Cricket Thread

I braved listening to the first hour and 34/3, I turned off hoping for a good morning review and england in control
Boy, what a Nightmare and shambles again. Will this last a full day on the 2nd day ? I can understand the Aussies going all out swinging with the Ashes in the bag. But England getting even worse well i thought that would be impossible

For all of them, let's keep Stokes and Bazball Brendon and McCullum and Keys needs to give their heads a wobble
It's time to switch off the life support machine because there is no sign of life
 
Apart from about 2 hours I watched it all.. bowlers fielding was very good batting is so bad it’s pitiful! Now they don’t want to do go hard or be cautious! Duckett out because he didn’t go full on with the shot and he can’t let hardly any balls go! Root is scrambled Crawley got out to the usually shot..
 
Pubteam Lomas said:
Duckett is having a mare of a tour. That video is going to haunt him.

Said all along Bethell aint ready and certainly NOT ready to bat at 3.

Problem for me is we have so many players suited to batting at 5, but we're struggling for a top 3.
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I've come to the conclusion that the England cricket team is being run by fucking idiots.

Who thought it would be a good idea to do any of the following on tour.

Only take two openers.

The middle order batting cover, is a young lad without a FC century, and has only played three FC games in a year.

Only take one WK.

Only take one frontline spinner, who's not even good enough to get a game for Somerset.

Take injury prone quicks.

All these mistakes, coupled with zero preparation, and you have the perfect recipe for a monumental fuck up.
 
I played quite a bit of cricket when I was younger, enjoyed some excellent coaches, was brought up watching that amazing Lancashire team. Just watched the wickets and some of the strokes England got out to are just laughable. Does any first class English cricketer know how to bat defensively these days? You know perfect a forward or back foot defensive shot. It sure doesn’t seem so. Surely when your team is in trouble you dig in and try and frustrate the bowlers. Not give away cheap wicket after cheap wicket. The pitch looked tricky but these are supposedly elite cricketers.
 
Absolute shite and a complete embarrassment. Complete overhaul top to bottom of the entire set up. Something badly wrong in there.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
I played quite a bit of cricket when I was younger, enjoyed some excellent coaches, was brought up watching that amazing Lancashire team. Just watched the wickets and some of the strokes England got out to are just laughable. Does any first class English cricketer know how to bat defensively these days? You know perfect a forward or back foot defensive shot. It sure doesn’t seem so. Surely when your team is in trouble you dig in and try and frustrate the bowlers. Not give away cheap wicket after cheap wicket. The pitch looked tricky but these are supposedly elite cricketers.
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There's plenty that have a good defensive technique, they don't get picked because they aren't shot a ball sloggers though. They don't fit the philosophy of the current leadership.
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
There's plenty that have a good defensive technique, they don't get picked because they aren't shot a ball sloggers though. They don't fit the philosophy of the current leadership.
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I don't watch much cricket anymore other than the tests so I wouldn't know :-)
Maybe time to get back to 'defend a good ball, punish a bad'. Maybe unrealistic nowadays though.

I would blame one day games but it seams we aren't even very good at that (ranked 8th for ODI).
 
The Stockport Iniesta said:
Only take one WK.
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Smith had a bad day in his first ever pink ball game, when conditions are notoriously hard to keep in.

Other than that he's been fine behind the stumps and Rew and Cox (2025 country cricketer of the year) are with the Lions.

RE: Openers, Duckett was one of the form batsmen in the world going into this, Crawley is England's joint top run scorer and 3rd in the series overall - he's actually had an OK tour - and we got unlucky with Ahmed getting injured in the warm up match.

As for the injury prone quicks - all quicks are injury prone and there's no one particularly good in country cricket who's not been looked at by this england group. Anderson is the only bowler in England who could have realistically made a difference. I wish he was still there, but he's 43 and didn't take tons of wickets in division 2.
 
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The Stockport Iniesta said:
There's plenty that have a good defensive technique, they don't get picked because they aren't shot a ball sloggers though. They don't fit the philosophy of the current leadership.
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Saddleworth2 said:
I don't watch much cricket anymore other than the tests so I wouldn't know :-)
Maybe time to get back to 'defend a good ball, punish a bad'. Maybe unrealistic nowadays though.

I would blame one day games but it seams we aren't even very good at that (ranked 8th for ODI).
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Steve Smith got out to a half volley that seamed an entire ball's width.

Joe Root spent 20 minutes not being able to play a shot because it was moving so much.

Defensive technique and only punishing bad balls would have acheived nothing yesterday, hence why the silliest, sloggiest slogger Brook got the highest score of the day.

Stokes tried to grind it out again and got nowhere.

Honestly a 40 run difference is simply the difference between a team with 2 of the top 10 rated bowlers in the world and a team with 0 real quality test bowlers and no bowling coach.
 
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