Cricket

[den]

28 minutes ago, Gav said:

Bairstow even worse, what the hell was that shot with the game in the balance.

Boycott just said "More brains in a pork pie" 

We've lost the ability to wait for the bad balls. we've lost the ability to block up an end, its probably the T20 era, which is fantastic but doesn't help produce players who have the brains, temperament and ability to play test match innings. 

 

We've just beaten South Africa 3-1 Gav and lead Windies 1-0. 

Patience Gav.

[jim mk2]

 

 

Bairstow needs a rocket from the England management for that shot - totally unnecessary in the context of the game. 

An England lead of 220-250 might be enough. 

[Gav]

20 minutes ago, den said:

We've just beaten South Africa 3-1 Gav and lead Windies 1-0. 

Patience Gav.

Sorry den but it doesn't excuse poor shot selection, you'll not get away with it in Australia where bags of runs are required to win, happens far to often for my liking. 

Edited August 28, 2017 by Gav

[chaddyrovers]

Have you Aussies play recently?

Not in form either

[Gav]

11 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Have you Aussies play recently?

Not in form either

Irrelevant Chaddy, this is the Ashes we're talking about in Australia, form goes out of the window.

England just declared, well done Joe Root, shows confidence in our bowling attack after a poor showing in the 1st innings, Anderson aside.

Just over 8,000 on today, that's a poor showing in my book despite the prices.

[chaddyrovers]

2 hours ago, Gav said:

Irrelevant Chaddy, this is the Ashes we're talking about in Australia, form goes out of the window.

England just declared, well done Joe Root, shows confidence in our bowling attack after a poor showing in the 1st innings, Anderson aside.

Just over 8,000 on today, that's a poor showing in my book despite the prices.

sorry but form doesn't go out of the window for me.

their top 6 is similar to ours.

The England declaration was positive and good by Root.

sorry but people will be away on holiday or have other things to pay for at this stage of the summer. Plus factor in that West Indies aren't the best team either. if it was Australia, South Africa or India the ground would be full.

[Gav]

On 28/08/2017 at 15:53, den said:

We've just beaten South Africa 3-1 Gav and lead Windies 1-0. 

Patience Gav.

No excuse for poor shots den 

Root did the right thing in my book declaring, but dropping 4 catches and some tremendous batting by the WI made for a fantastic test match and well deserved win for WI.

Looking forward to the next one now, who needs football....

[Husky]

23 minutes ago, Gav said:

Looking forward to the next one now, who needs football....

I hate football.

Tridents are playing Amazon Warriors soon.  I can't wait

[Gav]

1 hour ago, Husky said:

I hate football.

Tridents are playing Amazon Warriors soon.  I can't wait

Started well the Warriors 

[Mattyblue]

Big England fan, off to t'Ashes in November

However, there are only a limited number of Test playing nations and seeing that Windies performance at Edgbaston, following on from Sri Lanka's rapid decline worried me about the future of this great format.

So yesterday was a great day for Test cricket, now lets win the series at Lord's. 

[den]

It'll be a sad day for me when test cricket takes secondary importance to any form of one day cricket. 

Where you going Matty, I'm envious?

[Mattyblue]

Gabba, my mate has family in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast, so we get digs for free, result!

For years we've said 'we'll definitely do the next Ashes tour'... and we don't, so we've finally bit the bullet!

[den]

Good on yer Matty. Should be great.

[Husky]

Come on guys. Surely we can't let the Aussies being beaten in a test match by Bangladesh for the first time ever go unnoticed.

Aussie Aussie Aussie

It's almost as bad as being beaten at home by Windies. Though they'll be pleased England don't have any decent spinners as like England it seems they have a big problem playing it too.

[matt83]

17 hours ago, Mattyblue said:

Gabba, my mate has family in Brisbane and on the Gold Coast, so we get digs for free, result!

For years we've said 'we'll definitely do the next Ashes tour'... and we don't, so we've finally bit the bullet!

Excellent. 

We made the same call for Melbourne and Sydney in 2010/2011 tour. We were fortunate enough to see 3-1 series win with 2 wins. If you'd have told me that in the 90s I'd have thought it was nonsense. So many high points beating them basically on Boxing Day skittling them out for 98 then having big mouth Aussies say let's see you bat (why wouldn't they) only for us to put on 150/0 ish by stumps. Day started with about 90,000 fans it ended with about 30,000, 20,000 of whom seemed to be English. 

Then in Sydney put on 650 which is the highest England score downunder ever. And who could forget mercilessly rattling Mitchel Johnson. The power of a support to throw off an opposition player so drastically. 

It was a pure joy to catch any Australia news bulletin or newspaper. They make our tabloid media look like shrinking violets. 

Ah memories. I sincerely hope you see similar success.

ps you might catch the cricket touring bug since then we've been to India, West Indies and South Africa. 

[matt83]

Re Mitchell Johnson this was also a quality moment in the scg I found on YouTube few months ago. Tremlett got brad "the simple man" Haddin out then in comes in Mitch their last line of batting defence....

To say test cricket is rather gentile, compared to football, that wicket was like being in a football crowd. Beer flying everywhere, arms and legs in the air. 

[Husky]

It was nice to see Stuart Broad play a Bothamlike innings yesterday - brave, good striking including an awful lot of luck.

I've felt embarrassed for him for god knows how many innings in recent times.

[chaddyrovers]

My England ashes squad is

Batsmen

Cook Stoneman Root Westley Malan Hales Hameed

Keeper

Bairstow Foakes

All rounders

Stokes Ali

Fast bowlers

Anderson Board Wood Woakes Roland-Jones

Spinners

Crane

 

[Baz]

ECB release list of players unavailable for county sides for the rest of the season:

http://www.glamorgancricket.com/cricket/news/2017/september/released-england-players-for-county-action.html

Some counties seemingly far more affected than others.

[matt83]

Hameed has broken a finger. Sums up his pretty dismal summer. 

[Kamy100]

13 hours ago, matt83 said:

Hameed has broken a finger. Sums up his pretty dismal summer. 

From what I have seen he initially tried to change his approach to the way he bats and that backfired and he totally lost form.  Recent weeks he has gone back to what he was doing previously, occupying the crease and slowly building his innings (perfect for test cricket in my opinion) and has looked better.

The injury might be a blessing in disguise, given his up and down form this year probably better that he doesn't go on Ashes tour where the pressure and scrutiny will be intense.  Instead he can spend the time fully recovering from this latest injury and then work on his game/go and play some domestic cricket in Australia/South Africa or even India as he has done previously and get ready for next season with Lancs/England.

[Husky]

Hopefully the pitch at Old Trafford can recover too, it looked in an embarrassing state during the recent ODI.

[Baz]

11 hours ago, Kamy100 said:

From what I have seen he initially tried to change his approach to the way he bats and that backfired and he totally lost form.  Recent weeks he has gone back to what he was doing previously, occupying the crease and slowly building his innings (perfect for test cricket in my opinion) and has looked better.

The injury might be a blessing in disguise, given his up and down form this year probably better that he doesn't go on Ashes tour where the pressure and scrutiny will be intense.  Instead he can spend the time fully recovering from this latest injury and then work on his game/go and play some domestic cricket in Australia/South Africa or even India as he has done previously and get ready for next season with Lancs/England.

Also he's only young, 20?, it's not unheard of of younger players being more erratic in form. He needs to be given time.

[chaddyrovers]

Who would pick in their ashes squad? 

Should Westley, Ballance and Malan go? 

Should Hales, Crane and Hameed go? 

What about Lawrence at Essex who seems to be scoring runs at the right time?

 

[matt83]

I'd be tempted to go with

Cook, Stoneman, Hales, Malan, root, bairstow, stokes, Ali, woakes, broad, jimmy

Westley didn't inspire with with massive confidence and apparently root doesn't want to play 3 again which means there's issues there but personally would like to see hales squeezed in somewhere.

In terms of the rest of the squad I think England A rather than the lions are also out there touring so effectively I'd take the rest. Duckett, Browne, Westley, ballance, Clarke, foakes (seems to be getting nod over jos for reserve wk), buttler, rolland-Jones, wood, Dawson, crane. Anyone that's ever seen a cricket pitch.