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Alan Harper's Tash said:
At least the graphics are better. You can actually see the scorecard properly now.
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Just had a very quick look. Seriously? I think it's horrific. Compare it to the test match scoreboard graphics. A simple banner in the top left corner showing the score and the amount of balls bowled. With the occasional narrow banner along the bottom of the screen showing the batsmen's scores and the bowler's stats. What they have is an assault on the senses!
 
First boundary is a beautiful cover drive for four from Kane Williamson.

Have they not read the script?
 
jimharri said:
Just had a very quick look. Seriously? I think it's horrific. Compare it to the test match scoreboard graphics. A simple banner in the top left corner showing the score and the amount of balls bowled. With the occasional narrow banner along the bottom of the screen showing the batsmen's scores and the bowler's stats. What they have is an assault on the senses!
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This was what it was like last time round! It’s better, but from an incredibly low bar.
 
Seems like the BBC have forgotten to employ a proper 'play by play' commentator?

I like the ones they have. But they're more to provide a bit of insight rather than keep the commentary going.
 
What the fuck is the point of the 100? I end up dividing the balls bowled by 6 to get it to old style overs, and then dividing the score by that derived numbers of owners, to get a perspective on how the batting team is doing
 
BringBackSwales said:
What the fuck is the point of the 100? I end up dividing the balls bowled by 6 to get it to old style overs, and then dividing the score by that derived numbers of owners, to get a perspective on how the batting team is doing
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No need for any calculations this match is done already.
 
Hope Warner now appreciates that if you adopt the Billy Big Bollox persona you need to be able to walk the walk.
 
Sam
BringBackSwales said:
What the fuck is the point of the 100? I end up dividing the balls bowled by 6 to get it to old style overs, and then dividing the score by that derived numbers of owners, to get a perspective on how the batting team is doing
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Same. Why couldn't they make it a number of balls divisible by 6 (96 or 102)?"Sets" of 5 is nonsense.
 
Blue Llama said:
Hope Warner now appreciates that if you adopt the Billy Big Bollox persona you need to be able to walk the walk.
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He makes a good story with the Ashes coming up and probably facing some of his old adversaries like Anderson.

But he's past it really. He didn't even get picked up in the IPL auction.

Exactly the same story with Steve Smith. More there as a known name than being any good at T20.

Look at his comparison against Root in T20 Internationals. You wouldn't believe that Smith was the one who kept his position in the Australia squad for so long. Mediocre average and middling strikerate.

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Dr Jacoby said:
For the first test, I think it will be:

1. Crawley
2. Duckett
3. Pope
4. Root
5. Brook
6. Stokes (C)
7. J Smith (WK)
8. Carse
9. Atkinson
10. Archer/Wood
11. Tongue/Bashir

Sadly, I don’t think we can risk playing Archer and Wood in the same side.
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We have to if we want to win the Ashes, it's that simple really
Pace with Bounce, the good old chin music scares all the top batsmen, even the Aussies in their own backyard don't like it around their ears
 
ancoats said:
We have to if we want to win the Ashes, it's that simple really
Pace with Bounce, the good old chin music scares all the top batsmen, even the Aussies in their own backyard don't like it around their ears
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You have to manage bowlers work loads though especially those as fragile as Wood and Archer.

If you play both in the first test you have to be prepared that you may need to rest both of them at the same time and therefore leaving England short on pace. So it's a gamble.
 
crooky said:
You have to manage bowlers work loads though especially those as fragile as Wood and Archer.

If you play both in the first test you have to be prepared that you may need to rest both of them at the same time and therefore leaving England short on pace. So it's a gamble.
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What’s happened to Ollie Stone? He used to be pretty rapid.
 
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