The New Cricket Thread

[Josef Svejk]

Jennings is shot, walking wicket. Cook needs to go, Root needs to drop the captaincy. Apart from the we're fine.

 

Who would come in? We have very few battlers.

Ben Stokes has a bit of fight about him...

[Josef Svejk]

Incidentally, anyone have a link for English batting averages this summer?

[sir roger]

I don't know whether it was bravado , but why Root decided to bat was beyond me , even if the surface doesn't look too bad.

 

No matter what the pitch / atmosphere is like we struggle to top 300.

[Stickman]

Stokes and Butler both out England 89-6

 

Meanwhile Ian Bell currently 121 not out for Glamorgan on a not too friendly batting pitch

[Jairzinho]

Hildreth and Mitchell watching this shite and shaking their heads.

[Jairzinho]

Bumble talking about having a beer down south - "If it were any flatter I could have shoved it in an envelope".

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Pathetic.

[Stickman]

Great stuff from Curran and then four overs of dross from Anderson and Broad when maybe Curran who is on a high should have been thrown the ball

India made 19 with doing not very much at all,, think it's going to be a long day tomorrow

[sir roger]

That Curran lad going out of his way to get dropped again.

 

Lancs needing 300 or so runs in the 2nd innings against Worcs at Southport or they are most likely going to be relegated.

[Vincent Vega]

Incidentally, anyone have a link for English batting averages this summer?

 

Here you go mate.

 

England averages:

 

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/averages/batting_bowling_by_team.html?id=12033;team=1;type=series

 

India averages:

 

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/averages/batting_bowling_by_team.html?id=12033;team=6;type=series

 

Jennings is shot, walking wicket. Cook needs to go, Root needs to drop the captaincy. Apart from the we're fine.

 

Who would come in? We have very few battlers.

Agree on taking the captaincy off Root, his batting is predictably suffering from the pressure. Not too many candidates, I’d probably give it to Bairstow.

[George Costanza]

England really cannot bat at all can they. Fucking awful

[George Costanza]

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/averages/batting_bowling_by_team.html?id=12033;team=6;type=series

 

 

Agree on taking the captaincy off Root, his batting is predictably suffering from the pressure. Not too many candidates, I’d probably give it to Bairstow.

Root needs someone to give him a good twatting.  He constantly gives his wicket away. He's so fucking talented but if he had an ounce of proper application he'd be scoring huge numbers.  Its his attitude that constant throughout the batting. There's no fucker that makes the opponent work for his wicket.

 

Thank fuck for the bowlers. Rescued the batsmen for years now

[Remmie]

I think we have a very good middle order so the batting isn't all bad. Amazing the difference in class in ODI/Twenty20 top order batting contrasted with the Test team.

 

Our supposed 2 best batsmen in Root and Cook have been muff garbage for ages now.

[A_S]

A finely poised match, given India haven't exactly set the world alight with their batting, Kohli aside. 

 

It was interesting hearing Holding and Atherton discussing Andy Roberts and how he could change his grip on the ball / shiny side as he was about to deliver the ball. Atherton didn't believe him, so they saw Andy Roberts one time later and he showed them exactly how he did it. 

 

Fucking hell, like you don't have enough problems facing Andy Roberts without that tricky shit! 

[lifetime fan]

A finely poised match, given India haven't exactly set the world alight with their batting, Kohli aside.

 

It was interesting hearing Holding and Atherton discussing Andy Roberts and how he could change his grip on the ball / shiny side as he was about to deliver the ball. Atherton didn't believe him, so they saw Andy Roberts one time later and he showed them exactly how he did it.

 

Fucking hell, like you don't have enough problems facing Andy Roberts without that tricky shit!

 

Missed that - do you have a link at all mate?

[Stickman]

A finely poised match, given India haven't exactly set the world alight with their batting, Kohli aside. 

 

It was interesting hearing Holding and Atherton discussing Andy Roberts and how he could change his grip on the ball / shiny side as he was about to deliver the ball. Atherton didn't believe him, so they saw Andy Roberts one time later and he showed them exactly how he did it. 

 

Fucking hell, like you don't have enough problems facing Andy Roberts without that tricky shit! 

 

 

I think it's amazing that you could even manage to see the shiny side of a ball in a players hand and from 22 yards away? The again I think it's amazing that players can tell what sort of delivery say a leg spinner is going to bowl by the slight change in the way the ball leaves his hand

I can barely see what note I'm handing over at the bar, I guess that's why I'm always skint....Oh for the eyes of youth

[Jairzinho]

Kohli appears to be playing a different sport to everyone else.

[Jairzinho]

Gone!

 

Lead should be less than 200 now.

[Stickman]

Kohli appears to be playing a different sport to everyone else.

 

 

Makes you wonder what would have happened if he'd been caught in the first test match for about 17 instead of going on to make 149.....

 

As I type that Curran has got him out caught by Cook

[Jairzinho]

Rare mistake from him as the ball did fuck all.

[Jairzinho]

Great hundred from Pujara. Interesting game this now.

[Joe Strummer]

Lancs on the verge of a famous win at Southport. Wish I'd gone now.

[Remmie]

Bumrah proving to be an unflushable turd

[A_S]

Great match.

[sir roger]

Lancs on the verge of a famous win at Southport. Wish I'd gone now.

 

Me too, Joe.

 

Biggest run chase by Lancs to win a game since 2002 !!

 

I assume it's down to finances , but playing at Old Trafford seems to be a kiss of death , the outer grounds at Southport, Liverpool & Blackpool seem to provide much better crowds & results , see the title win year for example.