England Cricket 2022

[WhyLikeThis]

Well I said it. Bairstow should be keeping, look at his slip fielding, Foakes can go back to Saville Row to get a new suit and his goatee trimmed and Harry Brook can come into the middle order and show the other clowns how to bat

Foakes hasn’t given his wicket away (yet). Although Brook is unlucky not to be included.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

I feel Crawley and Pope are being given enough rope. Sink or swim we can only hope it’ll be quick. Alex Lees may never have a high average but he’s doing a job in blunting the ball and putting some yards in the quicks legs. Right now that feels good enough.

Bring forth Ben Compton.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Lees
Compton
Root
Brook
Bairstow
Stokes
Foakes
Moeen
Potts
Broad
Anderson

 

[planetgeli]

One more on the wk thing. The original wk/batsman was Sussex's (the mighty Sussex) Jim Parks. And he wasn't even a keeper to begin with.

Anyway. He's dead. Bit like Sussex.



Worth a read.

 

[Petcha]

I really didn't think we'd see a result in this one given the forecast but it looks like it could be over in 3 and a half days max. Crazy. I thought that was supposed to be a batters' paradise.

 

[planetgeli]

I really didn't think we'd see a result in this one given the forecast but it looks like it could be over in 3 and a half days max. Crazy. I thought that was supposed to be a batters' paradise.

It is. And I think 3.5 days is wildly optimistic. Unless you think NZ are going to score 500.

Ok, they might.

 

[Petcha]

It is. And I think 3.5 days is wildly optimistic. Unless you think NZ are going to score 500.

Ok, they might.

I think they might too. That was a mightily uncharacteristic batting display from them but a mightily characteristic batting display from England.

OK, 4 days, weather permitting.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Oh fucking fuck. Spend the afternoon in the pub and this fucking happens

 

[paulhackett]

That's a very good shout. Messaged the boys to see whos up for that. Ta.

Surrey 228-4. Narine went to 42 off 13 balls I think? Food at Baba Dhaba is the nuts..

17 wickets on the first day of a Test is really poor. Hearing Michael Vaughan crapping out platitudes even worse. Seemed to be more poor batting than outstanding or difficult bowling? All the batters know how to knuckle down and bat time. I guess best to hold off on criticism till after the match but it's just disappointing. 2 or 3 runs an over. Maybe a few more and not many wickets down just to set the match up please.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Yeah will save final judgment until the end of the match, but after watching the highlights there were poor dismissals for the top orders of both teams. For England:

Crawley was poor and it just happens too often - yes, he scores runs with the drive, but the runs per dismissal for that shot must be very low. I still don't think he's an opener. Plays like a number 5.

Lees was bad. To be out LB to a ball clipping the leg stump like that isn't great - bit unlucky to be given, but a bad shot and a questionable technique.

Pope was terrible. Dangling the bat limply to a ball on about sixth stump. Either attack that or leave it alone.

Root? He does that occasionally. It's a shot that gets him a lot of runs - more than Crawley's drive gets him - but it's a frustrating dismissal to a nothing ball from a medium pacer.

Bairstow a bit unlucky to chop on, but a bad shot.

Stokes? Went through him. I guess credit the bowler. It was a decisive shot, he just missed it.

This wasn't unplayable bowling by any means.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Nasser on Crawley’s technique…

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Friend of mine who we saw yesterday is going today.

Well at least he might see England both batting and bowling

 

[Ted Striker]

Had one of those crazy test days where I followed the day up to about 80-2 or something, then had to go for a long drive...Thought I'd check in later in the evening to see where we had got to and

 

[SpookyFrank]

Broad gone. Hardly surprising as he was just mowing at everything.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Well at least it's entertaining!

 

[Petcha]

I'm calling this for NZ now. This England tail is too long and too shit. NZ's can actually bat.

 

[planetgeli]

Not sure about that (entertainment). I think I'll go out in the sun instead.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Parkinson showing up the top order here.

 

[SpookyFrank]

They're gonna lose a lot of money in day three and four refunds at this rate.

 

[two sheds]

First innings lead and 6-1 all over bar the shouting

 

[Spymaster]

KP doesn't half spout a lot of bollocks, doesn't he.

 

[Petcha]

KP doesn't half spout a lot of bollocks, doesn't he.

“She’s white, she’s pure”

- KP on the Lord's pitch

tbf in Warne's absence we do need a bit of a tosser in the box to even out the regular guys. And he does obviously know his shit. Mark Taylor yesterday was good. Simon Doull's always a class act too.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

This Potts chap might have legs - match figures of 5-17 so far.

 

[Spymaster]

“She’s white, she’s pure”

- KP on the Lord's pitch

tbf in Warne's absence we do need a bit of a tosser in the box to even out the regular guys. And he does obviously know his shit. Mark Taylor yesterday was good. Simon Doull's always a class act too.

He comes out with all these weird and pointless hypotheticals too.

If lightning strikes the pitch and Joe Root shits his pants, how will Ben Stokes respond?

 

[Petcha]

He comes out with all these weird and pointless hypotheticals too.

If lightning strikes the pitch and Joe Root shits his pants, how will Ben Stokes respond?

I don't know if you watch the IPL but they sometimes combine him with Danny Morrison which is an absolute carcrash of screaming, backslapping, thinly disguised jokes about how fucked up they got the night before etc, with Doull in the middle trying to talk about the cricket.

This is a toned down KP.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

This Potts chap might have legs - match figures of 5-17 so far.

6-21

 

[Spymaster]

This Potts chap might have legs - match figures of 5-17 so far.

Bagging Kane Williamson twice on test debut's not a bad start, is it?

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Bagging Kane Williamson twice on test debut's not a bad start, is it?

Legend.

 

[Petcha]

I wonder if they'e gonna mention how Warney met his demise in this lunch doco

That subject seems to have been assiduously glossed over during all these tributes. It's quite a way to go, and one I wouldn't mind for myself, but I wonder if there'll be kids watching asking their dads what happened to him

 

[WhyLikeThis]

I wonder if they'e gonna mention how Warney met his demise in this lunch doco

That subject seems to have been assiduously glossed over during all these tributes. It's quite a way to go, and one I wouldn't mind for myself, but I wonder if there'll be kids watching asking their dads what happened to him

Was the extreme dieting a cover story for the cocaine and ladyboys bender on Koh Samui?