England Cricket 2024

[littlebabyjesus]

Dunno. But it's a pretty scant penalty. They should be taken out of the attack for the rest of the match. 5 runs isn't even a swipe of the mighty Zak Crawley's blade.

Bowlers can be taken out of the attack. But there never used to be any penalty against batters. Stern words from the umps was all there was.

 

[Petcha]

Well ok, they should be penalised harder than that though. 5 runs. I mean.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

A bowler taken out of the attack, nominated by the opposition.

 

[Spymaster]

Dunno. But it's a pretty scant penalty. They should be taken out of the attack for the rest of the match. 5 runs isn't even a swipe of the mighty Zak Crawley's blade.

This is the batsmen though, not the bowlers.

 

[Petcha]

This is the batsmen though, not the bowlers.

Yes, noted. The guys who were warned were both bowlers though, just batting at the time.

 

[Spymaster]

A bowler taken out of the attack, nominated by the opposition.

Cobblers! The game’s stacked against bowlers as it is. Bowlers should be allowed to cane errant batters.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Actually I think the simplest solution is that the batter is given out. Why not? It would mirror the penalty for bowlers when they are taken out of the attack for the rest of the innings.

If it's both batters running on the pitch, the batter who was facing at the time is out.

 

[Petcha]

Jadeja and Ashwin are gonna use those patches on the wicket to reduce England's score by far more than 5 runs, so yes - give them a red card.

Jadeja was first informed by the umpire to stay away from the protected area while running and the second time he did that, he got the first and last official warning. The warning was valid for the entire Indian innings. And when Ashwin repeated the same mistake on Day 2, the umpire signalled for 5 penalty runs.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Jadeja and Ashwin are gonna use those patches on the wicket to reduce England's score by far more than 5 runs, so yes - give them a red card.

Keep the same procedure but the player who does it after the warnings is given out. IMO that would be fair and proportionate.

 

[Petcha]

Given they're both spin bowlers I'd not let them bowl into their own footmarks in the next innings and not be allowed to bowl. Of course they'd probably just ask their batsmen to do it instead so maybe you're right.

5 runs is so random. Make it 30.

 

[Idaho]

England could get a decent first innings lead here

Lol. Much more likely to lose 6 wickets in the morning session and limp to 300.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Ashwin out of the match for a family emergency.

 

[Idaho]

Yikes. That's a shame, partisan nonsense to one side.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The ground looks all but deserted in the highlight footage. How they can fail to fill a cricket ground for a major international match in India I've no idea.

 

[Spymaster]

Holy shit! Just woke up to another England collapse.

India looked clueless yesterday but today, without Ashwin, have smashed through one of England's best batting sides for years.

8 wickets for 95 runs. COME ON!

 

[Spymaster]

The ground looks all but deserted in the highlight footage. How they can fail to fill a cricket ground for a major international match in India I've no idea.

One of my bugbears too. And Rajkot isn't one of the massive IPL grounds either. It's smaller than Lords.

They should open the gates to fill the seats but my FiL reckons that with the caste system still alive and well in India, there'd be a riot if people who had paid for tickets, were sat next to people who hadn't.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I woke up feeling full of enthusiasm after England's performance yesterday.....

Root and Bairstow could do with stepping up batting wise.

Ah well, another day...

 

[Spymaster]

Baby-face taking Jimmy to pieces here!

I almost feel sorry for the old boy.

 

[Idaho]

Win the toss, win the match seems to be holding true. I think we can chalk this down as a loss.

 

[Spymaster]

Blimey, the kid's on fire.

He's going to be a legend.

 

[planetgeli]

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Oh Bairstow you idiot! Not sure why I've picked him out particularly as Duckett's run out was possibly worse but at least Duckett has done something in this match.

 

[Idaho]

Ok, that's enough.

We really need to win the next toss.

 

[Spymaster]

Dude with the trumpet needs to STFU

 

[Spymaster]

Jadeja - 4 for 11 off 10 overs

 

[Spymaster]

Boom!

Fwiw, I don't think England selection was wrong, with the possible exception of Bairstow.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Bazballers keep on bazballing. Extraordinary stuff.

Whatever the result of this series, I think England are going to leave in credit. They've taken the game to India in India in a way that nobody has ever done before.

I'd still rather be India right now, but another session like that and I'll change my mind.

Well this aged well...

 

[planetgeli]

Wood's day?

Arf.

 

[Spymaster]

Wood's day?

Thought he was going to take it away from us at the end

 

[planetgeli]

12.83

Root's average after 3 tests.