Cricket Thread

woody1968 said:
Nicely balanced - should be but it isn’t - unless the weather saves us. When Lyon got injured I thought right boys think about it, time is on our side let’s grasp the nettle …and what did we do , the exact opposite. I’m massively in to sporting intelligence, which we have in spades at City, unfortunately the England cricket team don’t and I fear the session yesterday has cost us the ashes.
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The series is still in the balance, it’s just that tomorrow could see England lose this Test and probably any chance of winning the Ashes. They desperately need an inspired bowling performance from someone and then a common sense batting approach. That might just be enough to share the spoils, but the weather gods don’t look as if they will intervene.
 
Gabriel said:
The series is still in the balance, it’s just that tomorrow could see England lose this Test and probably any chance of winning the Ashes. They desperately need an inspired bowling performance from someone and then a common sense batting approach. That might just be enough to share the spoils, but the weather gods don’t look as if they will intervene.
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It's not good when you're reduced to hoping for the weather to save you.
 
Gabriel said:
Not much turn around with the next one starting on Thursday. England's bowlers are receiving precious little respite during the Tests, and with the matches coming thick and fast, the selectors will have to rotate. If Pope's shoulder is inhibiting how he can play, then maybe he will also be rested, though finding a 3 could be tricky.
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I think England only named a squad for the first two tests anyway so changes will happen, Pope's shoulder will need more time than a week to heel so maybe Root jumps back into the number 3 and Brook and Stokes move up one leaving room for a spinner,

We will be 2 down going into that test so England might as well change it up with Wood and Woakes and a spinner all coming in, Anderson can not play again or should only play in the last as a goodbye, Broad will stay in but Robinson will also be dropped because the lack of pace,

My bowling attack for the 3rd test

Broad
Woakes
Wood
Rehan Ahmed

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cleavers said:
Why doesn't everyon play each other twice, 9 teams should mean 16 games, but everyone only playing 14 ?
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It used to be 3 groups of 6, started off 5 games, upped to 8, then 10. When it went to two groups of 9 with 16 games the crowds saw a big drop off as there were too many games, and the counties made more money with less games but bigger average gates, so they went back to 3 groups 10 games, and then 2 groups with 14 games.

The demand was clearly there in 2019 to go back to 16 games after a decade more of building it up, but doubt it ever will now with the Hundred.

As Notts got beat in the end tonight, 2nd back in our hands with a win on Sunday, Worcs at Derby who had a massive win today, but the NNR rate is catchable for the Pears.

If Lancashire get their average score of 176 (per 20 overs) and concede their average of 169 winning by 6 runs, then Worcs getting their average of 182 would need to win by 23 runs to edge Lancashire out on NRR. Only around 17 runs better if talking average scores, or win with 15 balls to spare.
 
Corky said:
It used to be 3 groups of 6, started off 5 games, upped to 8, then 10. When it went to two groups of 9 with 16 games the crowds saw a big drop off as there were too many games, and the counties made more money with less games but bigger average gates, so they went back to 3 groups 10 games, and then 2 groups with 14 games.

The demand was clearly there in 2019 to go back to 16 games after a decade more of building it up, but doubt it ever will now with the Hundred.

As Notts got beat in the end tonight, 2nd back in our hands with a win on Sunday, Worcs at Derby who had a massive win today, but the NNR rate is catchable for the Pears.

If Lancashire get their average score of 176 (per 20 overs) and concede their average of 169 winning by 6 runs, then Worcs getting their average of 182 would need to win by 23 runs to edge Lancashire out on NRR. Only around 17 runs better if talking average scores, or win with 15 balls to spare.
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Thanks.

Pity you reminded me of the abomination that is the hundred though ;-)
 
ancoats said:
I think England only named a squad for the first two tests anyway so changes will happen, Pope's shoulder will need more time than a week to heel so maybe Root jumps back into the number 3 and Brook and Stokes move up one leaving room for a spinner,

We will be 2 down going into that test so England might as well change it up with Wood and Woakes and a spinner all coming in, Anderson can not play again or should only play in the last as a goodbye, Broad will stay in but Robinson will also be dropped because the lack of pace,

My bowling attack for the 3rd test

Broad
Woakes
Wood
Rehan Ahmed

​

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No chance we will play only 3 seamers
 
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