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Cricket thread 2020: executing our skillsets

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

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Thursday

It's just going to result in less test matches so we can focus on the hundred.

gilbertharding

Is the corpse of Jimmy Savile in charge of the ECB?

sevendaughters

think the bowling is on its way to being as fucked as the bats.

Chedney Honks

Fuck off tests and let's just beat these fucks down into the ground in proper cricket

Shoulders?-Stomach!

So Dobell's proposal after complaining that no-one apart from Root averages above 35 is to pick Ali, a 34 year old who averages 28 with the bat. Baffling media obsession with that guy.

Harry Badger

Next time some cunt tries to tell you England's paed batting is because of too much T20, show them the current scorecard. Both openers T20 bosses, adapting their game and grinding it out in tough conditions.

Cuellar

England aren't..............much good..............at cricket

Inspector Norse

Quote from: Shoulders?-Stomach! on August 05, 2021, 06:47:48 AM
So Dobell's proposal after complaining that no-one apart from Root averages above 35 is to pick Ali, a 34 year old who averages 28 with the bat. Baffling media obsession with that guy.

To be fair he was just naming that as one thing England could do to improve their lineup in general, rather than suggesting Moeen would be a long-term solution to a batting lineup that resembles my village U15 team back in the day, with two of us there because we could play cricket and the rest being whoever we'd convinced to tag along with us after school.

The frustrating thing is that players like Crawley, Pope and Lawrence clearly have the raw talent, but they are being hopelessly miscoached and mismanaged and look like they would rather be anywhere else and never want to play international cricket again.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Maintain I hope we get smashed, wicketless all day would be ideal.

sevendaughters

it's like India have looked at NZ and said oh yeah that's how you do it

iamcoop

Archer OUT for the rest of the year, including the Ashes.

I guess the ECB never forgave him for stopping off at home to make love to his fully adult partner.


iamcoop


Shoulders?-Stomach!

Quote from: Shoulders?-Stomach! on August 05, 2021, 12:39:13 PM
Maintain I hope we get smashed, wicketless all day would be ideal.

That's gone now, still enjoyable to watch Kohli get a golden duck whatever the match situation.

iamcoop


Shoulders?-Stomach!


Shoulders?-Stomach!

Quote from: iamcoop on August 05, 2021, 02:12:04 PM
Uh oh.

Here cometh the Indian AIDS cru.

Heh, run out, what a moment to fuck up like that.

Pant and Jadeja are surely going to both get 0 or massively destructive attacking 50s.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

After being 97-0 India are now behind England who got to 138-3 for the loss of one fewer wicket.

Inspector Norse

He could score 300, I still can't take Pant seriously because of his name

Inspector Norse

Jimmy "past it" Anderson with figures of 12-8-11-2 and Koach for a golden blob there.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Dropped by Dominic 'Classic Paedophile' Sibley

iamcoop


iamcoop

Ah yes, another way to prop up a dying format is to take players off for "bad light" just as the game gets exciting.

ECB get in grave

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Only thing worse is listening to the moaning about it. There's no way this is going 5 days apart from rain and light. If they kept on playing and it ended within 3 days they'd moan about the fans being 'robbed'.

iamcoop

Anderson now level with Kumble on 619 test wickets.

Unbelievable achievement really.

rjd2

These Indian veterans seem to be in decline when it comes to the test format. Although obviously Rahane was never that good, sparking knocks here and their  but horrifically inconsistent and ultimately failed when he was moved up the order.

Rohit is a tough player to manage, he is a monster in the SC but outside not so much.


Shoulders?-Stomach!

Rohit is basically Sehwag/Warner.

Ysee, all that whinging about light and it rained exactly when it said so we lost about 30 mins max. But crowd WUZ ROBBED wasn't it Vaughany. They're being robbed by the fucking child molestors selected to play for England, mate.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

My mate just did this digging about the historic low point of
English batting we have reached.

QuoteBeen doing some research about just how bad our batting is. Looked at the specialist  batting averages at the time of the first test of each winter every 5 years since 1990.

1990/91 v AUS

53.87 Atherton (8 tests)
47.08 Smith (18 tests)
44.10 Gower (109 tests)
36.86 Lamb (67 tests)
26.42 Stewart (7 tests)
19.56 Larkins (10 tests)

*Gooch (41.62) missed the first test hence larkins but played the rest


1995/96 v SA

44.24 Smith (57 tests)
43.63 Thorpe (21 tests)
40.13 Atherton (41 tests)
39.11 Stewart (48 tests)
37.68 Hick (37 tests)
17.93 Ramprakash (17 tests)


2000/01 v PAK

47.50 Trescothick (3 tests)
40.40 Stewart (102 tests)
38.49 Thorpe (60 tests)
38.34 Atherton (102 tests)
36.07 Hussain (53 tests)
33.23 Hick (60 tests)


2005/06 v PAK

52.56 Pietersen (5 tests)
50.47 Strauss (19 tests)
45.27 Trescothick (66 tests)
42.55 Bell (8 tests)
17.67 Collingwood (3 tests)

*Vaughan  (43.82) missed the first test  but played the rest


2010/11 v AUS

47.80 Pietersen (66 tests)
47.39 Trott (13 tests)
43.11 Strauss (77 tests)
42.92 Bell (57 tests)
42.78 Cook (60 tests)
42.18 Collingwood (63 tests)


2015/16 v PAK

54.66 Root (32 tests)
46.42 Cook (119 tests)
43.01 Bell (117 tests)
27.35 Bairstow (17 tests)

*Ali actually opened in this test but I refuse to consider him a specialist batsman, nor Stokes who is an all rounder

THIS TEST (even before yesterday's shambles)

48.78 Root (105 tests)
34.12 Bairstow (74 tests)
33.23 Burns (25 tests)
30.78 Sibley (20 tests)
29.90 Lawrence (7 tests)
29.33 Crawley (14 tests)


Shoulders?-Stomach!

QuoteJack Harrison: I'm afraid Test cricket really needs to get with the modern programme if it's going to survive - it was bone dry at 10am, could have recovered an hour's lost time and provided fans some entertainment, instead we sit around for an hour then go off after 10 minutes...

Look at this armchair shit getting massive positive reviews on BBC live text.

They have rain in ODIs and no one talks about how they should start early or it will 'kill the game'. Test cricket is the format where a rain interruption least matters as it is 5 days long (these two teams wouldn't have gone 5 days if it was dry anyway).

I don't think it's an option anyway because of staffing, if I recall correctly.

Thursday

"Robinson Removes Pant" says the BBC website.

That's going to get him suspended again.