Cricket Thread

[The blue phantom]

What were England's odds when we were 90-something without loss approaching lunch on day two, chasing 224?

Around 10/1

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Much as I love test match cricket it’s annoying when you’ve avidly watched a match for the first four days but can’t watch the denouement due to a pre-existing professional commitment.

Over the course of over four days there will always be moments you can point to as decisive, but to come so close to such a second innings chase is itself worthy of praise and I think 2-2 was a fair result at the end of the series, which I enjoyed hugely.

I do vacillate somewhat with my interest in cricket, but when it piques my interest, I find it truly absorbing.

It is, without question, my second favourite sport.

 

[cookster]

Played with 10 men in this test.

30 runs needed with 4 wickets its irrelevant.

 

[cookster]

Chasing one of the highest ever 4th innings totals. They aren’t bottlers in the slightest. Too aggressive ? Yes. A bit daft? Yes? Bottlers? Not a fucking chance

Happened to many times to be a coincidence. We'll get handed our Arse in Australia.

 

[cookster]

Hahaha. Down to 10 men and you think we bottled.

It's not fucking football.
30 runs with 4 wickets is bottling. Couldn't handle the pressure.

 

[cookster]

The last word that I would use to describe what we've witnessed yesterday and today.

Agree about Sunday but, this morning the pressure made them fold.

 

[ancoats]

No real cricket fan is interested in the hundred.
When you see a great series, like this, being shoehorned into 6-7 weeks, the authorities show they really have no idea how to run the game.

Cricket is all about test matches; anything else is just entertainment
20/20 and The Hundred are fun with little skill involved.

How do you defend your wicket in the white ball form of cricket? This is what is missing in the modern game

Chris Tavaré​

Among his slowest innings was a score of 35 runs in six-and-a-half hours at Madras in the 1981/82 season

 

[BringBackSwales]

Happened to many times to be a coincidence. We'll get handed our Arse in Australia.

Yes we probably will but that’s because they are a lot better than us and we will take too many risks. But we aren’t bottlers, far from it, our mentality makes us better than we are, we fell short today unfortunately

 

[BringBackSwales]

The ultimate jinx from 300/3 to 367 all out. Sorry, couldn't resist picking on this.

Don’t blame you, although if me typing something in preparedness (which I then accidentally posted) caused our batsmen to implode then I am more powerful than I thought

 

[madloaf]

30 runs needed with 4 wickets its irrelevant.

It's not irrelevant. India took 9 wickets in the first innings. Whether you're disappointed or not these are the facts. Playing with ten, missing a bowler, not a bad performance in my book. You can disagree and I respect that.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

It's not fucking football.
30 runs with 4 wickets is bottling. Couldn't handle the pressure.

Losing a man for all 5 days is far more detrimental than in 90 mins of football.

The whole bowling attack had to change its approach as they needed to preserve energy to bowl Woakes’ overs, rather than bowl at full tilt all the time.

Then Woakes would likely have scored a few runs, so losing him swayed the game firmly in favour of India.

 

[cookster]

Losing a man for all 5 days is far more detrimental than in 90 mins of football.

The whole bowling attack had to change its approach as they needed to preserve energy to bowl Woakes’ overs, rather than bowl at full tilt all the time.

Then Woakes would likely have scored a few runs, so losing him swayed the game firmly in favour of India.

Disagree.

We ground it out for four days, great effort.
Needed 30 runs with 4 wickets, call it 3.5 on the last day.
Folded.

 

[Ilovehappyendings]

I need to write to Lancashire so they can explain to me why there isn't another Test Match at Old Trafford until 2028.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Disagree.

We ground it out for four days, great effort.
Needed 30 runs with 4 wickets, call it 3.5 on the last day.
Folded.

It started swinging round corners, to be fair.

Look up the stats about how many teams have won test matches when losing a player in the first innings.

The number is tiny. Players fatigue more and make poorer decisions as a result.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

They made terrible decisions on the lbws, both folded under pressure. Even though the replay said umpire's call, I doubt the Overton one would have even dislodged the bail!View attachment 164919

Didn't that happen to Stokes once in the Ashes?

The ball hit the wicket with tremendous power but the bails stayed on!

 

[Corky]

I need to write to Lancashire so they can explain to me why there isn't another Test Match at Old Trafford until 2028.

There is one in 2027.

The ECB decides.

 

[jimharri]

There is one in 2027.

The ECB decides.

Is it a tender system that decides what venues get test matches? Or is there a rota system?

Of course, Lord's and the Oval are looked after!

 

[RiversideBlue]

There are 6 test matches to be played next summer. 3 of them are in London. They don't care about us up North.

 

[Corky]

Is it a tender system that decides what venues get test matches? Or is there a rota system?

Of course, Lord's and the Oval are looked after!

The tenders were about 15 years ago, when Cardiff started getting them, it ruined it a bit as everyone needed 5 full days to get their money back.

As far as I know it is a panel with bit of rotation for the less favoured grounds, but income and location play a big part.

 

[Zabbasbeard]

What a series. A proper feisty fight from start to finish full of tension. Compelling throughout the series. Loved the needle.
So happy that India won today. Easily the best series for decades