Spin bowler. Captain Rasheed.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Spin bowler. Captain Rasheed.
Sounds like it's going to be Root, and Stokes as vice captain. Strauss obviously has a sense of humour.
Oh, wait. Call it off.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/...y/1081836.html
Broad leading England to a win Down Under would be too perfect for words.
ROOTAH has the job. Him and Smith will be the least alpha Ashes skippers in history. Well, with apologies to Kim Hughes.
What happens to Irish now? Does he keep that job?
And why are we playing a 3 match ODI series against the West Indies in a few weeks?
Eoin (proounced 'ee oin') Morgan keeps the jobs.
Nobody knows the answer to that.
Just saw part of an interview with Root. He sounds depressed already.
New dad isnt he? Probably hasnt slept since they came back
Got tickets to the 20/20 NZ v SA this evening. I imagine the outfield needs to dry up though, it's been raining for 2 days straight. So much for summer.
Australia's current idea of staging T20Is at home and Tests abroad, simultaneously, will hopefully earn CA officials some gruesome Final Destination style deaths in the next few days.
One of the worst lbw decisions I've ever seen there. Australians barely appealed
"Everyone knows Australian umpires are cheats Charles..."
It's absolutely insane. There's no excuse for it.
I'm surprised India haven't tried it yet. When was the last time they played an away test?
NZ, England, Bangladesh and Australia consecutively at home since October.
At this point they're little more than a whole nation of Bond villains. They're trying to block the new ICC funding formula for reasons that amount to INDIA INDIA IS THE BEST INDIA, and they've also settled on a policy where their players are not allowed to play in foreign leagues because it 'damages Indian cricket' (???). I say a whole nation because their army of loyal BCCI keyboard warriors must number into the millions.
Virat Kohli is going to end his career averaging 65, with twenty double centuries, and having not once dealt with a customs officer after 2015.
Not that I'm defending it for even a second, for the record, but I quite like the T20 lineup that we put out. Maybe we should just run with it, at least until Zampa replaces Lyon in the test side.
Great to see Michael Klinger getting a well-deserved international cap at some point in his career, too.
Talking of India, Bet365 have them at 10/3 for the whitewash. Free money
Could be rain in Dharamsala.
Australia 2nd XI have been absolutely mugged there. Gunaratne
Sensational ending to a match I didn't even realise was happening until halfway through the Sri Lankan innings. I can't tell if CA have dropped the ball on publicity, or whether I'm just out of the loop a little bit. I didn't even know the first T20 had happened until I saw the scorecard after the fact.
Also, Australia needs to put an end to the "Mitchell Marsh: Test Cricketer" project. It's getting embarassing.
The most inexplicable event in world sport, the IPL auction, is upon us.
Good to see at least some logic has entered Indian cricket though, with Chris Woakes getting a $500,000 deal.
And I'm not sure if it's more of a stain on humanity that Imran Tahir is ranked number 1 bowler in both limited overs formats, or that, given this fact, he has gone unsold.
It's just struck me that Steve Smith and Shaun Marsh should really be called Shaun Smith and Steve Marsh. It suits them both better.
Renshaw is class, and nearly did a poo on the pitch.
I like Renshaw a lot. I'm glad he justified his place in the team.
Mitch. Marsh.
Picking him and Wade for this is the height of selection idiocy, although it's rivalled by the legions of people on Australian Cricket Twitter calling for Adam Zampa's inclusion. Kohli would twat him for 40 an over.
I went to look up who the top spinner in the Shield is this year and it's Jon Holland, followed by journeyman Kiwi William Somerville, followed by Ashton Agar. Christ.
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I'm sorry but what the bloody hell is getting him selected? Those numbers are those of a workaday state player, at best. 20 Tests!
Absolutely no idea.
Also, this pitch is a joke; it's turning like day five. Home pitch doctoring is killing cricket.
Umesh Yadav 4/32... if it's that bad then 256 is a decent score.
Is this where the Australians deploy the 'Aww, look, but it's different this time' argument used against Stuart Broad in 2013?
I feel like I've covered the Stuart Broad thing already about six times in this thread. He did the right thing and I'd hope our players did the same.
The only thing we do to our pitches is drop in flat tracks to try and ensure that whatever happens, it happens for five days.
Umesh wiped up the tail. It was Ashwin and Jadeja who did the real damage.
Yeah but I'm conditioned for Australian idiocy after Allan Border started my day saying Renshaw was 'soft' for pooing off the pitch rather than on it.
Captain Grumpy can say anything he damn well wants. He said worse to Dean Jones in the tied test to his face, and that went alright, despite Jones vomiting just off the pitch several times.
Allan Border was more a stick than carrot leader. Unless it involved hitting you over the head with the carrot.
Ah, the old "India prepares a raging turner; gets knocked over by mediocre opposition spin attack". Never not funny.
Still a lot of match to go, of course. But 93/3 turning into 105/10 was pretty impressive.
You'd think they'd have learned by now. Apparently not. If you have extreme conditions then it just nullifies the advantage of the excellent bowler (seam or spin) who can succeed in any conditions, and brings the muppets into the game.
It's why England don't, contrary to Indian internet opinion, ever prepare GREENTOPS at home, because if we did we'd end up being rolled out for 105 by Suranga Lakmal.
Three down. One more and we're into the tail.
EDIT: I agree that, generally speaking, England don't doctor pitches. Your pitches naturally play well for swing bowling, so you don't need to artificially ramp it up at all. That time we went to Cardiff and somehow found ourselves in Mumbai was definitely a one-off example, though.
These days we doctor pitches to last for 5 days and be as boring as possible. Lord's is a bloody disgrace.
Didn't Australia score 600+ in that game? I seem to remember Brad Haddin getting top edges over third man for about two days, although that could have been most England v Australia matches of that era.
Matthew Wade was picked ahead of Nevill, despite his inferior keeping, due to his ability to score runs. Now he can't buy a run, whereas in state cricket, Nevill can't stop scoring.
Reckon the selectors will have the guts to fly Nevill over mid-series?
3 or 4 test series? I reckon Wade gets atleast 1 more before they make the change. 3 test series they probably see it through.
It's Australia. No way is it more than 3, so getting mugged by Steve O'Keefe on a raging bunsen is quite a funny start to the series for Indian Cricket Team.
It's four tests. We always get four against India, and I think they were really hoping to rub it in this time around.
One more needed for O'ten in the match.
Here's a weird stat. Ashwin's highest scores, and the opponent he was playing:
124 West Indies
118 West Indies
113 West Indies
103 West Indies
91* England
72 England
70 England
68 England
67 England
After that it gets a less patterned, with his 62 in Sydney then 58 against Sri Lanka and England.
O'Keefe has a chance of taking more test wickets in this match than he has in the rest of his career.
The new Jason Krejza.
Probably harsh, his FC record is good tbf
I was skeptical about O'Keefe until I saw his first-class record and figured he was quite reasonably the next cab off the rank. Zampa's the long-term successor to Lyon though, I think. Took six today in state cricket.
Cricinfo comments are always entertaining on a day like this.
He was bowled.BLACK_BIRD ON FEBRUARY 25, 2017, 8:18 GMT
Another umpiring error. Kohli was not out.
EDIT: And that's the game. Can't say I saw anything like that coming at the start, I'll admit.
O'Keefe should have been playing for years, he's much better than Lyon, I'm sure I was saying this as far back as the 10/11 Ashes when you were going through Xavier Doherty and Michael Beer. Presumably Michael Clarke and he had woman trouble or something.
The funniest thing is Shane Warne panning him pre-match so that suggests some sort of problem with O'Keefe's face not fitting in with the good ol' boys.
O'Keefe got binned off a tour for boozing didn't he? When was that?
Just had a classic 'Where does this rank?' 'Right up there' answer from Steven Smith. 'Right up there' is literally the only possible answer to such a question from a sportsman. I reckon I've heard it over a thousand times now.
In all honesty, I'm mostly happy we aren't going to get whitewashed.
Obviously, I want us to push on and win the series, or even just grab another win so we can draw it. But given the utterly embarrassing way in which we bit the dust last time, taking 4-0 off the table is an encouraging result.
For anyone interested in grabbing the highlights, Hanscombe's two catches in the first innings were amazing pieces of reaction fielding.
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