The New Cricket Thread

[Brownie]

Test cricket is just fucking boss.

[A_S]

They've been liberated out of the shadow of Kohli in this innings.  

 

Kohli was probably wishing an innings like this came earlier in the series! 

 

It was about as far from a typical 4-1 series as you could get, as India were in all matches bar Lords, when they copped some shitty luck for the conditions in their 1st innings. 

 

I'm looking forward to see how they fare in Australia later this year, though looking at the Australian squad selected to play in the UAE, fuck knows what the team will look like come our summer! 

[Dougie Do'ins]

"The Hundred": England and Wales Cricket Board seeks overseas trademark for new 100-ball format

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/45515806

 

In other news. Yorkshire beat Lancs by 95 run and go over them. Lancs are now in the drop zone with one game to play.

[lifetime fan]

Collingwood announces his retirement at the end of the season. 

[lifetime fan]

Moeen Ali says he was racially abused by an Aussie during the ashes. 

[Dougie Do'ins]

26 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

Moeen Ali says he was racially abused by an Aussie during the ashes. 

I was reading about this yesterday. Why wasn't the accusation taken more seriously at the time and not three years later ?

Moeen Ali: Cricket Australia to investigate claims England all-rounder was called 'Osama'

Cricket Australia is to investigate claims made by England all-rounder Moeen Ali that an Australian player called him 'Osama' during the 2015 Ashes.

England were hosts for the series and won it 3-2 to regain the Ashes.

Moeen, 31, has made the accusation in his soon to be released autobiography.

"Remarks of this nature are unacceptable and have no place in our sport, or in society," said a Cricket Australia spokesperson.

"We have a clear set of values and behaviours that comes with representing our country.

"We take this matter very seriously, and are following up with the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) as a matter of urgency to seek further clarification around the alleged incident."

In an extract of Moeen's book in The Times, he said: "An Australian player had turned to me on the field and said, 'Take that, Osama'. I could not believe what I had heard.

"I remember going really red. I have never been so angry on a cricket field.

"I told a couple of the guys what the player had said to me and I think Trevor Bayliss [the England coach] must have raised it with Darren Lehmann, the Australians' coach.

"Lehmann asked the player, 'Did you call Moeen Osama'?" He denied it, saying, 'No, I said, 'Take that, you part-timer'."

The alleged slur appears to be a reference to Islamist terrorist Osama Bin Laden. Moeen, who was born in Birmingham, is a Muslim of Pakistani and English heritage.

Moeen claimed the incident happened during the first Test, where he scored 77 runs and took five wickets as England beat Australia by 169 runs at Cardiff.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/45532699

 

[A_S]

1 hour ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

I was reading about this yesterday. Why wasn't the accusation taken more seriously at the time and not three years later ?

Moeen Ali: Cricket Australia to investigate claims England all-rounder was called 'Osama'

Moeen, 31, has made the accusation in his soon to be released autobiography.

 

That's the big issue I have with it. Surely something this serious has to be settled one way or another at the time, rather than through a fucking book release years later.

Another issue with it being now is that with recent events in South Africa, the behaviour of players in the Australian team has never been under more scrutiny, so I hope this doesn't unfairly colour any investigation of an incident from more than 3 years ago. 

[LF:D]

[Trumo]

England win the one-day series against Sri Lanka. The series has been an absolute ballache because it was scheduled to take place during the rainy season. Of the 4 matches, one was a washout, one ended up as basically a T20 game, and the other two were settled by D/L.

[Spy Bee]

Just looking at corps for Trent Bridge. Is a non-viewing area, literally somewhere where you can't see the pitch?

[Captain Howdy]

113 for 5 at Lunch, good start then.

[Brownie]

Got tickets for Headingley and Old Trafford next summer so this team better start playing better (I know it’s different away from home etc).

[Captain Howdy]

Butler gone 164 - 6

[Captain Turdseye]

Christ. Just turned it on and seen that pitch and the outfield. Did a quick Google search to see if they actually have groundsmen in Sri Lanka and it turns out they’ve done exactly what was asked of them!

 

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/sri-lanka-cricket-suspend-two-involved-match-fixing-allegations-al-jazeera-indika-mendis-galle/2018-05-28

[Captain Howdy]

Foakes with a half century 201-6 now

 

[Stickman]

Great first days play so far in Galle,  England currently 308-8 against Sri Lanka with ben Foakes on debut currently 87 not out.

Good fight back too especially after the England top order treating the game as if it was a one dayer

[Captain Howdy]

321-8 at close, good comeback

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Very good from Foakes, a proper test innings.

[Stickman]

England must have the best middle order in cricket and possibly the worst top three

[Jairzinho]

5 minutes ago, Stickman said:

England must have the best middle order in cricket and possibly the worst top three

A top seven full of number fives.

[Total Longo]

Woakes, Stokes, Foakes.

 

Jokes. 

[sir roger]

That Herath is my kind of cricketer , by which I mean he appears to be my age and my weight.

 

Always makes me chuckle seeing chubby spinners watching shots crawl past them to the boundary & then turn into Spiderman from their own bowling.

[Stickman]

Brilliant work by Foakes to stump Chandimal, could England have a wicketkeeper who's also a good batsman rather then the other way around?

 

Sri Lanka 136-5 England 206 ahead you'd normally say that's a handy lead but we all know England aren't usually very good at finishing off the tail...

[Brownie]

England 177 ahead with 10 wickets in hand. Great position and recovery from Lunch on day 1.

[Stickman]

brilliant by England they win in Galle by 211 runs for the first time ever.

Only the second time since 1958 that England's spinners have taken 16 wickets or more in a Test since 1958.