England Cricket 2021
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two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
so neeeeeeeeeeeeeeearly got a hat trick
Eta: I enjoyed that
Remember seeing Anderson's first? test match nearly 20 years ago, he was clearly going to be something special even then.
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Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
You mean when Dom Sibley used to play?
RileyOBlimey
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What about the last time England got at least 50 from each of the top 4?
RileyOBlimey
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It's his weird head turn. And his little man knot. And wearing zinc on a cloudy day. A bit of a poseur methinks.
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A lead of 200!?
RileyOBlimey
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Revenge is sweet
RileyOBlimey
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Now, can Bairstow clock a 50?
strung out
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RileyOBlimey
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Curran out for 15.
RileyOBlimey
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Some decent miles in the Indian quicks legs…
…hopefully they’re feeling it.
…hopefully they’re feeling it.
planetgeli
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Talk about scoring runs for fun. Root is ridiculous, it's like he doesn't have to try. He just thinks, and he can do exactly what those thoughts tell him. Long may it continue, because it's brilliant to watch.
Big up for Malan too. He looked the part. Not sure he ever did in his previous incarnation except once. So long may he continue as well. Desperately unlucky to get out.
Buttler and Moeen failed in a situation made for them. Not great. But 300/8 on the second day ain't too shabby. They can't lose from here can they?
Big up for Malan too. He looked the part. Not sure he ever did in his previous incarnation except once. So long may he continue as well. Desperately unlucky to get out.
Buttler and Moeen failed in a situation made for them. Not great. But 300/8 on the second day ain't too shabby. They can't lose from here can they?
RileyOBlimey
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Looks like Chris Woakes is playing tonight in a T20 game. If he looks alright Sam Curran may start to get a sweat on.
planetgeli
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Shitfuck of a day, though not entirely unexpected.
If Chris Woakes is breathing he should get in ahead of Curran.
If Chris Woakes is breathing he should get in ahead of Curran.
RileyOBlimey
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Woakes got 1 wicket but should’ve been 2. Bresnan dropped a straightforward one.
Puddy_Tat
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think it was the lunch interval they had ian botham on talking about the 1981 headingley test
at it being 40 years ago
the head at my primary school got one of the big telly on wheels things (or there may only have been one at the school) set up in the hall when it started looking like an interesting finish and we were allowed in to watch it
it must have been a day or so before end of term (and my year was leaving that week) so don't think it interrupted anything too productive...
at it being 40 years agothe head at my primary school got one of the big telly on wheels things (or there may only have been one at the school) set up in the hall when it started looking like an interesting finish and we were allowed in to watch it
it must have been a day or so before end of term (and my year was leaving that week) so don't think it interrupted anything too productive...
RileyOBlimey
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A call from the Torygraph for the cull of Curran…..
“‘It’s the country of the future, and it always will be,” it is often joked of Brazil. The future is bright; a few years pass, it still is, but the present has not quite delivered.
For several years, Sam Curran has been England’s Test cricketer of the future. He is an alluring cocktail: left-arm swing bowling, dashing, clean striking down the order and an almost preternatural competitiveness. At the age of 20, these attributes came together to help England defeat India 4-1; Curran played in the four Tests that England won, made match-shaping contributions with bat and ball alike and was named player of the series. The memories of this brilliant debut summer in 2018 have underpinned England’s faith in Curran since then.
Still only 23, he is playing his 24th Test. And yet, rather than acquiring the status of established player, Curran is instead gaining the feeling of unwanted spare part, the extra pair of shoes left marooned in a dusty corner of the house. An overcast day at Headingley, the ground where Curran had made his Test debut, ought to have allowed Curran to display the swing, awkward angle and sheer zest for the fight that had characterised his first sojourn in Test cricket.
And yet a few minutes past three o’clock, James Anderson and Ollie Robinson, England’s new-ball pair, had both bowled 13 overs apiece. Curran had bowled only a solitary over. In the 38th over of India’s innings, Curran was finally given a spell, rather than the token over before lunch traditionally reserved for English spinners. At that point, his contribution to a fine Test series amounted to little more than a couple of perky cameos at Trent Bridge, Virat Kohli’s wicket at Lord’s, one of his three in the series, and his Paul Gascoigne – or is it Phil Foden? – haircut.
Cheteshwar Pujara and Rohit Sharma forging a fruitful second-wicket alliance was the sort of occasion when England have often been grateful for Curran’s reputation as the man who makes things happen. Instead, overpitching the second and third deliveries of his spell – both driven by Rohit for four – only vindicated Joe Root’s reticence to use him. Curran’s spell displayed all his characteristic creativity and determination to make good on his moniker. He varied his angle of attack between over and around the wicket. He showed his penchant for pitching the ball up to invite swing. He willingly bowled to creative fields – five fielders on the leg side to Pujara, including two short midwickets.
The trouble is, it did not add up to a convincing Test spell: five overs for 25 all told, with batsmen scarcely troubled. When he returned for another three overs later, Curran’s attempt to bounce out Kohli was met by a disdainful pull, as if the bouncer was nothing more than a pebble in his path. The day ended with Curran nursing figures of nought for 40 from nine overs, leaking 4.4 an over while no one else conceded more than 2.7.
It all added to the sense that the effervescent Test talent glimpsed three summers ago is now drifting into the realm of bits-and-pieces cricketer. In seven Tests in 2018, Curran’s sparkling performances brought 404 runs at 36.7, and 14 wickets at 25.1 apiece. In 17 Tests since, he now averages 18.7 with the bat, and has taken just 33 wickets at 39.9 each. It was hoped that Curran would gain pace, but his speed has not increased since his first year in Test cricket.
A bowler with an average speed of 79mph, allied to a lack of height, must be unerringly accurate to be a consistent asset at Test level, but Curran’s propensity to over-pitch or drop short at Leeds was in keeping with a career economy rate of 3.2. It has been 33 months since Curran’s last half-century in Test cricket. The Surrey player has not scored a first-class century either, reflecting how the demands of the schedule mean that Curran is fated to learn his red-ball game in the Test arena: he has played a lone first-class game for Surrey in the past two years.
The presence of Ben Stokes in the side, who could share his overs as fourth seamer, long allowed Curran to sit relatively unobtrusively in the team. Without Stokes this summer, Curran was charged with balancing the side with bat and ball; the suspicion is that he is doing neither. In his 24 Tests, Curran has scored only 815 runs and taken 47 wickets. Of those with 20 Tests, Curran is the only England Test player, excluding wicketkeepers, to both score less than 35 runs a Test and take two wickets or fewer a Test since 1926. Last year, after a series of terrific performances in the Indian Premier League, his captain MS Dhoni hailed Curran as a “complete cricketer”.
But in Test cricket, HG Wells’s novel increasingly doubles as a description of Curran: The Invisible Man.”
“‘It’s the country of the future, and it always will be,” it is often joked of Brazil. The future is bright; a few years pass, it still is, but the present has not quite delivered.
For several years, Sam Curran has been England’s Test cricketer of the future. He is an alluring cocktail: left-arm swing bowling, dashing, clean striking down the order and an almost preternatural competitiveness. At the age of 20, these attributes came together to help England defeat India 4-1; Curran played in the four Tests that England won, made match-shaping contributions with bat and ball alike and was named player of the series. The memories of this brilliant debut summer in 2018 have underpinned England’s faith in Curran since then.
Still only 23, he is playing his 24th Test. And yet, rather than acquiring the status of established player, Curran is instead gaining the feeling of unwanted spare part, the extra pair of shoes left marooned in a dusty corner of the house. An overcast day at Headingley, the ground where Curran had made his Test debut, ought to have allowed Curran to display the swing, awkward angle and sheer zest for the fight that had characterised his first sojourn in Test cricket.
And yet a few minutes past three o’clock, James Anderson and Ollie Robinson, England’s new-ball pair, had both bowled 13 overs apiece. Curran had bowled only a solitary over. In the 38th over of India’s innings, Curran was finally given a spell, rather than the token over before lunch traditionally reserved for English spinners. At that point, his contribution to a fine Test series amounted to little more than a couple of perky cameos at Trent Bridge, Virat Kohli’s wicket at Lord’s, one of his three in the series, and his Paul Gascoigne – or is it Phil Foden? – haircut.
Cheteshwar Pujara and Rohit Sharma forging a fruitful second-wicket alliance was the sort of occasion when England have often been grateful for Curran’s reputation as the man who makes things happen. Instead, overpitching the second and third deliveries of his spell – both driven by Rohit for four – only vindicated Joe Root’s reticence to use him. Curran’s spell displayed all his characteristic creativity and determination to make good on his moniker. He varied his angle of attack between over and around the wicket. He showed his penchant for pitching the ball up to invite swing. He willingly bowled to creative fields – five fielders on the leg side to Pujara, including two short midwickets.
The trouble is, it did not add up to a convincing Test spell: five overs for 25 all told, with batsmen scarcely troubled. When he returned for another three overs later, Curran’s attempt to bounce out Kohli was met by a disdainful pull, as if the bouncer was nothing more than a pebble in his path. The day ended with Curran nursing figures of nought for 40 from nine overs, leaking 4.4 an over while no one else conceded more than 2.7.
It all added to the sense that the effervescent Test talent glimpsed three summers ago is now drifting into the realm of bits-and-pieces cricketer. In seven Tests in 2018, Curran’s sparkling performances brought 404 runs at 36.7, and 14 wickets at 25.1 apiece. In 17 Tests since, he now averages 18.7 with the bat, and has taken just 33 wickets at 39.9 each. It was hoped that Curran would gain pace, but his speed has not increased since his first year in Test cricket.
A bowler with an average speed of 79mph, allied to a lack of height, must be unerringly accurate to be a consistent asset at Test level, but Curran’s propensity to over-pitch or drop short at Leeds was in keeping with a career economy rate of 3.2. It has been 33 months since Curran’s last half-century in Test cricket. The Surrey player has not scored a first-class century either, reflecting how the demands of the schedule mean that Curran is fated to learn his red-ball game in the Test arena: he has played a lone first-class game for Surrey in the past two years.
The presence of Ben Stokes in the side, who could share his overs as fourth seamer, long allowed Curran to sit relatively unobtrusively in the team. Without Stokes this summer, Curran was charged with balancing the side with bat and ball; the suspicion is that he is doing neither. In his 24 Tests, Curran has scored only 815 runs and taken 47 wickets. Of those with 20 Tests, Curran is the only England Test player, excluding wicketkeepers, to both score less than 35 runs a Test and take two wickets or fewer a Test since 1926. Last year, after a series of terrific performances in the Indian Premier League, his captain MS Dhoni hailed Curran as a “complete cricketer”.
But in Test cricket, HG Wells’s novel increasingly doubles as a description of Curran: The Invisible Man.”
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planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Well this is a fuckton better than yesterday!
