The Cricket Thread

[Mudball]

I am assuming lunch must be good.. everyone in a hurry to get back. I do fancy a bit of Jerk chicken for lunch...

Would they have plenty of Regge Regge sauce? Is Regge Regge authentic or another British invention by some guy called Keith??

 

[fundy]

I am assuming lunch must be good.. everyone in a hurry to get back. I do fancy a bit of Jerk chicken for lunch...

Would they have plenty of Regge Regge sauce? Is Regge Regge authentic or another British invention by some guy called Keith??

Think youll find Keiths name was actually Levi

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Good to see a different tour and the top order still struggling.

 

[Mudball]

Good to see a different tour and the top order still struggling.

Its called Consistency... Gotta admire it.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Its called Consistency... Gotta admire it.

Bairstow starting to help dig England towards a half decent score backed up by a patient innings from Foakes. Shouldn't have to rely on the mid order to try and nudge a score towards 200 and the top four need to start making a contribution more often

 

[fundy]

Well batted Bairstow, dug England out of a hole here

 

[fundy]

some effort to put on 50 with Stokes, 50 with Foakes and 50 with Woakes ???

 

[Billysboots]

some effort to put on 50 with Stokes, 50 with Foakes and 50 with Woakes ???

Where’s John Noakes just when you need him?

 

[fundy]

Where’s John Noakes just when you need him?

coming in next wicket down

 

[Grizzly]

Not even close. You would have to drop a long way down the pyramid before any female cricketer, possibly bar a keeper, would get a game in mens cricket. The gap is vast.

As far as I am aware there are only two female players - Claire Taylor and Arran Brindle - who have made centuries in men's Premier league cricket. Sarah Taylor, as a keeper, is the only one to try to play County seconds.

Not to say that there have not been great female players - I genuinely think had she decided at 16 that she wanted to, Claire Taylor could have reached first class level, and of current players Elysse Perry and Meg Lanning too. But where they have stayed in the women's game, they've just never had the exposure to bowling in the 80s and even 90s, nor to quality spinners getting the ball down at pace rather than floating it there.

 

[sunshine]

You have a point about the more recent improvements, off the top of my head, Colin de Grandhomme, Chris Hayle, Rahkeem Cornwall and several Sri Lankans whose names escape me!

In the 80s I used to report for pre season still playing football.....those who didn't were puffing a bit. It was only the bowlers who bothered. It is different now.

But don't say the women are not skilled. They are.

ok you've got me with Rahkeem Cornwall fair play

Mudball has summed it up for me. The performance levels of all cricketers can be improved with increased athleticism. An unfit player is not at the top of their game, and this is especially evident in the white ball game where athletic fielding saves runs and impacts results.

If an elite cricketer performing in a world cup is not in peak physical condition, you have to question whether they are serious about being the best.

Anyway, I think I've done this to death now. Time to move on to discussing another England batting collapse...

 

[fundy]

How do you get a player out who has a lot of bowled and lbws in his dismissal record?

Well dont try bowling at the stumps seems to be the WI answer!!! They bowled 1 ball after lunch yesterday to JB that wouldve hit the stumps. Utterly amazing

 

[greenone]

How do you get a player out who has a lot of bowled and lbws in his dismissal record?

Well dont try bowling at the stumps seems to be the WI answer!!! They bowled 1 ball after lunch yesterday to JB that wouldve hit the stumps. Utterly amazing

Their bowling coach hasn't been the bowling coach for England in the last 5 years has he?

 

[fundy]

Anyone missing Broad and Anderson yet..........

 

[greenone]

Anyone missing Broad and Anderson yet..........

Joe root?

 

[Mudball]

Did not catch the match today. Switched it on briefly while at lunch. Really exciting to 311-9 and Bairstow on 140.
The first shot I saw him play ... he got caught!! It was a difficult catch.

Switched off and walked away. Someone tell me the score pl

PPS: Dont tell me that we are missing Broad and Anderson and therefore they are 150-0 or something

 

[greenone]

105-2 and more importantly they are rattling along at 4rpo.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

105-2 and more importantly they are rattling along at 4rpo.

The bowlers have reigned it in a bit but we need a wicket to change the momentum

 

[fundy]

Wood injured and Stokes being bowled into the ground, somethings dont change however much you call it a red ball reset lol

 

[sunshine]

170 runs in the whole day. Some might call it attritional, others dull.

Woakes so toothless that Foakes was standing up to him. I like Woakes I just don’t think he suited to overseas wickets.