RileyOBlimey
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Dunno how reliable a narrator “CricCrazyJohns” is but…
England Cricket 2021
- Thread starter Monkeygrinder's Organ
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RileyOBlimey
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A Mahmood, Robinson, Anderson & Wood bowling attack would be fairly fiesty.
RileyOBlimey
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RileyOBlimey
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Jos doesn’t look too cheerful.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Bit worried about the fragility, injury wise, of that attack but hey ho, let's see. At least we won't be 65-5 at lunch.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
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Looks like some play to get going now. You need a strong start to justify choosing to field so fingers crossed.
I think the team looks better for the changes but there are still plenty of question marks (including over the players that have come in). Potentially exciting to have Moeen and Wood back, and potentially reassuringly dull to have Hameed.
I think the team looks better for the changes but there are still plenty of question marks (including over the players that have come in). Potentially exciting to have Moeen and Wood back, and potentially reassuringly dull to have Hameed.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
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Not looking a great choice so far is it...
RileyOBlimey
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I’m at Lords today and there was a collective wail when Root said they’d have a bowl.
Wood is expensive but is looking threatening.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Please make it stop.
It does at least make it lasting five days a lot more possible so a 5th day ticket might be a good buy. Looks a good pitch as usual at Lords. Bizarre decision to bowl.
RileyOBlimey
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If you look at the sky its dark as you like, floodlights are on...but a constant stiff breeze is taking the muginess out. The good balls are beating the batsmen, maybe too much.
RileyOBlimey
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In theory this should be ideal conditions for Anderson.
I hope you're at least getting sloshed there. Looks like the members are.
RileyOBlimey
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Mahmood would have been of a threat today than Curran today i reckon.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
You put 'today' twice in that post when in fact you didn't need to use it at all.
RileyOBlimey
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I’m being generous and have been on the lash since 11am. Curran’s knack of wangling a wicket when needed seems to have waned. They should have blooded Mahmood. Fuck Curran’s 20 odd runs.
RileyOBlimey
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Root has never managed his bowlers well.
Moeen should have come on an hour ago.
Moeen should have come on an hour ago.
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Thing is with Wood he only has pace. He never looks like he's going to take 6, or even better than 2-60.
RileyOBlimey
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To be fair this surface seems to suck the pace out of the attack. Wood should create anxiety with the threat of physical harm but with being over bowled and this insipid surface….meh
RileyOBlimey
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Curran is benign so lets lets bowl him some more!?
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Poor performance from the support bowlers
47 over 3 maidens 0-164
India are going to get 400.
47 over 3 maidens 0-164
India are going to get 400.
RileyOBlimey
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One miserable warning today was there is a tiny minority of aspirational petite bourgeois racists latching on to Ollie Robinson.
I think 600
paulhackett
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They re-designed the Dressing Rooms a couple of years or so ago, and did the Honours Boards at the same time. Moved them around the rooms, kept wooden ones for Tests and have ODIs on the walls. Lord's has gone for the cover every wall with names, facts and figures so nothing has any significance any more. Looks shit. Is shit.
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paulhackett
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Deleted my usual point about racism in cricket..
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