England cricket

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

Oh dear

[Ani]

Remember when won cricket World Cup every player knew their job. 
 

We now have a couple of batsmen (Root and Duckett) , 2 or 3 bowlers and a bunch whose batting is not good enough nor is their bowling.  But have about 14 who can keep wicket. 
 

Brook will be great player one day and ain’t far off now but the ECB do not play meaningful 50 over cricket preferring the shite that is the Hundred no wonder we do. not produce the right players. 

[desperado]

34 minutes ago, Ani said:

Remember when won cricket World Cup every player knew their job. 
 

We now have a couple of batsmen (Root and Duckett) , 2 or 3 bowlers and a bunch whose batting is not good enough nor is their bowling.  But have about 14 who can keep wicket. 
 

Brook will be great player one day and ain’t far off now but the ECB do not play meaningful 50 over cricket preferring the shite that is the Hundred no wonder we do. not produce the right players. 

 

[thebells]

1 hour ago, desperado said:

 

Read this earlier. Some valid points although the article bounces around a lot from mens to womens to test to one day and so on.

I think a lot of (traditional) English cricket fans, myself included, look at the Mens Test Team as the barometer of where we are. The winter in India was about what you'd expect and we then dominated Windies and Sri Lanka at home (as you'd also expect). This year is the big one. 

I think we can, and will, beat India at home. The Ashes are intriguing this time. Australia have players out of form / coming to the end of their cycle. If we can bite the bullet with Pope, get a good winter out of Root, keep Stokes fit for 5 Tests and find the right balance in our bowling attack, we have a 'chance'. I still think we'll lose but it'll be closer than some previous series i think. 

Personally couldn't care less about T20, but do like us to have a competitive 50 Over team.

[Casino]

Im never surprised when we struggle in india, pak, emirates

Plus mccullum is just in post

Ill judge in 12 months

[L/H White]

some 14 year old indian kid scored 100 off 35 balls in the IPL

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

I saw that

14 years and 32 days

Frightening really

[Sweep]

3 hours ago, L/H White said:

some 14 year old indian kid scored 100 off 35 balls in the IPL

 

2 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

I saw that

14 years and 32 days

Frightening really

Nobody likes a show off, I reckon the site expert cricketists, @Horwich, @superjohnmcginlay or @DazBob would have got him skittled fairly quickly

[superjohnmcginlay]

I hate cricket, out first ball of the season and out 5th ball last weekend without troubling the scorers. 
 

the fact a 14 year old has done this has questioned my whole approach to retirement.  
 

 

[DazBob]

5 hours ago, Sweep said:

 

Nobody likes a show off, I reckon the site expert cricketists, @Horwich, @superjohnmcginlay or @DazBob would have got him skittled fairly quickly

@Horwich??? 🤣🤣🤣

[Traf]

On 29/04/2025 at 21:25, DazBob said:

@Horwich??? 🤣🤣🤣

He's forgotten more about cricket than you'll ever know.

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

It's bollocks if performances in this have any bearing on selection for the rest of the summer

[Casino]

15 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

It's bollocks if performances in this have any bearing on selection for the rest of the summer

Which cricket this summer would you use to judge?

The county championship is such a low level

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

36 minutes ago, Casino said:

Which cricket this summer would you use to judge?

The county championship is such a low level

I'd probably go off past performances over a longer time span

There's been plenty of suggestions Crawley and Pope's places might be under threat (I'm less confident that's true of the former than I am of the latter) and if their centuries in this match by them extra time I'd think that's a poor do

If the selectors decide to stick with them, it has to be based on something else

[Casino]

Itll be based on 'gut feel' of the coach

Judging anybody on the shambles that is CC would be ridiculous

[BobyBrno]

They all want to watch the England!😊

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/4277330

[Sweep]

2 hours ago, BobyBrno said:

They all want to watch the England!😊

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/4277330

Good to see, but they're probably excited at the prospect of giving us another whitewashing again, sadly.

I've been forced to go to a few Ashes games in this country (due to work) and I've seen good and bad - I'd imagine it's so much better in Australia, where at least it's warm. My last experience was at the top of that shit scaffold stand at Old Trafford, when it was windy and pissing it down.

[BobyBrno]

37 minutes ago, Sweep said:

Good to see, but they're probably excited at the prospect of giving us another whitewashing again, sadly.

I've been forced to go to a few Ashes games in this country (due to work) and I've seen good and bad - I'd imagine it's so much better in Australia, where at least it's warm. My last experience was at the top of that shit scaffold stand at Old Trafford, when it was windy and pissing it down.

😊 Yeh probably. A fair few England fans have bought them though. Typically 15 to 30,000 at each match historically.

That party stand, I’m one of a team of sellers that sell draw tickets for the big matches. I’m the only one who ventures up that stand. I sell loads. I think the buyers take pity on me for making the effort.😊

[BobyBrno]

One way to get to the match on time. 
 

 

[Sweep]

1 hour ago, BobyBrno said:

😊 Yeh probably. A fair few England fans have bought them though. Typically 15 to 30,000 at each match historically.

That party stand, I’m one of a team of sellers that sell draw tickets for the big matches. I’m the only one who ventures up that stand. I sell loads. I think the buyers take pity on me for making the effort.😊

Party stand? - there wasn't much partying going on, it was freezing, blowing gale and raining, honestly, we were about 3 rows from the back, going for a beer took about an hour - I reckon we lasted about an hour, probably back in central Manc before 1pm. Still, it was a day off work on the piss 😃

[BobyBrno]

Love stuff like this. Met Stato in some far away place one night. Didn’t spend much time with him but would have loved to spend more. Not in a gay way. 
 

 

[MancWanderer]

Thoroughly enjoyed the ODI and T20 series against the Windies. We looked very good but I’ll temper that with how poor they were overall

Eldest daughter has got us tickets for Day 4 against India at Old Trafford for some red ball. Sort of hoping one of the first 3 days is a washout as day 4 in tests isn’t usually an exciting day these days 😀

[BobyBrno]

Not England but this World Test Championship probably won’t go into day 4. The Aussies are vulnerable. (They’ll probable still win this)

[BobyBrno]

Tough day. Posted before the end hoping that I can be proved wrong. 😞

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

Perhaps the wrong decision taken at the toss