I'd be interested to know when it's acceptable to drop a player by their rationale.
I'd be interested to know when it's acceptable to drop a player by their rationale.
End of a World Cup cycle, which would probably count for more if anything in that cycle had any bearing on the World Cup, but it doesn't.
Not like England to be approaching a World Cup with a selection saga in the offing.
The problem with their logic is that by the time a side has 'been together' for three years, it's three years hence. Still, we'll see how he goes in the warmups.
Plunkett in the midst of bowling himself out of the squad.
Hales sniffing his way out of it.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/...ional-drug-use
Peter Trego donning it for the Wyverns. Legend.
This James Faulkner gay / not gay thing is a bit odd. It's not like people anybody ever uses 'boyfriend' to just mean a male friend. Precisely so that this 'misunderstanding' doesn't happen.
Was very weird. From the initial post you could only conclude one thing. Also, who has birthday dinner with their best mate and their mum?
I can see how he could have been being jokey/ironic in the original post.
Difficult to know how to react if that was the case. Tricky. Having all your team mates coming out and saying good on you doubles down on the difficulty.
Of course, in this day and age I can't believe people exist who don't understand that irony and nuance are entirely impossible in the social media age, unless signposted by about 40 million emoticons.
I can also see (natch) that he could have genuinely done it and then shat the bed. I'm sure it was just a misworded joke though.
Afridi older than he says he is?
http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/...-autobiography
I think that was fairly clear-cut from the day he burst onto the scene. I'm fairly sceptical of a lot of the teens/youngsters in the sub-continent.
If you watch back the video from when he was supposedly scoring the fastest hundred in Nairobi aged 16, the TV broadcast caption says he is 21. Far be it from me to use Kenyan TV as a bastion of truth but I think their source might have been correct.
I've been told by those in the know that Rashid Khan's real age now is around 27 (fuck knows what he claims to be).
Nepal have a few tasty ones as well.
As with Yakubu and Kanu and others, I’m always more impressed by their late career records than annoyed by their early career exploits being under false pretences. Old Kanu banging em in the top flight at 44 or whatever. Afridi still starring in franchise t20 at 45. Good on the old men.
https://youtu.be/pc9_gwNZVXs?t=257
4:17 for those interested
Rashid Khan is a joke of one though, shaving a few years off I get it but he is nowhere near the ages he proclaims to be.
The delivery for Archer's wicket there was going at 90.3mph. Is that EXPRESS pace?
88-90 is where it starts getting hard to face (and the difficulty increases far more quickly than you'd think). If he averages 90 he is rapid.
Aggers says "He's been bowling 90mph with ease on a very cold day" which suggests he's been doing it with some regularity, at least.
Is it a tradition for England to bin the first match of the season in comedy style against a 'home' nation now?
Ben Foakes playing a Dhoni innings here. No danger.
Huge fan of getting absolutely routed by a 19 year old straight out of club cricket. This tournament has come about a year too late for us.
What's the incentive for cricketers to pretend to be younger than they are?
Jofrarcher strikes again.
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I know we just about won yesterday, but Fakhar Zaman is a proper legend. Go hard or go home.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/bl...journalist-bbc
I don't really know what to make of this but Ronay's being a bit dim if he doesn't see where Agnew might have inferred that Liew was accusing him of racism.
Afraid to say I'm Team Liew on this one.
As in you think Aggers was being a bit racist or that his response was a bit mental? Because I'd agree with the latter. I've not heard /read any of Aggers' comments beyond what's in that article so I dunno on that front.
His response was mental. Aggers isn't racist but Liew wasn't calling him racist as such, he was pointing out that people treat black usurpers differently to white ones.
That said, the pair have a lot of history. Aggers is monumentally thin skinned and Liew can't resist going back for another dig.
Petty squabbles aside the team could actually really do with Archer. Bowling is still not World Champion level. Although I would probably back them to chase anything against anyone.
The only way I can see it ending in tears is if we end up getting stuck in against New Zealand on some dank grey morning and Southee and Boult roll us for about 50, so I would imagine the ICC have been developing cloud generating technology for at least a couple of years.
That was all bit like that time we got what seemed a miraculous score against Sri Lanka only to have them boff it off in about 35 overs.
So this morning they're doing the branding launch for The Hundred, and someone has already pointed out that the stock image of cheering young men they used as the background is the first google image result for 'Male audience'.
God bless the ECB and all who sail in her.
It is also quite funny that their whole reasoning behind this nonsense tournament is to appeal to families and people who “don’t usually go to cricket”. At least find a stock image of a mixed audience maybe?
The website doesn't use the word 'cricket' once. It's like a sort of horrendous marketing hellscape.
Is Morgan being banned strategic so it doesn't happen in the World Cup? Or does it make further banning more likely?
It reminds me of Vince McMahon's desperation for the WWE to not be wrestling.
"Pitch Entertainment"
It was removed and replaced.....by football fans.
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