The Official Cricket Thread

[Captain Howdy]

120 all out……..120 all out

[Jairzinho]

Imagine if we didn't have Root. 

 

 

[Stickman]

I could kinda understand if the ball was spinning all over the show but fuck me in the list of cowardly inept England collapses that has to be near the top 

[Stickman]

Just now, Jairzinho said:

Imagine if we didn't have Root. 

 

 

They could all have had Saturday Sunday and Monday off 

[Captain Howdy]

3 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Imagine if we didn't have Root. 

 

 

[Jairzinho]

We'd be getting battered by Zimbabwe. 

[Scooby Dudek]

England team set quite a few records this test, makes you proud. 

[Tj hooker]

Shambolic performance this England team needs root and branch changes 

[Brownie]

Root looks like he might cry.

[Jairzinho]

Root looks broken. 

 

Please fucking relieve him of the captaincy. 

[Brownie]

Just now, Tj hooker said:

Shambolic performance this England team needs root and branch changes 

They don’t have any players mate.

[Brownie]

“Don’t panic”. Called it.

[Captain Howdy]

Root is shell shocked 

[Tj hooker]

1 minute ago, Brownie said:

They don’t have any players mate.

Need to find some fucking backbone at the very least pal 

[Brownie]

One thing we shouldn’t lose in all of this btw is how good a team India are.

[Brownie]

Can’t see Wood being fit for the next game.

[sir roger]

1 hour ago, Brownie said:

Can’t see Wood being fit for the next game.

One of the most ridiculous things that has crept into the game is the feeling that you have to throw yourself after the ball  on the boundary like a lunatic with very lttle chance of saving runs just so basically nobody can say you aren't trying hard enough.

[YorkshireRed]

I’m going to day two of the Headingley Test. All being well it will rain all day. 

[sir roger]

7 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

I’m going to day two of the Headingley Test. All being well it will rain all day. 

If not you might see us hanging on for a defeat.

[Brownie]

1 hour ago, YorkshireRed said:

I’m going to day two of the Headingley Test. All being well it will rain all day. 

The beauty of test cricket is that there’s always another day. I was at Headingley on my birthday in 2019 when the Aussies bowled us out for 67. Game over, or so it seemed.

 

Was also there two days later when Stokesy did his thing.

 

The fucking best.

[s(k)aturation]

3 hours ago, Brownie said:

One thing we shouldn’t lose in all of this btw is how good a team India are.

 

Was about to say that.

Along with NZ, the two most competitive Test teams in world cricket by a country mile.

India the more so in my book, because they are so competitive away from home.

Winning this Test from probably a losing position, and achieving that turnaround on the same day - they did that in consecutive Tests in Australia to win the Series last summer, and that after a disastrous first test in Adelaide, when they were bowled out in an hour.

 

This is much more an India masterclass in never-say-die than a witch-hunt for English ineptitude I think... although England do have mental issues going by today... starting with Root as captain, alas.

India though?  Mentality monsters.

 

 

[s(k)aturation]

1 hour ago, YorkshireRed said:

I’m going to day two of the Headingley Test. All being well it will rain all day. 

 

Or hopefully Australia turn up instead of India and you'll be witnessing, in progress, one of the best England wins of all time.

 

 

[Stickman]

11 hours ago, sir roger said:

One of the most ridiculous things that has crept into the game is the feeling that you have to throw yourself after the ball  on the boundary like a lunatic with very lttle chance of saving runs just so basically nobody can say you aren't trying hard enough.

 

If they want an example of how badly it can go wrong they need to watch the clip of Simon Jones against Australia

 

You'd never see Big Bad Bob Willis throwing himself all over the shop trying to save a run. Infarct if  you ever watch clips of Bob if a batsman straight batted a ball back to his feet he'd look at it turn round and walk back to his mark waiting for the ball to be passed back to him

 

[YorkshireRed]

Anybody know where you get those sky commentary earpieces you can use at the ground? Do you buy them there?

 

I’d quite like one so I can tune out my mate jibber jabbering about nonsense once he’s had half a shandy. 

[s(k)aturation]

4 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

Anybody know where you get those sky commentary earpieces you can use at the ground? Do you buy them there?

 

I’d quite like one so I can tune out my mate jibber jabbering about nonsense once he’s had half a shandy. 

 

I'd imagine they'd sell them outside the ground perhaps.... they do a similar thing here at the MCG.