Cricket Thread

[Corky]

Yep - it was a 0% win percentage between 1934 and 2009!

2-2 at Lord's since they stopped it being the first test, which seems to have worked.

 

[Gabriel]

Is that in ashes tests? Thought we’d only beaten em twice since the thirties or something, or are we going back to WG Grace days :)

That’s in all Tests at Lord’s.

 

[M18CTID]

2-2 at Lord's since they stopped it being the first test, which seems to have worked.

Hmmmmm....from what I can see, since 1981 Lords has only hosted the first Ashes test once and that was in 2005

 

[supercity88]

That was a few loud seconds/minutes, generally despite bigger ground it doesn’t come close to Edgbaston or Headingley

I'm with you, Lords is a nightmare for England. They create their own pitch and will not take instructions as to how we want it to play. They cheer champagne bottles popping rather than having pissed up people on the beer having a jolly. It's also the most famous ground in cricket so every overseas player wants to perform there which, with the pitch being unknown to us gives the away side the advantage.

You have to take the sport around the country, but I don't see why you need one in Hampshire as well as two in London which people in Hampshire could get to easy enough. But Lords is Lords and it will always host an ashes test. The oval is quality and much more rowdy.

 

[waspish]

Lancashire playing now

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[domalino]

England name unchanged squad for fourth Ashes Test

England name an unchanged squad for the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[waspish]

No surprise there…

 

[chris63]

Can't believe Bairstows still in the side
2 or 3 dropped catches every game.
That's no going to win you the game.

 

[waspish]

Can't believe Bairstows still in the side
2 or 3 dropped catches every game.
That's no going to win you the game.

I’m not it’s how England is now! Most people were saying Crawley should be dropped never happened!

 

[eastmanc]

Can't believe Bairstows still in the side
2 or 3 dropped catches every game.
That's no going to win you the game.

I'd have played Bairstow as a batter and picked Foakes to keep.