England Cricket 2022

[QueenOfGoths]

Stop. Dropping. Catches!!

 

[littlebabyjesus]

They pause the game for a bit of drizzle. I'm sure they could pause it to avoid dodginess such as that.

He's not a 'neutral' umpire - which is something that became irrelevant with DRS but without it, eyebrows might be raised with decisions like that. You could see Blundell was mighty fucked off walking off there.

And again, cricket coped with home umpires and no DRS for many decades.

Them's the breaks. It would have been absurd to have stopped play for that, especially with rain forecast for this afternoon.

 

[Petcha]

Mitchell's averaging 68 across 12 test matches. Presumably batting twice in both. Not bad.

 

[Petcha]

And again, cricket coped with home umpires and no DRS for many decades.

Them's the breaks. It would have been absurd to have stopped play for that, especially with rain forecast for this afternoon.

Well, I'm sure you remember the odd bust up and accusations of umpires cheating pre-DRS

 

[littlebabyjesus]

This is all too familiar. Totally losing it against the tail.

Pitch it up. Put in some slips. This is brainless I'm afraid.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

100-3 that session in the end. NZ will take that, I think. 325-8 from 123 for 5 (12345!) is a good effort.

But England made that NZ's session first by dropping catches and then by trying to bounce Southee. Stupid tactic.

 

[SpookyFrank]

And again, cricket coped with home umpires and no DRS for many decades.

Them's the breaks. It would have been absurd to have stopped play for that, especially with rain forecast for this afternoon.

DRS crapped out at one point yesterday as well. As soon as it started working again England reviewed a 'caught behind' that went nowhere near the bat.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Watching the Blundell wicket, unless he hit it, that looked very out. So don't think DRS would have saved him anyway.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Boult’s on fire. Tits

 

[Santino]

They're playing our song again.

 

[Cerberus]

Wow - Boult is on

Crawley out for 4. Good ball but won’t be happy with the shot. That’s got to be him done now, for his own good

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I said no batting collapses dammit!

This is where the 'look at our new positive approach' thing gets put under real pressure isn't it. If Bairstow comes in at 17/3 then gets out quickly trying to hit it out the ground that really isn't a good look.

 

[Petcha]

Wow - Boult is on

Crawley out for 4. Good ball but won’t be happy with the shot. That’s got to be him done now, for his own good

tbf, Boult's looking unplayable at the moment

 

[Petcha]

Oh dear

 

[Cerberus]

Counter attack - in the sheds

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Yeah there it is. A quick 18 isn't really much use in test cricket is it, most of the time anyway.

 

[Petcha]

You have to say. That was juvenile batting from Stokes.

You're 4 down. You're captain. You've got a fired up nutter back into the team coming in like a bat out of hell. Maybe give it an over or two.

 

[Cerberus]

You have to say. That was juvenile batting from Stokes.

You're 4 down. You're captain. You've got a fired up nutter back into the team coming in like a bat out of hell. Maybe give it an over or two.

Yup. Long tail exposed as a result

 

[Petcha]

I hope they've got a defibrillator there somewhere coz Wagner's gonna have a minor heart attack if this continues.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

srsly, wtf?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

This is what Wagner does. People think they can get after him and get out instead. It was madness leaving him out before imo.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Watching the wickets, I'm letting Lees, Pope and Root off. Maybe Pope should have been lbw rather than bowled, but those were jaffas. No disgrace.

Crawley was very loose, though. Good ball, but there was a huge gap between bat and pad.

Foakes. It did swing a bit, but he played right across it and was very late. Not great but he'd just come in.

Stokes? On comms, Vaughan said it disrespected test cricket. That's a bit of a big statement. However, it was certainly disrespecting Neil Wagner, and that is what always happens when you do that.

 

[Petcha]

They zoomed in on Boycott after Stokes' dismissal. You can imagine.

Overton looks a better bat than Crawley.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Fuck sake Bairstow’s falling for the bait from Wagner

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Have a word with the ginger someone

 

[planetgeli]

So having failed to fit Bairstow into Test cricket, we've fitted Test cricket into him instead.

 

[Petcha]

So having failed to fit Bairstow into Test cricket, we've fitted Test cricket into him instead.

I can't see how it's sustainable really. As someone said on comms, only two players in that side are capable of playing 'baz-ball' and thats Stokes and bairstow. Although Overton isn't doing his chances any harm.

Still, it'll get bums on seats for the ECB.

 

[Santino]

Absolutely stupid absurd game.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Jack Leach 5 wickets in the first innings and a potential hundred on debut for the other Overton twin. Mental.

 

[marty21]

Last time I looked , 91-6 , wow ! Jonny to the rescue again! & what a knock from Jamie Overton , no one was expecting that !

Edited , got the brothers mixed up