The Official Cricket Thread

[Bjornebye]

Hahaha

 

 

 

 

 

[Jairzinho]

How fucking good is Mitchell?

[alles ist gut]

1 hour ago, Jairzinho said:

How fucking good is Mitchell?

Dunno yet, but ‘too good to be batting at six’ for a start.

 

 

Now get that heavy roller on.

[Jairzinho]

Crawley remains fucking terrible. Get rid before India and the South Africans take the piss out of him as well.

[Jairzinho]

WE ARE BACK.

[Kepler-186]

Tuned in just in time for this masterclass in bowling from the Kiwis. Top stuff. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

1 hour ago, Jairzinho said:

Crawley remains fucking terrible. Get rid before India and the South Africans take the piss out of him as well.

Has to be him gone. Foakes has had a stinker too but should be kept. Same old England always folding.

[Jairzinho]

Great partnership this. Pretty embarrassing captaincy from Williamson though, as it was from Latham previously.

[alles ist gut]

That was fun.

[sir roger]

1 hour ago, alles ist gut said:

That was fun.

Been an unbelievably exciting series played in fantastic spirit.

[s(k)aturation]

 

So, Bairstow's safe for the moment?

[alles ist gut]

6 hours ago, s(k)aturation said:

 

So, Bairstow's safe for the moment?

At least until he gets off the field.

 

Another fun day.

[Tj hooker]

£15 tickets for today's play at Headingley 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

Fucking hell, that run out was all on Crawley. He's a bag of nerves. He should have gone, not Lees.

[Jairzinho]

6 minutes ago, Jarvinja Ilnow said:

He should have gone, not Lees.

Shouldn't be too long.

[Jairzinho]

Back to county cricket he goes, you'd hope.

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

1 minute ago, Jairzinho said:

Back to county cricket he goes, you'd hope.

Give Tom Haines a go as opener for India. Maybe your boy Brook in, if Bairstow (undroppable for the moment) keeps wicket.

[Barrington Womble]

Crawley is absolutely fucking shite. 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

1 minute ago, Barrington Womble said:

Crawley is absolutely fucking shite. 

His shot selection definitely is, Baz.

[sir roger]

Vaughan saying that if England win that Crawley will probably get reprieved, but I am not following the logic if he has had barely nothing positive to do with any of the results.

[Barrington Womble]

3 minutes ago, Jarvinja Ilnow said:

His shot selection definitely is, Baz.

It just felt inevitable he was going to get himself out like that. He makes the shot selection of a 12 year old. 

2 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Vaughan saying that if England win that Crawley will probably get reprieved, but I am not following the logic if he has had barely nothing positive to do with any of the results.

Yeah, I don't understand that either. I don't think either openers have done enough, but at least Lees has put some runs on the board. But he's another one who never looks like he's in and could get out to every delivery. 

[YorkshireRed]

4 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Vaughan saying that if England win that Crawley will probably get reprieved, but I am not following the logic if he has had barely nothing positive to do with any of the results.

He’s forgotten the appendix to the rule…

 

Never change a wining team. Unless one of the team is fucking shite. 

[Jarvinja Ilnow]

6 minutes ago, Barrington Womble said:

It just felt inevitable he was going to get himself out like that. He makes the shot selection of a 12 year old. 

Yeah, I don't understand that either. I don't think either openers have done enough, but at least Lees has put some runs on the board. But he's another one who never looks like he's in and could get out to every delivery. 

As long as we don't go back to Sibley or Burns - both of whom always seem to go into their shells and let the fielding dominate. Lees deserves a Crawley-free run opening, but as far as alternatives go -  Tom Haines I've seen a little of, and he seems to be mentally tough, and Rob Yates seems to have a growing fan club but, not following Warwicks, I haven't seen anything of him.

 

[lifetime fan]

This has been a problem for years. 
 

You had people calling for Cook to be dropped when he was admittedly going through a prolonged period of poor form. 
 

But he was the only test quality opening batsman we had. Who the fuck were you going to replace him with when he’d had a string of useless twats with him. 

[Jairzinho]

23 games in to his test career and he averages 27, and a quarter of those runs were in one innings. He doesn't have the technique or temperament to play test cricket let alone open in it. 

 

Does he know someone?