The Official Cricket Thread

[SasaS]

Some schlong from Geelong sneezed and they put them all in lockdown.

[s(k)aturation]

19 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

I thought we could all agree that South Australia are to blame for this one?

 

I was looking for some common ground on this one and you've provided it, JJ.

 

Fuck those Croweater covidians.

 

 

[s(k)aturation]

10 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Some schlong from Geelong sneezed and they put them all in lockdown.

 

Even Prince Charles' former teenage Geelong Grammarian nose isn't that big.

 

 

[Jairzinho]

Wood has been top class this morning.

[Bjornebye]

43 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Wood has been top class this morning.

Yeah, caught the last hour before lunch, much better. 

[YorkshireRed]

Some of the stats guys on here would enjoy Atherton’s lunchtime interview with England’s analysis guru.

 

I could do with subtitles. 

[Bjornebye]

11 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

Some of the stats guys on here would enjoy Atherton’s lunchtime interview with England’s analysis guru.

 

I could do with subtitles. 

The batting first stuff was interesting. 

[Stickman]

England must be one of the worst sides at wrapping up the tail 

[Jairzinho]

Reasonable debut.

 

 

[Jairzinho]

So glad we brought Broad back on, by the way.

 

"Mummy, I want a go"

[alles ist gut]

Cracking piece of fielding on the boundary there…

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

22 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

So glad we brought Broad back on, by the way.

 

"Mummy, I want a go"

What a cunt he is.

[Vincent Vega]

England are about half as good without Stokes. They miss every aspect of his game when he’s not there. Stokes, Root and Anderson are our only world class players.

[Jairzinho]

2 hours ago, Vincent Vega said:

England are about half as good without Stokes. They miss every aspect of his game when he’s not there. Stokes, Root and Anderson are our only world class players.

I was looking at the batting averages in test cricket earlier. Root 49, Stokes 37, no-one else above 34. Even Burns who has established himself. In fact the bowling all rounders like Woakes, Curran, Ali etc all averaged about 25 - 28 and haven't been producing significantly less than the the top order minus Root and Stokes.

 

I thought of Bairstow's moaning over the last couple of years. You've played 74 tests and average 34. You'd have been fucked off out of the Zimbabwe side by now.

 

Early days for Lawrence, Crawley, Pope, and Sibley obviously, but it's quite the gamble to stick them all in the team at the same time. Huge pressure on Root and Stokes.

[Jairzinho]

Good start.

[Jairzinho]

Lad called Dan Ibrahim got 50 on debut for Sussex. Took a wicket as well (one of the two in a score of 275-2).

 

16 years old.

[Jairzinho]

Dreadful LBW decision overturned, Pope out. We're in a bit of shit here.

[Captain Howdy]

All over the fucking place here

[Captain Howdy]

What the fuck was that shot meant to be

[Captain Howdy]

6 down now, great delivery in fairness. Could be following on here.

[Jairzinho]

They're quite a lot better than us.

 

 

[Captain Howdy]

1 minute ago, Jairzinho said:

They're quite a lot better than us.

 

 

Maybe just a shade

[Jairzinho]

4 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Maybe just a shade

Said yesterday, we can't expect to just chuck in four or five inexperienced batsmen at the same time and expect to be able to cope with one of the top two sides in the world. India next, then Australia away. Could be a fucking dismal year.

 

We have Root and Stokes, and maybe Burns, who are currently good enough to be in the top six or seven for England in test cricket.

 

...and they're missing their best bowler.

[Stickman]

Only England could start the day 111-2 and then an hour later be in danger of having to follow on .

When's Stokes back ? 

[Captain Howdy]

1 minute ago, Jairzinho said:

Said yesterday, we can't expect to just chuck in four or five inexperienced batsmen at the same time and expect to be able to cope with one of the top two sides in the world. India next, then Australia away. Could be a fucking dismal year.

 

We have Root and Stokes, and maybe Burns, who are currently good enough to be in the top six or seven for England in test cricket.

 

...and they're missing their best bowler.

Yes and boy is it showing. We seem clueless without Stokes, we’re not a good side.