Cricket Thread

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

sad end to a traditional setting

Sacrilege I think. Oddly enough Swansea CC dont seem bothered at all. They are merging with a local club round the corner and are pleased about all the expanded talent pool it will give them and more sides. Work has been ongoing for ages on the new square there and there are big plans for a clubhouse. A lot of their 1st XL fucked off this season and they got relegated but view it as short term pain.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Sacrilege I think. Oddly enough Swansea CC dont seem bothered at all. They are merging with a local club round the corner and are pleased about all the expanded talent pool it will give them and more sides. Work has been ongoing for ages on the new square there and there are big plans for a clubhouse. A lot of their 1st XL fucked off this season and they got relegated but view it as short term pain.

I know Welsh Rugby is almost catastrophically ruined - do you know what the financial situation is in Welsh Cricket? I mean I know its the E&W CB but are they struggling at a local level?

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I'd not realised that today's match is 20/20. South Africa in a hurry.

I don't know who Sonny Baker is, but it's not going well as an opening bowler. Astonishing that he got a third over.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

St Helens was where I saw my first match.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

I know Welsh Rugby is almost catastrophically ruined - do you know what the financial situation is in Welsh Cricket? I mean I know its the E&W CB but are they struggling at a local level?

Thriving mate. Very healthy cricket scene here

 

[Bluemoon dan]

I'd not realised that today's match is 20/20. South Africa in a hurry.

Ha I was in work earlier, kept glancing at the score updates on my phone and genuinely thought the same!

 

[heslops barnet]

Didn’t even know there was a game

Not a game unfortunately

 

[Gray]

SA not lost a wicket and need less than 20 runs in oodles of overs.

England were pathetic.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

SA not lost a wicket and need less than 20 runs in oodles of overs.

England were pathetic.

7 overs of Baker for 76 is sub-optimal.

 

[Gray]

7 overs of Baker for 76 is sub-optimal.

He is supposed to be the great white hope.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

7 overs of Baker for 76 is sub-optimal.

Must be time for Balderstone and Blatherwick.

 

[crooky]

Get rid of ODIs. We've won our World Cup now.

Concentrate on Tests, T20 and Crisp Cricket.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Do the crowd get half a refund?

 

[MillionMilesAway]

only 7 more wickets needed without conceding a run.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

curses.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

This from captain Brook seems very smug and unaware.

More from England captain Harry Brook, on how he wants his side to play: "Go out there and bang it, score as many runs as possible then go and take wickets as quickly as possible. Simple as that. Look to take wickets throughout then be aggressive with the bat and put pressure on their bowlers."

On the bowling performance: "I thought we bowled nicely. Obviously, Sonny Baker got a bit of tap at the start but the way he kept trucking in and giving 100% was awesome to see. That's exactly what we ask from our bowlers.

So swing the bat on any pitch without waiting to see what happened. I haven't seen how Brook got run out.
As for " we bowled nicely" - Baker went for nearly 50 off 4 overs. Handwaving that away is almost performative in its lack of critique.

 

[jimharri]

Must be time for Balderstone and Blatherwick.

Chris? That might be tricky.

 

[jimharri]

Just watching the highlights. Christ; that's abject.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

Excellent article in The Guardian about the history of the cricket scorecard. All its intricate abbreviations to tell the story of a game. I remember the hand-written ones in fine caligraphy that the BBC used to put up on the screen after every wicket. "Boycott, c. Engineer b. Simmons, 0" is a good one to imagine.
The article goes on to say how scorecards have gone high-tech today of course with a vast array of statistics that can do your head in and which Bill Frindall would have been amazed at.

 

[EastMidlandsBlue]

We're going to fall further and further behind in 50 over cricket over the next decade or so if the current schedule, with the Hundred at the same time as the one day cup, continues.

Our aim over the next 2 games needs to be to try and bat the full 50 overs, I'm sick of batters throwing their wicket away like they would in a T20 match.