The Cricket Thread

[gloriousbillynich]

Got my ICC world cup email yesterday saying I was successful in the cricket family ballot...woop!

Tickets to see England vs Pakistan and England vs Bangladesh.

 

[Arnoldtoo]

Fucking hell Jos! Only 61 off 30 balls? What you playing at?

Great stuff.

 

[Buggsy61]

Find myself watching the women's tri series and quite enjoying it - a few years ago I would have scoffed and probably said "what next?...monkey tennis?!.
Some of the catching and fielding leaves a lot to be desired but they play the game with smiles on their faces, and Tammy Beaumont and Nat Sciver are quite entertaining in the batting department. Beat NZ to win the series yesterday, so will catch up with the C5 highlights later.

 

[Arnoldtoo]

Find myself watching the women's tri series and quite enjoying it - a few years ago I would have scoffed and probably said "what next?...monkey tennis?!.
Some of the catching and fielding leaves a lot to be desired but they play the game with smiles on their faces, and Tammy Beaumont and Nat Sciver are quite entertaining in the batting department. Beat NZ to win the series yesterday, so will catch up with the C5 highlights later.

See? The 21st century isn't anywhere near as bad as you thought!

Now if we can only get you to apply the same open mind to the EU ...

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

Joe Root needs to be dropped from our ODI/T20 side. The team have completely left him behind in terms of quality.

He lacks the fire power to hit boundaries and just does not score at a quick enough rate to mask that.

Stokes needs to come into the team ahead of him.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

Well played Hampshire, great days cricket yesterday. Enjoyed every second of that!

Not a Hampshire fan @darkmar

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

Joe Root is literally undroppable.

How many poor games does he need to have now?

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Joe Root is literally undroppable.

How many poor games does he need to have now?

He was dropped from the last 20/20 but yeah, he needs ODI runs badly. He needs Test runs badly too for that matter.

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

He was dropped from the last 20/20 but yeah, he needs ODI runs badly. He needs Test runs badly too for that matter.

Yeah, I was glad to see him dropped from the 20/20 so I'm surprised to see him playing for the ODI side regardless. 20/20 and ODIs are so similar these days there's no point dropping somebody from one and not the other.

He's unquestionably the most talented player in our test side but his inability to convert a half century into a century is becoming tiresome.

 

[dondo]

This is like England one day cricket of a few years back

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

This is like England one day cricket of a few years back

Again a 'mystery' spinner kills them. This is going to be a long summer if he plays in the test matches.

 

[dondo]

Again a 'mystery' spinner kills them. This is going to be a long summer if he plays in the test matches.

He really must play in the test matches we look clueless facing him today and in the t20 games

 

[Arnoldtoo]

Again a 'mystery' spinner kills them. This is going to be a long summer if he plays in the test matches.

A long summer, with very short Test matches!

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

Joe Root reads this forum.

 

[Arnoldtoo]

Joe Root reads this forum.

Good job the selectors don't!

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Joe Root reads this forum.

I kinda hope this is like The Rock, and it turns out Sarge is Joe Root but he's started referring to himself in the third person

 

[dondo]

Good win for England.
What was dohni play at??
Smells a bit fishy to me

 

[dondo]

India 180-5 on a spinning pitch so far. England must not let them get much over 260 as we are going to struggle to play their spinners

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

India 180-5 on a spinning pitch so far. England must not let them get much over 260 as we are going to struggle to play their spinners

They've already got enough to win

 

[dondo]

They've already got enough to win

Your probably right ?.
If rashid can bowl balls like the one that got kohli out I dread to think what their spinners will do