SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Joe Root's bowling figures: 10 overs 3 maidens 23 runs 2 wickets. Not bad for a part timer.
England Cricket 2022
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littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
First one sure. Second was a good ball.
WhyLikeThis
Something, something, something
Aye, flight, dip and turn. Lovely.
WhyLikeThis
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Root may make 50 test wickets this series, on 47 atm. Not bad for a part-time comedy tweaker.
WhyLikeThis
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I fear what effect the football will have on the team. The match didn’t start until midnight Multan time. If I was Pakistan, I’d make sure plenty of booze was available in the England hotel.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
Lunch day 4, and there will be a result within the next session. Pakistan need 64, or England need 3 wickets (and both batters are tailenders on 0).
4th innings on a Pakistani pitch and seamers are still doing some damage, refreshing.
4th innings on a Pakistani pitch and seamers are still doing some damage, refreshing.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
Needing 64 has very quickly become needing 45, Abrar having an excellent swing of the bat.
Enter Sir James Anderson, needing 3 becomes needing 2...
Enter Sir James Anderson, needing 3 becomes needing 2...
Abrar is probably man of the match. But if England go on to win, there are a few across the team that could challenge him. Duckett, most likely. But Brook, Leach, Wood — all crucial. Even Stokes‘ own pair of innings both provided crucial covering fire.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
MotM should normally come from the winning side, the player who made the decisive contribution. But just occasionally the best individual performance can come in a losing side; if England do go on to win this, I'd still give it to Abrar.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
36 or 1... Wood one away from a five wicket, 4th innings haul. Express pace matters.
While doing some work, I have TMS on BBC Sounds but also the webpage up. This is highly confusing because TMS is several minutes behind reality. I just glanced at the webpage and saw Pakistan as 9 wickets down. I found this bizarre as I was sure I hadn’t heard the 9th wicket. Then a minute later, it happened.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Brook scored 153 and 87 in the last game and didn't get MoM. I think he deserves it.
Fantastic win. Stokes is really advertising 4 day Tests here.
Fantastic win. Stokes is really advertising 4 day Tests here.
Hazardous Mata
Active Member
Brilliant cricket from England again. True test is going to be the Ashes. If they go to Australia and beat them in this fashion, that will be super impressive.
Yeh. Lookin forward to see how this stands up against Starc, Hazlewood, Cummins. Quite a few Aussie cricketers on social media praising this England team which is quite odd
I don’t think he can claim credit for the run out!
Edit: my mistake, I was thinking of the wrong run out!
Hazardous Mata
Active Member
It's the old distraction thing. Tell them how great they are and see if they believe their own publicity. Gotta hope England are smarter than that.Yeh. Lookin forward to see how this stands up against Starc, Hazlewood, Cummins. Quite a few Aussie cricketers on social media praising this England team which is quite odd
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Except that the first test went to the final session of the fifth day.
A few of his wins have gone to the fifth day.
Just seen the replay of that 'catch' which arguably turned the game this morning.
Clearly touched the ground but the third umpire's hands were tied because of the stupid fucking soft signal. When are they going to get rid of that? It's either out or its not. Axe that and Umpire's Call please. Trust the technology or don't.
Clearly touched the ground but the third umpire's hands were tied because of the stupid fucking soft signal. When are they going to get rid of that? It's either out or its not. Axe that and Umpire's Call please. Trust the technology or don't.
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
Clearly touched the ground, or there was nothing conclusive either way?
Nope.
They stopped trusting umpires to detect no-balls a few feet in front of them but we're trusting their eyesight to detect whether a finger is under a ball 50 yards away.
The “technology” in this instance is still the judgement of another human, just one who didn’t have the benefit of being there to see it live in 3D
Zapp Brannigan
Built like a steakhouse, handles like a bistro
Tbf I hadn't seen it yet zoomed like that, frame by frame; I'll agree that looks a lucky one. If I were the TV umpire I'd be giving it not out regardless of the soft signal.
I disagree with doing away with the soft signal though. We should all be familiar with camera foreshortening by now, and it's not always possible to give a definitive answer either way. In those cases, I think it is better to defer to the initial first reaction (i.e. what would have been given for the 100 years pre-dating TV umpires). Therefore in this case, it's not the rule that's wrong but the application, there is enough evidence to overturn the on-field decision.
