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

15 minutes ago, BobyBrno said:

Wouldn’t want any England player to fail but if Leach doesn’t perform in this Test, it should give Parky a chance to establish himself in the Team. You do fear though that even given a chance, without a good performance, the established players will be brought back. Hopefully, Parky will rise to the challenge.

Hard to see England have moved away from the system where certain players have to overtly fail for 6 months in a row before they get dropped - stability is key, even when it's stability of shit it seems

Poor decision to bowl first.

Starting to get excited to see if Leach can bring up his century unbeaten.

 

(no offence to the lad, but he's not from Bolton and he's clearly not a special player who you stick with to avoid giving the outstanding English spinner of the last 10 years a go).

Good one for Parky to miss

Kiwi part timer getting plenty out of the pitch.

 

Leach if the sort of player you can with win, but you'll never win because of him. Nonsensical to stay loyal when you at least have a chance to find out more about a player who's a genuine match winner at the 2nd highest level.

Pleasure to watch today.

Root getting better.

2 hours ago, boltondiver said:

Pleasure to watch today.

Root getting better.

Best in the world.

Bubbling up nicely 

11 minutes ago, boltondiver said:

Bubbling up nicely 

Yep - we'd be over the line already with a decent spinner😋

Considering how good Bracewell looked, pretty poor leach's only wicket came as they were trying to batter him without respect.

2 hours ago, maaarsh said:

Yep - we'd be over the line already with a decent spinner😋

Considering how good Bracewell looked, pretty poor leach's only wicket came as they were trying to batter him without respect.

🤣😂🤣

just don't get what leach brings to the team,hes average at best will never bowl a side out on a turning wicket, if hes the best in the country then we will never be the no1 test team in the world.

don't think he'd get 50 wickets in Bolton league

Edited June 14, 20224 yr by fester58

Well we’re certainly going for it 

Slogging like a T20 now

 

Amazing

It might shut somebody up...

Fwiw, our biggest issue was is and remains, the top 3

Some promising signs - id given up on pope - but still a long way to go

 

Excellent victory. A 50 over performance on the last day. Remarkable.

Also add that Bracewell got the treatment, and on a last day pitch.

Not sure it's fair to judge any spinner in this game.

That's got to be extremely rare for a team scoring 550 odd in an innings ends up losing, was great entertainment, positive signs, but still some weaknesses, really want Archer to get back and fit.

Archer would prob be a good addition but hes not going to open the batting

2 hours ago, Didledee said:

That's got to be extremely rare for a team scoring 550 odd in an innings ends up losing, was great entertainment, positive signs, but still some weaknesses, really want Archer to get back and fit.

One of the highest first innings scores to lose 

Stokes on 99 sixes in test cricket 

Did they say at the end, that that game had more boundaries than any previous test match?

9 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Did they say at the end, that that game had more boundaries than any previous test match?

They did

9 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Did they say at the end, that that game had more boundaries than any previous test match?

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/eng-vs-nz-2nd-test-stats-jonny-bairstows-quick-century-and-englands-record-chase-1319992

Is he dead? 😳

 

On 14/06/2022 at 17:35, Casino said:

It might shut somebody up...

Fwiw, our biggest issue was is and remains, the top 3

Some promising signs - id given up on pope - but still a long way to go

 

5-100 for Leach

50-5....again

The issue isnt Leach, as limited as he is