2019 Cricket

[Captainron]

There are suggestions on social media that he went out for a meal to a restaurant in Manchester. No idea if that's true or not.

Ah that’s boring! I was hoping for a tabloid front page of a tiger woods type waitress thing...

Silly bugger.

 

[ColchesterFC]

Ah that’s boring! I was hoping for a tabloid front page of a tiger woods type waitress thing...

Silly bugger.

Photos of Jofra smashing a car window with a cricket bat?

 

[ColchesterFC]

Guardian sport section reporting that he stopped at his house in Hove instead of travelling straight to Manchester.

 

[Mudball]

There are suggestions on social media that he went out for a meal to a restaurant in Manchester. No idea if that's true or not.

Would have been more exciting if it was the Pizza Express in Woking...


Update: An ECB spokesperson confirmed that Archer's breach was while travelling between the Ageas Bowl and Emirates Old Trafford, and later clarified that he had stopped off en route at his flat in Brighton, a breach that only came to light after the squad had been announced.

Source: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...dropped-england-breach-bio-security-protocols

 

[sunshine]

Would have been more exciting if it was the Pizza Express in Woking...


Update: An ECB spokesperson confirmed that Archer's breach was while travelling between the Ageas Bowl and Emirates Old Trafford, and later clarified that he had stopped off en route at his flat in Brighton, a breach that only came to light after the squad had been announced.

Source: https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...dropped-england-breach-bio-security-protocols

Such an anti-climax. Kyle Walker was doing worse than this every day during lockdown

 

[Dan2501]

Quite some start from Gabriel

 

[Captainron]

Oh Jofra. At least do something crazy to get a ban.

 

[Captainron]

Quite some start from Gabriel

I hated it when I lost rythym. Bowling feels so alien when you’re thinking about your run up. I never changed my run up length. 17 easy steps from the popping crease. I would then stand that the end and just do a mental walkthrough of the run up looking at each step it would take and my take off area and front foot landing spot. Vary rarely went wrong and when it did it felt awful.

 

[Dan2501]

I hated it when I lost rythym. Bowling feels so alien when you’re thinking about your run up. I never changed my run up length. 17 easy steps from the popping crease. I would then stand that the end and just do a mental walkthrough of the run up looking at each step it would take and my take off area and front foot landing spot. Vary rarely went wrong and when it did it felt awful.

Yep, horrible when you lose your run, makes it feel like everything is out of sync and so hard to commit to your delivery. Can't imagine what it must be like feeling like that in a Test match, bad enough in the nets

 

[fundy]

I hated it when I lost rythym. Bowling feels so alien when you’re thinking about your run up. I never changed my run up length. 17 easy steps from the popping crease. I would then stand that the end and just do a mental walkthrough of the run up looking at each step it would take and my take off area and front foot landing spot. Vary rarely went wrong and when it did it felt awful.

Nothing better as a batsman seeing a bowler lose his run up

 

[Captainron]

Quite some start from Gabriel

Also his standard action is to bowl falling away to the left, angling the ball into the right hander from over the wicket. His wrist almost always continues on that line so it can go wrong big time

 

[Captainron]

Get Roston on!

 

[Captainron]

Damn I’m good

 

[fundy]

Get Roston on!

Thats why they call him Captain Ron

Horrid from Burns hes missed that by a mile

 

[Dan2501]

England have really nailed the get in, use up a few balls and then throw your wicket away style of batting.

 

[fundy]

damp underneath this wicket, lovely conditions for a spinner early in a test, especially against the england rabbits in the headlights

 

[Dan2501]

Wow. What a start to the session. Welcome back Joe.

 

[Captainron]

Sibley has some fairly hard hands. Does lunge at it too. Could be some close lads interested

 

[fundy]

Sibley has some fairly hard hands. Does lunge at it too. Could be some close lads interested

same for most top order players out of county cricket, kind of comes with the territory, big argument to get spin on early to most of this side tbh

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Sibley has some fairly hard hands. Does lunge at it too. Could be some close lads interested

It is the modern way isn't it? With the emphasis on white ball cricket and the desire to attack the idea of waiting for the ball and playing with soft hands is a rare thing now. Another one for us old schoolers to look back at whimsically