England Cricket 2021
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souljacker
innit
They've been a bit busy this week.
RileyOBlimey
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If you didn’t see it, Sam Curran secures his spot for Wembley…
QueenOfGoths
Fuck you Dave!
TMS is on. England look good for this.
Aye. SL were weak before they had to start sending players home for misbehaving. England shouldn't be losing games against this SL side in home conditions.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Woakes 10-5-18-4
Might have had a point to prove.
Might have had a point to prove.
RileyOBlimey
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Will Silverwood buck his ideas up and pick a full strength test team?
Silverwood is to English test cricket what Starmer is to Labour.
RileyOBlimey
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Bairstow’s on fire
RileyOBlimey
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That’ll learn me.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Covid ahoy! Three players and four staff members down. Everyone isolating. Here are some new names for the ODI squad v Pakistan. Inexperience abounds.
John Simpson, the 32-year-old Middlesex wicketkeeper, is among the new faces in the fresh squad, along with seamers Tom Helm, (also Middlesex), Brydon Carse (Durham) and David Payne (Gloucestershire). Zak Crawley (Kent), Dan Lawrence (Essex) Phil Salt (Sussex), Will Jacks (Surrey) are uncapped batsmen at ODI level, along with all-rounder Lewis Gregory (Somerset).
Aside from Stokes, who has made 98 ODI appearances, the next most-experienced player is seamer Jake Ball, who won the last of his 18 caps in 2018.
John Simpson, the 32-year-old Middlesex wicketkeeper, is among the new faces in the fresh squad, along with seamers Tom Helm, (also Middlesex), Brydon Carse (Durham) and David Payne (Gloucestershire). Zak Crawley (Kent), Dan Lawrence (Essex) Phil Salt (Sussex), Will Jacks (Surrey) are uncapped batsmen at ODI level, along with all-rounder Lewis Gregory (Somerset).
Aside from Stokes, who has made 98 ODI appearances, the next most-experienced player is seamer Jake Ball, who won the last of his 18 caps in 2018.
RileyOBlimey
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The Hundred: Utter folly?
That is all
That is all
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
England B seem to be doing fine.
Pakistan 83/5 off 20 overs.
Who is Brydon Carse?
Pakistan 83/5 off 20 overs.
Who is Brydon Carse?
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
In America they call him Brydon Cass
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
An endless diet of meaningless limited overs internationals right through the heart of the summer.
Scheduling is beyond pathetic. I don't care about any of these games. Just hope the weather holds out for the India tests.
Scheduling is beyond pathetic. I don't care about any of these games. Just hope the weather holds out for the India tests.
RileyOBlimey
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Malan is looking super chilled.
I'm still unclear as to why the number one ODI side in the world:
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were flown over for two tests against england and one against india, with no white ball games and then flown back to the other side of the world. these two series have been/will be utterly pointless and completely one-sided.
RileyOBlimey
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redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
I'm not totally convinced by Silverwood yet but I think that is a little harsh.
Squad selection was Ed Smith's responsibility until recently and then couple that with COVID (where the policy is set by Ashley Giles) it has not been an easy ride. And under Silverwood England have won in SA and SL and beaten WI and Pak, with a reasonable but not outstanding Test team.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Parkinson's turned into Warne.
'He can't believe it!' - Watch Parkinson's amazing delivery to remove Imam
England's Matt Parkinson produces a magnificent turning delivery to bowl Pakistan's Imam ul-Haq for 56 in the final ODI of the three-match series at Edgbaston.
www.bbc.co.uk
RileyOBlimey
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Watching the T20? If not, probably for the best. Absolute spanking. On the plus side there’s a lot of Palestinian flags in the crowd.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I agree with this, although it's not a great reflection on England at the moment. Middling. Will get some good results, other quite poor results. I hope covid doesn't ruin the India series as that will be a proper measure. Lose to India after losing to NZ and England can definitely think of themselves only as a mid-ranking test team.
The whole India team will have been in England for ages by the time that starts as well. They won't be caught cold.
There's an excellent angry article on cricinfo today by George Dobell in which he lays into the ECB over the hundred primarily, but it's wide-ranging. It highlights one of the biggest problems for the England test team, which has now been going on for nearly a decade, namely that the batsmen coming into the team are not ready for test cricket. Their experiences at county level haven't prepared them, and nobody is able to step up and excel straight away. As Dobell points out, this used not to be the case at all - Strauss, Cook, Trott, Prior all scored hundreds on debut. This didn't used to be considered out of the ordinary. Pietersen and Bell both started scoring straight away as well. Something has gone wrong that Joe Root is the last proven test quality batsman that England have produced. He made his debut nine years ago.
That's a systemic problem. Can't lay that on Silverwood.
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
Have just got back home. Missed the Pakistan innings - the lowest (lowest!!!) strike rate was 150 
Given that the English bowlers were getting a spanking why the hell didn't Moeen Ali get to bowl even one over??
Nevertheless, I still predict that one team will win.
Given that the English bowlers were getting a spanking why the hell didn't Moeen Ali get to bowl even one over??
Nevertheless, I still predict that one team will win.
RileyOBlimey
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Aye, Moeen seems to be put out to pasture, which is pretty disapointing.
