The Official Cricket Thread

[Captain Howdy]

De Grandhommes head though

[Jairzinho]

I know he's 51 but I do wonder if Thorpe isn't still better than most of these.

[Jairzinho]

Another atrocious decision.

 

Michael Gough has been on the sauce.

[Captain Howdy]

These 15 runs are crucial, avoid the follow on and we could salvage a draw.

[Jairzinho]

Dug in well these two.

 

Obviously Burns should have been stumped earlier though.

[Captain Howdy]

Another down but yeah, Burns has done well

[Jairzinho]

Spoke too soon.

 

To be fair, he's a number 8 and he got 40 odd and stuck around for more than 100 deliveries. Put a lot of the top order to shame.

[lifetime fan]

Bracey not exactly helping his cause. 

[Jairzinho]

Just now, lifetime fan said:

Bracey not exactly helping his cause. 

Got a good ball and at least tried to block it.

 

It's Crawley and Lawrence that have made a cunt of themselves today.

[Captain Howdy]

Yes, still fucked if I know what Lawrence was trying to do

[Captain Howdy]

Southee has been superb today

[lifetime fan]

Bracey not exactly helping his cause. 

[lifetime fan]

21 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Got a good ball and at least tried to block it.

 

It's Crawley and Lawrence that have made a cunt of themselves today.

He’s kept tidily but he’s not actually been a proper wicket keeper for that long (which will be held against him and rightly so) and he was running his mouth off before the test started saying he was confident he could bat in the top 3 for England. 
 

Like I said the balls on the prick is quite something. Even impressive at times.
 

But there’s also something to be said for keeping your fucking gob shut and performing with the gloves and bat. 

 

[Jairzinho]

2 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

He’s kept tidily but he’s not actually been a proper wicket keeper for that long (which will be held against him and rightly so) and he was running his mouth off before the test started saying he was confident he could bat in the top 3 for England. 
 

Like I said the balls on the prick is quite something. Even impressive at times.
 

But there’s also something to be said for keeping your fucking gob shut and performing with the gloves and bat. 

 

That goes for quite a lot of them. Most of this lot have done absolutely fuck all in the game.

 

 

[lifetime fan]

3 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

That goes for quite a lot of them. Most of this lot have done absolutely fuck all in the game.

 

 

The thing that annoys me most is why shouldn’t he have that confidence? 
 

Take Root out of the top 3 (who has always wanted to bat 4) and they’re all either inexperienced, flawed technically or fucking pussies. 
 

 

[sir roger]

I quite like Burns 

[Vincent Vega]

3 hours ago, sir roger said:

I quite like Burns 

Rory Burns

[alles ist gut]

10 hours ago, Vincent Vega said:

Rory Burns

Clearly not whilst batting - the head is still.

[Jairzinho]

Looks like New Zealand are pretty keen to win this.

[Captain Howdy]

1 hour ago, Jairzinho said:

Looks like New Zealand are pretty keen to win this.

Quite fancy them to do it

[Jairzinho]

Just now, Captain Howdy said:

Quite fancy them to do it

Fair fucks to them for this declaration. We'd have given them three overs to score 435 if it were the other way round.

 

I love how they're challenging themselves as preparation ahead of the big game against India. Proper outfit, New Zealand. Population of Wales but more intelligent decision making on and off the field than every other test nation by some distance.

[YorkshireRed]

1 minute ago, Jairzinho said:

Fair fucks to them for this declaration. We'd have given them three overs to score 435 if it were the other way round.

 

I love how they're challenging themselves as preparation ahead of the big game against India. Proper outfit, New Zealand. Population of Wales but more intelligent decision making on and off the field than every other test nation by some distance.

They’ve certainly made the afternoon's viewing a lot more interesting.

 

England to hold on for the draw, just. 

[Captain Howdy]

3 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Fair fucks to them for this declaration. We'd have given them three overs to score 435 if it were the other way round.

 

Just imagine Cook in the same position.

[Jairzinho]

11 minutes ago, Captain Howdy said:

Just imagine Cook in the same position.

63* at the close of play.

 

 

[Jairzinho]

Another appalling shot from Crawley.