Cricket Thread

The Stockport Iniesta said:
I agree with most of that but not that Anderson doesn't want to play. He's not going to get gigs in franchise cricket, he's not going to be short of money, so he has no need to fuck Lancs about.

He could sit in the England dressing room all Summer if he wanted, and be a bowling coach or mentor like he did last Summer but he wants to play now, he can't play if he's been injured though.

I mean come on, do you really think Jimmy Anderson is the sort of bloke who would announce he wanted to carry on playing for Lancashire if it was bullshit?
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It is purely his choice when he plays as stated by Daniel Gidney. Last season he wanted to play 2 CC games in warm up for the WI series, but when he was sacked by England and was told he only had one Test, he then cut that to 1 game for Lancs and didn't make himself available to help us stay up.

LCCC has the 2nd best facilities in the country in terms of sports science, if not the best, and you don't get access to these if not an LCCC "player". No doubt he will play a game some point as part of the deal.
 
Corky said:
It is purely his choice when he plays as stated by Daniel Gidney. Last season he wanted to play 2 CC games in warm up for the WI series, but when he was sacked by England and was told he only had one Test, he then cut that to 1 game for Lancs and didn't make himself available to help us stay up.

LCCC has the 2nd best facilities in the country in terms of sports science, if not the best, and you don't get access to these if not an LCCC "player". No doubt he will play a game some point as part of the deal.
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Last season he was still contracted to England, this season he isn't.

He could quite simply have retired, I'm not exactly sure what you are insinuating he's up to?
 
Corky said:
Anderson doesn't want to play or he would be.

Played 1 game last year for LCCC in Birkdale in warm up for his final England game. Only 2 games last summer.

Daniel Gidney spelt it out in his end of season interview last year. They can't make any player play in the County Championship who doesn't want to. Even Luke Wood played zero games for England in 2024, on an all formats contract but played zero games in the CC. There are other examples but he is the most obvious. The money they get for playing a whole season in the CC is surpassed by playing 3 days in the Bangladesh Premier League.

The club's priorities are making a profit, and they are doing extremely well at that (including gigs and ECB games), The Hundred then T20. Only Surrey CCC pay up to the salary cap out of all Counties, LCCC clearly could do given the profits made but it is a business decision not to.

The club are not really interested in the CC, the better players don't want to play in it once they have franchise games, and the fans don't turn up, and the latter has been the case when doing well too. Members are near mutiny but the CE is doing a good job if you ignore the cricket results and look at the financial ones, and that is what they are doing. It is more a venue than a cricket club now.
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Shameful if true, I watched as many of the games I could on YouTube a couple of years ago, but it became quite tedious last summer, and I've not watched any this summer.

I'll probably watch the T20, and One day cup games, and then give the100 a stiff ignoring as I have every summer, as I hate it's format.
 
Jimmy was with the squad at Northants. I was there on Saturday and he was doing his exercises, stretches, medicine ball before play and bowling practice on the outfield at lunch. One of the Lancs physio team said he was probably about a week away. For someone who doesn't want to play, he was giving a good impression of someone who does.
 
liamctid said:
Takes a bit of the shine off this summers series I'd say.

As talented as the rest of the Indian batting line up is, as a spectator I would have wanted to see how England would have fared against Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli.
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Probably not very well. Even with Kohli missing I don't think we'll fare very well.

Now, when we get to Oz, how do you think we'll fare?
 
TonyColemansbagofapples said:
Probably not very well. Even with Kohli missing I don't think we'll fare very well.

Now, when we get to Oz, how do you think we'll fare?
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I think we'll need a lot to go in our favour to have any chance in Australia.

As a positive (perhaps clutching at straws) I feel like we've got a much more settled batting line up compared to when we went there last time as you know right now and we've known for awhile that barring injuries it's going to be Duckett, Crawley, Pope, Root, Brook, Stokes, Smith as our top 7. Sure Bethell and Cox could get in there between now and the winter but this is miles more settled and organised than bringing Hameed and Malan in from the cold a few months before the first test and Billings making his debut during the tour.

The bowling is where we'll struggle in Australia in my opinion. As ever big questions around the fitness of Wood and Archer, although Woakes will be the leader of the bowling pack throughout the summer he's shown he's not effective in Australia, Atkinson and Carse have had good starts to their Test careers but not experienced enough (I could change my mind on this by the end of the summer), the other pace bowlers like Tongue, Hull, Potts, Cook would need to get picked a few times this summer to have a chance to travel I'd imagine. And then there's the spinner - we've backed Bashir who seems to be OK but like Leach before him not in the same class as Lyon who we'll be coming up against.

As for Australia - it'll probably be the last big series for some of their recent greats like Starc, Hazelwood, Smith, Lyon and Khawaja, and they've got enough key players playing at their top level like Head, Carey, Green and Cummins to beat us in their conditions.

India - I actually think we've got a good chance to beat them over 5 tests. A lot of experience lost with Kohli and Rohit retiring, not got a captain in place as it stands, Jaiswal is the main opener these days and as good as he is, he's never played in England with our conditions.
 
liamctid said:
I think we'll need a lot to go in our favour to have any chance in Australia.

As a positive (perhaps clutching at straws) I feel like we've got a much more settled batting line up compared to when we went there last time as you know right now and we've known for awhile that barring injuries it's going to be Duckett, Crawley, Pope, Root, Brook, Stokes, Smith as our top 7. Sure Bethell and Cox could get in there between now and the winter but this is miles more settled and organised than bringing Hameed and Malan in from the cold a few months before the first test and Billings making his debut during the tour.

The bowling is where we'll struggle in Australia in my opinion. As ever big questions around the fitness of Wood and Archer, although Woakes will be the leader of the bowling pack throughout the summer he's shown he's not effective in Australia, Atkinson and Carse have had good starts to their Test careers but not experienced enough (I could change my mind on this by the end of the summer), the other pace bowlers like Tongue, Hull, Potts, Cook would need to get picked a few times this summer to have a chance to travel I'd imagine. And then there's the spinner - we've backed Bashir who seems to be OK but like Leach before him not in the same class as Lyon who we'll be coming up against.

As for Australia - it'll probably be the last big series for some of their recent greats like Starc, Hazelwood, Smith, Lyon and Khawaja, and they've got enough key players playing at their top level like Head, Carey, Green and Cummins to beat us in their conditions.

India - I actually think we've got a good chance to beat them over 5 tests. A lot of experience lost with Kohli and Rohit retiring, not got a captain in place as it stands, Jaiswal is the main opener these days and as good as he is, he's never played in England with our conditions.
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India usually find our conditions difficult. They can lose wickets very quickly here.
 
KS55 said:
India usually find our conditions difficult. They can lose wickets very quickly here.
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Agreed I think India will find it difficult unless the weather remains like this which takes away swinging ball conditions. I also don't think India have a decent spinner or support bowlers to assist Bumrah who I believe maybe Zak Crawleys & Ollie Popes nightmare

Virat did the right thing as I'm sure he'd of been having nightmares about nicking off.
 
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