What the fuck is with some of these deliveries? Is this a PLAN? Are they trying to ENFORCE us?
What the fuck is with some of these deliveries? Is this a PLAN? Are they trying to ENFORCE us?
Umesh is thick as shit, and Bumrah just isn't very good at cricket.
A sign in the crowd saying "Captain Cool Forever Dhoni."
Didn't know you were there, Jim.
I'm just starting on the artwork for a CHRIS WOAKES - KING OF OUR HEARTS sign for the next Oval Test.
The only pity about this innings is that I suspect par on this pitch/boundaries against a Virat Kohli chasing squad is probably at least 480.
Yeah, the Sky lot seem to be feeling rather more optimistic about this innings than I am.
I'm not sure Kohli even needs team mates these days.
The crazy thing is that I'm still not totally sure they won't chase this down from 4/133.
EDIT: When I say "they", I mean Kohli, clearly.
They'll win easily unless they do something stupid. Anything under 400 on this ground with Kohli in your team is an easy chase. We've bowled pretty OK but the bowling is irrelevant.
The openers are both shit, I genuinely have no idea why Yuvraj still plays internationals, and Dhoni was in far too early.
Yeah, I was shocked to see Yuvraj and thought Dhoni had jacked it in (was that just the captaincy?).
I didn't see much of our innings and stopped watching this one when Kolhi edged it with the toe of the bat over third man for six. All about the spectacle.
Dhoni will cling on for a little while longer until Rishabh Pant replaces him.
We're going to get absolutely pumped in India.
I legitimately believe we have the best pace bowling attack in the world (perhaps bar South Africa, but it's close), and our test batting, while it has developed a propensity for England-style collapses of late and has some work to do in other areas (such as resisting spin), has a great deal of talent split between some world class batsmen and some youngsters with heaps of potential. But none of that is going to matter, because on Indian pitches, we're going to go down harder than a sack of lead.
Kohli is ludicrous
Nearly had a heart attack when he got out. I'd lol if they now lose.
Amongst some fairly impotent bowling performances from us, Rashid has been AWFUL.
Got to hand it to the 'desh for losing that. I didn't think they had it in them.
Shakib's dismissal on the fifth morning absolute peak Bangladesh
I saw Jade at the station last week. I see Jade a lot more than I see other cricketers, even though he doesn't live near. Is this about me, or about him?
KOHLI GO HOME
:woakes:
Genius Woakes all over these clowns
At least three of their top five shouldn't be in the team. They are always so slow to drop people in various formats. Got the Test team bang on now but the limited overs stuff is stagnating.
Still,
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Yuvraj has averaged 18 since his last hundred in 2011. Just worth noting.
Yuvraj and Dhoni getting runs is very turn-of-the-decade.
It's a bit odd that Maxwell hasn't been bowling. Especially since Head bowled his full ten overs for no wickets and a bunch of runs. Doesn't seem fair, really.
I'll excuse the Woakesinator because he's the world's leading cricketer of the moment, but our charismatic seam quartet alongside him of Willey, Ball, Plunkett and Stokes just doesn't have enough change-ups.
My favourite Dhoni innings was in the semifinal of the last World Cup. At one point the run rate required was getting up above ten, then up to twelve, and he was still puttering around with singles like it was a test match.
My favourite Dhoni innings have been all the ones I've listened to on the radio and so haven't inflicted upon my retinas their bottom-handed filth.
We're chasing these. You heard it here first.
It's on. But Morgan needs to stay in the shed if a wicket falls. Buttler in next.
No idea why Buttler isn't in. RRR at over 9. Morgs ticking along at 11(21) though ffs
I wonder when they'll develop the balls to make Root captain and drop the Dublin Dynamo.
They need to get Billings into this side as well. Hales can fuck off.
Not a bad knock from wee Irish in the end.
Yeah fair play. That's him in the team until the World Cup though, and he's a terrible on-field captain.
I think for the Champions Trophy they could do this:
Roy
Hales
Root
Morgan*
Stokes
Buttler
Billings
Moeen/Rashid
Woakes
Willey
whoever
That leaves you with Root probably as the sixth bowler but I just want to find a way of getting Billings in there somehow, and you can go all out with that even if you lose early wickets, which is what India are doing. Tell Jroy to crank up his medium pacers.
The other thing I've noticed is that our batsmen seem to get tired more quickly and lose their way. It happens to Roy and Root in pretty much every innings.
I'd always play Rashid tbh. He takes wickets. Yes he bowls a load of trash at times and can go round the park but so does at least one of our 19545346 right arm medium fast bowlers. I reckon Rashid gets Yuvraj caught deep mid wicket for 70 today.
In England I'd be inclined to play him ahead of Moeen, for the sole reason that I'm not sure Moeen ever wins you an ODI, save for that glorious day at 3am against Scotland with some cunt with bagpipes drowning out Danny Morrison.
Yeah sadly I think he might be the odd one out. Doesn't really suit batting at 7/8 in ODIs, has to bat top three in that format imo.
In addition to that Scotland innings there was a cracking hundred away in Sri Lanka opening the batting as well.
Watching us bat against Jadeja is infuriating.
As is watching Jake Ball shelling sitters to dismiss Virat Kohli.
Sachin Tendulkar, Indira Gandhi... Ravi Shankar... can you hear me Ravi Shankar?
Hold up, we won? I saw our total before I got in the car at lunchtime and assumed we were going to get rogered good and proper.
It was a better deck to bowl seam on today, which, combined with Kohli inexplicably wafting himself out on 55, gave us a chance and the Woakesinator did the rest in the last over.
We're a good side tbh, and hopefully will have been hardened by this series.
Woakster did his best to throw it away. Those first two were poor but it was a brilliant come back in the final 4 balls.
We are in with a massive shout in the Champions Trophy. Roy has become a beast.
England? Major tournament at home? We're clearly losing to Ireland.
http://espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/cu...ch/566948.html
State of that team
Trotty out stumped with a strike rate of 117
Bring him back.
Morgan heel-turn, intentionally getting his team-mates run-out while himself surviving.Originally Posted by niko_cee
We really have cranked up a couple of the all time final fuck-ups in the Champions Trophy. I'm sure I've said it before, but that damp afternoon against the Windies in South London is one of my bleakest cricket watching memories. The only saving grace was that all the gobby Indian cunts around me had fucked off thinking we were going to win before Rudi and co got to work.
Ian Bradshaw
I can't even remember if his name was Ian but it was definitely Bradshaw.
I see Ronald has found his way into the Big Bash final.
Mitchell Johnson taking 3-3 was pretty spectacular. 21 dot balls.
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