Cricket Thread

[Dr Jacoby]

Poor bowling and fielding start here

We’ve been brilliant in the last half an hour.

 

[BringBackSwales]

We’ve been brilliant in the last half an hour.

Yes, I just can’t fit a radiator in my son’s room, came back 4 down, now 6 down. Obviously been much better bowling, all in all a good performance, especially given we started really slowly and they started the opposite

 

[BringBackSwales]

9 wickets for 54 runs. Might go and buy another radiator

 

[BringBackSwales]

Rough these 2 cunts up now for fun

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Brook seems to be a better captain than Salt.

 

[jimharri]

That's a big win, against any opposition. But particularly against that shower.

 

[crooky]

They need to reduce this match to 40 overs per side straight away. That's the only way we have a hope of seeing a full innings from both teams.

But I don't think the archaic rules allow this.

 

[jimharri]

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They need to reduce this match to 40 overs per side straight away. That's the only way we have a hope of seeing a full innings from both teams.

But I don't think the archaic rules allow this.

Cricket? Archaic?

 

[crooky]

Getting way ahead of myself here but watching Duckett marmalizing the Aussie bowling attack...

Thinking ahead to the Pakistan series where the wickets are almost comically flat could we see a potential chance of a player equalling Don Bradman's 300 runs in a day?

There's less balls in a day compared to the 1930s but Duckett only has one way of playing i.e aggressively. If he gets 40 overs he'd get 240 balls which I would say is just about enough for him to get 300 on a flat wicket.

I'd say Brook also has a chance if he comes in early in the day.

 

[jimharri]

Getting way ahead of myself here but watching Duckett marmalizing the Aussie bowling attack...

Thinking ahead to the Pakistan series where the wickets are almost comically flat could we see a potential chance of a player equalling Don Bradman's 300 runs in a day?

There's less balls in a day compared to the 1930s but Duckett only has one way of playing i.e aggressively. If he gets 40 overs he'd get 240 balls which I would say is just about enough for him to get 300 on a flat wicket.

I'd say Brook also has a chance if he comes in early in the day.

Assuming that batsman scores half (or nearly half, anyway) the runs in the day (which is a stretch, but we'll run with it); that means there'd be 600 runs in the day (as the "yoof" might say; LOL). In a test match. Nominally 90 overs. That's an average of over 6.5 rpo. There's more chance of me getting Halle Berry's phone number.



Just out of curiosity; what the highest percentage of a stand that a batsman has scored in test cricket. Not counting a batsman who scores a six off his first ball, and gets out next ball!