I will watch Test cricket until the end of time. But these pitches have really tested me. A lot more than they have tested the batters so far it would seem.
Some stats doing the rounds after yesterday;
Joe Root needs 125 more runs to become only the second England batter to reach 10,000 after Sir Alistair. At the end of his innings yesterday, for the first time in 2 years his batting average is now higher than Virat Kohli.
Ben Stokes' century...
You were never going to get a full reset until the summer tests, you cant pluck bowlers out of thin air who haven't played any cricket over the winter apart from running in the indoor nets at Loughborough. Similar with the batting, Alex Lees is the same age as Burns give or take, has a similar...
A lot of people seem to have gone very early on this. I’m away skiing and not watching so just popped in to give it a quick “Overton FFS” and then off for a Williams.
Half centuries for the top 3 and 45* for Lawrence at 4 in the first day of the warm up. No idea of the standard of the opposition but interesting all the same that they picked Lawrence at 4 and there was no space (in the 12) for Pope.
Would expect that while only a warm up the team for the 1st...
@Spurslove
I may regret asking this, but why on earth do you care? You are not using the right metrics to calculate the answer you want, and without that, if it were me...I would just stop doing it?
A batter’s average has been done the same way for 300 years. I’ll be honest, I just know how it works, and get on with it.
I don’t really know what else to say. Apart from, don’t worry about average in T20 cricket, strike rate is a metric that pro’s use as a marker. Above 130 is what they are...
Can I revert you back to August 2nd 2021 in this very thread where you and I had this exact conversation. Nothing has changed in the world of cricket since.
When you’re not out, it doesn’t count as a completed innings.
So if out of those 20 matches he’s played, he’s been “out” 14 times. Then his total is divided by 14. That gives his average.
Morgan averaged 11 in last years IPL with a strike rate of 96 and that was from 16 innings. Which is tail end sort of stuff. He’s been in terrible form for ages and is clearly declining in fitness, maybe they didn’t fancy a punt on him.
In theory you're right of course. Which makes me think about the bolded part.
At the end of the day they are just miserable fast bowlers, and maybe a tour with Broad and his Mail column, Jimmy and his podcast, constantly being asked about their roles in the team was deemed too much of a...
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