Wood playing back to back Tests in a dead rubber strikes me as unnecessary. Could have gone Overton for him.
Wood playing back to back Tests in a dead rubber strikes me as unnecessary. Could have gone Overton for him.
Sydney Thunder currently 9 for 6 in le grand bash. What a dismal tournament that is.
They’re averaging about 500 fans per match up to now.
10/8 lol
15 all out. Batted lads.
That’s got to be a record. Unless Belgium under 19s got rolled for 8 once or something
It's a T20 record. Surrey went over for 14 in the 1980s, against Essex. Still drew the game #brownhatters
Big respect for this entry on the list from Croatia. Bat the overs lads.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...full-scorecard
Now that's a green top.
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15 wickets on the first day of a test probably suggests not a great pitch.
How rude.
Meanwhile, in the England game, you know another corker of a pitch has been prepared when the commentator starts talking about it with quotes from the Dead Parrot sketch.
This Karachi pitch is so dead. Wood is banging it in at >90mph and it's not getting above waist height. Give me that green top any day.
Leach going for more than Rehan is a bit of a worry, if you're Leach. Seems quite easy for them to attack him.
Rehan's second wicket (LBW) utterly gorgeous bowling. Please let him be the real deal.
How have 11 wickets fallen on Day 1 on that pitch?
Indeed. That googly is excellent.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Bazball has broken minds.
Zak Crawley (0).
That Tonbridge education doing wonders again.
Crawley against spin ain't pretty. I wonder if we'll see teams deploy spin against him even outside Asia, rather than giving him the pace on that he needs to do the one thing he can do well (hit it through the line for four).
Hmm, just watching the highlights. Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that ol' Foakesy doesn't seem very integrated into the bantz? Every time he's taken a catch or a stumping, not one cunt went over to congratulate him, at least with any enthusiasm. Nobody seemed to be chatting to him when they went off between innings too. It's possible that I've imagine this and this is a genuinely deranged post, but I dunno. Have a look yourself next time lads, see what you think.
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I found that by googling 'Ben Foakes banter' and restricting results to last 24 hours. Not the first time I've typed his name into that Google image search bar, I can tell you that for free.
Gorgeous man.
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I found that by googling 'Ben Foakes banter' and restricting results to last 24 hours. Not the first time I've typed his name into that Google image search bar, I can tell you that for free.
Foakes is probably a bit of a Bazball pariah by merely being very good at his actual job and not at any risk of scoring a 7 ball century.
He's certainly a bit of an endangered species, although sometimes I think the analytics don't quite get it when it comes to quality wicketkeepers, whereas Stokes might. Today was a prime example, we wouldn't have run out Babar without him, and Babar could be 150* at the close.
Lest we forget everyone in the wicket keeping conversation here is merely filling in for Sir Johnny of Bairstow.
I regularly profess my cricket ignorance in here but I've seen too many games where it feels like England lost or at least hurt their chances by putting chances down to not see the value in a good wicketkeeper.
Not that Butler battering them to the boundary like a punch from the Hulk wasn't great.
Also, Foakes is very dreamy, and that has to count for something.
Joel Wilson is horrendous.
Edit: Harry Brook is not.
Just seen his middle name is Cherrington.
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Definitely well out of the cricket loop because I have no idea who Harry Brook is. It does seem he's the boss though.
Just seen his middle name is Cherrington.
I love watching spin bowling as the shadows lengthen at the end of the day. Something soothing about it all.
Brook comes across really well in interviews. Far more direct and less robotic than 95% of cricketers.
Just watched the Australia vs. South Africa highlights and for all the chat around the green pitch, apart from Travis Head, it was mostly just woeful batting. Pitch definitely in the heads of a lot of them because some of the shots were club level shit.
Jansen at 7 for the Saffers was especially mental.
I'm not having it that Nauman Ali is only 36.
Incidentally, we had a Pakistani pro for years. Cricinfo tells me his age now would be 57. That would make his 50th birthday ca. 2015 but he was playing for over 50's teams long before that. They haven't got a clue.
The other year we got drawn in the Conference Cup (like a regional cup for the south eastern counties) against some team that was nominally from Essex, but in effect was the Pakistan over 50s. Was probably the most fascinating game of cricket I've ever been involved with (I umpired it). When we batted, the new ball was taken by this bloke who looked like Dr Evil and bowled absolutely lethal left arm spin, fizz and dip and everything. Had us about 5 for 3 or something. I looked him up afterwards and he was 58 years old but had played 100 first class games in the 80s and early 90s. I gave an LBW appeal not out, he gave me a massive grin and said: "Respectfully, sir, I disagree."
Their skipper was a bloke called 'Ifty' who the other players seemed to revere like a god, but was absolutely useless and there was no evidence that he had ever been good. He batted 11 and didn't bowl. At the end of our innings a catch ballooned up towards 'Ifty', whereupon his legs started going like road runner, but the body didn't want to go anywhere and one of his pristine white trainers flew into the air and he went onto his arse. In the end I think we won by 4 runs because everyone from number 6 downwards tried to bat like Shahid Afridi with 20 to win, an utter travesty of a result.
They also brought their own trestle tables, tea lady and food and invited us to partake despite having provided a tea ourselves in the usual fashion as the home team. The Bazball of cricket teas.
Great powerplay for us, 58/0 from the first six. Run rate required down to 7.78 for the last 14 overs.
Unreal
I love the respect of the disagreement.
Meanwhile our pro threatened, in his native Punjabi, a batsman that he couldn't nick off that he was going to blow him up and fuck his sister, forgetting that one of the umpires spoke the same lingo. So me being captain gets hauled into the disciplinary post-match and results in me being branded a "behanchod" for the remainder of the season because I didn't defend the indefensible.
Bunda/binda, or any phrase that sounds a bit like that, is a tell of a Punjabi swear. Key knowledge for a league umpire. I can't pull them up on it as they have plausible deniability on everything, but if you hear those flying around it's time for the Mike Dean body language to come out.
LMAO they showed the wrong ball on the review. Marias Erasmus not happy.
Rehan batting three
I fucking love Bazball. Best thing ever.
Now Rehan Ahmed at 3. Baz things.
Christ.
Sending in the nighthawk.
Stokes next. They're picking this out of a hat.
Is Joe Root one of the only batters that doesn’t really suit Baz Ball? Or am I just chatting bollocks
Nah he does, it's not just slogging. Root can score as quick as anyone, his T20 record is brilliant.
There's about six minutes of light left in the day and I love that Stokes is thinking he can get these 60 runs in that time.
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