Cricket Thread

[BrokenWing]

It wasn’t due to the result of the individual match, but the overall run rate in the league stage of the competition.

A team that had already qualified from the league stage of a competition declared on 3 runs so the team they were playing couldn’t score enough runs to affect their net run rate and qualify for the knockout stages themselves.

 

[BrokenWing]

So, is a draw already the best England can hope for?

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

Most likley but at the rate England accumulate runs lately, I wouldn't be so sure.

 

[BrokenWing]

Still need to get India out twice

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

Will be a tall order but given all Ive seen from England in the last few years you never know, especially with rain forecasted and the pitch will change

 

[Ideasguy]

I feel we spend WAY too much time following only the cricket being played by the top five (or so) nations, and am wondering if it might be a far better world if we could spend more time watching the battle for a place in the top 20 (bring on a good tournament between the country teams ranked 20-27, yes please!), the battle for a place in the top 30 (bring on a good tournament between the country teams ranked 30-37, yes please), the battle for a place in the top 15 (bring on a good tournament between the country teams ranked 15-22, yes please) and so on ... that's where the also good action is!

 

[BrokenWing]

Sad news

David 'Syd' Lawrence: Former England and Gloucestershire bowler dies following MND diagnosis

Former England and Gloucestershire fast bowler David 'Syd' Lawrence dies at the age of 61 following a Motor Neurone Disease diagnosis last year.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[ncurd]

So, is a draw already the best England can hope for?

Run rates are insane these these days around 900 runs scored and we're only just over halfway through.

Anyway old addage goes never judge a match until both sides have batted.

 

[BrokenWing]

Impressive

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

Fantastic win and there’s nothing quite like a test that goes to the wire on the final day.

But when your opponents are 430-3 in their first innings you shouldn’t really have a sniff. Can’t be too many sides who have lost a test having made 5 centuries. A tail that very definitely didn’t wag.

Perhaps further evidence though that the game in all formats seems more loaded in favour of bat over ball.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

You reckon you’ve had a bad day at work?

Spare a thought for Durham’s George Drissell who returned 1-247 from 45 overs as Surrey racked up 820-9 dec, their highest score in county cricket. Over half in boundaries.

At least the Durham fielders can take consolation that it wasn’t a hot day or anything.

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

Those are "thats it I'm retiring right now" figures.

I hope this is the last season of the Kookaburra ball experiment, it's not working because we don't have the complementary pitches here that they do in Australia that create results. All it's doing is creating really dull cricket. Nottinghamshire showed absolutely zero intent to move the game against Somerset along today, plodding along at just 3 an over.

 

[Which Tyler]

I've had bowling figures like that (obviously, not 45 overs worth...)

 

[BrokenWing]

Six ducks isn’t a great look.

Great couple of big hundreds to at least make it a contest.

 

[ncurd]

Gosh this test match and series is bloody brilliant.

 

[BrokenWing]

Stuff like that is why I wouldn’t go round screaming in peoples faces.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

And this is why you can keep your ODIs, T20 and Hundred.

Nothing tops a good test.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

West Indies scuttled for 27 by Aus. The worst test score for 70 years and the 2nd worst ever.

Having grown up in an era of Windies dominance - Richards, Greenidge and a battery of brutal fast bowlers this is so sad to see and the decline feels terminal.

 

[BRSTLDRGN]

West Indies scuttled for 27 by Aus. The worst test score for 70 years and the 2nd worst ever.

Having grown up in an era of Windies dominance - Richards, Greenidge and a battery of brutal fast bowlers this is so sad to see and the decline feels terminal.

I didn't watch the collapse, but I did catch some of the Sunday game, and the saddest thing was how empty the ground was. In the past, a Test Match in Jamaica against Australia and the place would be full to the rafters and a full-on party atmosphere.

Unfortunately, the rise of football and basketball in the Carribean and the lack of a competitive WI team, at least in the longest form of the game, appears to have drained interest in at least attending live.

 

[McTallshort]

Anyone been watching the 100s? Bloody brilliant