The New Cricket Thread

[sir roger]

Watched the last sesion and it was enjoyable stuff , with England getting back into the game. India are on top and Kohli has obviously spoken to the groundsman , but England are a lot more rugged these days.

[Stickman]

1 hour ago, sir roger said:

Watched the last sesion and it was enjoyable stuff , with England getting back into the game. India are on top and Kohli has obviously spoken to the groundsman , but England are a lot more rugged these days.

England did well to stick in there and bowled well but can’t see anything other than an Indian win especially the way the pitch behaved on day one.

 

[Brownie]

Watched it from about 100/3. Thought England bowled well and were a bit unlucky.

 

They have no chance from this point though; needed to bowl them out for about 250 to have a chance batting last on that pitch.

 

That DRS debacle was dodgy as fuck.

[Jairzinho]

I wouldn't be quite as certain of our chances being so slim. 

 

Wrap it up relatively early tomorrow for under 350 and we've every chance. 

[Brownie]

1 hour ago, Jairzinho said:

I wouldn't be quite as certain of our chances being so slim. 

 

Wrap it up relatively early tomorrow for under 350 and we've every chance. 

Wouldn’t be surprised if we got skittled badly first innings.

[Scooby Dudek]

1 hour ago, Brownie said:

Watched it from about 100/3. Thought England bowled well and were a bit unlucky.

 

They have no chance from this point though; needed to bowl them out for about 250 to have a chance batting last on that pitch.

 

That DRS debacle was dodgy as fuck.

We can all hear the 3rd umpire speaking to the on field, my question would be are the on field able to speak to the third umpire ?

The fact England later got the review back makes me think the on field did not contact the third umpire, in which case I blame the on field and not the third. 

 

Root was obviously telling the on field what England wanted, so he either couldn't or wouldn't pass the message on. 

The England team should have just refused, in a polite way, to restart because the DRS check was not complete. Eventually the message would have been passed up stairs.

 

 

 

 

 

[sir roger]

I thought they usually let the incident run out in full before they make their decision ?

The stumping was a bit dodgy as well.

[Captain Howdy]

Normal service resumed.

[sir roger]

Obviously the groundsmen will be instructed to work in the home teams favour , but this is like a bomb site.

[Captain Howdy]

Nice catch that in fairness 

[Captain Howdy]

Hi my names Olly Stone, here’s my wicket, it’s all yours.

[Preston Red]

Shit weekend this with two major collapses.

 

My only hope is for a shit Greater Manchester collective to take a major humping away at a place in Oxford to shut the works gobshite up.

[Rico1304]

This pitch is like the start of Saving Private Ryan, explosions everywhere.  Would have been easier to just award the game on the toss and save everyone’s legs 

[Captain Howdy]

Yep, the game was decided on the toss win no question.

[Brownie]

37 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Obviously the groundsmen will be instructed to work in the home teams favour , but this is like a bomb site.

Yep, dodgy as fuck this pitch. There were huge rough patches before the game even started.

 

I know that home teams will prepare a pitch that suits their team but this one took the piss.

 

The game was over once the toss was done. Not good for cricket that.

[Stickman]

33 minutes ago, Rico1304 said:

This pitch is like the start of Saving Private Ryan, explosions everywhere.  Would have been easier to just award the game on the toss and save everyone’s legs 

 

To be fair they just have just had four tosses over Zoom and saved the money on flights and accommodation 

[Mudface]

I thought there was talk a while ago of just awarding the toss to the away team to try and avoid these sorts of situations. I take it that never got anywhere?

[Brownie]

9 minutes ago, Mudface said:

I thought there was talk a while ago of just awarding the toss to the away team to try and avoid these sorts of situations. I take it that never got anywhere?

Think it happens in domestic cricket but that is pretty pointless as nobody even watches it anyway.

[Captain Howdy]

Catch

 

 

[Stickman]

Both Pant and Foakes have been brilliant behind the stumps

[Mudface]

Avoided the follow on, so at least it'll go into a third day...

[Mudface]

Just now, Stickman said:

Both Pant and Foakes have been brilliant behind the stumps

I'll never understand why Foakes was dropped. He's a great 'keeper, and has a higher average than his potential replacements. Very odd.

[Stickman]

Oh and for the next Test Rory Burns definitely needs to get shut of that mullet he's got going on, I know barbers are shut but scissors only cost a couple of quid 

 

 

[Brownie]

32 minutes ago, Mudface said:

I'll never understand why Foakes was dropped. He's a great 'keeper, and has a higher average than his potential replacements. Very odd.

Hasn’t he only played in Asia? I think he’s clearly a very good player of spin but the question marks around his technique are when the ball moves laterally.

[Mudface]

10 minutes ago, Brownie said:

Hasn’t he only played in Asia? I think he’s clearly a very good player of spin but the question marks around his technique are when the ball moves laterally.

Just checked as I could have sworn he'd had a home series too, but you're mostly right, one series each against Sri Lanka and West Indies- https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/364788.html?class=1;template=results;type=allround;view=match

 

Looking at his bio, he was replaced by Bairstow (thought it was Buttler), and when Bairstow went to complete shit, Foakes was suffering through a poor county campaign.