The Cricket Thread

[venger]

No more international cricket on free to air tv, but we still get hundred games. Yay.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/oct/29/cricket-england-ecb-fails-to-agree-free-tv-deal

 

[Neilds]

England Baby team lose (inevitably) to the Windies last night. How can they justify picking a player who has only played 5 one dayers in the squad. I know you should recognise talent but how can they see talent from 5 matches? When you also add in a captain that has never captained, and many argue is not worth a place in the team anyway then they are on a hiding to nothing on this tour. Will learn nothing

 

[Captainron]

2 wins against Bangladesh for South Africa in the test series over there. I say wins, these were beatings of the kind miscreant kids got at boarding school.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

England Baby team lose (inevitably) to the Windies last night. How can they justify picking a player who has only played 5 one dayers in the squad. I know you should recognise talent but how can they see talent from 5 matches? When you also add in a captain that has never captained, and many argue is not worth a place in the team anyway then they are on a hiding to nothing on this tour. Will learn nothing

Pick unproven players and this is what happens

England cricket is going backwards across all three formats

 

[Neilds]

Pick unproven players and this is what happens

England cricket is going backwards across all three formats

I sometimes think the selectors subscribe to the Cricket Monthly forum and if someone mentions that a young player is decent, they immediately select them for the next series

 

[Arthur Wedge]

I sometimes think the selectors subscribe to the Cricket Monthly forum and if someone mentions that a young player is decent, they immediately select them for the next series

It will be a forum visited mainly by people east of Bristol

 

[Grizzly]

It will be a forum visited mainly by people east of Bristol

On account of the internet nor having progressed further west yet?

Joking aside, I wonder who Jacob Bethell is going to play for next season - because there is no way he will be allowed back in the Warwickshire changing rooms, the other players will lynch him. By my reckoning, even allowing for the fact Will Rhodes has gone to Durham, there are five other English/English qualified batsmen at the club who had substantially better seasons than him last year, two of whom happen to be very decent keepers as well (pertinent since Jordan Cox, from my recollection, makes Ollie Pope look like the reincarnation of Jimmy Binks) as well as Dan Mousley whose figures were basically the same but who can at least boast of having made a professional hundred.

 

[Mudball]

Won’t be funny for non cricketers

 

[Neilds]

Jordan Cox must be a bit pee’d off today - only player except the wicketkeeper who hasn’t had a bowl today. Using 9 bowlers shows just how hopeless the captaincy is.

 

[Grizzly]

Jordan Cox must be a bit pee’d off today - only player except the wicketkeeper who hasn’t had a bowl today. Using 9 bowlers shows just how hopeless the captaincy is.

I wonder if he has already realised he is not up to international cricket, maybe just enjoying the ride?

 

[Mudball]

I wonder if he has already realised he is not up to international cricket, maybe just enjoying the ride?

Fake it till you make it …

 

[Grizzly]

Fake it till you make it …

Aye. And hopefully we're just seeing early nerves. But so far he's looked all at sea every time he has batted.

 

[Piece]

New Zealand - India

 

[Lord Tyrion]

New Zealand - India

Stunning series win, you have to have huge respect for what New Zealand have done. My favourite, non English, test playing nation. Good on them

The media in India must be interesting

 

[Bunkermagnet]

Pick unproven players and this is what happens

England cricket is going backwards across all three formats

The West Indies tour is only as favour to them for playing back in covid times. You have to rest players, as well as bring new ones in.
Seems to me they're damned if they do and damned if they don't, or do you want India to control cricket completely?

 

[Arthur Wedge]

The West Indies tour is only as favour to them for playing back in covid times. You have to rest players, as well as bring new ones in.
Seems to me they're damned if they do and damned if they don't, or do you want India to control cricket completely?

No I want to see players who deserve a call up get one

 

[Grizzly]

This is my definition of poetic justice:

Shakib Al Hasan reported for suspect action during Surrey Championship stint

Left-arm spinner was reported by umpires during one-off appearance at Taunton in September

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[Arthur Wedge]

This is my definition of poetic justice:

Shakib Al Hasan reported for suspect action during Surrey Championship stint

Left-arm spinner was reported by umpires during one-off appearance at Taunton in September

www.espncricinfo.com

Prob all a bit too late unfortunately

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Great start

 

[Grizzly]

I know I've said I don't think Cox will cut it...but that was a beast of a ball to get early on.