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

[Nightmare Walking]

The NZ side that England beat didn’t have Jamieson, didn’t have De Grandhomme, Williamson had only just recovered from injury and was out of form with no cricket behind him, Nicholls was injured and came back mid series, Conway had covid.


They were a shadow of the side they were 12 months earlier.

England had all their 90+ mph bowlers missing.

 

[Gabriel]

England had all their 90+ mph bowlers missing.

Don’t they almost always?

 

[Nightmare Walking]

Don’t they almost always?

The Valeri Bojinovs of the cricketing world.

 

[Don Karleone]

Played Jonny

 

[waspish]

Be nice to have 2 player in the form of Bairstow in the same match!

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

What a summer Jonny's having. Stokes is a bit brain dead at times, though, isn't he? I think he confuses swashbuckling with just downright stupid, sometimes.

 

[Ajm1985]

 

[jimharri]

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Staggering stats, really. Regularly coming in when the pressure's on, and delivering.

 

[Gabriel]

Pressure is going to be on the England bowling attack in the next innings.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

When Jonny goes — which he will, because he may be a Yorkshireman, but he's only human — it would be nice to think that the tail could pick up 50, or so — as India's tail did yesterday — and makes India's lead less utterly damaging. Unfortunately, I fear that Bumrah will just mow them down.