Cricket Thread

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Don't take offence but this is very typical of a lot of comments in this thread - "I don't watch county cricket but I can't beleive these are the best players". The best batsmen in England this year were Ahmed, Hameed and Sibley.

Sibley averaged 60 in CC and Hameed 66. Across 20+ test matches they averaged 20 for England.

The reason Crawley's average in CC is bad is because he's around for April and May when it's impossible to bat and then misses the summer playing for England. He's better than both of those.

Also...he's the 3rd highest scorer in the series, for both sides. He's just not the problem.

Bethell is a great young player, he shouldn't be batting at 3 but Eng got unlucky with Ahmed getting injured in the warm up game.

I do watch county cricket, probably a lot more than you do but I watch Lancashire and obviously whoever they are playing. It's very difficult to make a judgement about players after seeing so little of them barring the Lancashire players. And as I'm sure you know even the selectors don't watch all the cricket, that's why historically they had their eyes and ears who tended to be the umpires and the county captains and coaches. This isn't football where you can watch multiple games each day.

Crawley currently is the least of the problems in the top 3 but without checking I'd bet Compton has outscored him when they've batted together since they became an opening partnership.

 

[Stelea]

Aussies should declare with a 120 lead and watch England still fail

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Carse all over the place again, and piss poor captaincy giving him the new ball when you've got Tongue who took a five fer yesterday waiting in the wing's.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

In work and listening to TMS. What happened to Atkinson?

 

[Djibrilshairdo]

In work and listening to TMS. What happened to Atkinson?

Done his hammy and off the field.