Cricket Thread

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Bumrah is the best fast bowler in the world by a mile. I love watching him bowl, he's got this strange run up but when he lets the ball go it's like clockwork.

Arshdeep can’t even get in their test side yet and he’s unreal too.

 

[Blue Potato]

Any other Blues out here for the NZ test series?

Had a walk round the ground the other day at Christchurch, a few days out but pitch looked very green at that point. Big ask for Bethell to bat at 3 on his Test debut

 

[dickie davies]

The balls used in England for the last 2 years have been terrible, doing nothing after about 20 overs

Mine haven't done anything for about 20 years

 

[Pubteam Lomas]

Any other Blues out here for the NZ test series?

Had a walk round the ground the other day at Christchurch, a few days out but pitch looked very green at that point. Big ask for Bethell to bat at 3 on his Test debut

Loved listening to Alistair Cook who said the pitches are great. He said if you win the toss you have to bat, but the first hour or so is very tricky. He said get through that and it's always great place to bat.

Problem is with our top 3 (whether that's Pope or an debutant in Bethell) we could be exposing Root and Brooke in that first hour!

 

[waspish]

Looking at the time of the New Zealand test matches it be just the highlights I'll be watching

 

[Dr Jacoby]

India have one of the best bowling line ups probably of all time. Bumrah is incredible.

They’ve got a vast plethora of pace bowlers though. Bizarrely, all they lack is a workld class spinner.

Ashwin?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Ashwin?

Definitely was towards world class, but he must be touching 40.

Jadeja too is more than decent, but not world class, imho.

 

[Dr Jacoby]

Definitely was towards world class, but he must be touching 40.

Jadeja too is more than decent, but not world class, imho.

He’s taken over 500 test wickets at an average of a shade under 24. I think there’s a strong argument he’s the best spinner since Warne and Muralitharan.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

He’s taken over 500 test wickets at an average of a shade under 24. I think there’s a strong argument he’s the best spinner since Warne and Muralitharan.

Not trying to argue that he isn’t, just that he isn’t as good as he was.

 

[KS55]

Should be the Kookaburra, yes.
There aren't many better than Bumrah who is a joy to watch - the inswinger that got Labuschagne in the second innings was quite something.

The balls used in England for the last 2 years have been terrible, doing nothing after about 20 overs sometimes.

Bad balls in England were blamed on a load of bad leather. You can’t hide from it.