Cricket Thread

[Pubteam Lomas]

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Think they just forgot to prepare it.

Looks like the typical club 2nd XI track when someone's forgotten to prepare a wicket and use the one the 4ths played on last week!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Nevizade]

it's a weird scorecard
1st innings - all seam wickets
2nd innings - half the wickets to spin, after the first 3 batsmen got in
3rd innings - two spinners opened the bowling, taking all 10
4th innings - two spinners open the bowling, take half the wickets before Banton decides to end it as fast as possible.

Very odd for a seamer to prosper for 2 1/2 hours, and then it to turn into a spinner's paradise.

Warnie always used to say if it was seaming around it'll take spin as well. Helps when you can turn it like him mind.

 

[johnny crossan]

Bellingham strikes!

 

[waspish]

Archer is on it this morning

 

[domalino]

Archer is on it this morning

Looks like the ball is moving a lot more today...not sure that's great news for us given we'll probably be batting half the day.

 

[jimharri]

I see Pant wants to bat again in this match, despite being told he needs six weeks' rest for the fractured foot. You can call him brave, or you can call him stupid. If he gets hit on that foot again, whatever modified boot he'll be wearing, he could be in serious trouble, and that six weeks could stretch into several months

 

[johnny crossan]

Cloud cover starting to thin, won't help us.

 

[domalino]

I see Pant wants to bat again in this match, despite being told he needs six weeks' rest for the fractured foot. You can call him brave, or you can call him stupid. If he gets hit on that foot again, whatever modified boot he'll be wearing, he could be in serious trouble, and that six weeks could stretch into several months

He can't even stand on the foot apparently. I think it's stupidity, he'll face one Archer 90mph yorker or a Stokes bouncer, and even if they miss him, he'll probably do more damage to his foot, retire hurt and be out until December.

And we'll lose half an hour of the test while the doctors treat him and he pretends playing on is a possibility.

 

[johnny crossan]

I see Pant wants to bat again in this match, despite being told he needs six weeks' rest for the fractured foot. You can call him brave, or you can call him stupid. If he gets hit on that foot again, whatever modified boot he'll be wearing, he could be in serious trouble, and that six weeks could stretch into several months

needs to get to the ground first ....

 

[jimharri]

He can't even stand on the foot apparently. I think it's stupidity, he'll face one Archer 90mph yorker or a Stokes bouncer, and even if they miss him, he'll probably do more damage to his foot, retire hurt and be out until December.

And we'll lose half an hour of the test while the doctors treat him and he pretends playing on is a possibility.

If one of those Archer bullets hits him on that foot, he'll know it!

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Indian gamesmanship re Panty - surely not.

 

[waspish]

Been unlucky again this morning India been so lucky the amount of missing the ball

 

[johnny crossan]

Indian gamesmanship re Panty - surely not.

Tractored off last night now ready to to bat - it's a miracle.

 

[GornikDaze]

If Pant doesn’t field in the first innings, would he be allowed to bat in the second innings?

 

[MillionMilesAway]

If Pant doesn’t field in the first innings, would he be allowed to bat in the second innings?

I think so. External injuries are exempt from not being able to field. It happened last match too.

 

[M18CTID]

Needed that wicket

FFS, is that Pant coming out to bat? What an idiot!

 

[heslops barnet]

Crazy for Pant to bat?

Incoming Yorkers?

 

[GaudinoMotors]

Sky love him - great for their socials.
Be nice if they supported England as much.

 

[waspish]

Only bowler we can rely on is Stokes it’s a sad state of affairs that!

Carse shite woakes past it!

It’s totally weird Woakes and Carse played every test match!

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I wonder if this is a trial to lunchtime, and then Pant might not come back out.