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

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Voice of reason as always.
Lees did ok today and there a talent in Crawley somewhere. Pope is being groomed and will be persevered with.
Would love to see Brook and a proper spinner who knows his craft.
Who to eventually replace Broad and Jimmy ?

How old are Jimmy’s kids?

 

[Protein Junkie]

How old are Jimmy’s kids?

Now there’s a thought :-)

 

[Gabriel]

Voice of reason as always.
Lees did ok today and there a talent in Crawley somewhere. Pope is being groomed and will be persevered with.
Would love to see Brook and a proper spinner who knows his craft.
Who to eventually replace Broad and Jimmy ?

I’ve long thought that the quality of batting isn’t that bad, as long as the media and supporters give players time. The quality of bowling is maybe not quite as good, however, with recurring injuries to the genuine quicks a particular concern.
As you rightly say, the greatest challenge will be finding two bowlers who can assume the mantles of Anderson and Broad, yet that task is made even more difficult by dint of the fact that they now have 34 years of Test match experience between them. Nobody ‘upstairs’ would have countenanced the idea of Foden supplanting David Silva when he burst into the first team, yet the same patience and logical progression is absent from the English set up, which, I fear, means years of awkward cameos lie ahead.

 

[Corky]

Will Williams 0/3 of first 10 over 7 maidens. Must start taking a few wickets sooner or later.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

These ball changes are weird. Slightly bigger than it should be? Change it.

Dunk it in a pint of cider? Get on with it.

 

[waspish]

How do New Zealand get to get the ball not to fit through that hoop so often?

 

[Cricket Blue]

Got to be looking at 600 here at this rate.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Got to be looking at 600 here at this rate.

Or 260 all out.

 

[Cricket Blue]

Or 260 all out.

That's naughty AHT

 

[waspish]

Got to be looking at 600 here at this rate.

Follow on is all they should look at then 400