SpookyFrank
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They cost a small fortune as well, the test-grade balls. Piss poor.
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They cost a small fortune as well, the test-grade balls. Piss poor.
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Apparently the person who stitched them too loosely has been sacked. Dukes balls are usually high quality, just this years batch was botched.
planetgeli
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Haha. Wtf? Just as you think Root is playing a 'proper' test match knock he does that!
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NZ look like they’ve got a bad case of end of holiday blues.
planetgeli
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Comprehensive on a flat pitch that's taking turn but NZ have a spinner who has only taken 30 wickets in nearly 100 FC matches. 61 in the last 10 overs says it all.
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Just leaving Headingley now. A really good days play - maybe not the fireworks we were promised but lots of good cricket. Batting has looked pretty comfortable all day though tbh. I'd think England will get the runs reasonably comfortably tomorrow.
SpookyFrank
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They've been in every game and they've won plenty of sessions but nothing's quite landed their way. You can't have a series as good as this one without a proper opposition team and NZ have definitely been that. Three defeats is a pretty crappy return for their efforts.
planetgeli
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They're playing a completely unproven spinner with a nice surname while they give Patel 2 overs in the 1st Test. In his previous Test Patel took all ten wickets in an innings. They give Wagner one game. Selection cock-ups are not always England.
littlebabyjesus
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I hope not. The factory manager who passed them as good is the person responsible, not the poor fucker being paid fuck all to do the actual work.
littlebabyjesus
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He's had one breezy 40-odd. But then again, so has Stuart Broad.
It's not a great management team by the looks of it (the kiwis). It will be interesting to see what happens when Baz's luck runs out though. It's a bit curious both he and Key have gone to ground media-wise, both people who don't exactly mind seeing their faces on TV. I assume this is part of the strategy.
On the balls, I heard that Joss Buttler was personally responsible for over £1k of ball losses in that innings in the Netherlands the other day
Those were Kookaburras though which are far more expensive than Dukes, which says something in itself.
On the balls, I heard that Joss Buttler was personally responsible for over £1k of ball losses in that innings in the Netherlands the other day
Those were Kookaburras though which are far more expensive than Dukes, which says something in itself.
littlebabyjesus
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Really pleased for Jack Leach. I thought he was coming to the end of his test career last match. He was really bowling badly. Found something this match. Flight, control, drift, bounce and turn. Brilliant.
Kiwis have fought hard every match, played very well at times, been unlucky at times, but they've now totally misread two pitches. First one at Lords they should not have played the spinner. Here, they really, really needed to. The safe thing to do is to play a frontline spinner every game as England have done - sometimes he'll feature, other times he won't, but he's there in case. But he needs to be given a bit of trust by his captain. Full marks again to Stokes for that.
Kiwis have fought hard every match, played very well at times, been unlucky at times, but they've now totally misread two pitches. First one at Lords they should not have played the spinner. Here, they really, really needed to. The safe thing to do is to play a frontline spinner every game as England have done - sometimes he'll feature, other times he won't, but he's there in case. But he needs to be given a bit of trust by his captain. Full marks again to Stokes for that.
Bit of a hatchet job on Crawley here but hard to disagree.
There's no way he can fit into this side I dont think.
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The comparison with Boris Johnson is quite apt. How the hell is he still clinging on.
There's no way he can fit into this side I dont think.
Zak Crawley should be a perfect fit for this England but offers only high farce | Jonathan Liew
Opener’s flashy 25 was of a piece with the McCullum-Stokes ethos but frankly he could do with a bit more fear, and a return to his county
The comparison with Boris Johnson is quite apt. How the hell is he still clinging on.
planetgeli
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Bit of a hatchet job on Crawley here but hard to disagree.
There's no way he can fit into this side I dont think.
Zak Crawley should be a perfect fit for this England but offers only high farce | Jonathan Liew
Opener’s flashy 25 was of a piece with the McCullum-Stokes ethos but frankly he could do with a bit more fear, and a return to his county
The comparison with Boris Johnson is quite apt. How the hell is he still clinging on.
I thought this article was bang on, Liew is in good form right now. Unlike Crawley who has everything in his hands but nothing in his head.
littlebabyjesus
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It's a decent article for content. But by fuck it makes me yearn for the days when newspapers employed subeditors.
planetgeli
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"Billy Wagner" - actually that's on the daily report, under a picture
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Jonathan Liew didn’t hold back. Scathing as fuck.
Bit of a hatchet job on Crawley here but hard to disagree.
There's no way he can fit into this side I dont think.
Zak Crawley should be a perfect fit for this England but offers only high farce | Jonathan Liew
Opener’s flashy 25 was of a piece with the McCullum-Stokes ethos but frankly he could do with a bit more fear, and a return to his county
The comparison with Boris Johnson is quite apt. How the hell is he still clinging on.
Jonathan Liew didn’t hold back. Scathing as fuck.
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Lies seems to have disappeared up his own arse. We each have opinions but this on Ponting's view that Crawley can play is just bollocks "Ponting is a fine judge of a player, but he clearly hadn’t watched Crawley very much."
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ah the slap of leather against willow on the village green, back in the days when people knew their place and newspapers employed subeditors
That article on Crawley is getting a lot of criticism on the Guardian. It's bullying etc. The guy's on £1m a year. For context that's about three times as much as the Prime Minister who also (very very very rightly) has to deal with bad press and has a slightly more stressful job. Neither are up to the job. Deal with it.
I'd get rid of him now and try something wild like getting Hales back in and give him license.
I'd get rid of him now and try something wild like getting Hales back in and give him license.
littlebabyjesus
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Like arseholes, we all have an opinion, but fwiw mine about Crawley is this: He's not an opener.
And that's compounded by the fact that he's been playing in a series in which all four openers have struggled compared to the two middle orders. If he'd been coming in at 5 in this series, he may very well have made a big score at some point.
And that's compounded by the fact that he's been playing in a series in which all four openers have struggled compared to the two middle orders. If he'd been coming in at 5 in this series, he may very well have made a big score at some point.
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I'm not entirely convinced he would have done that well in the middle order to be honest, but I agree he's definitely not an opener. There's just nothing about his game that suits the position is there. There's not really a case for keeping him in as a middle order batter given the competition though, England have plenty of options there - maybe several with questions around them but still with a better case than him. Opener is still where the gap is.
littlebabyjesus
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I agree that there's no room for him in the middle order. I just think that's where he should be, if picked.
Not sure what I think about the Liew article. His comparison with Warner is a good one. Warner doesn't just try to smack it to the boundary. He's always looking to dink and run and is lightning between the wickets. That said, Sehwag mostly did just try to smack it to the boundary. Inzamam didn't do quick singles. In the end the numbers are what matters.
Not sure what I think about the Liew article. His comparison with Warner is a good one. Warner doesn't just try to smack it to the boundary. He's always looking to dink and run and is lightning between the wickets. That said, Sehwag mostly did just try to smack it to the boundary. Inzamam didn't do quick singles. In the end the numbers are what matters.
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Would be a bit of a shame but not surprising really. He's looked pretty shot as a batter for quite a while now.
