England cricket

[Tonge moor green jacket]

4.

Shite.

Do they appear bothered?

[Ani]

16 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

In the circumstances, why would he play that shot?

Just bizarre. We have gone from a team where everyone knew their job and did it to 11 blokes seeming like they are making it up as they go along. 
 

Edited October 29, 2023 by Ani

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

I see David Willey's retired from international cricket after being the only member of the Wotld Cup squad not to be offered a central contract

[Ani]

Why is Stokes playing ? Crazy. 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

On 04/11/2023 at 13:07, Ani said:

Why is Stokes playing ? Crazy. 

Symptomatic for me.

Bonkers.

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

Glenn Maxwell

Fucking hell

[MickyD]

4 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

Glenn Maxwell

Fucking hell

Without the use of his legs for anything other than standing up made his innings doubly impressive.

[Tonge moor green jacket]

All a bit meaningless I suppose, but still a reasonable performance yesterday. 

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

I love cricket - and I don't know if it's just because England have been shit - but fuck me this group stage has dragged

[MancWanderer]

I’ll hang my head in shame and wash my mouth out but glad the Aussies beat India. Didn’t sit right re the pitch shenanigans 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

18 hours ago, MancWanderer said:

I’ll hang my head in shame and wash my mouth out but glad the Aussies beat India. Didn’t sit right re the pitch shenanigans 

Fair play to them.

Not been following it, so don't know about any pitch shenanigans. 

Also pleased they won.

[MancWanderer]

10 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Fair play to them.

Not been following it, so don't know about any pitch shenanigans. 

Also pleased they won.

India switched pitches for the semi against NZ

https://amp.theguardian.com/sport/2023/nov/15/india-accused-over-pitch-switch-for-new-zealand-cricket-world-cup-semi-final

 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Naughty.

Wonder why NZ didn't kick off at the time and say get fucked, we're sticking with no 7.

Similarly the ICC- where were they before the start of play?

Doubly glad they lost.

[Casino]

3 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Naughty.

Wonder why NZ didn't kick off at the time and say get fucked, we're sticking with no 7.

Similarly the ICC- where were they before the start of play?

Doubly glad they lost.

india bought cricket, is probably the answer

[Casino]

now its over, itll be interesting to see the fall out

i thought they may change captain, but its only willey not got a contract

i suppose buttler could be replaced but still play on

fwiw, rightly or wrongly, i think itll be put down to 'indian conditions'

all based on watching a couple of bits of highlights - never grabbed me this time

[MancWanderer]

5 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Naughty.

Wonder why NZ didn't kick off at the time and say get fucked, we're sticking with no 7.

Similarly the ICC- where were they before the start of play?

Doubly glad they lost.

Looks like the ICC don’t have the authority to insist on sticking with the allocated pitch. Local cricket authorities make the decision. All a bit silly 

[MancWanderer]

5 hours ago, Casino said:

now its over, itll be interesting to see the fall out

i thought they may change captain, but its only willey not got a contract

i suppose buttler could be replaced but still play on

fwiw, rightly or wrongly, i think itll be put down to 'indian conditions'

all based on watching a couple of bits of highlights - never grabbed me this time

I gave up about half way through. Found the games very uninspiring in the main

[DazBob]

It was shite.  Read something the other day where out of all the games played only a handful were actually close - ie 3 wickets or less or <30 runs in it.

It also went on way too long and with there only being two 'knockout' games (the two semis) before the final didn't really give it that tournament feel.

[Sweep]

1 hour ago, DazBob said:

It was shite.  Read something the other day where out of all the games played only a handful were actually close - ie 3 wickets or less or <30 runs in it.

It also went on way too long and with there only being two 'knockout' games (the two semis) before the final didn't really give it that tournament feel.

They need to do something with the format, it did seem to go on much too long, like the Rugby World Cup, that seemed to last forever as well - any tournament has to be done and dusted within 4 weeks I reckon.

Was there an actual reason the cricket one was dragged out so long? - it's only 50 overs, each team should easily be able to play at least 3 times a week

[DirtySanchez]

1 hour ago, Sweep said:

They need to do something with the format, it did seem to go on much too long, like the Rugby World Cup, that seemed to last forever as well - any tournament has to be done and dusted within 4 weeks I reckon.

Was there an actual reason the cricket one was dragged out so long? - it's only 50 overs, each team should easily be able to play at least 3 times a week

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/67470006

This explains a bit of it. TV companies don't want to show more than one match a day 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

17 hours ago, MancWanderer said:

Looks like the ICC don’t have the authority to insist on sticking with the allocated pitch. Local cricket authorities make the decision. All a bit silly 

No point in the icc rules then!

Anyway, bollocks to India. 

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

Losing to countries that weren't even good enough to qualify for the WC

We really are shit now

[Alf Hartigan]

15 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

Losing to countries that weren't even good enough to qualify for the WC

We really are shit now

Fall from grace is unbelievable. Why are we playing different players in different formats, appreciate we have been doing it a while with some success.

Surely the best cricketers are the the same whatever format, that's the case for Australia.

 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

First game of the series.

Will see what happens next time.

 

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

A series defeat

It's really poor this