Cricket

[Husky]

Just what have those naughty Indian players been saying? 2 sent home from the Australian tour and suspended for 'sexist comments'. Now facing misconduct charges.

It must have been pretty bad, surely?

 

[Husky]

 

[Rogerb]

England 49-7 after 21 overs disgraceful. Jennings top score with 17

[Husky]

Jennings.... from zero to relative hero. ?

[matt83]

Well that was a shambles. 

[AllRoverAsia]

5 hours ago, matt83 said:

Well that was a shambles. 

P×3=P×3

[AllRoverAsia]

I wonder what the other words were?

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/46980881

[AllRoverAsia]

All set up for a heroic 2nd innings by England.

One can but hope after that 1st innings shite.

[matt83]

Having never seen England lose home or away it’ll take a miracle here to keep that intact. 

[matt83]

I do wonder sometimes what the locals make of a load of thirsty Englishmen. Take this bloke who presumably soberly at some stage thought I’m off to the cricket today where’s my Freddy Mercury mask, yellow jacket and inflatable microphone. 

[Husky]

On 24/01/2019 at 18:35, matt83 said:

Well that was a shambles. 

Can you imagine what would have happened if England didn't have the amazingly deep batting line-up we keep hearing so much about.

Down to number 10 apparently.

[den]

Looks like Jos Buttler is going to have score the majority of the 400+ runs we need on his own now.

[matt83]

The most worrying thing long term is in the first innings we couldn’t cope with slightly extra pace and bounce (again). This innings we can’t cope with a spinner who doesn’t spin it.

[matt83]

Still 3-0 vs Hull!!!

[Husky]

No surprise to see wide ball Jennings has been dropped along with Rashid (seriously what a ridiculous choice for the first test).

Denly and Leach in.

[den]

49 minutes ago, Husky said:

No surprise to see wide ball Jennings has been dropped along with Rashid (seriously what a ridiculous choice for the first test).

Denly and Leach in.

Jennings has a lot of work to do on his technique. For a quickie at the moment he’s easy meat. Shame - and he’s by no means the first left handed opener to have this problem - because he does look a classy player at times. 

[Rogerb]

2 hours ago, den said:

Jennings has a lot of work to do on his technique. For a quickie at the moment he’s easy meat. Shame - and he’s by no means the first left handed opener to have this problem - because he does look a classy player at times. 

Suspect Keaton may turn out like Graham Hick. A player who scores a lot of runs at Championship level but finds converting starts to good scores in tests beyond him. Could be good news for Lancashire though. Would we have stayed up with Jennings having a full season?

[matt83]

Not sure Denly is the answer but Jennings certainly isn’t. Get him back to Lancs. Might go with broad for Deidre instead of the extra spinner. Think denly is a part time spinner as well so probably no real need Ali, leach, root and denly. Especially as their equivalent of root took 8 wickets. Still stunned by that.

Considering pace did for us in the first innings (horses for courses and that) shame olly stone got injured. Sadly the only other quick who comes to mind is the perennially injured mark wood. Well until the ecb change the residency rules for Jofra archer. 

[Rogerb]

Denley out for 6 to a borderline embarrassing shot having escaped an lbw on 0

[den]

To be fair this is a wicket made for the windies quickies.

[den]

Root out to a ball rearing off a length. England will be lucky to get to 100 here.

34/3

[Husky]

Jos Butler is West Indies man of the series so far.

[matt83]

77, 246, 187 and 132 is pretty pathetic series. Another feeble performance. Bravo lasted 216 balls our number 3 has a massive swipe and misses a straight ball. Can’t adapt in any circumstance in real cricket. So irritating.

[Husky]

On 31/01/2019 at 14:53, Rogerb said:

Denley out for 6 to a borderline embarrassing shot having escaped an lbw on 0

Well at least he didn't get out to an embarrassing shot in the 2nd innings. So at least he's learning ?

[matt83]

Not one positive from this. Our batsmen look like they only know how to slog, not a defensive shot between them. So Ramprakash as the batting coach needs relieving of his duties. Clearly as good a coach as he was a test batsman. I appreciate Bayliss is leaving after the summer anyway but he’s probably taken England as far as he can. 

Suppose when the ECB continuously undermine county cricket in favour of McCricket this is what we end up producing. Sri Lanka probably papered over huge cracks.