Cricket Thread

[chesterbells]

The farcical first part of the season under a useless coach has cost us dearly.

September champions ;-)

 

[chesterbells]

Guess being a wildcard in the 100 paid better than playing in the second XI cup.

Think I read that Flintoff got £32k as a wildcard.

That figure I’ve read too, which is incredible for a month’s work, regardless of whether you actually play or not.

 

[chesterbells]

Whilst I agree with the disregard of the cricket, by 'Badly advised' I meant going to watch the hundred with his dad instead of playing cricket in the Metro Cup.

We'd have done well in the T20 finals had we not been forced to play a second string cos the ECB arrange a series of International T20s on the same weekend.

Youngsters get their chance at Old Trafford.
Balderson, Hurst, Aspinwall have all done well.
Add Bosh, Hartley and Bell (a bit mixed to be fair) we do give you players a proper shot.

However, Gidney and Chilton are a disaster. Turned OT into an outdoor concert arena instead of a cricket ground and appointed, as you rightly said, 'a coach who had an unbroken record of failure'.

100% to all of that, excellent post mate.

As an aside, I’ve voted Balderson for my men’s PoS. He puts a helluva shift in, all season long. Chuffed to see him bag so many wickets in Cardiff this last week.

 

[Earlyriser]

I hope so to get the snobbery out of Lancs
A number of years ago I spoke to a big cricket fan and his lad was a very, very good player
His dad said that with the right coaching he'd be good enough to play for Lancashire, but it's all about who you know and what school you went to

Parents often have a very jaundiced view of their child's sporting abilities. I' sure that never applyiedin the CLC

 

[liamctid]

Maybe not a surprise that Woakes has been left out due to injury/his previous form in Australia, but I felt like Woakes was their go to man to open the bowling in the post Anderson/Broad era - I felt like they may have brought back Curran if Woakes wasn't to make it - maybe that's curtains for Woakes England career.

Better have a go with the lottery numbers

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

West Indies beaten by Nepal for 2nd time to lose a 3 game T20 series! Bowled out for 83.

Good grief.

 

[KS55]

Looking at the final championship tables, I see that yet again bonus points make absolutely no significant difference. Why not have a system that actually counts?

 

[KS55]

Women’s World Cup
Wides (8) is second top scorer for SA (69/10) vs Eng. Six were out bowled.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Looking at the final championship tables, I see that yet again bonus points make absolutely no significant difference. Why not have a system that actually counts?

I tend to think of the BPs being “goal difference” for cricket. They only matter if the accumulated points total of the wins and draws that teams accrue are similar.


On a similar theme, England Women’s NRR will be pretty good in a couple of minutes.

 

[dadnlad]

got cricket world cup on nasser reveling in english batters struggling
strange man im all for equal but to sound so joyful at every review

 

[BringBackSwales]

Anyone else watching the women’s cricket? That looked out to me, thoughts?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Anyone else watching the women’s cricket? That looked out to me, thoughts?

It probably was, but any slight evidence that the ball might have touched the ground and they give the benefit of the doubt to the batter.

Knight was happy to walk and take the world of the fielder. Guess cricket doesn’t want to get into clear and obvious errors…!

 

[dadnlad]

been some calls in this game heres another

 

[BringBackSwales]

It probably was, but any slight evidence that the ball might have touched the ground and they give the benefit of the doubt to the batter.

Knight was happy to walk and take the world of the fielder. Guess cricket doesn’t want to get into clear and obvious errors…!

I thought it should have gone with the soft signal, which given knight had walked was surely out?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I thought it should have gone with the soft signal, which given knight had walked was surely out?

I think the soft signal stopped a couple of years ago. Once the umpires send it to the video umpire, they delegate the decision whole to them.

 

[BringBackSwales]

I think the soft signal stopped a couple of years ago. Once the umpires send it to the video umpire, they delegate the decision whole to them.

Yeah you’re right AHT (as you often are, but NOT ALWAYS!) - the ICC abolished soft signals in 2023, fuckers forgot to tell me

 

[BringBackSwales]

When you look at the demeanour of our women’s cricket team, I always get the impression of nice, giggly, upper middle class, jolly hockey sticks with a suitably flimsy mentality. When I watch the Aussie and Indian women (the Aussies in particular) I see hard faced professionals, and I can only see a repeat of what happened in the women’s ashes, unfortunately. Tbf to these 2 batting at the mo, they have shown great application, particularly knight given how often she was out/nearly out, game changing decision (Bangladesh may feel the bigger teams get the decisions - where have we seen that before?)

 

[HypnoticBlue]

Aussies at it again, ball clearly grounded but given out in Womens World Cup v Pakistan.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Oh dear. India lost.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

Oh dear. India lost.

Insane game that.

Middle order batting collapse by India.. but I knew since they didn't hit 270.. SA would get there somehow.. and they did.

Thing is I actually like this Indian team but their stars are majorly misfiring and it's been the ones on the periphery of the team that're performing..

Amanjot (underheard of a year ago) - solid all-rounder
Rawal (underheard of a year ago) - solid opener
Kranti (unheard of a year ago) - solid opening bowler
Mandhana (best in the world) - 3 bad games in a row
Jemimah (mainstay) - 3 bad games in a row
Harman (mainstay) - 3 bad games in a row

Minor miracle they're 2-1 but they're about to be found out as they go up against Australia and England next.