2019 Cricket

[Deleted member 18588]

Bumble summed up Curran very well at the tea interval.

"In years to come we will recognise Curran as a good batsman who can bowl well enough to be the fourth seamer in a Test team."

At the moment the selector(s) are constantly picking players for the lower middle order for what they add to the batting as our top order cannot be relied upon.

 

[Blue in Munich]

We're off with a thick edge for 4. Only another 156 thick edges required...

 

[Tongo]

he should have given all the batsmen a bowl

I'm always disappointed in such situations that the keeper doesnt get a chance to bowl.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Well we need less than 600 now!

 

[Paperboy]

I'm always disappointed in such situations that the keeper doesnt get a chance to bowl.

I remember in an ODI, Tatenda Taibu Kept wicket then took the pads off bowled 10 straight through then kept again.

 

[Blue in Munich]

Does Keaton Jennings know you are allowed to move your feet?

 

[Norrin Radd]

Does Keaton Jennings know you are allowed to move your feet?

no

 

[Tongo]

Pleased Burns has got some runs. Bairstow fails again. Root needs to take responsibility and bat at 3 rather than being selfish and stubborn by insisting he bats at 4.

And Buttler should be at 5 rather than Stokes.

 

[fundy]

Burns played nicely until the horror shot he got out to (still not sure how that bowled him)

Can mess about with the order all you like, lets be honest outside Root none of them are proven test bats yet and Root is slowly trying to become more of a limited overs player too! Could pretty much put 3 to 9 in a hat and pull the order out that way!

 

[fundy]

As I typed that Root cuts the part time spinner to 1st slip backing away. Utterly hideous, no interest in batting properly in test matches at all. Will continue to hide behind the "its the way we play" garbage

 

[Dan2501]

Another straight ball from Chase, another wicket. This is dreadful.

 

[fundy]

Pitch is so flat and were getting bowled out by a part time slow bowler whos barely got it off the straight lol

 

[fundy]

Another straight ball from Chase, another wicket. This is dreadful.

this or the Everton game, hard to know which is the harder watch currently?

 

[Dan2501]

this or the Everton game, hard to know which is the harder watch currently?

Haha not sure, both being played on dreadful looking pitches as well. Probably cricket harder to watch right now tbh.

 

[fundy]

very hard to see Ali as a credible all rounder based on his 2 dismissals in this test

 

[Dan2501]

Pray this Milwall rain drifts rather quickly over to Barbados!

 

[Tongo]

very hard to see Ali as a credible all rounder based on his 2 dismissals in this test

Pathetic dismissal. Jack Leach would have batted better.

 

[Tongo]

But its all alright cos Uncle Tom says that English cricket is in good health.

 

[fundy]

But its all alright cos Uncle Tom says that English cricket is in good health.

The Hundred will make everything alright (or they didnt learn their lesson after the Stanford debacle)

 

[Tongo]

The Hundred will make everything alright (or they didnt learn their lesson after the Stanford debacle)

I'm not convinced that Sky will actually come up with the handsome sums of money that have been promised. (Net of whatever small sum the Beeb are coughing up) It all smacks of another ITV Digital scenario for me. I think the deal equates to something like 4 times what the current deal is. That's a lot of extra people needed to pay for Sky Cricket for that to stack up.

 

[fundy]

I'm not convinced that Sky will actually come up with the handsome sums of money that have been promised. (Net of whatever small sum the Beeb are coughing up) It all smacks of another ITV Digital scenario for me. I think the deal equates to something like 4 times what the current deal is. That's a lot of extra people needed to pay for Sky Cricket for that to stack up.

Skys changing greatly lately too, only really prepared to pay top money for football, slowly but surely anything else expensive is likely to go by the wayside. Theyre certainly not that committed to cricket (or golf or rugby) as they were a few years ago