just read mccallum is new red ball coach, appointed by 'cricket chief' rob key who appointed captain stokes

now, i get that i must be asleep and never see a paper, but fucking hell, ive missed all this happening

lot of talk about stokes and brook not getting on, which may describe his braindead innings yesterday

On the train back now. Got a ticket eventually, half an hour before the start of play. They were better than us. We need to improve. That’s my non-expert summary.

A top innings from Bethell

Good win that.

Cracking weekend of International English Sport - Rugby, Cricket, Football, Tennis and F1

A tight game that probably turned in the 17th over of our innings. 28 runs off the over. Interestingly, I was sat in front of the brother of Ravi Bushnoi who got into an altercation with a guy in front of me. I kept out of it. 😊 He does have a weird bowling action.

Not been following the series to be honest, with the world cup being on.

Just seen they have a bowler names "Arshdeep".

That's terribly unfortunate.

Not bad

😊

Can't read the full article- what is it about the timing that breaks the rules?

That looks nice. I think India have been top since 2022.

Edited July 11Jul 11 by BobyBrno

Phenomenal hitting today

Looks like Baz is getting sacked as Test coach

It all feels very confused to me

He really should've gone after the Ashes but the ECB instead chose to back him, Key, and Stokes

One series defeat later and he's out of post

On 12/07/2026 at 15:07, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

It all feels very confused to me

He really should've gone after the Ashes but the ECB instead chose to back him, Key, and Stokes

One series defeat later and he's out of post

Teflon Key?

6 minutes ago, Casino said:

Teflon Key?

There was a rumour flying round at the time that the midnight curfew was thought to have been imposed on the white-ball squads only and that Atkinson and Stokes weren't aware it applied to them because it was communicated via WhatsApp to a group chat neither were in

Possibly nonsense but the two investigations into the incident both found the rules around the curfew - which was Key's idea - hadn't been properly ratified

There's been quite a few complaints about poor man management of players on the periphery of squads as well, and again we might only hear one side but given the above perhaps there's no smoke without fire

I find it incredible that he's not only survived but is seemingly under no pressure at all

It's not as if he has any kind of track record either

On 13/07/2026 at 19:50, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

There was a rumour flying round at the time that the midnight curfew was thought to have been imposed on the white-ball squads only and that Atkinson and Stokes weren't aware it applied to them because it was communicated via WhatsApp to a group chat neither were in

Possibly nonsense but the two investigations into the incident both found the rules around the curfew - which was Key's idea - hadn't been properly ratified

There's been quite a few complaints about poor man management of players on the periphery of squads as well, and again we might only hear one side but given the above perhaps there's no smoke without fire

I find it incredible that he's not only survived but is seemingly under no pressure at all

It's not as if he has any kind of track record either

He's have been the first to go for me, if he wanted it, I'd be offering the world to Alec Stewart. He'd have the lot sorted out and we might see some proper cricket played, revolutionarily we might even have a wicket keeper playing wicket keeper for the test side.