Cricket

[DarloRich]

81 all out. All so predictable.

 

[philjo]

It is the shortest completed test match since World war 2.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Last over by Root.... 4 4 dot 6

Normal service now resumed.

 

[3rd rail land]

It is the shortest completed test match since World war 2.

Extraordinary. Pretty useless performance by England. Only positives are the 4 and 5 wicket hauls for Leach and Root respectively.

 

[Darandio]

Extraordinary. Pretty useless performance by England. Only positives are the 4 and 5 wicket hauls for Leach and Root respectively.

I'm not sure it was that positive. I'd fancy myself to get 2 or 3 on that pitch!

 

[3rd rail land]

I'm not sure it was that positive. I'd fancy myself to get 2 or 3 on that pitch!

Well Indian pitches are usually spinners paradises. I mean a long time ago I played 3rd and 4th team club cricket as a leg spinner. I wouldn't be surprised like you if I got a wicket or 2 in that match if I was playing.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Well Indian pitches are usually spinners paradises. I mean a long time ago I played 3rd and 4th team club cricket as a leg spinner. I wouldn't be surprised like you if I got a wicket or 2 in that match if I was playing.

I am sure that Shane Warne would have enjoyed bowling on such a helpful wicket as that one.

 

[Mikey C]

I am sure that Shane Warne would have enjoyed bowling on such a helpful wicket as that one.

If we had a Warne or Murali, they wouldn't have prepared such a spin friendly pitch...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

It shows how well-versed the Indian Test Match cricket team is well-versed in the art of spin and slow bowling, with players able to extract the most on the type of wickets prepared on the Indian sub-continent. The English authorities charged with running Test Matches should be able to produce internal facilities where these type of wickets could be emulated where the English exponents of this type of bowling can fully refine their technique.

Is this too much to ask in the year 2021?

 

[Whistler40145]

What changes will take place to the England Test Squad for the next home series?

Neither Zak Crawley or Dominic Sibley were effective, simply are they the best we can come up with?

Is Dom Bless a suitable spinner when a second one is required?

 

[Old Yard Dog]

I can't say I'm over the moon about Dom Bess turning out for Yorkshire in the summer. If he can't take wickets and keep the runs down on the spinner helpful wickets at Madras and Ahmedabad, what chance will he have at Headingley and Scarborough?

 

[Whistler40145]

I can't say I'm over the moon about Dom Bess turning out for Yorkshire in the summer. If he can't take wickets and keep the runs down on the spinner helpful wickets at Madras and Ahmedabad, what chance will he have at Headingley and Scarborough?

Exactly, not holding much hope

 

[kje7812]

England's T20 squad got off to a good start yesterday in the first game of 5 against India yesterday. India making 124-7 off their 20 overs and England knocking off the runs with 8 wickets in hand and 4.5 overs spare.
It seems England has favoured the limited over format for a few years with the white ball generally favouring the bat.
It's a shame Ch4 didn't secure the rights for the limited over series but oh well.

 

[daodao]

England's T20 squad got off to a good start yesterday in the first game of 5 against India yesterday. India making 124-7 off their 20 overs and England knocking off the runs with 8 wickets in hand and 4.5 overs spare.
It seems England has favoured the limited over format for a few years with the white ball generally favouring the bat.
It's a shame Ch4 didn't secure the rights for the limited over series but oh well.

Yet another England defeat on 14/3/21, this time in the T20 competition. This England team is second-rate at best, in nearly all departments.

Another defeat in the final game of this 5 match confirms that England are indeed second-rate at best.

 

[DelW]

Yet another England defeat on 14/3/21, this time in the T20 competition. This England team is second-rate at best, in nearly all departments.

Before yesterday's loss, the England T20 team were no.1 in the world rankings!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Yet another England defeat on 14/3/21, this time in the T20 competition. This England team is second-rate at best, in nearly all departments.

Third Twenty20 International

India 156-6

England 158-2

Kohli was the mainstay of the Indian innings, but Buttler in his role as opener shone when England replied, hitting 83 not out from 52 balls (4 x 6 and 5 x 4), ably supported by Bairstow (another of our wicketkeeper batsmen we have been fortunate to have), saw England take a 2-1 series lead.

 

[Busaholic]

Third Twenty20 International

India 156-6

England 158-2

Kohli was the mainstay of the Indian innings, but Buttler in his role as opener shone when England replied, hitting 83 not out from 52 balls (4 x 6 and 5 x 4), ably supported by Bairstow (another of our wicketkeeper batsmen we have been fortunate to have), saw England take a 2-1 series lead.

Win the toss ( and bowl) win the game seems to be the order of things! Too one-sided for my liking.

 

[daodao]

Before yesterday's loss, the England T20 team were no.1 in the world rankings!

Yet another English defeat today, so they have lost the series in all 3 different game formats. They are indeed SECOND-RATE.

 

[Busaholic]

Yet another English defeat today, so they have lost the series in all 3 different game formats. They are indeed SECOND-RATE.

I'm no jingoist, but I think that's a bit harsh in the context of the 50 over game. India and England each won a game easily with the last one going to the wire, in Indian conditions, admittedly without spectators. Almost all England's players played an acceptable part, the possible exceptions being Morgan and Buttler, and T.Curran in his one game. Roy gets bowled too often for a frontline batsman, bit like Tom Moody for Australia in bygone days: significant that Moody never made a test batsman either.

 

[Darandio]

Yet another English defeat today, so they have lost the series in all 3 different game formats. They are indeed SECOND-RATE.

You neither watch or understand cricket. GUARANTEED.

 

[Busaholic]

You neither watch or understand cricket. GUARANTEED.

I suspect that, not for the first time, you hit the nail on the head.

 

[youngiecj]

Great effort from Sam Curran though. Still only 22! A real prospect.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great effort from Sam Curran though. Still only 22! A real prospect.

It was a very good innings by a number eight batsman, with 95 not out from 83 balls, with 3 x 6 and 9 x 4.

 

[kje7812]

Well England have a few months to ponder things. Their next scheduled match is against New Zealand at Lord's, 2nd-6th June.
Scheduled Summer lineup is 2 test against NZ, 3 ODIs and 3 T20s against Sri Lanka, 3 ODIs and 3 T20s against Pakistan and 5 Tests against India.
With the June start, that feels quite packed.

 

[DelW]

Yet another English defeat today, so they have lost the series in all 3 different game formats. They are indeed SECOND-RATE.

England still head the ICC ODI rankings...
ICC Ranking for ODI teams International Cricket Council (icc-cricket.com)
1 - England rating 121
2 - India rating 119
3 - New Zealand rating 118
4 - Australia rating 111

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the current ODI series between South Africa and Pakistan, the opener Fakhar Zaman scored 193 from 155 balls with 10 x 6 and 18 x 4 before being run out and still finished on the losing side.

 

[kje7812]

Potentially the South African national teams (men and women) are in danger of being unable to compete in international games as Cricket South Africa is to be stripped of its right to run the sport in South Africa. If it is, the nation teams will be blocked from recognised international games by the ICC.

Cricket SA stripped of right to run sport

Cricket South Africa has been stripped of its right to administer the game - putting the Proteas' participation in international matches in doubt.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Day 2 of Lancashire's match against Kent saw a Lancashire club record stand of 187 for the eighth wicket, as number eight and nine batsmen Danny Lamb and Luke Wood, came together at 248-7. Lamb scored 125 and Wood scored 119 to help Lancashire reach an all out total of 525. Kent did not fare well in the final part of the days play and at close of play were 85-4.

In another day of batsmen being in the ascendancy, day 4 of the Test Match saw Sri Lanka, responding to the Bangladesh 1st innings total of 541-7 declared, at the close of play reached 512-3, with an unbroken stand of 351 between Karunaratne 234 not out (25 x 4) and Dhananjaya 154 not out (20 x 4)

With r/e to Hameed, many with more knowledge of cricket than I have suggest that due to his broken finger/thumb (now repaired obvs) he's psychologically avoiding being hit again - and he might not know that he's doing it; and playing the wrong shots. No idea how right or wrong that is, there are coaches and all sorts paid to work that out.

Is this the same ex-Lancashire player named Hameed who scored centuries in both innings (unbeaten in the second innings when he batted all day) this week to enable his new county to draw the match?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

In the current Test Match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, Pakistan chose to bat first and in their innings, there were two notable stands:-

After losing an early wicket, Abid 215 not out (29 x 4) and Azhar 126 (1 x 6 and 17 x 4) put on a stand of 236 for the second wicket.

Number 9 batsman Nauman then joined Abid and put the bowling to the sword scoring 97 (5 x 6 and 9 x 4) in a stand of 169 before he was out going for his hundred, but that then enabled Pakiston to declare at 510-8.

 

[Busaholic]

45 year old Darren Stevens in Kent v Glamorgan hit 190, of all out 307, with 15 each of fours and sixes! He put on 166 for the 9th wicket with Miguel Cummins, of which Stevens's contribution was 160: oh, after allowing for 5 extras, Cummins contributed one run, and was scoreless for 111 minutes! That 160 out of 166 represents 96.38% of the partnership, the highest percentage ever, in first class cricket, in a partnership over 100. Cummins in his last test match for West Indies in 2017 was scoreless for 97 minutes, which I've heard is the record in tests.