Cricket Thread

[stan bowles]

Mel Jones, fucking awful as well as being an Aussie. I listened to DominiccVork in the T20 match the other night - passionate, experienced, knowledgable, forthright AND ENGLISH. Sky seem obsessed with shoehorning as many Australian commentators in as possible. Same on bbc radio yesterday, glen mcgrath who is as biased as they come and Jim maxwell lecturing England on having too many fielders on the boundary! It’s bad enough being humiliated by their cricketers in our own back yard but it’s too much being humiliated by their commentators as well

Sky probably sell the rights to Australian tv platforms. As for the BBC, well they love a bit of box ticking.

 

[Ajm1985]

They’re pushing the field up to keep Woakes on strike, if he hits a few boundaries like the 3 in the last over, they have to drop back and allow the single to rotate strike.

That's obviously great and the hit off his thighs was a great shot. Attempting a lofted shot and nearly edging to the keeper/slips is pretty brainless.

 

[Ajm1985]

Good innings from Brook so far, measured it well

 

[trueblue1972]

Well; I was being nice. But yeah, you were one of them.

;-)

Is anyone really that surprised that we're doing our best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory here?

For the record I did say i didn't expect us to do it easily XD

 

[cleavers]

He will be part of the problem if he doesn't use his head and play the situation and not some daft philosophy.

What I was meaning was that others before him have gifted their wickets, so yeah he'll be part of the problem if we lose, but far less culpable than others.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

Woakes getting twitchy. Just needs to be smart

 

[BringBackSwales]

May well be onto something there as neither team has batted well

I meant in this innings pal. This ball seems to have been doing a lot more than the one they changed after 22 overs

 

[cleavers]

They need to switch on now, and count down the runs in 5's, it's really not that far away.

 

[trueblue1972]

I meant in this innings pal. This ball seems to have been doing a lot more than the one they changed after 22 overs

Ah yes just like when we changed it as well , but batting as a whole in this series with the exception of one or two players per innings has been mediocre

 

[discopop]

Do we start to believe again?