England Cricket 2022

[Petcha]

Remember when Atherton batted for 10 hours and personally faced almost 500 balls for 185 not out?

30 wickets within 774 balls in this match

A truly weird match

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Nearly first ball wicket. That was slip practice.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Nine completed innings so far this series. Two scores over 200.

 

[Petcha]

Crawley getting applause there for leaving his first ball

 

[WhyLikeThis]

ANOTHER RUN OUT.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Or not

 

[Petcha]

I learned how to slide my bat in when I was 5

 

[littlebabyjesus]

kinell one frame in it.

 

[Petcha]

Elgar reviews something!

 

[Ted Striker]

Still enough overs in the day for either of the 1st 2 innings

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Not quite got the hang of this review thing.

 

[kabbes]

Fuck sake you have all tomorrow as well as the rest of today and you only need 130. Just take it easy. 1 run an over is fine. The flashy stuff looks great if it works but how many lives have they already used up this innings?

 

[Petcha]

Fuck sake you have all tomorrow as well as the rest of today and you only need 130. Just take it easy. 1 run an over is fine. The flashy stuff looks great if it works but how many lives have they already used up this innings?

I'm sure Surrey would prefer they slowed it down a bit. They must be mightily pissed off at a 2 day game.

 

[paulhackett]

I'm sure Surrey would prefer they slowed it down a bit. They must be mightily pissed off at a 2 day game.

They'll want it finished - no profit in tomorrow

 

[SpookyFrank]

They'll want it finished - no profit in tomorrow

Loss more likely. If it's over in half an hour they'll be on the hook for refunds and won't sell any beer or hotdogs.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

There is no good reason to come off. Umpires are not maesters of the realm, they’re there to facilitate the game not to to use it as their personal wank rag.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Put that light meter away you silly sod, either take them off or don't. Doesn't need to be half an hour of chin-scratching after every over.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

The England team, the supporters, Surrey and even SA will want this done tonight. Yet, the jobsworths are going to be jobsworths. Wankers.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Not entirely convincing, but these innings have probably booked Crawley and Lees on the plane to Pakistan.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Consensus between the 2 teams should override the authority of the umpires on light.

 

[Petcha]

Cricket has to be the only sport that routinely shoots itself in the foot like this. It's absolutely insane.

I wasn't watching it but this is the last ball before they carted them off.

Jansen to Lees, FOUR runs
Drilled through the covers! Lees has sensed the urgency and climbs through his drive, one hand coming off the bat as he reaches outside his eyeline and gets a good piece of it

That's a quick bowler. And the batsman was perfectly comfortable doing that.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Not entirely convincing, but these innings have probably booked Crawley and Lees on the plane to Pakistan.

Central contract time is fast approaching so they've probably landed themselves a nice payday too.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Consensus between the 2 teams should override the authority of the umpires on light.

It's now a legal thing, I believe. If a batter is hit and injured, it doesn't matter if he asked to be out there - if the light was below the guidelines, the organisation is potentially liable.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

It's now a legal thing, I believe. If a batter is hit and injured, it doesn't matter if he asked to be out there - if the light was below the guidelines, the organisation is potentially liable.

There’s 4 fuck off flood lights that are used for night matches. There is no danger to the batters.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

That's a quick bowler. And the batsman was perfectly comfortable doing that.

I was watching. They were in no bother whatsoever.

 

[planetgeli]

Not entirely convincing, but these innings have probably booked Crawley and Lees on the plane to Pakistan.

Someone nearly always does this in the last Test at the Oval, ever since I've followed cricket. It's ridiculous. Crawley has been streaky, Lees was dropped first ball. Have a plane ticket lads, we'll forget your useless averages and techniques.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Someone nearly always does this in the last Test at the Oval, ever since I've followed cricket. It's ridiculous. Crawley has been streaky, Lees was dropped first ball. Have a plane ticket lads, we'll forget your useless averages and techniques.

Lees dropped first ball, nearly run out very dozily next over.

Crawley dropped twice.

Crawley does look better when he's playing his shots, but there were a couple that squirmed through the cordon when the bat was coming down very crookedly. His technique is loose and it's hard to see him fixing it. He's a white ball player basically. As said on commentary, though, he could score a lot of runs on the roads of Pakistan.

 

[paulhackett]

Free gate tomorrow

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Aside from today's innings there's still the issue of a total lack of alternatives isn't there. Who's next up? Someone else who's already been tried and has a terrible test record probably. Burns/Sibley/Hameed/Jennings etc probably wouldn't be any worse but equally likely wouldn't be much better really.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

They can't drop Crawley now anyway. They picked him for the last test and he made a decent fighting 38. And now he's made a freewheeling 50 chasing a small target. He's actually played the situation pretty well.

Lees' lack of runs has slipped under the radar, though. He just doesn't look test quality to me. But aside from Root and latterly Bairstow, who does?