The New Cricket Thread

[sir roger]

C4 have put the live coverage on their listing now , but I can't find any suggestion of a highlights show on any of the usual suspects' schedules.I am going to struggle to commit to 20 days of 4am starts so I hope it gets sorted. Because of the late decision it seems C4 are just going to go with Star Sports coverage and have their only input during the breaks. 

[Scooby Dudek]

3 hours ago, sir roger said:

C4 have put the live coverage on their listing now , but I can't find any suggestion of a highlights show on any of the usual suspects' schedules.I am going to struggle to commit to 20 days of 4am starts so I hope it gets sorted. Because of the late decision it seems C4 are just going to go with Star Sports coverage and have their only input during the breaks. 

Highlights on catch up

 

https://www.channel4.com/press/news/live-test-cricket-returns-channel-4

 

Starting with the opening Test from Chennai this Friday (5.2.21), ball by ball coverage of all four Tests will be shown live on Channel 4 and All 4. And for viewers who can’t manage the early 4am start, highlights will be available on All 4.

[sir roger]

Cheers Scooby

[Stickman]

Rory Burns should just be sent home after that shot...Fucking awful after a great start 

[Stickman]

And sure enough after a stupid thrown away wicket one becomes two, Lawrence out for a duck  ...

[Brownie]

1 hour ago, Stickman said:

And sure enough after a stupid thrown away wicket one becomes two, Lawrence out for a duck  ...

Haven’t seen anything in Lawrence yet but very early and he’s obviously a young player.

 

Need to just keep grinding here, 400 minimum required when batting first on this track.

[Stickman]

4 minutes ago, Brownie said:

Haven’t seen anything in Lawrence yet but very early and he’s obviously a young player.

 

Need to just keep grinding here, 400 minimum required when batting first on this track.

To be fair Lawrence's was a good delivery but it doesn't happen to him if Burns doesn't throw his wicket away 10 minutes or so before lunch.

Sibley is looking decent even though he looks rigid in his batting he's worked at his game and doesn't give his wicket up 

 

[Vincent Vega]

I thought Buttler was going home to be rested and Foakes was set to play? 

[alles ist gut]

3 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

I thought Buttler was going home to be rested and Foakes was set to play? 

After this game (no, playing one test doesn't make sense to me either...).

[Vincent Vega]

2 minutes ago, alles ist gut said:

After this game (no, playing one test doesn't make sense to me either...).

Wouldn’t it have made more sense to go home at the end of the Sri Lanka series?

 

Hopefully Foakes plays as well as he did last time he played on the sub-continent.

 

Runs starting to flow here now with these two, about half a dozen boundaries these last few overs.

[Josef Svejk]

Black armbands to mark the death of over 100,000 Britons? Nah. That would be in poor taste. 

 

Death of a single 100 year old man, though? Absolutely. 

[Vincent Vega]

How the fuck has that boring bastard Nick Knight managed to geg in on the host’s commentary team?

[sir roger]

1 hour ago, Vincent Vega said:

How the fuck has that boring bastard Nick Knight managed to geg in on the host’s commentary team?

There are so many excellent cricket  commentators I am not sure why you would employ a dentists drill like him.

Root and Sibley doing ok here , play can go on until 11.30am .

[sir roger]

100 for Root in his 100th test.

[Trumo]

4 minutes ago, sir roger said:

100 for Root in his 100th test.

 

On day 1 of the opening test in India? What manner of sorcery is this!?

[Brownie]

Wasn’t expecting this at all. Root is in some form.

[Mudface]

He's back averaging over 50 now too.

[Stickman]

Sibley out last over, looked on normal view to be slightly sliding down leg but was good call by umpire.

Fuck me England must lose more wickets in the last over than anyone else

 

Great knock though think he just got bogged down with one eye on the clock 

[Captain Howdy]

Root in the kind of form that doesn’t happen very often in a career.

[Mudface]

2 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Root in the kind of form that doesn’t happen very often in a career.

Sublime stuff. Shame I slept in and missed the Stokes innings.

[Jairzinho]

Big slog in the last session please.

[YorkshireRed]

Absolutely stunning from Root. Yorkshire’s finest, England’s finest. Needs another seven after tea to go past AJ Stewart as third highest all time Test run scorer for his country. Wouldn’t bet against him getting the 404 runs he needs to overcome Graham Gooch, currently in second place, by the time this series is over. 
 

 

[Stickman]

Would love Root to go past rug head and apartheid lover Graham Gooch's 303 

[sir roger]

What a brilliant start to the year forJoe.

He looks knackered.

[Rico1304]

7 minutes ago, sir roger said:

What a brilliant start to the year forJoe.

He looks knackered.

The concentration levels are incredible.