68. What a shambles.
The bowlers need to improve.
68. What a shambles.
The bowlers need to improve.
You blokes need an aggro dickhead as coach may suggest Boof?
Pfft. 6-7? The guy's 32. Washed up!
54 ducks this year. Jesus Christ.
Can we borrow Kane Williamson for a test drive?
There is a special ability within this England squad that even when your expectations are low they can lower them. I thought surely from the position we were in we could at least make them bat again. But no, not even close.
Silverwood’s interview is beyond parody.
I think one of my favourite cricket stats ever is that Jonny Bairstow, in the last 2.5 years, averages five on balls that would have (or did) hit his stumps. FIVE. And he's in our national cricket team as a batsman.
In all the pathetic losing I forgot he'd got another ball to the danglies.
Word on the street is that Langer will be gone by March with Punter to take over the Test team and another bloke to run the 20/20 team.
Bangladesh leading by 73 (and counting) in the first innings away to the World Test Champions is a bit of a turn up. If they follow that up with a win and South Africa win this game vs India, the mighty three lions will then be bottom of the World Test Championship
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...rth-ashes-test
Yeah, Zak, an average of 10 from 16 innings. Very misleading.
Caged tigers. Great. Series is still gone.Assistant coach Graham Thorpe will lead England in Silverwood's absence and described Broad, England's second-highest Test wicket-taker, as a "caged tiger".
"I've been in contact with Spoons [Silverwood] throughout regarding team selection, as well as keeping him in the loop with what's been going on, but obviously myself and Joe Root are here on the ground," he said.
"We're looking at the surface and assessing our bowlers coming into it. From that point of view, it felt a bit of a risk going in with a couple of guys carrying niggles so it was right to bring Stuart back in.
"I've got a couple of caged tigers coming into this match, Ben Stokes being one of them. Stuart is another."
Caged more in the awaiting humane disposal sense, sadly.
Every time any bullshit like this from the 90s comes up I end up going back to watch that doc that Sky did about the '93 tour of India, just absolute carnage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhLGAY1mtXE
Then I think how much fun all that must have been compared to whatever mundane skill-executing they are doing behind the scenes now.
Bangers on the verge of a famous win.
I don't think we've played particularly poorly (maybe some questionable batting), but Bangladesh have been very good this match. Especially given the away conditions for them.
From what I saw, their batsmen were incredibly patient first innings, which is exactly what you have to be on those decks. Too many Test teams now will just launch the bat at one and give it away in such circumstances, which is what Mominul actually did in the end, but their ability to soak up balls was far greater than normal.
Haven't seen much of the bowling.
I was enjoying the ZA India highlights then switched to BT sport to see...er... the Australian players laughing at an impassioned speech by an aboriginal man? Hm.
Rain isn't any use to us now, Australia, ffs.
If you take all the balls bowled at Jonny Bairstow in the last 2.5 years that would have hit his stumps, and exclude the ones that wouldn't have, his batting average in Tests is 5.
Thanks.
He freaks me out
I can't tell if Moeen knows exactly what he's doing here, or if it's all in complete innocence. Either way...
3rd ball duck today for Rishabh Pant.
Any guesses as to how he was dismissed?
Caught spooning one in the air "setting the tone"? Ill go with mid on.
Sallying down the wicket like a horny Sir Galahad.
He didn't manage to get good enough contact Danny, but he definitely gave it his all.
Jimmy is correct, it's almost as if he doesn't how to bat a situation.
That’s glorious
I liked the bit I saw of whoever BT's cricket presenter is going "Well Broad often reacts to adversity so maybe leaving him out paid off??" or something to that effect.
I get that you're probably being told to pretend this match matters, I get that you're probably just reading off an autocue, but c'mon mate. We're 3-0 down.
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...-far-as-he-can
What?There was a prickliness to him that occasionally burst into the open. Like the time he marched into the press box in 2007 and confronted a journalist who had teased him in print for having the “temerity to remark that Tendulkar’s batting prowess had waned a little”. Giles didn’t like that at all. The journalist explained he was only being ironic. “What’s irony?” Giles shouted.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/t...y-giles-610165
I remember him having a hissy fit about 'Wheelie bin', didn't know it was Hopps that coined it, thought it was Blowers on the radio.
He came under heavy fire after the first Test of 2005 (which we lost, at Lord's), think he's had a chip on his shoulder ever since.
I might just start shouting WHAT IS IRONY? any time I'm a bit miffed.
South Africa 33 runs away from knocking over the billionaire boys at the Wanderers and we will be bottom of the WTC. Our lowest point in the format since 1999.
It was quite nice watching a team being able to bat. South Africa actually waiting and being composed instead of wafting.
But.... what about all those delicious deliveries well wide of off-stump?
Do they just let them go?
Disgusting. Not in the spirit of things at all.
I just found out that the English set up doesn't use a selection panel.
Surely that's mental?
Tough knock by Bairstow.
Mental.
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Waking up just in time to see Bairsy securing his place in the setup for the next decade.
How the hell did Stokes leave the ball, let it hit the wicket and the bails not fall? Amazing.