The Cricket Thread

[Wilson]

I was catching up with Tailenders yesterday, Jimmy was talking about the three 1st class matches they played in 10/11, Zak Crawley‘s last game before opening in a must win Ashes Test Match, in the Boxing Day test at the MCG, was September.

Laughable, heads need to roll.

 

[fundy]

I knew it would be bad, even I didnt think it would be "make Scott Boland a worldbeater" bad lol

Well played Aussies

 

[Captainron]

The Aussie bowling unit including those left out of this test look good.
Their batting looks dependent on 3 guys though. Maybe a good time to try a few up and comers in the last 2 tests now that they have won the series.

England should fly a few of their own potentials over and give them a go.

 

[Captainron]

And now to the joys of watching India smash South Africa all over the park in a few hours.

 

[fundy]

The Aussie bowling unit including those left out of this test look good.
Their batting looks dependent on 3 guys though. Maybe a good time to try a few up and comers in the last 2 tests now that they have won the series.

England should fly a few of their own potentials over and give them a go.

odds on there is no 4th or 5th test imo, be a positive test found somewhere.......

even though its not gonna happen Id love to know who you think are Englands potentials if they couldnt get in this squad to start with

 

[backwoodsman]

The only saving grace about that, was that I didn't have to stay up all night to watch it.

Goodnight everyone ...

 

[Beezerk]

England should fly a few of their own potentials over and give them a go.

Ha ha you're joking right, it will be like Blackadder Goes Forth, they won't expect us to do that again, so that's exactly what we are going to do next ??

 

[Captainron]

odds on there is no 4th or 5th test imo, be a positive test found somewhere.......

even though its not gonna happen Id love to know who you think are Englands potentials if they couldnt get in this squad to start with

Plenty of overseas guns you guys can quickly give the cap to

 

[babylonsinger]

There are a couple involved in the BBL who could be given a chance. Hardly ideal preparation to be thrown in at the deep end. Don't think it would change anything either - England have been simply blown away

 

[Mudball]

Last rites done.. The Ashes of English cricket are blowing in the Melbourne wind..

 

[Piece]

The very sad thing is that you could have predicted how bad we were going to be.

It's a broken record. We are setup for white ball cricket and expecting red ball results. The environment is not there to breed Test Match players; the County Champs is shoved to the bookends of the summer to make way for the hit and giggle, money making formats.

Are the ECB going to radically change things, sacrificing £££ for red ball results? Nah, of course not.

 

[Mudball]

Air horn Vaughan must be pleased that he is out of the circuit at the moment. He can’t blame a subcontinent pitch or laugh at a non-English team..

 

[Blue in Munich]

Seems appropriate;

 

[Billysboots]

I’m sure, before I went to bed last night, that Jonathan Agnew described the sunny, calm MCG conditions as great for batting.

No such thing for this England side. Shameful to lose by such a margin when the opposition scored less than 300 in their own first innings.

 

[louise_a]

It seems that once England players get into the test team they stop playing county cricket, so apart from tests they only play one day cricket, they also arrive in OZ and go straight into playing tests without any practice games. However I guess it could well be the same for the other countries too and England players just lack the application for 5 day cricket

 

[Crow]

It's at times like these that I thank Sky for buying the monopoly viewing on most sports.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

It's at times like these that I thank Sky for buying the monopoly viewing on most sports.

Nearly but not quite. This series is on BT. Thankfully I have Sky and not BT ?

 

[ColchesterFC]

It's at times like these that I thank Sky for buying the monopoly viewing on most sports.

It's at times like this I thank BT Sport for out bidding Sky for the rights to the cricket so I was even tempted to stay up and watch.

 

[Imurg]

Genuine question....when was the last time England actually played 5 days of a Test Match..?
It doesn't seem to be a regular occurrence these days...

 

[Deleted member 15717]

Ashes over in 12 days.

Squad spent longer in quarantine.

maybe it’s the wake up call for the ECB….oh, wait, who am I kidding?!