Cricket 2019 part II: arise King Jofra

[Inspector Norse]

In other news, South Africa have picked someone called JON-JON SMUTS

[Quote]

Two wickets in an over means Dogshit Denly and Tommy Banter have a rebuild on their hands.

[Inspector Norse]

Denly arguably a handier one-day batsman than in the tests, doing a job of helping England to a competitive score here at least.

Lower-order batting could be the difference here. England's tail of Woakes, T-Curran and Jordan can score big while S Africa have four number 11s.

[Thursday]

Denly failing to get a 100 once again.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

An under par total, but:

Quinton de Kock(c)(wk)
Reeza Hendricks
Temba Bavuma
Rassie van der Dussen
JJ Smuts
David Miller
Andile Phehlukwayo
Beuran Hendricks
Lungi Ngidi
Lutho Sipamla
Tabraiz Shamsi

That's arguably as fragile a batting lineup.

Interested how Smuts gets on.

[Inspector Norse]

Weaker lineup I reckon. Lot riding on de Kock and Miller there. No ODI experience elsewhere and the bottom four are old-school rabbits judging by their records.

Cue Ngidi smashing career-best, um, 20.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Well judged by De Kock and Bavuma so far. You genuinely worry where the threat is coming from outside of Woakes.

[sevendaughters]

Six overs to Root and Denly ffs, it's not pre-tea on a bunsen lads.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

That was more on account of trying to break a long partnership and the overall lack of threat from seamers. Shamsi was looking pretty dangerous so it was worth giving them a go.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Unchanged side for this one.

I'm not sure what they saw in the first game but the balance looked totally off for me, including the bowling mix.

[Inspector Norse]

Joe Root on to bowl the sixth over, seriously?

And gets de Kock even as I'm typing hahahaha

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Saved by rain.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Yasir Shah must be gutted. Tonked around the park then bloody Sohail pops up with 2 wickets.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

You'll be enthralled to discover that the Bishop Bash has been reduced to 12 overs. FUCKING CARES

[Inspector Norse]

What the fuck's that all about? South Africa spunk their review away on Bavuma's plumb LBW, but then get another one because of a technical hitch and so Rassie gets away with it?

[Inspector Norse]

Haha, review that one you twat.

[Inspector Norse]

Time for JON-JON

[Inspector Norse]

Some pretty dire death bowling from supposed specialist Jordan there, ball after ball in the slot for Miller to haul SA up to a passable total though England must still be favourites.

[Thursday]

Balls. The dodgy stream I was watching has gone down. Completely unfair.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Half conspired to take the gloss off that win, but amazed we brought Ali and Rashid in for basically 1 game.

Weird feeling having Denly be the glue in both innings.

[Thursday]

Sri Lanka squad

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/england-squad-tour-of-sri-lanka-jofra-archer-james-anderson-ben-foakes-keaton-jennings-a9329286.html

Joe Root (Yorkshire) captain

Dominic Bess (Somerset)

Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire)

Jos Buttler (Lancashire)

Zak Crawley (Kent)

Sam Curran (Surrey)

Joe Denly (Kent)

Ben Foakes (Surrey)

Keaton Jennings (Lancashire)

Jack Leach (Somerset)

Matthew Parkinson (Lancashire)

Ollie Pope (Surrey)

Dominic Sibley (Warwickshire)

Ben Stokes (Durham) vice-captain

Chris Woakes (Warwickshire)

Mark Wood (Durham)

[MiddleRabbit]

Why Buttler keeps getting the nod, despite showing absolutely no aptitude for Test cricket, is beyond me.

[Thursday]

Hoping Foakes is going to get the nod and he's just there in case of injury (very optimistic)

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

If Jennings is picked ahead of Crawley from the outset, as seems likely, that would be a superbly shit thing to happen.

So I'm guessing Root and Denly are going to play 3rd spinner each, meaning we get Woakes with the new ball, Wood with the old ball and Stokes trying to put the frighteners up them, meanwhile Bess and Leach toil away.

[sevendaughters]

am already having conniptions at the thought of Buttler striding out at 152/5 about six overs from the new ball on a day that's gone at a RR of 2 and trying to donk one that turns square.

[Inspector Norse]

I don't really care about Kwik Kricket but seriously, who is Denly bumming to get picked ahead of Malan? You can't even argue that he's a better bowler.

[MiddleRabbit]

I don't really care about Kwik Kricket but seriously, who is Denly bumming to get picked ahead of Malan? You can't even argue that he's a better bowler.

Good news for Yorkshire next year though.    Bairstow and a Malan both out of favour with England.

[Inspector Norse]

I ended up watching most of the England innings and it was fun, as T20s often are, but still more about bluffing and guesswork than technique, skill and tactics.
England needed 7 off 7 but Morgan and Curran threw it away with unnecessary Billy-Big-Bollocks slogs. Crowd wouldn't have been happy seeing them calmly knock it off in 1s and 2s I suppose.

Joe Denly contributed 3 off 4 balls and a dropped catch.

[Harry Badger]

I don't really care about Kwik Kricket but seriously, who is Denly bumming to get picked ahead of Malan? You can't even argue that he's a better bowler.

Morgan and Malan don't get on at all well apparently.

[poo]

T20 = Legend Gary