Cricket Thread

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

So thats hindsight then!? Stokes already said he wouldn’t change a thing in the previous tests!

2nd innings at Lords if they had been more patient rather than the top half of the order giving their wickets away we could have won that one.

 

[Gundoggin]

Cracking flags this morning.
You lucky smarmy cheating convict cunts !

 

[Bluemoon dan]

Cracking flags this morning.
You lucky smarmy cheating convict cunts !

I've just posted a pic on twitter of the view of the sky from my back garden with barely a cloud in it and similar sentiments!

 

[Protein Junkie]

I thought we were very poor yesterday in the 30 overs we had at them.

One of those days today.

Not too sure about being poor.
There was little in the wicket or conditions for the pace attack. Situation was crying out for a top quality spinner.
Frustrating yes.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Bollocks. It's time they re-vamped the tests to add an additional day just in case, and for exactly this type of scenario. I'm sure they would do it for one day finals etc. Who the fuck is going to watch what is effectively a 'dead rubber' somewhere 'darn sarf'. Test cricket needs to keep up with the times....... otherwise for example football would be playing with fucking caseys and not showing live stuff at 3pm on Saturdays (if you live in the backwater that is Blighty). IMHO .

Blame the cricket authorities as they cram so many games into the year , there is no time left for spare days due to their greed

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

People keep saying it's been a "great" series, it's been entertaining yes, but "geat" ?

There has been some very poor batting from both sides for me, and far too much short pitched bowling too (though that was aided by poor batting choices).

Hey ho, onto The Oval.


Couldn't agree more.

There were great passages of play from both sides right across the four tests. But sustained classic cricket? No way.
13 May 2012 was an absolutely shit game of football, with four of the most exciting minutes in PL history tacked on to it.

 

[hammocity]

Blame the cricket authorities as they cram so many games into the year , there is no time left for spare days due to their greed

Agree, this series has been squeezed into such a short time frame. There’s no way a major test series shouldn’t run until August with provision for an extra day. Look at the weather today, could easily have git a result and set up the decider which is what this series deserved, absolutely gutted but as you say it’s greed that rules the roost.

 

[waspish]

I thought that sounded really odd, as if he wouldn't/couldn't contemplate that they could do better.

The mad slogging that cost several wickets was rotten play - this match they were rather more circumspect, and that approach applied earlier might have won another match.

More to do with who was picked for me on that docile pitch Anderson past it?! and Ali with second innings finger problem! Was wood not fit for the first two tests? Saying that both games was very tight could of gone either way..

 

[waspish]

Agree, this series has been squeezed into such a short time frame. There’s no way a major test series shouldn’t run until August with provision for an extra day. Look at the weather today, could easily have git a result and set up the decider which is what this series deserved, absolutely gutted but as you say it’s greed that rules the roost.

It’s crammed in because ecb have cornered of August for a game that no other country plays and will be kicked into touch after the contract has finished 2027!

 

[MillionMilesAway]

More to do with who was picked for me on that docile pitch Anderson past it?! and Ali with second innings finger problem! Was wood not fit for the first two tests? Saying that both games was very tight could of gone either way..

Multiple factors, and to say that he'd have done nothing is a bit stupid.
As stupid as those horrible hats!