Duckett has 100 in the session. This could be done by tonight if they want it.
Duckett has 100 in the session. This could be done by tonight if they want it.
Duckett has left the ball just 8 times since his recall hahaha
Jessop survives yet again. That and Bannerman are the two maddest records in all of sport.
20 years it took India to win a test, they were going on about it yesterday in terms of where Ireland are 6 years in. 26 for NZ I think was the record, although I guess there was less shite to play back then.
Hadn't realised this was a 4 day test.
Bangladesh were as pony as this for a long time, and had much greater resources and playing opportunities than Ireland.
But 1 (and only) WTC now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Originally Posted by niko_cee
People don't understand how well New Zealand do to win anything in cricket. It's the distant second (at best) sport in a tiny country. Jeremy Coney's tales of his tours in the 80s are mad.
The most underachieving country is India by a mile, then Bangladesh, then probably England.
Kind of mad how disparate tiny nations banded together under one flag dominated the game for 20 years as well.
How many world class cricketers has say Antigua produced compared to Bangladesh?
That's what really made the 2019 final so hard to take. It really did feel like our one chance, with our golden generation. I'm not sure I'll live to see us come that close again.
Second disciplinary of the season today, one captain screamed 'You cunt!' in the other captain's face, while comfortably winning a third tier match. What a sport, what people.
I'm playing today at 1pm, hopefully I'll be able to experience a win. 4 losses from 4 so far.
Last week was particularly irritating though. I opened the bowling and started well, first 5 overs going for 15. We had them 90-odd for 3 in the 26th over (40 over game) and it was pretty evenly balanced. Out strolls a lad who batters us all over the park, reaching his 100 off the last ball of the innings. He'd made 95 not out for their firsts the week before and here he is, 7 divisions lower, turning out for their fourths. Took my last 3 overs for 40 too.
Ended up losing by about 80 runs, not terrible all things considered, but I think it would have been a really tight contest if he wasn't involved.
Delighted to see big Zak saw us over the line with a gutsy innings yesterday.
He just believed in his ability to get the job done.
Leach missing the ashes provides an interesting situation. Are they going to back Root to hold up and end? Probably end up picking Livingstone.
BBC story mentions Moeen.
Rehan was the second spinner in Pakistan and they surely wouldn’t dare throw him in to a home summer?
Suspect they’ll pick four seamers for the first two. Then send for Mo
Also, without wanting to veer into overly tempestuous waters, the idea of calling it "the men's ashes" can fully do one.
Liam Dawson till I die. You can't go in without a spinner. We'd bowl about 45 overs a day.
Somerset six out of six in the T20.
lol
Blimey, what different times those were. The first and last time he used his brain presumably.
I'd love to know what prompted Igor to go back and read our takes on what I'm guessing was the Pakistan series during covid. Even if my take in this instance was white-hot.
Or just head straight back to page 1 for this all-timer.
Absolutely nailed it on Anderson didn't I. That said, the whingeing about the ball being out of shape is now such a part of England cricket that it's spread to the club game. Met every single time with 'It's round and it's red, fuck off'.
I can't see, hear or think about Bell without thinking about that second post.
Instantly thought of that Viv response “Greg, you know what it looks like. Now go and find it."
I can't imagine the chutzpah/delusion required for a random county bowler to have a pop at Viv Richards.
I was trying to remember the name of the rando county player I saw get onto my Waterloo-Kingston at New Malden by searching this thread (reader, it was Laurie Evans, as suggested by @igor_balis and confirmed by @JimmyFloyd), and ended up accidentally getting sucked into reading the thread. I've gone from about 2019 to 2021 so far. Look, I'm unemployed for the first time since 2015, what else would I be doing?
My mate's missus was half-jokingly suggesting I was on the ASD spectrum on Saturday night, and when I was like "what the fuck, I have amazing social skills", she said something along the lines of "yes, your social skills are fine, I was thinking more of the weird anoraky things you do", and yeah fair enough.
Mo.
Probably the biggest vibes-based selection ever. He averages 65 with the ball against Australia, hasn't bowled with a red ball for two years and has been in poor form of late. But this is how Bazball rolls and who am I to question it.
Maybe less so with this one just up the page?
Sam Curran though, my fucking lord, we're talking a once in 25 years player here boys. Strap in. He will end the Test career of Ben Stokes within 3 years.There's no might, this is the actual messiah. Totally different league to say Flintoff.
I was being sarcastic with Anderson, I gave him one more series or something, nine years ago.
Curran did win us a World Cup tbf. Although so did Stokes. Twice.
Not sure I’ve seen the Oval as green as this beyond April.
Is the world test championship always going to be played in England or will India demand it be moved if they lose again?
Guess, given the time of year, we're the only horse in town really.
I also notice this is day 1 of 6 - is that a reserve day?
Yeah, only to be used if they lose time due to weather.
Yep. Had to use it last time IIRC in the India v New Zealand game.
England is the best place for any world cricket tournament or final, with Australia second. We have all the diasporas and varied decks and weathers. World Cup in India in three months and they haven't even confirmed the schedule yet ffs. Big money, big interest in cricket, embarrassingly bad at hosting things.
Why the fuck have they left Trashwin out? Absolutely mental, especially at the Oval.
Picked a team for the first session. Clowns.
Another one in favour of slitting the throats of all 'analysts' in pro sport.
Doesn't really sound like it's going too well for Indian Cricket Team.
Willing to predict Australia will absolutely crush them in the rest of this. Aus bowlers in a totally different class to India's who, without Bumrah and Ashwin, are a bunch of fat clubbie fucks.
Thakur is the type of guy who’d clean up in County Div 2 but he’s complete fodder at this level. Chris Rushworth.
Meant to post in here, I heard a quality rumour on the cricketing grapevine that Bairstow's 'slipped on the golf course' broken leg story was a cover, and in fact he broke it being two-footed by Ben Stokes in a football game. Sounded like hogwash to me but it was a good source.
I could believe that. I was trying to fathom, unsuccessfully, how you could break your leg that bad from a slip on the tee box.
Managed to experience my first win on Sunday, and contributed a fair bit to seal the deal too.
We'd collapsed to 81/8 before me and our keeper put on an unbeaten 69 in the final 11 overs (against some helpful bowling). Ended up 21 not out and we had 150 on the board to defend. They weren't amazing with the bat but their top order were chipping away at the target. We had a young leggie who bowled through and picked up 4 wickets and I bowled in tandem to end up with 6-2-11-2, and we won by 25 runs.
This weekend I'm being bumped up to the seconds; the firsts are missing 9 players so we're all shuffling about to fulfil our fixtures.
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Those long late partnerships are amazing to be part of. You come in and the opposition are up, then their joy just flattens slightly, then there's the first call of 'Come on lads, focus', and you know you've flipped it. Then it turns into frustration, anger and finally resignation. Glorious.
1s missing 9 players sounds like a wedding, cricketers who get married in the summer should be socially shunned.
Although you have a point. We were walking the league a couple of years ago, then I got married mid-July and it absolutely torpedoed us. Finished third (two go up).
Our 1s are going really well at the moment (in promotion places to Prem which is uncharted territory) but the captain's missus is due in 2 weeks and the vice captain is getting married 2 weeks after that. How to end a good season.
awesome, what part of the world are you playing in?Managed to experience my first win on Sunday, and contributed a fair bit to seal the deal too.
We'd collapsed to 81/8 before me and our keeper put on an unbeaten 69 in the final 11 overs (against some helpful bowling). Ended up 21 not out and we had 150 on the board to defend. They weren't amazing with the bat but their top order were chipping away at the target. We had a young leggie who bowled through and picked up 4 wickets and I bowled in tandem to end up with
6-2-11-2, and we won by 25 runs.
This weekend I'm being bumped up to the seconds; the firsts are missing 9 players so we're all shuffling about to fulfil our fixtures.
I'm in SW Wales so we're part of the South Wales Cricket Association. Our thirds are newly-formed so have come in at the bottom level. The firsts and seconds are part of the South Wales Premier Cricket League, so it'll be a bit of a step up this weekend I'm sure.
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