Cricket Thread

[Claytop]

I can’t understand professional sportsmen/women being overweight. There's no excuse for it, really. That Patel fella who's playing for Notts is a big old unit. Same for some of the umpires in the women's game. It doesn't reflect well on the individuals.

Didn’t do this guy any harm…

 

[Stiff Little Wingers]

I can’t understand professional sportsmen/women being overweight. There's no excuse for it, really. That Patel fella who's playing for Notts is a big old unit. Same for some of the umpires in the women's game. It doesn't reflect well on the individuals.

Why can’t someone be overweight? Its how they play the game and Patel has been a stalwart for Notts for years.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Not been a great week for cricket. Just back from Lancs v Surrey, Lancs well beaten. I thought Surrey batted, bowled and fielded better than Lancs and were so much better captained (Jordan v Livingstone). Better field placings, turned a lot more 1’s into 2’s, and Salt, Buttler and Livingstone all threw their wickets away at the wrong time. All 4 southern teams in the quarter finals got through. Damn shame. Watching Alex Davies captain Birmingham last night v Liam Livingstone tonight was the cricketing equivalent of Pep v Gareth Taylor

 

[BringBackSwales]

I can’t understand professional sportsmen/women being overweight. There's no excuse for it, really. That Patel fella who's playing for Notts is a big old unit. Same for some of the umpires in the women's game. It doesn't reflect well on the individuals.

Fucking hell I am glad there aren’t Bluemoon medicals

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

Glenn Chappell is the cricket equivalent of Southgate.
A great squad with a bang average coach/manager in charge.
Proper cheap option for Lancs. Wish they'd get someone decent

 

[xgorton]

Not been a great week for cricket. Just back from Lancs v Surrey, Lancs well beaten. I thought Surrey batted, bowled and fielded better than Lancs and were so much better captained (Jordan v Livingstone). Better field placings, turned a lot more 1’s into 2’s, and Salt, Buttler and Livingstone all threw their wickets away at the wrong time. All 4 southern teams in the quarter finals got through. Damn shame. Watching Alex Davies captain Birmingham last night v Liam Livingstone tonight was the cricketing equivalent of Pep v Gareth Taylor

You do know Lancs beat Surrey in the county championship last week.

 

[City Raider]

Not been a great week for cricket. Just back from Lancs v Surrey, Lancs well beaten. I thought Surrey batted, bowled and fielded better than Lancs and were so much better captained (Jordan v Livingstone). Better field placings, turned a lot more 1’s into 2’s, and Salt, Buttler and Livingstone all threw their wickets away at the wrong time. All 4 southern teams in the quarter finals got through. Damn shame. Watching Alex Davies captain Birmingham last night v Liam Livingstone tonight was the cricketing equivalent of Pep v Gareth Taylor

The IPL lads have been a disappointment since their return.

 

[BringBackSwales]

You do know Lancs beat Surrey in the county championship last week.

That was a completely different game. The bowlers were amazing second innings from memory, also from memory Livingstone and Buttler weren’t playing in that. I just thought Lancs were really poor tonight - sloppy in the field, average bowling, poor field placings gs a relatively disengaged captain and the superstar batsmen threw their wickets away at the wrong time. Different opinions I guess. The only good phase was reigning them in from what looked like well over 200

 

[SWP's back]

We need at least two more, they're a hundred ahead as it is. Their last five wickets could (repeat for the hard of hearing; could, not will) add 150-200 runs. If we're chasing anything above 250, I wouldn't fancy us to do it.

It’ll be a day 3 pitch (rather than a day 4 or 5 pitch which one would normally expect batting 4th) and should be great for batting still. Not that it makes a huge amount of difference if we throw our wickets away. England would back themselves for anything less than 300.

 

[SWP's back]

That’s the third time my wife has walked in the room and talked to me and we’ve taken a wicket while she’s been speaking.

I asked her to get out of the room and walk back in when Marsh faces his first ball.

Now she’s annoyed that I’m not listening and she’s fucked off to the shops!

Win win.