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Post by wetkingcanute on Dec 30, 2021 9:27:48 GMT
At last some good news:
England men's head coach Chris Silverwood will miss the fourth Ashes Test in Sydney after being forced to isolate for 10 days.
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Post by voice on Dec 30, 2021 18:39:09 GMT
In confused and befuddled news...
England pace bowler James Anderson says he believed the side "genuinely had a good chance" of beating Australia in the Ashes.
wonder if he still believes in the tooth fairy and Santa given there is more chance of those existing quite frankly.
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Post by ootlg on Dec 31, 2021 9:05:03 GMT
Commentaries I heard sugest the England team are 'old-fashioned' and 'not moving with the times', 'lacking dynamism and team spirit'.
WKC?
How about covid and jet-lag?
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Post by wetkingcanute on Dec 31, 2021 10:31:49 GMT
Not moving with the times?!!!
I'll have you know I've just bought myself one of those new fangled Palm Pilots!
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Post by ootlg on Dec 31, 2021 12:31:10 GMT
You're in the England team? Hope you're not an underarm bowler.
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Post by perrykneeham on Dec 31, 2021 12:46:31 GMT
Nah, he's definitely heterosexual.
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Post by perrykneeham on Dec 31, 2021 12:47:24 GMT
.... and has been since he left school.
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Post by flatandy on Dec 31, 2021 13:47:52 GMT
Commentaries I heard sugest the England team are 'old-fashioned' and 'not moving with the times', 'lacking dynamism and team spirit'. WKC? How about covid and jet-lag? I'd argue that it's the other way round. The ECB are utterly focused on the white ball game because they think it's the future - even though test cricket brings something like 30 sold out days to the ECB's coffers each summer, and even though the public are much more aware of who England's Test captain is than who the T20 captain is. This means that England's best players don't get to play long-form cricket in the middle of the summer when the wickets are at their best, and therefore nobody knows how to build long innings. The only other thing they seem to care about it the Ashes, but even then they've decided to take a modern approach that means that there are no warm up games and no reserve players are in Oz playing grade cricket through the Australian summer. Basically, the ECB have gone for the Most Shallow approach - adding the utterly superfluous and daft The Hundred right in the middle of the summer - even though basically nobody wants them to do so and even though it almost certainly isn't more lucrative. |
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Post by ootlg on Dec 31, 2021 14:12:18 GMT
Personally I prefer the good old 'boring' long form, something you can get your teeth into  but having said that cricket's rarely on offer for viewing here. But if we get right down to the spirit of the game traditional village cricket's the one for me - sunny afternoons, the sound of leather on willow, polite clapping and a decent pint of beer on the grass with a pretty wench alongside in her summer frock. |
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Post by flatandy on Jan 6, 2022 14:16:25 GMT
Two absolutely engrossing and cracking test matches to start the new year. And then there's England vs Australia, too.
Bangladesh winning in NZ is pretty incredible given that it wasn't a spinning wicket and given how incredibly good NZ have been for a few years.
But even more exciting is the current SA-India game. SA needing 99 more to win on a 4th day wicket that's looking pretty uneven. 8 wickets left, but SA's batting is pretty brittle. Could be any of three outcomes still - unlikely to be a draw, but everything else is still on the cards.
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Post by wetkingcanute on Jan 9, 2022 9:38:14 GMT
There's been a disturbance in the force.
England have batted a whole day and hung on for a draw!
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Post by flatandy on Jan 9, 2022 12:37:14 GMT
Cracking work by a combination of the weather, England’s broken wicket-keeper, the stumps staying up when the ball hit them.
Still, England have been so utterly piss poor this series that you have to look at this as some form of a triumph. Everyone was expecting a 5-0 result.
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Post by flatandy on Jan 16, 2022 12:28:51 GMT
Time to replace the ECB, Silverwood as coach, Burns, Crawley, Malan, Stokes, Pope, Broad and Anderson. And Hameed and Leach if they were playing.
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Post by flatandy on Jan 16, 2022 12:29:35 GMT
Maybe not Anderson. He’s still England’s best bowler by miles but he’s going to have to quit anyway, soon enough.
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Post by wetkingcanute on Jan 16, 2022 13:14:26 GMT
It's just so depressing.
No, not depressing - it's just sad.
I love Cricket - it's a great game - I used to watch my Dad play for his local Wednesday Eleven - then played for my schools. Had a few games for my town's Second Eleven and played many Company games etc.
I had hoped for a good Ashes Series. I didn't expect us to win - but I didn't expect such a complete capitulation.
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Post by ootlg on Jan 16, 2022 13:26:55 GMT
It is a great game (I wouldn't diminish it by calling it sport*) but all the players have to be 100% at their job. Nothing worse than watching second-raters.
* I see 'sport' as something where individual physical fitness is the prime requirement. Anyone with average to good fitness can play a 100% excellent game of cricket as it's really down to skill.
Highly arguable I know.
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Post by flatandy on Jan 26, 2022 23:17:48 GMT
Ah! This is the kind of Ashes start I like. Australia 4/2 in the 4th over.
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Post by flatandy on Feb 8, 2022 18:20:57 GMT
England have announced their team for the WI tour. And it's possible we'll have a Stoke-Woakes-Foakes stretch of batting line up.
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Post by voice on Mar 9, 2022 15:40:24 GMT
Bairstow's 140 was a stirling innings, not available here, so had to rely on 'live text'.
Though 6 of England's batters never even made it to double figures, which is very poor.
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Post by wetkingcanute on Mar 9, 2022 15:47:14 GMT
Yes, a bit worrying - but early days - and at least it's a defendable total.
And it wasn't our bowlers that let us down in Oz.
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