Morgan is apparently a half breed so it's not as bad now. If he was really Irish it would be unacceptable.
Morgan is apparently a half breed so it's not as bad now. If he was really Irish it would be unacceptable.
English mother. Cricket is more lax than football with the nationality rules, so the best 2/3 Irish players in the last decade or so have all given England a crack while they were good enough and then headed back. Morgan hasn't gone back yet, and not sure he will, he's a ruthless bastard if ever there was one.
Had no idea we were playing Ireland in a test next week.
I'm still trying to work out who Joe Denly is, or why we have Roy opening.
Ireland are available at some tasty odds. We're resting several, Anderson fitness unknown and Tim Murtagh bundling in on his home ground. Danger danger.
Previous chat about Denly when I was also oblivious to who he is, just to fill you with confidence:
As for Roy, why the fuck not? Giving him a bash as our Sehwag can't be worse than an inevitable recall for Keaton sodding Jennings.
Since then he played two Tests, made 112 runs in four innings, and has been in reasonable county form. He'll bat at three I would have thought though I would have Dom Sibley instead.
Are we staring down the barrel of more Jennings? If Roy gets a go will it be at the expense of him or Burns?
The squad's announced, Jennings is no more.
My guess would be:
Roy
Burns
Denly
Root
Bairstow
Moeen
Curran
Woakes
Broad/Gregory/Stone
Leach
Anderson
Oooh, I didn't realise Jennings was out. Huzzah.
Still dunno how I feel about that line-up, mind. Glad to see Curran bossing it in that game against Australia A though.
Stokes and Buttler and indeed Archer are rested, so the cavalry will be back for the Ashes.
Archer the first person to be rested for a Test match before his Test debut?
I don’t even know what to think about the Ashes. Seems like years since the last Test match.
As long as Davey Warner has a breakdown from all the booing, I'm not sure anyone's too worried now.
I always feel like he's the sort of guy who'd revel in that but didn't he have a tantrum when somebody lolled him off in some domestic match earlier in the year?
He was a MASSIVE cunt when he played grade cricket. Didnt shake hands in one game for example.
https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricke...2706b4d862ece1
There are more examples I just cant find them atm.
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Do you think the relentless booing will wind him up a way that benefits England or not?
I've been enjoying saying at the start of every call with my Indian colleagues that England won the world cup.
Tom Banton is just unreal.
https://twitter.com/SomersetCCC/stat...38665070964736
Between him, Rawlins and Pat Brown we have some serious white ball gods on the way up. Find a couple of good spinners and we could win again next time.
226-4 in 15 overs?
Tom Curran and Tahir 5 overs for 102 between them is a splendid effort.
Remember when @phonics kept that bot around because he thought it was cool? This is his fault.
The Euro Slam is a funny thing to base a bot around, although 93 year old Shahid Afridi playing for Belfast should generate good traffic.
The BBC pick your test team has Alistair Cook as an option to open - is that pie in the sky or an actual thing? Going off that thing we are very light in terms of decent/reliable or experienced batting.
Might as well have WG Grace in the options. I don't think Cook has got that many this season.
Dom Sibley is a legit option but falls foul of the 'only one grinder in the XI' rule. We also seem to have made up a bullshit rule that you can't make your debut in the Ashes.
Who's currently in the middle of the good family / lovely technique Venn diagram?
You can't go calling up some cunt on the basis of his cricket, heaven forbid.
It is pretty lol in hindsight how James Vince nearly single handedly torpedoed our World Cup chances. Poor guy.
Tom Banton looks to be the coming force at the moment in English top order batting, will probably be in the white ball teams first.
I've seen a lot of laughable things in cricket, but these shots of the Australian team being forced by team management to take their socks and shoes off after play and lie down on the outfield to 'get closer to the earth' is the very most laughable thing of all.
Sounds like the sort of thing Eileen Drewery would have had England doing had Hoddle had his way.
Is Olly Stone in with a shout of actually challenging for a test place in the near future or is he just there because of injuries and such?
He's a decent quick bowler who could step in for Mark Wood. He is even more injury prone than Wood though which is saying something.
This team is a bit of a mess really, we have decided to just not pick any batting.
I completely forgot about Joe Denly. The top 3 is really vulnerable really ahead of such a big series. The entire middle order seems to be just ‘Joe Root’ as well.
Roy falls to Murtagh having already had two lives.
Sounds like an eventful innings for Roy there.
Timmy Murtagh and Mark Adair doing absolute bits, I might pile on the Irish here. This is a classic England fall on face scenario.
Hah.
Denly with a flighty 23, the ideal knock really from England's number three.
I’ve missed this.
Jesus Christ. Don’t even want to see how horrific my man Moeen’s dismissal is going to be here.
Bairstow has him covered. Oh my god.
This is so England
Murtagh for the Ashes squad?
Well this is going brilliantly.
Oh, the live text had frozen on me. 42-6.
Jesus wept.
Murtagh now has 804 first class wickets at 25, far too good for these goons.
EDIT: Make that 805
Full disclosure, I put £50 on Ireland at 16/1 when the score was 12/1. I feel kind of darkly responsible.
Hahahaha.
Oh dear, oh dear.
This is actually kinda perfect. Good to get any post-World Cup optimism out of the way before the Ashes even start.
Can’t wait for England to get in the field and bowl too short. Truly will feel like home then.
My boy is going to get us to 260 before then.
Extras chipping in with 8 could prove vital.