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Cricket thread 2020: executing our skillsets

Started by sevendaughters, March 06, 2020, 05:40:58 PM

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Shoulders?-Stomach!

Anderson getting through a few overs is good.

Other than that, can't really see the point of a 14 a side game. It's already quite far removed from test conditions so why make it even more so. Wasting time with Bracey, Gregory, Lawrence, Jamie Overton and so on who aren't going to feature in the series.

Shoulders?-Stomach!


sevendaughters

feels like he's the most under-talked about of the post-war greats. must have been a smashing player.


Inspector Norse

Joe Denly made 48 in yesterday's warm-up but I see he was also bowled off a no-ball for 12. What's the average of 12 and 48?

Inspector Norse

13-man squad named by England, no new names despite 82% of county players getting a call-up for the warm-up and Lawrence being apparently most impressive.

Root's absence for the birth of his first child solves the problem of how to fit in so many UNDROPPABLE batsmen in the top three, looking like a top four of Burns-Sibley-Denley-Crawley.

Buttler keeps the gloves.

Bess the nominated spinner so three of Anderson, Broad, Woakes, Archer and Wood to play. I guess the first two and Archer to begin with then they'll rotate over the following tests.

iamcoop

I know Bairstow is complete virus but what's with the persistence with Buttler? Does he have some sort of dossier on Ed Smith or something?

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Utterly pointless isn't it? The one mythical innings his test career has persisted off the prospect of but never happened or looked like happening. The only thing it does it fuck his confidence and subdue his one day performances. Then you have Foakes who is a) available b) did pretty well when picked c) is clearly only ever going to be a test specialist.

Dom Sibley has lost 12kg since this shot was taken, providing succour to fat cunts everywhere that as long as you can nudge singles into the on-side you can be carrying timber.


Shoulders?-Stomach!

Forecast for rain all day Wednesday and Thursday. Arrrgh.

poo


finnquark

Quote from: Shoulders?-Stomach! on July 07, 2020, 07:44:39 AM
Forecast for rain all day Wednesday and Thursday. Arrrgh.

Good chance for Aggers and the boys to rattle through the pandemic obituaries from the shires.

Harry Badger

Quote from: Shoulders?-Stomach! on July 07, 2020, 07:44:39 AM
Forecast for rain all day Wednesday and Thursday. Arrrgh.

Fortunately this means a full day's play on Friday when I am having a mate over to share a keg of Tomos & Lilford's Nash Point.

poo


iamcoop

Reckon we're in with a shout of seeing big Rahkeem Cornwall turning his arm over this series lads. Absolutely fucking buzzing here like.

If it rains can't they just all get on the team bus and go to where it's not raining and play there?

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Quote from: Poisson Du Jour on July 07, 2020, 09:37:36 PM
If it rains can't they just all get on the team bus and go to where it's not raining and play there?

Biosecurity compromise aye there's the rub mate

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Broad set to miss out. Seemingly either Wood or Anderson are guaranteed picks if they are fit. As is Archer, of course. I wonder if Stokes will use Archer more circumspectly.

Either way I'd have gone for line and length, not pace. Broad or Woakes over Wood.

Oh wait I forgot it's going to rain

iamcoop

Don't really see the point of dropping Broad. His home record recently is excellent. This to me smacks of "They absolutely pelted us with quick stuff away so let's give them some back at home" as opposed to actually playing to our strengths.

Inspector Norse

Wood did really well in the Caribbean last time and against SA in the winter but him and Archer in the same team is a big risk and they'll need Bess and Captain Stokes to get through an awful lot of overs, especially given Anderson is 38 and coming back from the best part of a year out.
Broad has been really consistent over the last couple of years, always tight and probing even if rarely catching fire the way he used to, but as we know the current selectors get overexcited by things going ZOOM POW KABLAM.

MikkiDisco

I almost cried when I saw the weather forecast, been waiting for Test Cricket to return for so long now, how typically English it is that it's going to piss down for a large part of it. Still, based on the past few years as long as there's 3 days play there's a decent chance of a result.

Hope Broad isn't dropped, I've come to the conclusion recently that he *may* be my all time favourite England player.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Denly and Buttler still there and Stokes batting above Pope

Why fucking why

MikkiDisco

Denly presumably makes way once Root is back, I can live with that. He's clearly not good enough, and I don't think he should ever have been in the team, but it has to be said there was a time there where his scratchy 30 run innings were holding the innings together all too often.

Buttler I'm completely done with at test level. My big worry on the wickie front though is if they try to shoehorn Pope into the role. Be just like us to pull that shit and ruin the kid.


Chedney Honks

Hopefully this will be the end of Rooty. Arise Sir Thug Life. Captain Marvel.

finnquark

The segue from Capt Moore to Soul Limbo was outstanding.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Taking lunch during a dry spell even though you've been doing fuck all all day because of rain = Cricket

iamcoop

ITS NEARLY TIME FOR THE FIRST COLLAPSE OF THE SUMMER LADS

MikkiDisco

I just really hope sky make this as close to the real thing as possible by constantly playing the sound of an annoying fucking trumpet playing the same fucking tunes over and over and over again.

Cuellar


king_tubby

YAAAAAS!!! THEY'RE BACK! AND EATING SHIT!

iamcoop

Don't offer a stroke mate. Wouldn't bother. Overrated.