2019 Cricket

[Deleted member 18588]

I am fully in the "Pick a specialist keeper camp" however I think it is stretching things a bit to lay much of the blame for today's errors at Buttler's door.

For some time now our overall close to the bat fielding has compared unfavourably with other Test sides.

We have tended to overlook this due to one or two spectacular catches being taken.

 

[fundy]

I am fully in the "Pick a specialist keeper camp" however I think it is stretching things a bit to lay much of the blame for today's errors at Buttler's door.

For some time now our overall close to the bat fielding has compared unfavourably with other Test sides.

We have tended to overlook this due to one or two spectacular catches being taken.

not sure its been that overlooked by a lot of fans, comms happily gloss over it as usual, Stokes the classic point, catches a couple of worldies and the comms turn a blind eye to the fact he drops 1 in 3 at slip. neither Sibley or Burns look like natural slip fielders either, both appear to have pretty hard hands

to some degree its another by product of the move to white ball cricket dominance, guys spend far less time fielding at slip and thus practising fielding at slip, its just not that high up the priorities for a modern cricketer

 

[Deleted member 18588]

I was going to mention my feeling that this resulted from the dominance of the white ball game but refrained from saying so for fear of being reminded yet again that is one day cricket that provides the money.

I absolutely agree with you and also how both the radio and TV comms gloss over it.

Very difficult to be critical of Stokes but, again, you are right he holds onto some blinders but then drops one or two regulation slip chances.

Our close fielding really does need prioritising by the coaches.

 

[fundy]

large portion of humble pie to the hypocrite Michael Vaughan in quarantine please

 

[fundy]

Well England making real hard work of this inns, havent bowled as well as theyd like in helpful conditions (especially against the tail) and dropped a chance in every spot from keeper to 3rd slip. Plans to the tail as poor as always Theyre going to have to bat well or could be in a spot of trouble otherwise.

 

[fundy]

ffs cricket stop shooting yourself in the foot

 

[Tongo]

ffs cricket stop shooting yourself in the foot

The stubborness regarding certain aspects of this series have been appalling. Aside from the bad light there has been the following:

They played an hour this morning, then went off for lunch. Why?!
Why wont they start play earlier the following morning if there has been delays rather than tacking on time at the end of the day?
Why when there's a delayed start to a test do they have to wait for the rain to stop only then to go and have the toss and then wait another half an hour for play to start?

 

[fundy]

The stubborness regarding certain aspects of this series have been appalling. Aside from the bad light there has been the following:

They played an hour this morning, then went off for lunch. Why?!
Why wont they start play earlier the following morning if there has been delays rather than tacking on time at the end of the day?
Why when there's a delayed start to a test do they have to wait for the rain to stop only then to go and have the toss and then wait another half an hour for play to start?

the short answer is because its run by a group that have an average age a few years older than your usual members club committee!!!

so so so many ridiculous regulations and traditions that they insist on keeping to try and kill test cricket whilst promoting the dumbed down version without any of these handicaps

 

[Mudball]

Any chance of getting Buttler to watch this

https://twitter.com/x/status/1294227072680943616

 

[Mudball]

End of an era. MS Dhoni retires from international cricket ... Captain Cool and strategist. Not the most elegant batsman but one of the best keepers of his generation. Grew up wanting to be a goalkeeper, Only started playing cricket when his school team was short of a keeper.

https://www.facebook.com/146078378744600/posts/3665550646797338

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Great finisher in the one day game too.

 

[Mudball]

Great finisher in the one day game too.

Somehow managed to take every game deep and then finish in style.

His match winning 6 to clinch the 2011 WC for India is probably his most important photo ever ..






Though his greatest legacy May be how he less the transition of Indian cricket from the legacy of Sachin, Ganguly, Dravid to a team of young players like Kohli, Rohit, Bhumras. When he was made captain and he dropped the big guns, the Indian media and crowd wanted his head on a plate. Not easy being the captain of an Indian cricket team

 

[Deleted member 3432]

Here we go.......

Plenty of time for Pakistan to win this game with our batting line up

 

[fundy]

Superb innings from Zak Crawley, England wouldve been in a fair bit of trouble without it

 

[patricks148]

Superb innings from Zak Crawley, England wouldve been in a fair bit of trouble without it

looked class from ball one

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Great to see Crawley kick on for the century to push onto his 150.

 

[fundy]

Turned into a great day for England and especially Crawley, Buttler looked much closer to his fluent best too, has found a much better tempo to bat at in this series for sure (just got to sort the gauntlets out now)

 

[patricks148]

Turned into a great day for England and especially Crawley, Buttler looked much closer to his fluent best too, has found a much better tempo to bat at in this series for sure (just got to sort the gauntlets out now)

as good as a bats man he can be i just don't think he has it with the gloves...

 

[Dando]

as good as a bats man he can be i just don't think he has it with the gloves...

The modern way seems to be have a batsman who is adequate with the gloves.

 

[fundy]

The modern way seems to be have a batsman who is adequate with the gloves.

hes not adequate