Cricket Thread

[bavarian blue]

Root is a worry.

 

[waspish]

Root is a worry.

Between his ears that's the problem he isn't playing sensible cricket! Stoke comes in he doesn't go out there first few overs smashing it

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Hahaha your predictions are usually wrong. I like to look to the positives as
You can tell with my predictions previous test match..

Not always though. ;-)

 

[M18CTID]

Between his ears that's the problem he isn't playing sensible cricket! Stoke comes in he doesn't go out there first few overs smashing it

It's almost like Root's taking the Bazball philosophy too literally! He's naturally quite a quick scorer anyway so he doesn't really need to tweak his game too much to fit in with the way England want to play.

Not a bad effort overall from England but it was always going to be a harder task than last week turning round a big first innings deficit when batting last.

 

[M18CTID]

I'll never get my head around run outs in test cricket. With the exception of the very rare time when you're in the last hour on day 5 and you need, for instance 40 runs off the last 5 overs (with iffy weather forecast in the next half an hour), time/overs/runs is generally not an issue in the 5 day game. Why chance it? It was only day 4. And even if it's a brilliant piece of fielding, again; why take on the fielder's arm? For one extra run? It makes no sense.

Do you remember Atherton's run out in 1993 against Australia when he was on 99? I remember it well as I was nursing the mother of all hangovers after drinking copious amounts of lethal homemade wine at a house party the night before! Turned back for a 3rd run as he could see the century beckoning, slipped, and was subsequently run out. He was the one England player that day who stood firm and never looked like getting out otherwise. That wife-beating twat Boycott was fucking fuming on commentary!

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

It's almost like Root's taking the Bazball philosophy too literally! He's naturally quite a quick scorer anyway so he doesn't really need to tweak his game too much to fit in with the way England want to play.

Not a bad effort overall from England but it was always going to be a harder task than last week turning round a big first innings deficit when batting last.

I think that if we were going to win the series, this game was huge. No Kohli, Rahul or Jadeja.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Do you remember Atherton's run out in 1993 against Australia when he was on 99? I remember it well as I was nursing the mother of all hangovers after drinking copious amounts of lethal homemade wine at a house party the night before! Turned back for a 3rd run as he could see the century beckoning, slipped, and was subsequently run out. He was the one England player that day who stood firm and never looked like getting out otherwise. That wife-beating twat Boycott was fucking fuming on commentary!

Definitely remember that, he was like Bambi on ice and slipped twice, from memory.

That wasn’t a bad call though, he just lost his footing.

Run outs in tests are generally when batsmen are either under pressure and want to get to the other end, or trying to hide tailenders.

The bad call ones are mad though, as Jim suggested. There’s plenty of time, especially these days!

 

[jimharri]

Do you remember Atherton's run out in 1993 against Australia when he was on 99? I remember it well as I was nursing the mother of all hangovers after drinking copious amounts of lethal homemade wine at a house party the night before! Turned back for a 3rd run as he could see the century beckoning, slipped, and was subsequently run out. He was the one England player that day who stood firm and never looked like getting out otherwise. That wife-beating twat Boycott was fucking fuming on commentary!

Yep, I do. Same argument applies. He had plenty of time to get his hundred. Yes; he was unfortunate in that he slipped, as (from memory) he would have made his ground. But you've got to expect the unexpected. "Hope for the best, anticipate the worst". That's why I'm never relaxed when City are even two up.

 

[jimharri]

Definitely remember that, he was like Bambi on ice and slipped twice, from memory.

That wasn’t a bad call though, he just lost his footing.

Run outs in tests are generally when batsmen are either under pressure and want to get to the other end, or trying to hide tailenders.

The bad call ones are mad though, as Jim suggested. There’s plenty of time, especially these days!

I do understand the reasoning re getting a tailender off the strike. It's the smart move. But if the run appears dicey, then maybe you've just got to trust the mug at the other end to keep a few deliveries out. Which is a big ask, I know. Some of them just about know which end to hold the bloody bat!

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I do understand the reasoning re getting a tailender off the strike. It's the smart move. But if the run appears dicey, then maybe you've just got to trust the mug at the other end to keep a few deliveries out. Which is a big ask, I know. Some of them just about know which end to hold the bloody bat!

Risk/reward isn’t it? Guess we’re both assuming the batsmen have clear heads to make the right decisions too.

Look at Stokes at the end of his match winning innings at Headingley. Leach should have been run out. Emotions were through the roof.