The Cricket Thread

[dondo]

Completely agree as I said above. Just doubting his ability to score at the highest level more than anything, I certainly wouldn’t begrudge him some runs. Hopefully we’ll bat tonight and see how he gets on.

I’m not convinced by him myself but I remember thinking the same as cook when he first started for England.

 

[aussiespursguy]

A result will be very likely when you bowl them out for 39 with the pink ball mate! Definitely only one winner there.

Rain leading so far Bear!

 

[dimiSpur]

Another naive decision by Root. NZ showing our boys how you bat in Test Cricket. Not sure the lesson will be noted. They'll rack up 500odd runs again and muster another innings victory I reckon. This England side is shocking.

 

[theShiznit]

Just seen the highlights and why the hell was the broad Taylor wicket overturned?

There seemed to be no hot spot and snicko showed something after the ball had already passed the bat.

Have the premiership brought VAR to the cricket? Anyone see it live and hear what they said about it?

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Just seen the highlights and why the hell was the broad Taylor wicket overturned?

There seemed to be no hot spot and snicko showed something after the ball had already passed the bat.

Have the premiership brrought VAR too the cricket? Anyone see it live and hear what they said about it?

I also don't know why they are using hotspot, I thought that had been canned?

 

[theShiznit]

I also don't know why they are using hotspot, I thought that had been canned?

I think hotspot is actually better than snicko. Which shows a lot of anomalous spikes when nothing is touching the bat or ground.

I thought what was used was purely down to the host broadcaster?

 

[Spurs_Bear]

I think hotspot is actually better than snicko. Which shows a lot of anomalous spikes when nothing is touching the bat or ground.

I thought what was used was purely down to the host broadcaster?

You're probably right about the broadcaster. They were up in arms about it a year or so ago as someone claimed you got put vaseline on the edges of the bat which would mean hotspot wouldn't show up.

 

[Ossie'sAardvark]

If Root wasn't the captain, he wouldn't have even been selected for the Winter tours. He's hardly making up for his poor, poor batting with inspirational leadership, so what is he doing in the squad?

If he wasnt captain i suspect he'd be batting better. Might have been rested though.

 

[Ossie'sAardvark]

I also don't know why they are using hotspot, I thought that had been canned?

Its the two together bud. Both aids, one to establish proximity to bat , the other to confim the nick.
Completely get what you're saying, some of the double checks are pathetic

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Its the two together bud. Both aids, one to establish proximity to bat , the other to confim the nick.
Completely get what you're saying, some of the double checks are pathetic

Oh yeah I get that mate, just they didn't use it in the Ashes over here this summer so I thought it had been stopped. The Taylor decision was ridiculous.

 

[Ossie'sAardvark]

Yes i read it again, gotcha. my mistake.

 

[theShiznit]

I'm calling it

Archer. Right arm fast medium... (And that's a stretch ATM)

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Archer is a real worry, hoping this is just them protecting him for SA, but he’s bowling the same pace as an injured Stokes.

 

[theShiznit]

Credit to Broad, I've written him off time and again but for all his ability to look like he's running up hill, he cranky gives it his all.

Archer could learn a lot from him. He has sessions where he leaves everything out there to get wickets. Archer can go whole tests looking like he's jogging in bowling looseners...

 

[Arnoldtoo]

Root 114 n.o.

 

[VegasII]

Root 114 n.o.

I didn’t expect to see that this morning.

 

[midoshairband]

Archer is a real worry, hoping this is just them protecting him for SA, but he’s bowling the same pace as an injured Stokes.

unfortunately, it’s a by-product of England having to play so much cricket in a year, especially compared to other nations.

take NZ for example - 7 test matches in 2019. England will have played 11. at say 20 overs per innings, Archer could well have bowled 200 overs more than an opposing NZ fast bowler like Boult or Ferguson.

if you add all that up over a 2 to 3 year period say, it’s a huge additional workload, and that’s not even taking into account all the ODI’s and T20s, of which we also play more.

so yes, he has to bowl within himself most of the time to avoid injury and fatigue, and so that he can crank it up for major games/tournaments.

the alternative is either reduce his workload by better captaincy (?) or by resting him.

unfortunately, we don’t have a long line of 90mph fast bowlers waiting in the wings to rotate, so he’s pretty much one of a kind and we need him. well, we need him bowling 90mph. if he’s going to fart out 80mph dobblers, we may as well pick someone else.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Finally Root gets a score so well played. Keep it going.

 

[Arnoldtoo]

I didn’t expect to see that this morning.

You wouldn't have done if he'd been dropped!

 

[Spurs_Bear]

I’d still be tempted to put a score on NZ to win this...