The New Cricket Thread

[Jairzinho]

4 minutes ago, skaro said:

 

In Australia, Maxwell gets into arguments about being a No 4.

 

The other two - yeah, Bradmanesque, in an Adam Voges understudies type of way.*

 

* Voges, 20 Tests, average almost 62 - an astonishing statistical lie.

 

Got about 700 of them in one innings didn't he?

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2 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Got about 700 of them in one innings didn't he?

 

A fourth string West Indies attack throwing steak and kidney pies.

 

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

1 minute ago, Spy Bee said:

Seems like some pretty good captaincy to me *walks away whistling

 

You reckon, I beg to differ. Things might have been better if he had reacted quicker. Could have been worse if the Aussies hadn't played silly shots. The wickets came about from good bowling/bad batting, not from Morgan's captaincy, he hardly had attacking fields set going for it. I'll give him having a slip in place for Cummins, but it was hardly inspired, just the norm. 

I don't think he's a bad captain btw, but he isn't great either. 

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Just now, Pistonbroke said:

 

You reckon, I beg to differ. Things might have been better if he had reacted quicker. Could have been worse if the Aussies hadn't played silly shots. The wickets came about from good bowling/bad batting, not from Morgan's captaincy, he hardly had attacking fields set going for it. I'll give him having a slip in place for Cummins, but it was hardly inspired, just the norm. 

I don't think he's a bad captain btw, but he isn't great either. 

 

I reckon the English army could've done with you over the Irish Sea circa 1919, G.

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

4 minutes ago, skaro said:

 

I reckon the English army could've done with you over the Irish Sea circa 1919, G.

 

 

Thank fuck I was born in a somewhat more peaceful era. Although NI in the 80's wasn't a picnic. 

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Just now, Pistonbroke said:

 

Thank fuck I was born in a somewhat more peaceful era. 

 

Beer and skittles in Westphalia.

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

1 minute ago, skaro said:

 

Beer and skittles in Westphalia.

 

Bowling is more my thing. I'm crap at skittles, that curved lane thing and wooden balls does my head in. 

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Unless Starc gets hold of a few, there literally isn't a run more than 220 in this.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Just now, skaro said:

 

Unless Starc gets hold of a few, there literally isn't a run more than 220 in this.

I'm down to live score now, got to pick the missus up and do some shopping. Real bad planning on my behalf. 

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16 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

Bowling is more my thing. I'm crap at skittles, that curved lane thing and wooden balls does my head in. 

 

Another more distant relative of mine (not my cousin at Sieker-Mitte) also had a Croatian pub in Bielefeld with a skittles alley in the cellar, that I went to once.  Fucking cool it was.

 

[Jairzinho]

Woakes won't be able to complete his ten overs...what?

 

 

[TheBitch]

That was disgusting work by Butler.

[s(k)aturation]

100 partnership, a 50 partnership... and the rest fold like a pack of cards.

 

And probably 25 runs short of being any chance.

[Jairzinho]

Bowling a good line and length, it'll never catch on.

[s(k)aturation]

 

I'll give the England innings half an hour and then retire for the evening.

 

 

[Jairzinho]

5 minutes ago, skaro said:

 

I'll give the England innings half an hour and then retire for the evening.

 

 

Yes, unless get Starc gets two in his first three or four overs it's done, I think.

[Spy Bee]

If Roy and Bairstow get off to a flyer it will be so difficult to contain England. If the Aussies get a couple of quick wickets, then who knows how it pans out. Buttler is due a big game with the bat though.

[Hand Shandy]

Too much optimism in here. Remember boys...

 

 

This is England.

[Manny]

Just noticed* Buttler's run out of Smith nutmegged him - top fielding.

 

*Or, rather, saw the caption of a clip on the BBC highlights. Also you can lipread him saying "that went through his legs!", which is a bit of a giveaway.

[Dan Vito Corleone]

England need to play the game and not the occasion. They need to be their normal aggressive selves. A quick 50 on the board and that might well be enough. However, I think it will be close. 

[Pureblood]

I don't think the Aussies have enough on the board.  Should be straightforward.

[TheBitch]

10 minutes ago, TK421 said:

I don't think the Aussies have enough on the board.  Should be straightforward.

I think they're about 100 runs short of being competitive.

[Pureblood]

7 minutes ago, TheBitch said:

I think they're about 100 runs short of being competitive.

Piece of piss.  Knock them off before the rain arrives, home in time for The Chase.

[Lee909]

It'll take a collapse that only England could manage to lose this

[Lee909]

This doesn't look great