2019 Cricket

[Beezerk]

With a three figure lead, I hope Burns and Jennings can play with some grit and patience for the first session today, build a good partnership and get some runs for themselves. Would do wonder for their confidence. I don't see it happening. Jennings just looks out of his depth as an opener. Burns has the potential and is capable at Surrey but again, he feels like he has too many one day shots in him and anything slightly wide and he'll go after it

Even if Jennings gets a ton, can you really read anything into this game? A dead rubber, the Windies have already won the series and are playing like they want a quick finish so they can get to the beach.
I do want a Jennings duck though which would hopefully be the final nail in his coffin 🤣

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Even if Jennings gets a ton, can you really read anything into this game? A dead rubber, the Windies have already won the series and are playing like they want a quick finish so they can get to the beach.
I do want a Jennings duck though which would hopefully be the final nail in his coffin 🤣

I think another failure and he's got to be dropped surely. I bet the Aussies already have him all mapped out. Trouble is, as has been discussed who do you replace him with?

 

[Beezerk]

I think another failure and he's got to be dropped surely. I bet the Aussies already have him all mapped out. Trouble is, as has been discussed who do you replace him with?

No idea, I just know if I was an opposition bowler I'd be praying he gets picked.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

I think another failure and he's got to be dropped surely. I bet the Aussies already have him all mapped out. Trouble is, as has been discussed who do you replace him with?

Pretty much anyone I'm afraid. He is shot at the moment and keeping him in serves no purpose. He is a walking wicket.

 

[Dan2501]

So much for Burns getting some runs to end the series then

 

[Dan2501]

Hopefully that's the end of Keaton Jennings in an England shirt for a while. Openers need to be working hard over winter, there are spots to be taken with some early season CC runs.

 

[Piece]

Hopefully that's the end of Keaton Jennings in an England shirt for a while. Openers need to be working hard over winter, there are spots to be taken with some early season CC runs.

"For a while" 🤔😂😉

Unless he bats right handed and has a new technique modelled on Mark Waugh, that is most definitely the end for me 😁

 

[fundy]

anyone seen Captainron? seems to have gone quiet lol

 

[Captainron]

Haven't been watching the cricket today but I see Root managed to get a century.

Looks like England might win for a change

 

[Captainron]

Whats happened to Paul? Only bowled 5 overs???

 

[fundy]

Whats happened to Paul? Only bowled 5 overs???

chased a ball out to the cover boundary and went in the hammy, badly. Had to be stretchered off in what looked a bad bad way

 

[fundy]

Haven't been watching the cricket today but I see Root managed to get a century.

Looks like England might win for a change

easy game in a dead rubber lol

 

[Pathetic Shark]

The BBC cricket updates are just hilarious. Any person not in the England team gets suggested as an immediate replacement for any current player who hasn't made a century in the last day.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

At last, the batting line up is showing some mettle. Too little too late and helped by the nasty injury to Paul diminishing the Windies attack. Sadly though still papering over the cracks. Jennings failed again, Burns doesn't seem to have a test match mindset (strange when he can occupy a crease for Surrey in the championship), Bairstow is not a keeper and in my opinion the side is better off with a specialist man behind the stumps. Who is coming through the pace bowling ranks to replace Broad and Anderson and capable of making inroads into the opposition top order. Hopefully we'll win this match with ease but it doesn't hide a very poor series for England

 

[fundy]

Plenty of seam bowling options that would love to get a chance, the cupboards certainly got more in than the top 3 batsman one! Wood got a chance here, Woakes, Curran, Stone (if he can get fit again), Porter, Overton(s), Gregory, Curran, Bailey thats without revisiting the likes of Plunkett, Ball, Gurney. Not saying theyre all international class but plenty of untried options that are more than due one compared to what you have to do to bat in the top 3!

 

[Dan2501]

"For a while" 🤔😂😉

Unless he bats right handed and has a new technique modelled on Mark Waugh, that is most definitely the end for me 😁

Haha, by a while I meant a LONG while Although who knows what's going to happen, the spots at the top of the order are wide open and if Jennings has a good season with a few hundreds he could easily see himself back in there. I don't see it happening, and pray it doesn't, but really wouldn't surprise me. There's a lot of time for those spots to be claimed as well, CC season starts in April and first Test of the season is a one-off against Ireland at the end of July, so nearly 4 months of Cricket to claim those open spots.

Good to see Root get a ton, 3 hundreds in his last 7 Tests is good going. Just need the rest of the batting line-up to follow his lead.

This team still needs quite a bit of work, no idea who's going to open come The Ashes, would like to see Foakes return as WK but where does that leave Bairstow?, would prefer a proper frontline spinner in Leach over Ali but Ali keeps doing just enough to keep getting picked, and I like the 3 pronged pace attack of Anderson, Broad and Wood but how long can they go for? Wood is notoriously injury prone and can only be bowled in short spells but if he can keep bowling like he did in the first innings we've got a genuine strike bowler to compliment the skill of Anderson and Broad. The team isn't far off, but still a worrying lack of batting depth.

 

[Dando]

Plenty of seam bowling options that would love to get a chance, the cupboards certainly got more in than the top 3 batsman one! Wood got a chance here, Woakes, Curran, Stone (if he can get fit again), Porter, Overton(s), Gregory, Curran, Bailey thats without revisiting the likes of Plunkett, Ball, Gurney. Not saying theyre all international class but plenty of untried options that are more than due one compared to what you have to do to bat in the top 3!

If the Curran brothers were at any other County I doubt if they would get a sniff of a chance at international cricket as there are far better options.

 

[fundy]

If the Curran brothers were at any other County I doubt if they would get a sniff of a chance at international cricket as there are far better options.

Theres prob some truth in this, I think having a father who played county cricket and their attitude too has got them a shot. Toms actually having a cracking big bash series currently and long term I expect both are more likely to succeed in limited overs not test cricket

 

[Dando]

"For a while" 🤔😂😉

Unless he bats right handed and has a new technique modelled on Mark Waugh, that is most definitely the end for me 😁

Mark Waugh wasn't even the best player in his family!

 

[Dan2501]

Stokes isn't half timing it so far today, hit a few superb shots already. Getting warmed up for the LO stuff.