Cricket Thread

[Gabriel]

C Overton	c Foakes	b J Overton	5	4	1	0	3	125.00

Bragging rights this evening will go to the younger twin.

 

[supercity88]

Surrey 20-2 trailing by 150 against Somerset and Essex 57-4 at tea against third place Hampshire, still 63 runs behind. Looking like that will be a one innings game unless Essex can dig in and get a lead. They'll be hoping they can at least hold out long enough for Dan Lawrence to be released from the England squad and come back to bat in their second innings!

Would be good to see Surrey lose just to open things up a bit. Lancs need wickets quickly.

 

[bavarian blue]

Wickets tumbling everywhere, except Old Trafford.

 

[Gabriel]

Wickets tumbling everywhere, except Old Trafford.

21 at Warwickshire alone and still playing.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Wickets tumbling everywhere, except Old Trafford.

Presumably the pitch doing very little. So that does make me slightly wonder if England would have bowled the Aussies out early had they been able to play on Sunday.
Doesn't make me feel better about it.

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

The decline of the West Indies is simply incomprehensible to me. Nobody's been able to explain it to me to my satisfaction. I know that amongst many kids in the islands football's taken over, and that's one of the reasons.
When I was growing up they were the team. And that remained true right through the seventies, and well into the eighties. Very, very melancholy.

My favourite story about the West Indies was the TMS team turned at one of the grounds in the 80s/90s.
The ground was under water a few days before.
Left to bake in the blistering sun so the 'quicks' would be bowling on a concrete like surface.
The kids growing up, generally, wanted to be those bowlers back then, whilst others wanted to be like Sir Viv.

But as @MillionMilesAway said 'a lot move towards US sports'.

 

[cleavers]

Presumably the pitch doing very little. So that does make me slightly wonder if England would have bowled the Aussies out early had they been able to play on Sunday.
Doesn't make me feel better about it.

It's the same pitch.

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

It's the same pitch.

Exactly my point.

 

[chesterbells]

Wickets tumbling everywhere, except Old Trafford.

Yeah, 2 went down toward end of the session, but it was a day of toil in general.
Balderson was by far the most effective bowler but for some reason (maybe carrying an injury) he was only used very sparingly through the day.

 

[ancoats]

Spot on for me about Bazball and how England treated the Ashes this summer,
The Aussies have the right to bash us in my book because and like the guy said the first thing the Aussies aim for is to retain or gain the ashes at any cost

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Spot on for me about Bazball and how England treated the Ashes this summer,
The Aussies have the right to bash us in my book because and like the guy said the first thing the Aussies aim for is to retain or gain the ashes at any cost

I pretty much agree with everything they said there.
Interesting to see calm critique of Cummins' captaincy, and of England's cricket at the moment.
Not much surprise that Vaughan is sounding off for the sake of wanting to be a centre of attention, and useful to have Warner's wife there to correct him!

Also, the points on the crowd - I'd thought that they behave like football crowds now, not a lot of wit but a mob mentality. I hope the Oval crowd will give them a decent reception, but the redtop venom will be on display in the morning.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

England unchanged for the final test.

Not sure about that. I would have brought in Tongue or Robinson (if fit) for Anderson. He’s been economical but generally rather toothless in the three matches he’s played in.

 

[trueblue1972]

England unchanged for the final test.

Not sure about that. I would have brought in Tongue or Robinson (if fit) for Anderson. He’s been economical but generally rather toothless in the three matches he’s played in.

100% agree ,, id seen enough in the first test to go against my adoration of him and say he should be droped , and it hasn't got any better since, especially no the Ashes are lost we need to look to the future

 

[ancoats]

I pretty much agree with everything they said there.
Interesting to see calm critique of Cummins' captaincy, and of England's cricket at the moment.
Not much surprise that Vaughan is sounding off for the sake of wanting to be a centre of attention, and useful to have Warner's wife there to correct him!

Also, the points on the crowd - I'd thought that they behave like football crowds now, not a lot of wit but a mob mentality. I hope the Oval crowd will give them a decent reception, but the redtop venom will be on display in the morning.

I don't mind the crowds getting giddy and giving the Aussies a bashing and booing of Smith because he was the captain that let or ordered the sandpaper to be used on the ball, But the Aussies media are spot on with how we treated the Ashes and took liberties in the first 2 test and it was over because at some part the weather would play a part,

Look Bazball is good for tests cricket but get a score on the board and win or don't lose the first 2 tests as we did with declaring or throwing wicket aways at lords, Plus sloppy fielding dropped catches and walking out of the crease,

 

[Postman Pep]

 

[jimharri]

Spot on for me about Bazball and how England treated the Ashes this summer,
The Aussies have the right to bash us in my book because and like the guy said the first thing the Aussies aim for is to retain or gain the ashes at any cost

They make it really easy to dislike them, don't they? And they're not averse to a spot of cryarsing themselves.

 

[ancoats]

They make it really easy to dislike them, don't they? And they're not averse to a spot of cryarsing themselves.

that's them in a nutshell, Smiths was captain of the team that got caught cheating by using sandpaper on the ball and they still pick him for the tests team, what else are the fans going to do in the ashes clap him give over,

 

[ancoats]

the LBW was clearly out, the catch of the gloves maybe his hand was off the bat handle so not out

 

[crooky]

Picking Anderson for sentimental reasons just confirms this game is a pointless dead rubber.

 

[dickie davies]

Still the most intense half an hour of cricket I've witnessed