Wait, we won? Blimey.
Wait, we won? Blimey.
He did? Wouldn’t shock me though.
We (loose we since I left 16 years ago) really don’t appear have have progressed with the rest of the world. I say that as someone living in Florida
Stokes is binning off ODIs. Unsurprising, really.
Remember the fall out when KP did the same. Fun times.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...match-report-4
Declared with Northeast on 410*.
Lara's 501 being nearly 30 years ago makes me feel old.
I am genuinely amazed the number of people saying they shouldn't have declared on him (and gone on to win in the next two sessions) because 'history' is more important than a mere match result. It's a team sport, you morons.
At the time I thought the declaration a little optimistic considering only 15 wickets had fallen in 10 sessions, but the fact they pulled it off with 5 overs to spare was pretty impressive and perfectly timed. Northeast will always be wondering in the back of his mind though, I'm sure.
This has been absolutely woeful from the Saffers.
Moeen's cover drive though
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Brett Lee looking like a young van Gaal in that thumbnail
Athers is doing an AMA on Reddit tomorrow from 2 pm for anyone interested.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Cricket/com...ormer_england/
Saffers have bowled well here in admittedly good conditions. Root's wicket is infuriating, didn't look out but the decision stood because of that millimetre flicking the stumps on DRS.
I am personally a big fan of umpires' call. There seems to be a big demand to get rid of it because people/Indians are too thick to understand margin of error.
Don't get me wrong, it's out and umpires' call is absolutely fine the way it is. I hate the discourse about getting rid of it and making black and white - Holding used to be terrible for moaning about it.
Just didn't look out on the field so a little frustrating to lose Root that way.
What is Stuart Broad doing at 8. Hardly a nighthawk. The Lunch Kestrel?
The Strauss kids both have absolutely disgraceful hair.
Without seeing it, going to guess they have this mullet thing which is sweeping southern private schools this summer?
Just saw some little rat child with what looked like a buzz cut on 70% of his head and then long hair for the back portion. Dear god.
A few weeks back I did a Surrey under 15s game or something and I think every single white kid in the game had this same mullet cut. Properly concerning stuff.
Crocs are in as well. Cool as fuck 16 year old boys wearing crocs everywhere. I'd never have believed it.
Different culture down there. Up here it's still Le Coq Sportif poppers and throwing bricks off the motorway overpass.
That Jansen bloke looks ice cold.
Good to see some variety in the Crawley dismissal for fuck all, on the sweep to Maharaj is a nice change-up.
Averages 26.06 in 26 Tests. How many more? Sounds like unlimited, based on Collingwood saying yesterday 'we don't expect consistency from him'.
Mark Butcher not a fan of Crawley then
Who's worse: Crawley or Roy?
Baz Ball in the mud
BazBall going very much the way of BazBot here.
I mean with Bairsy not averaging 120 this will be the norm against nations who aren't matching us collapse for collapse you'd think.
We collapsed in boring fashion previously so only the entertainment factor has changed.
Was this more entertaining? Sounds like a lot of the same old shit to me. Only with people saying BAZBALL while it was happening.
I supposed Crawley's sweep was a bit different as Jimmy said and Bairstow at least do didn't go out furiously reviewing a couple of plumb LBWs but if that's all it takes that's a low bar.
South Africa bowling first and bowling well had a lot to do with it.
They fucking 4D chessed us by putting us in and then being good at cricket. Pricks.
Jokes aside Rabada is obviously great and I liked what I saw of Ngidi too.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/bl...rds-first-test
I'd missed that per the released 2023-2027 schedule South Africa are openly playing as little test cricket as they can get away with and only doing one series of more than two matches. Sigh.
Basically all my favourite sports (and probably some sports I don't like) are going the same way at the moment, which is towards revenue maximisation at the expense of basically the integrity of the game. Sure T20 leagues pay well, but none of it means anything to anyone. Where do you go from there? And how did these sports pay for themselves in the last 100 years which they can't do now?
You need people with actual vision in charge of boards, rather than people scrabbling around for pennies on the floor. That's what the Hundred is - the Blast/county competitions mean things to people and make sense, but the ECB don't own the IP for that and are desperate for cash, so they think their only option is to blow it all up and have the Hundred, at the cost of, well, having a meaningful sport.
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Zak Crawley keeps his place.
I did enjoy Baz saying he doesn't have the skills to score consistently but is there to win England matches. The first half of that is an admission he's not fit for test cricket and the second half is an outright lie. Even his 267 we didn't win the match did we? Which suggest failings elsewhere but shows that you can't assume his one good score ever 20 innings is going to achieve anything.
If I was a county cricket I'd be wondering who I need to suck off to get ahead of Crawley in the eyes of the selectors.
Crawley also has the benefit of seemingly nobody being ready to step in. Maybe Sangakkara had a point when he said Buttler should open, just not in the way we thought he meant it.
He averages 29.36 in 150 first class innings. That is not a small sample size, and despite what certain ex-players like to tell themselves, no one - not a single player - is better in Tests against Rabada than against 70mph meedos at Derby.
I think I saw a stat that his 'scores' havent even won us games anyway. Kent also renewed his contract for ONE season. Despite him being on a central one and presumably free to them. They might be thinking like the rest of us.
If he leaves Kent (presumably for Surrey like everyone else) then Keysy will have him out on his arse so he best be careful there.
We've (re-) signed the Vicar so we're just fine for openers, ta.
Maybe he doesn't need a county, and England can just train him up at the Loughborough indoor school in between Tests.
Elgar choosing to bat first and picking two spinners. I feel this is like a hubris-off.
Maharaj at 7 is wild.
Broad not opening the bowling. Surely it's been a long time since that happened?