fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
its horrendous and for the comps own twitter account to tweet it as funny does little for the integrity
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its horrendous and for the comps own twitter account to tweet it as funny does little for the integrity
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
Time for some chin music....
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
Who can keep wicket for England. Neither of the two used in this test seem to have a brain cell between them?
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
Ben Foakes is the best keeper of the options, averages 40ish in test cricket too, so we wont be picking him......
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
No surprise this loss, we were basically an undercooked poor team, illnesses didnt help for sure but lack of first innings runs once again the bedrock of defeat, as a team they just dont put up enough runs first up time after time and until that changes they will continue to struggle
Saffers bowled well, not sure their batting is any better than ours (specially with Markram now out too), will be more low scores through the series youd think
Saffers bowled well, not sure their batting is any better than ours (specially with Markram now out too), will be more low scores through the series youd think
Captainron
Big Hitting, South African Sweary Person
He is a must have.
Neither Buttler or Bairstow is consistent enough for test cricket and that is what you have to be in this format.
They’re excellent wham bam thank you ma’am players but neither of them seem to be able to apply themselves consistently.
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
theres about 40 pages of pro foakes and anti bairstow on this thread, youre preaching to the choir
Karl102
Journeyman Pro
We bowled poorly in the first innings. It’s a 250 pitch all day. Yep, poor application in our shoddy batting, but we didn’t get the ball in the right areas eanough. The way Anderson and Curran picked up the first 2 wickets says it all. Straight away put a few quid on Phillander to take the most wickets in SA first innings as it was a line and length kind of pitch. No need to pepper with the shirt stuff or throw it right up there to swing for the magic ball. Just got to be patient. With regards to the wicket keeper situation, Foaks should play. But the selectors are obsessed with butler and Bairstow potentially distructive batting. However, potential hasn’t been seen for a long time. Would you pick either as just a batsman right now? If not, who would you replace them with?
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
Not sure it was a 250 pitch and can make some excuses for Broad and Archer having been ill and played no cricket coming in (less so the plans we seemed to want them to follow), certainly cant excuse being bowled out for sub 200 first time around for me and its that lack of first inns runs that underpins the recent struggles in the test arena
Pope will obviously come back in at 6 assuming hes well again in the new year (for Bairstow one assumes), expect they will persevere with Buttler a bit longer yet but he needs to find the right approach for him and the team, he seems to be stuck between stick or twist most of the time (with the right approach somewhere in between)
You would assume Crawley is next to get a chance, albeit he didnt impress in NZ and they chose to pick Bairstow ahead of him here, I expect he will only get a go in the top 3 if/when Sibley fails (after they give Jennings a horses for courses go in Sri Lanka).
Other than that I expect Malan may be next in line (now hes moved to Yorkshire from Midds), maybe Northeast. Theres not a long line queueing up based on county cricket form though sadly (not for the longer format anyway)
Pope will obviously come back in at 6 assuming hes well again in the new year (for Bairstow one assumes), expect they will persevere with Buttler a bit longer yet but he needs to find the right approach for him and the team, he seems to be stuck between stick or twist most of the time (with the right approach somewhere in between)
You would assume Crawley is next to get a chance, albeit he didnt impress in NZ and they chose to pick Bairstow ahead of him here, I expect he will only get a go in the top 3 if/when Sibley fails (after they give Jennings a horses for courses go in Sri Lanka).
Other than that I expect Malan may be next in line (now hes moved to Yorkshire from Midds), maybe Northeast. Theres not a long line queueing up based on county cricket form though sadly (not for the longer format anyway)
HomerJSimpson
Hall of Famer
A good win for South Africa but as Fundy points out so well there has to be some leniency over the performance as a whole given the issues in the build up. Still a disappointment at how quickly we folded again today after working so hard to get to to three figures for only one wicket yesterday.
Tongo
Journeyman Pro
Test matches are to be reduced to 4 days apparently as:
a) it will help reduce player workloads
b) most matches don't go to 5 days
This a week after plans for yet another ODI tournament involving the Big 3 plus one peasant team were floated.
Cricket really is a basket case of a sport.
a) it will help reduce player workloads
b) most matches don't go to 5 days
This a week after plans for yet another ODI tournament involving the Big 3 plus one peasant team were floated.
Cricket really is a basket case of a sport.
fundy
Ryder Cup Winner
Test matches are to be reduced to 4 days apparently as:
a) it will help reduce player workloads
b) most matches don't go to 5 days
This a week after plans for yet another ODI tournament involving the Big 3 plus one peasant team were floated.
Cricket really is a basket case of a sport.
you can tell how good an idea it is when the first one out in support of it is Vaughan lol
Point B is actually pretty spot on. A lot of expenses are wasted setting up day 5 that rarely see a ball bowled. Worth a trial.Test matches are to be reduced to 4 days apparently as:
a) it will help reduce player workloads
b) most matches don't go to 5 days
This a week after plans for yet another ODI tournament involving the Big 3 plus one peasant team were floated.
Cricket really is a basket case of a sport.
Tongo
Journeyman Pro
It may well be but the fabric of a match and the tactics used will change significantly with a day less. Which will probably mean more drawn matches.
Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
What shape is a cricket pitch?
The only cricket players that I ever met spoke with an Indian accent.
Is that common?
When my beloved Red Sox got humilated by the New York Yankees in London last summer, what kind of field was that?
It certainly wasn't shaped like a baseball park.
The only cricket players that I ever met spoke with an Indian accent.
Is that common?
When my beloved Red Sox got humilated by the New York Yankees in London last summer, what kind of field was that?
It certainly wasn't shaped like a baseball park.
Tongo
Journeyman Pro
Generally they take place on an oval (ish) shaped pitch but you'd be hard pushed to find to pitches the same as there isn't a uniform shape.
Cricket is the most popular sport in India by a mile so, by dint, is hugely popular with Indian ex-pats and second / third / fourth generation Indians. Its also popular in Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, South Africa and most of southern Asia (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka etc). As a sport cricket's governing bodies seem disinterested in growing it outside of its main core of about a dozen countries but, despite this, it is slowly growing elsewhere.
Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
Thanks.
america used to play Cricket back in the 19th century, but TBH it was a too fast a paced and interesting a game for you, so the US adapted a girls game and made it slow and boring and makes cricket look like a high energy sport
you call it baseball, we still call it rounders
Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
america used to play Cricket back in the 19th century, but TBH it was a too fast a paced and interesting a game for you, so the US adapted a girls game and made it slow and boring and makes cricket look like a high energy sport
Slow and Boring works for me, Pat.
I attended my first professional baseball game in 1954. I was seven years old. (She was Queen by then, I think, but I actually remember Princess Elizabeth!)
The game is supposed to be played in two hours, is actually played in four, which is what...3½ days shorter than a cricket match?
so it just seems like it takes a week then?
FYI cricket has Test matches, then 50 over per side and 20 per side, which are international games the 50 and 20 have a world cup which are played between other countries, then there is domestic and league cricket. unlike the US where you would call yourself world champions despite no playing against other countries
