England Cricket 2021

[RileyOBlimey]

200 wickets?

That’s the one.

 

[Elpenor]

Not a fan of being away from home on long tours IIRC, and white ball cricket tends to have shorter tours.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Glad he got a decent spell back in the England side before retiring. Was great to see him scoring some test runs again.

 

[planetgeli]

Only Anderson and Broad have taken more 4th innings wickets for England than Moeen, and they've played far more matches. His strike rate in the 4th innings is waaaay better than anyone - and I mean from any country. A wicket every 39 balls. Nobody else is in the thirties.

Just to add to this. What this adds up to of course is that he was a match winner. If you needed to bowl the opposition out in the last innings for 150 you had more chance of doing that with Moeen in your side than with any other England bowler in the 'modern' (post 1960) era. People forget he won matches, batting and bowling. MoM 6 times in 64 games which is a phenomenal amount. Only Root in the current team beats him, and not by much. Anderson for example is MoM 8 times in 166 games.

He was good, and badly misused.

 

[paulhackett]

Tim Paine proving the maxim that cricketers should for the most part be seen and not heard "No-one is forcing any England player to come. That's the beauty of the world we live in - you have a choice. If you don't want to come, don't come."

 

[Lord Camomile]

Ben Stokes: England all-rounder likely to miss Ashes after second operation on finger

England all-rounder Ben Stokes has a second operation on his injured finger and is unlikely to play in the Ashes against Australia this winter.

www.bbc.co.uk

England all-rounder Ben Stokes has had a second operation on his injured finger and is unlikely to play in the Ashes against Australia this winter.

The 30-year-old took an indefinite break from cricket in July to protect his mental health and rest his left index finger, first injured in April.

He originally had surgery in April but has now had a second operation to remove two screws and scar tissue from the finger.

Ooh, bugger.

 

[planetgeli]

Sibley ditched from central contract.

England: Dawid Malan, Ollie Robinson & Jack Leach awarded ECB central contracts

Dawid Malan, Ollie Robinson and Jack Leach are awarded England central contracts for the first time.

www.bbc.co.uk

Nothing for Hameed there either.

 

[RileyOBlimey]

Sibley ditched from central contract.

England: Dawid Malan, Ollie Robinson & Jack Leach awarded ECB central contracts

Dawid Malan, Ollie Robinson and Jack Leach are awarded England central contracts for the first time.

www.bbc.co.uk

Nothing for Hameed there either.

I wonder if Hameed was white and went to a top tier public school he would be fucked off like this.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

England v India Test rescheduled and South Africa series adjusted

The postponed fifth match of the 2021 series has been rescheduled and will now take place at Edgbaston in July 2022

www.theguardian.com

So the cancelled test has been rescheduled, and it seems they're trying to make out it's still the last test in the same series despite being a year later.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Good start in the T20 match

 

[SpookyFrank]

Windies in deep shit here.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

56 to win. In the words of Ru Paul "Don't fuck it up"!

 

[planetgeli]

Rashid 4-2 LOL. Some of those shots were dreadful but some of the fielding was incredible.

 

[a_chap]

After a busy day I'm pretending I don't know that WI were all out for 55 and am listening to the BBC commentary from the start.

• Excellent that Moeen opened the bowling
• In the first over the commentators are predicting that there will be some mahoosive scoring from Windies (easily 11+ an over)

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[souljacker]

Surely England can't fuck this up?

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Phew!!

 

[baldrick]

England v India Test rescheduled and South Africa series adjusted

The postponed fifth match of the 2021 series has been rescheduled and will now take place at Edgbaston in July 2022

www.theguardian.com

So the cancelled test has been rescheduled, and it seems they're trying to make out it's still the last test in the same series despite being a year later.

Loads of very angry ticket holders on Facebook yesterday. People who'd bought test tickets for SA who are now getting India, but on a different day and people who bought ODI tickets who are now getting a Twenty20.

I'm feeling very glad I couldn't muster the enthusiasm to buy any internationals tickets for next summer which isn't like me really.

 

[strung out]

Ben Stokes has been added to the Ashes squad.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Ben Stokes has been added to the Ashes squad.

Love to see Tim Paine's face when he got that news.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Not doing too badly against the Aussies the moment

 

[SpookyFrank]

Another stroll home for England then. It's getting a bit worrying that our batters haven't really been under any pressure at all in this tournament.

 

[butchersapron]

50 runs in death overs

 

[souljacker]

Jos Buttler is going to win this one on his own

 

[SpookyFrank]

Jos Buttler is going to win this one on his own

72 off 31 balls

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Well that was all nice and relaxed!

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[souljacker]

Another stroll home for England then. It's getting a bit worrying that our batters haven't really been under any pressure at all in this tournament.

It's not like we've played shit teams though. Hopefully Sri Lanka and South Africa will provide more of a challenge but we just look so good bowling that I can't see anyone beating us.

 

[brogdale]

Sadness in their eyes.

 

[planetgeli]

The World Cup of slogging is going so well for England; New Zealand are bound to win.