The Cricket Thread

[midoshairband]

50 overs bowled in two sessions is a complete and utter joke.

 

[Trix]

Still not worried? lol

No, I think 270-280 is around par on this pitch in these conditions. Obviously you can't really judge fully until the other lot get in but I think it's still game on.

 

[funkycoldmedina]

Playing cricket with the godson on a local beach a week or so back. He's throwing the ball to me, I'm trying to give him gentle catches.

'But Uncle, I thought you were meant to be good at Cricket...'

The next ball was a full toss on the drive; right in the slot...and it whistled back past the gobby shite's ear, much to the surprise of the rest of my family.

They have to learn...

 

[tommo84]

My immediate reaction to that was that Woakes had got an edge (I thought I heard 2 clearly sounds)but the reaction of everyone else made me doubt myself!

Anything above 280 on this wicket is an ok score. 60-90 minutes bowling at them this evening could be crucial.

 

[Dunc2610]

The two Harry Potter wickets have both been bowled but neither really turned, none have really turned all that much, odd!!

 

[PCozzie]

Hmm, still feel as I always tend to that we've left runs out there. But I don't think we're that far behind par, maybe 20 runs or so.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

Harry Potter can’t catch for shit off his own bowling!

Aussies have to be on top knocking us over for 283, especially with old man Anderson taking the new ball!!!!!!!

 

[midoshairband]

Jimmy needs 11 for 700 wickets.

Probably be there by Saturday.

come on Jimmy, swing it for us one last time!

 

[tommo84]

Couldn’t ask for much better bowling conditions. We need to be much more clinical in the field than we have been though (and more clinical than the Aussies were today).

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

Jimmy needs 11 for 700 wickets.

Probably be there by Saturday.

come on Jimmy, swing it for us one last time!

He isn’t retiring yet. Said as much in his telegraph article a few days ago.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Review number 1,498 wasted on a Broad appeal

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

Poor from England’s bowlers so far. These are decent bowling conditions and they’re doing nothing. If they don’t get a few out tonight, tomorrow is going to be a very, very long day.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

Aussies day by a country mile and that was with 5 drops and a missed runout but luckily due to their negativity they batted so slow that we’re still well in this atm

How people can still justify picking Anderson again, even after another lame performance today is very odd

Maybe that groin strain he got in mid May really messed him up but he’s not been at it all series with the ball and in the field

 

[PCozzie]

Aussies day by a country mile and that was with 5 drops and a missed runout but luckily due to their negativity they batted so slow that we’re still well in this atm

How people can still justify picking Anderson again, even after another lame performance today is very odd

Maybe that groin strain he got in mid May really messed him up but he’s not been at it all series with the ball and in the field

I felt (without any insight into his thinking at all) that the natural thing would be for him to announce his retirement from international cricket at the end of the Old Trafford test. He'd have earnt a recall to the side for one last hurrah, and bowed out as a great, if not *the* great, of English cricket, in front of his home crowd and the stand that bears his name.

He's obviously hugely competitive, and naturally wants to be a part of the project and help his country in any way he can, but I'm worried now that he's going to finish up not with the standing ovations and guards of honour that he deserves, but quietly dropped from the side over the winter never to make an appearance again.

That would be a tragedy and entirely undeserved.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

I felt (without any insight into his thinking at all) that the natural thing would be for him to announce his retirement from international cricket at the end of the Old Trafford test. He'd have earnt a recall to the side for one last hurrah, and bowed out as a great, if not *the* great, of English cricket, in front of his home crowd and the stand that bears his name.

He's obviously hugely competitive, and naturally wants to be a part of the project and help his country in any way he can, but I'm worried now that he's going to finish up not with the standing ovations and guards of honour that he deserves, but quietly dropped from the side over the winter never to make an appearance again.

That would be a tragedy and entirely undeserved.

He’s made it clear he’s not retiring any time soon and the management seem to still want him around

As he’s still not going for many they may well take him to India, which I can’t believe!

 

[PCozzie]

He’s made it clear he’s not retiring any time soon and the management seem to still want him around

As he’s still not going for many they may well take him to India, which I can’t believe!

Surely they're not going to flog him out there? If he's going to carry on it'll be home tests only I'd have thought.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

Surely they're not going to flog him out there? If he's going to carry on it'll be home tests only I'd have thought.

He is 41. Not sure he’s got time on his side to just hang around until next summer

 

[PCozzie]

He is 41. Not sure he’s got time on his side to just hang around until next summer

Yeh, but isn't that the point? I thought it was established that he wasn't going to do sub-continental winter tours, especially at getting on for 42 years old (that's a fact).

There was a really short window in this series for the big send-off, but if that was never the intention then don't we go back to the previous strategy of home tests only (unless maybe NZ)? If he's struggling for wickets (albeit not expensively) in England in humid, damp, overcast conditions then I can't see the point of him bowling at 78mph on a baked strip in 40C heat in India.

 

[Twizzle]

General consensus is that we're on top which I take with a grain of salt. It's pretty even for mine and even if we are on top, no point in winning day one and losing the next 3 days.

We dropped way too many catches in the first session and we could have had you guys out for around 200, same could be said for the poms in test 1 and 2 if you had a decent keeper and hung onto a few catches. Could have, would have means fuck all when you look at the score card.

I don't get why we under bowled Harry Potter as he looked good and his stats were good, Captain Pat is not really popular here even though we retained the ashes. Most Aussies want him gone. At least we have learned to pitch the ball up a bit.

Hope the weather holds out on this one.

Good luck fuckers, just not too much.

 

[UncleBuck]

General consensus is that we're on top which I take with a grain of salt. It's pretty even for mine and even if we are on top, no point in winning day one and losing the next 3 days.

We dropped way too many catches in the first session and we could have had you guys out for around 200, same could be said for the poms in test 1 and 2 if you had a decent keeper and hung onto a few catches. Could have, would have means fuck all when you look at the score card.

I don't get why we under bowled Harry Potter as he looked good and his stats were good, Captain Pat is not really popular here even though we retained the ashes. Most Aussies want him gone. At least we have learned to pitch the ball up a bit.

Hope the weather holds out on this one.

Good luck fuckers, just not too much.

I remember reading on here recently that someone said everyone loved Cummins over there, so much so all the blokes wanted to be him!
Is that now not the case, are your media as bad as ours?!?