The Cricket Thread

[Captainron]

book their place in the World Test Championship final at Lords!

Tight win over Pakistan at Centurion. My nerves! I thought watching us play rugby was stressful!

 

[Bunkermagnet]

book their place in the World Test Championship final at Lords!

Tight win over Pakistan at Centurion. My nerves! I thought watching us play rugby was stressful!

Does anyone really care about the world test championship?

 

[Mudball]

I must say I like a test match which goes into day 5 with all results still possible..

 

[Neilds]

Does anyone really care about the world test championship?

Not when teams don’t play everyone and don’t play the same amount of games. Stupid competition.

 

[Captainron]

Does anyone really care about the world test championship?

Test cricket is the only format I respect. This is currently the only way the ICC make a competition out of it

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Does anyone really care about the world test championship?

Nope. I know it's the fashion to be able to say team A or team B are the World Champions but rest cricket really doesn't need this gimmick. Leave it to the hit and giggle formats.

 

[Captainron]

Good win for Australia against India. Hope they can win in Sydney too. Means tickets to Lords next June should be obtainable (unlike if India were playing)

 

[Captainron]

Some proper niggle in the 5th test down in Sydney. Two teams who really don’t like each other. Bumrah got the last laugh there today. Set up nicely.

Now for the SA v Pakistan second test. Newlands is such a beautiful ground and the weather looks lush.

 

[Mudball]

Sam Konstas is quickly becoming a villain - maybe for both sides. This kind of behaviour by non-striker is ok at village cricket, but uncalled for.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1875083384676069859

 

[Deleted member 18645]

Both the Aussies and Indian teams are full of really obnoxious unlikable people.

 

[Neilds]

Not looking good for the women n the Ashes, 3-0 down after the ODIs and now 8-2 in the first T20 needing nearly 200 to win.

In a different competition, the U19 Women's T20, SA beat Samoa in a very one sided match. Samoa reached 16 all out after 9.1 overs, top scorer was extras with 6! SA knocked them off in 10 ball.

 

[Mudball]

Cant get this song out of my head now...

 

[Neilds]

New dawn for England's white ball teams with Baz taking over.

Or maybe not! Livingstone still stealing a living as an international cricketer. Not consistent enough, you can't just perform 1 in every 6 or 7 games.

 

[Grizzly]

Or maybe not! Livingstone still stealing a living as an international cricketer. Not consistent enough, you can't just perform 1 in every 6 or 7 games.

Whether Livingstone is worth a place or not really depends on whether they intend to use him as a bowler - if he is going to bowl and come in at the end to provide late acceleration then, yeah, I can sort of see it. As a frontline bat, we have better.

 

[Neilds]

Australia are 600-5 against Sri Lanka and one of the Sri Lankan spin bowlers has bowled 60 overs (out of 143). His fingers must be aching now! Not sure why SL have only used 4 bowlers, surely they have a part timer or 2 (think Root) who could give the others a rest and maybe lure a batsman into a false shot?

 

[Mudball]

Look like the IPL taking over the 'undred now..

The Hundred: MI bag Oval Invincibles http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/133271/the-hundred-mumbai-indians-bag-oval-invincibles

 

[3offTheTee]

Not a bad opening over from Mahmood for England v India. Bit of an understatement!

 

[Neilds]

Not a bad opening over from Mahmood for England v India. Bit of an understatement!

About time we had some decent England news today - Women were awful and U-19s get hammered in the World Cup. Not a good day for women's cricket.

 

[3offTheTee]

Does Overton think he is Be Stokes? Terrible batting

 

[Mudball]

i hear rumors that Eng is playing India in India.. Why is it not on Sky? Not going to pay another sub for cricket too.