Cricket

[Pakenhamtrain]

I was thinking of you as our resident cricket pundit in Australia, when looking at the end of the first day score in the West Indies v England match yesterday, noting that Jimmy Anderson managed a bowling return of 24 - 12 - 33 - 4 at an economy runs per over rate of 1.33. Was it not one of your countrymen who referred to Anderson over a year ago as an "elderly pie-chucker"?

Nuff said. Any bowler worth his salt will beat up the Windies.

Meanwhile in Australia wallpaper is currently being applied over the grand canyon sized cracks in the 1st test vs Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka bowled out for 144 in 56.4 overs
Australia in reply 2/72.

 

[Macwomble]

.......and England, currently, 61 for 8 in reply to Windies 289 all out.

Who said "Roll on the Ashes" if that's the best they can do against the Windies.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

.......and England, currently, 61 for 8 in reply to Windies 289 all out.

Who said "Roll on the Ashes" if that's the best they can do against the Windies.

England all out for 77 in 30.2 overs. A notable mid-order collapse from 44 - 2 to 49 - 7.

Excellent bowling return by Roach of 11 - 7 - 17 - 5

 

[Busaholic]

I take it that anyone interested knows the score from Barbados!!

I've found some interesting parallels with the last WI v England test, also held at the Kensington Oval, in 2015.

Then, as now, 18 wickets fell on the second day, which was the record number to fall on any day in WI cricket history: at the end of that day in 2015 Jimmy Anderson had taken 6-72 in WI's first innings, his best overseas performance. This time it was a mere five wickets!

Oh, and after the end of the test (and the series) the coach Peter Moores lost his job. This time?!

End of the parallels - no wicket fell in a full day's play today, which is extremely rare. A 7th wicket stand reached 295 runs, and was unbroken. 338 runs were scored in the day. England only require another 500 plus runs to win!!!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Day 4 of the Test Match saw England almost without incident in the morning session, until the last ball before lunch saw the dismissal of Burns for 84. Matters then went steadily downhill with the result that England were eventually all out for 264 in their second innings, meaning that the West Indies won by the very large margin of 381 runs. Jimmy Anderson managed to add two more Test Match not-outs to his collection.

Chase must be congratulated on a rather good bowling return of 21.4 - 2 - 60 - 8.

 

[Howardh]

Day 4 of the Test Match saw England almost without incident in the morning session, until the last ball before lunch saw the dismissal of Burns for 84. Matters then went steadily downhill with the result that England were eventually all out for 264 in their second innings, meaning that the West Indies won by the very large margin of 381 runs. Jimmy Anderson managed to add two more Test Match not-outs to his collection.

Chase must be congratulated on a rather good bowling return of 21.4 - 2 - 60 - 8.

Two batting collapses? Who do they think they are...Lancashire?? And England were supposed to bat down to No.10!!
Bring back Underwood and Snow, they knew what a bat was for (providing someone showed Deadly which way round it was supposed to be)
As someone quipped - should have played Broad, we could have done with his runs!

 

[Busaholic]

Two batting collapses? Who do they think they are...Lancashire?? And England were supposed to bat down to No.10!!
Bring back Underwood and Snow, they knew what a bat was for (providing someone showed Deadly which way round it was supposed to be)
As someone quipped - should have played Broad, we could have done with his runs!

Deadly did score a first class hundred, I'll have you know I think it was during the last match ever played at Hastings. The day before he scored it he was interviewed on TV during the tea interval of a John Player 40 over match and he said it was his one remaining ambition in cricket. Prescient or what?!

 

[Busaholic]

Nuff said. Any bowler worth his salt will beat up the Windies.

Unfair of me to bring up a remark only three days old!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

"Cunning Plan number 1" by the England team selectors for the Second Test Match, to have a new opening partnership, was not what you would call inspired as both Burns and Denly fell for single-figure run scores.

 

[Pakenhamtrain]

In a serious incident Karunaratne was struck on the back of the neck by a ball. Play has been held up rightly as the Australian, Sri Lankan team doctors & ACT Ambulance service place him onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Day 2 of the Second Test Match saw West Indies overhaul the England 1st innings score, with their first three batsmen all recording 40's to finish at end of play at 272-6, having been 186-5 at one stage.

Broad, on his recall, returned bowling figures of 28 - 13 - 42 - 3.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Two batting collapses? Who do they think they are...Lancashire??

Day 3 of the Second Test Match showed that the posting above about the batting collapses of the England team in the previous Test Match repeating itself and proves that lessons were not learned. England took the four remaining West Indies 1st innings wickets early in the day then the debacle continued and in only 42.1 overs, England were all out for the meagre 2nd innings score of 132, leaving a paltry few runs for West Indies to score, which they did in only 13 balls, hitting a six off the last ball faced to win the series 2-0 with a match to spare in only three days play.

Impressive West Indies bowling returns in the England 2nd innings:-
Roach 13 - 2 - 52 - 4
Holder 12.1 - 2 - 43 - 4

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Day 2 of the Third Test Match saw England move on to 277 in their first innings before their final wicket fell, but this time it was the West Indies turn to have batting frailties and in their first innings score of 154 all out, six of their batsmen only made single figure scores before being dismissed. There were two notable England bowling returns:-
Wood .... 8.2 - 2 - 41 - 5
Moeen .... 15 - 4 - 36 - 4

 

[Pakenhamtrain]

The BBL home and away season is (finally) over. The result finally decided with yesterdays game between Melbourne Stars vs Sydney Sixers. The Stars needed to win to play finals. The Sixers were playing for a home final.
The Stars set 6/168 with Maxwell leading the charge with 82 off 43. The Sixers needed 107 at a minimum to maintain thier home final. They threw it away in spectacular fashion bowled out for 74 in 13.4 overs

The final table:
1st Hobart Hurricanes 20pts 0.603nrr
2nd Melbourne Renegades 16pts 0.173nrr
3rd Sydney Sixers 16pts 0.047nrr
4th Melbourne Stars 14pts -0.062nrr
5th Brisbane Heat 13pts 0.249nrr
6th Sydney Thunder 13pts 0.000nrr
7th Adelaide Strikers 12pts -0.473nrr
8th Perth Scorchers 8pts -0.502nrr

The Finals are as follows

Hobart Hurricanes vs Melbourne Stars 14th Feb
Melbourne Renegades vs Sydney Sixers 15th Feb

An all Melbourne derby grand final is a very real possibility.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Day 3 of the Third Test Match showed that England can apply themselves to a task far better than they did in the first two Test Matches of this series, finishing their improved second innings on the day on 325-4, with Root on 111 not out and 50s from both Denly and Buttler.

England, with two full days still to play, now lead West Indies by 448 runs with six second innings wickets remaining.

 

[Pakenhamtrain]

We have seen massive collapses in cricket but this one takes the cake.
South Australian Women’s Second Grade saw West Torrens on 4/81 chasing Glenelg's 83. West Torrens were bowled out for 83.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricke...s/news-story/a2a96ca68d668a25266aae068d84cb31

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Day 4 of the Third Test Match saw England declare at 361-5 when Root fell for 122 and with such a daunting target of over 480 runs required in their second innings, West Indies could not have got off to a worse start, as Anderson took their first three wickets with only 10 runs on the board and despite a good middle-order knock of 102 not out from Chase, batting at number 5, were eventually dismissed for 252.

England win by 232 runs, with a day to spare.

 

[Pakenhamtrain]

The semi finals of the BBL are done.

Hobart Hurricanes 7/153 def by Melbourne Stars 4/157
Sydney Sixers 3/180 def by Melbourne Renegades 7/184

The final on Sunday is officially massive. A Melbourne derby should see 45 thousand at Marvel Stadium.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Tour Match

England 284 all out (70.4 overs)
Root 87
Stokes 56

Charles 20.4 - 4 - 90 - 5

CWI Presidents XI 128 all out (56 overs)

A drawn match, but the Presidents XI were struggling at 13-4 at one time.

 

[Pakenhamtrain]

Yesterday the BBL final was on.
The Renegades set 5/145 after being put into bat.
The Stars got to 0/93 and were looking like they were going to win in a canter. However the Stars pulled off one of the greatest chokes you will ever see in professional sport losing 7/19 off the next 30 balls.
The Stars ended up 13 runs short.

 

[Busaholic]

Great end to a high scoring ODI. England posted 418-6 and WI had responded with 388-6 by the end of the 47th over, with two settled batsmen. Rashid, who'd been expensive, was brought on for the 48th over, the first ball of which yielded a single. The other four wickets then went down within five balls without any addition to the score! England won by 29 runs with two overs to spare. Gayle and Buttler scored big centuries, and Morgan a good score too. Mark Wood took four wickets too.

Just noticed, 5000 posts on this thread:wow!!

 

[EM2]

After England posting 418-6 in the 4th ODI, it looked like it would go down to the wire.
Adil Rashid bowled the 48th over, which went 2-W-W-0-W-W
What a way to win a match!

 

[Cletus]

What a game Even Rashid's two runs conceded in his final over was because of a dropped catch.

Haven't seen Jofra Archer bowl, but feel sure he will replace Plunkett before the World Cup. Although today I've just noticed Plunkett was a lot more economical than Woakes and Stokes.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

England had their euphoria bubble well and truly pricked in the final ODI and managed to collapse from 111-5 to 113 all out over a three over spell. Thomas returned noted bowling figures of 5.1 - 0 - 21 - 5.

West Indies then took the England strike bowling apart and it only took 12.1 overs for them to post a winning score of 115-3, ensuring the series was drawn 2-2.

 

[Howardh]

In the "scratch head" department, Lancashire have announced their 4-day game vs. Durham will be on an outground. Fair enough, love those days out.

Sedburgh. Sedburgh School. Right, it's a lovely ground but (a) Sedburgh's in Yorkshire (old/proper county boundaries), (b) they expect 2000 each day and there's parking for about 10% of them on the rugby pitch - if it's not saturated - so (c) where are the others gonna park? Note, public transport's apparently rubbish. And will the locals come and support Lancashire? Me thinks not....

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the "scratch head" department, Lancashire have announced their 4-day game vs. Durham will be on an outground. Fair enough, love those days out.

Sedburgh. Sedburgh School. Right, it's a lovely ground but (a) Sedburgh's in Yorkshire (old/proper county boundaries), (b) they expect 2000 each day and there's parking for about 10% of them on the rugby pitch - if it's not saturated - so (c) where are the others gonna park? Note, public transport's apparently rubbish. And will the locals come and support Lancashire? Me thinks not....

Perhaps they want to take a leaf out of Glamorgan's "outground" liking for Colwyn Bay.

 

[Howardh]

Perhaps they want to take a leaf out of Glamorgan's "outground" liking for Colwyn Bay.

Well we all know why they do that every time they play Lancashire, a guaranteed sell-out. However Colwyn Bay isn't in a rival county as such! Also the common belief is that Glamorgan represent Wales and they are noted for playing games well outside Glamorgan. Also, Wales does have a national side, playing at a much lower level than Glamorgan.

The argument I suppose is Colwyn Bay area (it's actually Rhos) does cater for many more visitors than Sedburgh (or Southport for that) - car parks, trains, buses, hotels etc - so there's no real strain locally.

 

[Cletus]

The 2nd and 3rd West Indies v England T20 games don't appear to be on Sky Sports.

Anyone know why, and where they might be shown?

 

[Howardh]

The 2nd and 3rd West Indies v England T20 games don't appear to be on Sky Sports.
Anyone know why, and where they might be shown?

I did know the answer but I've forgotten! Think it's because the two games were added after the initial schedule and rights were bought, and the cost to Sky was too great for them to add. The latest I have read is that the games will be available on youtube (or similar) for free (!!) and also on Sky via a local broadcaster.

 

[Cletus]

Ok, thanks for that.