Cricket thread 2020: executing our skillsets

[iamcoop]

Hiya lads

Weeeeyyyyy.

Get the pint cans of Stella in, get the plane watching app up and running and I'll see you in the garden at 4am.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I also blagged an answer by assuming the tall fast bowler that debuted for Middlesex at 16 was

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Boyd Rankin

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even though it wasn't correct.

I think it would work better if it was done on a question by question basis with the option to pass and return later, instead of rewarding an incorrect answer with a point by virtue of the fact it's correct somewhere else along the line.

Nah, it's only a matter of thinking of as many as possible, like sporcle quizzes you can just keep dropping names

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I got 104

Only one I'm surprised I forgot was

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Onions

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, I also spent ten minutes racking my brain for the surname of

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a bald spinner named James - turns out it was Tredwell

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Likewise, spent 5 of the 30 minutes trying to dredge up that bald cunt.

[poo]

Weeeeyyyyy.

Get the pint cans of Stella in, get the plane watching app up and running and I'll see you in the garden at 4am.

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[iamcoop]

Warner GONE.


Always feels beautiful saying that.

[PowerButchi]

Lawrence is looking very tidy here.

now I've said that I fully expect him to throw away his wicket.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I see Bairstow still failed to reach 50.

[PowerButchi]

At least he didn't miss a straight one this time.

[Chedney Honks]

Love a nice curry for breakfast and some coconut milk.

[Inspector Norse]

Mickey Arthur throwing a massive wobbly after Joe Root was given not out there. Quite surprised that he has made it all the way to international cricket coaching without understanding that the batsman is not out caught if the ball bounces after he hits it.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

He does seem frequently very animated. I doubt this is helpful for the players.

[Harry Badger]

This game is an absolute joke. Sri Lanka aren't even trying anymore.

[PowerButchi]

Our tail is pretty long, so Buttler could do with piling some on here.

[Inspector Norse]

This game is an absolute joke. Sri Lanka aren't even trying anymore.

Good work there, woke them up a bit

[Inspector Norse]

This is where the stage is really set for Buttler and Curran to come in and play some shots and take the game away from Sri Lanka

Buttler c Dickwella b Embuldeniya 12 (47b)

[Harry Badger]

Poor Mendis. He's been hit four times at short leg in the last three overs.

[Inspector Norse]

Watching Mendis get repeatedly hit by these sweeps I'm not surprised his batting form has been so bad, if it's like this every match the poor bloke is probably permanently concussed

[sevendaughters]

declare now, fuck it. this is the worst SL team since the first one.

[Inspector Norse]

Terrific from England this morning. Double century for the captain, first innings lead of 300, and they still throw in a collapse of 6 for 49. I guess all that time out in the middle started making them anxious in case the local plod took it upon themselves to search their hotel rooms.

[Chedney Honks]

Reminds me of a gang of pissed up rosbif beer boys descending on the curry house, one genuine hard lad smashing the place up because he wants more chutney and then when the waiters have all been suppressed, the chefs snap and come out swinging cleavers, hacking hands and fingers off the hard lad's poof mates who crumple like so many knock off Chipsticks. Beefy gets his little bowl of chutney wedged down his throat.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Kinell

Moose Clothing Cup



Loggy Shallots Classic

[sevendaughters]

this is Leach's first proper game since the NZ tour at the end of 2019 (apart from a couple of trundles in the Bob Willis Makeweight Cup). Seems like a life ago.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Despite the 5-fer I suspect Bess is getting dropped for Ali for the next test unless he bowls really well tomorrow.

[Harry Badger]

Despite the 5-fer I suspect Bess is getting dropped for Ali for the next test unless he bowls really well tomorrow.

Bizarrely the roles have been reversed in the second innings - Leach bowling dross and Bess looking tidy until the last two overs.

[iamcoop]

Despite the 5-fer I suspect Bess is getting dropped for Ali for the next test unless he bowls really well tomorrow.

Thought Ali had been ruled out for the whole series due to virus?

[Inspector Norse]

Nope, he's fit and ready and has clearly earned his recall with his impeccable performances since being dropped[nb]Moeen Ali played a grand total of 0 games of red-ball cricket in 2020[/nb]

[Chedney Honks]

Both our spinners are fucking shit at cricket no offence

[Thursday]

Yeah, Bess has these brief sessions of being good but then disappears again, while Jack Leach is endearing because he's a massive nerd and managed to not get out long enough for Ben Stokes to get that win at Headingley, but otherwise adds very little.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

You can't drop those against the likes of Thirimanne

Tbf you probably can

Maybe Thirimanne will get all the runs he hasn't got in the last 37 tests, but hey.

[finnquark]

TMS is the pits this morning. Dickwella being named after a town in Sri Lanka has led the gang to list cricketers named after places. Interminable.