart to do anything as captains in the Ashes in the 90s.

Like you say, that was the 90s mate. Back in the 80s Australia were nothing special though in the test arena for the most part. I'd argue that they only started to come good during the 1989 Ashes series where they walloped us on our own patch 4-0 and that kick-started their period of dominance

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Like you say, that was the 90s mate. Back in the 80s Australia were nothing special though in the test arena for the most part. I'd argue that they only started to come good during the 1989 Ashes series where they walloped us on our own patch 4-0 and that kick-started their period of dominance.

Alderman and Hughes were still better than our bowlers.

Border, Taylor and Boon better batsman too.

 

[dickie davies]

Roughly about the same as that pivotal John Stones clearance against Liverpool then

Or the width of my nob

 

[M18CTID]

Alderman and Hughes were still better than our bowlers.

Border, Taylor and Boon better batsman too.

True, but as a team they were pretty wank during much of the 80s. We even beat them over there in the 86/87 series

 

[ancoats]

I'm guessing you're just talking test captains, because Eoin Morgan was a fantastic captain for the white ball side.

Completely fell off a cliff when he retired

Eoin Morgan should have been the test captain as well

 

[ancoats]

Absolutely, but worst captain's than Root Imho

Root was given so much time as captain and went 19 tests without a win ?

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

Or the width of my nob

The length of mine

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

Eoin Morgan should have been the test captain as well

I think it goes back to wanting to pick someone who's guaranteed to be in the team to be captain though, Morgan never quite found his form in test cricket. Trying to think back, but he can't have played more than 10 or so test matches for England.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I think it goes back to wanting to pick someone who's guaranteed to be in the team to be captain though, Morgan never quite found his form in test cricket. Trying to think back, but he can't have played more than 10 or so test matches for England.

	tests	runs	100s	average
England	16	700	2	30.43

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[ancoats]

I think it goes back to wanting to pick someone who's guaranteed to be in the team to be captain though, Morgan never quite found his form in test cricket. Trying to think back, but he can't have played more than 10 or so test matches for England.

He wasn't given enough time at tests level

 

[ancoats]

	tests	runs	100s	average
England	16	700	2	30.43

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that's good stats

Like i said he should have been given more time