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Offline UK Redsox

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2760 on: August 23, 2019, 12:17:16 PM »
What on earth was Stokes doing?

One of the worst shots I’ve seen in a long time

Offline Villan For Life

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2761 on: August 23, 2019, 12:17:40 PM »
What a pathetic waft of a shot. Such ill discipline from Stokes.

What a clusterfuck.

Offline manic-road

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2762 on: August 23, 2019, 12:20:15 PM »
Just got in from work to see Stokes play a shocker, stretching and off balance.

Online Nev

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2763 on: August 23, 2019, 12:22:25 PM »
Scarpering for a single of the 3rd or 4th ball of an innings, like a team chasing in the 49th over of a ODI tells you all you need to know about the approach of these players. God knows what the coaching is like.

Offline manic-road

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2764 on: August 23, 2019, 12:27:36 PM »
What were the first three wickets to fall like, poor batting good bowling or a combination?

Offline taylorsworkrate

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2765 on: August 23, 2019, 12:28:56 PM »
Root got a good ball but failed to move his feet. The other 3 wickets were desperately poor batting.

Offline olaftab

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2766 on: August 23, 2019, 12:31:40 PM »
Root got a good ball but failed to move his feet. The other 3 wickets were desperately poor batting.
So 4 wickets were desperately poor batting.

Offline hilts_coolerking

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2767 on: August 23, 2019, 12:46:32 PM »
5 of the softest dismissals you'll ever see.

Offline manic-road

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2768 on: August 23, 2019, 12:46:37 PM »
Cheers for letting me know how the first wickets went, and now another wicket goes. Denly taking a swipe.

Offline Villafirst

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2769 on: August 23, 2019, 12:47:17 PM »
Denly gone with another poor shot. These batsmen are rubbish at red ball cricket.

Offline taylorsworkrate

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2770 on: August 23, 2019, 12:47:49 PM »
Pretty much the ashes gone in this session.

Offline luke:lamf

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2771 on: August 23, 2019, 12:49:53 PM »
Turns out the hypothetical "Would you rather win the WC or The Ashes?" wasn't that hypothetical after all...

Offline taylorsworkrate

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2772 on: August 23, 2019, 12:52:34 PM »
The sort of session that should see the end of a coach, the end of a captain, and the end of several test careers.

Been an absolute disgrace.

Offline manic-road

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2773 on: August 23, 2019, 12:52:39 PM »
6 down and now into the bowlers, absolutely shite.

Offline OzVilla

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019
« Reply #2774 on: August 23, 2019, 12:53:32 PM »
The problem is the top 4 are woeful, really very poor for this level and the team is totally unbalanced. You can’t have Jos Buttler batting at 7 in this side. He has to bat higher.

This has been absolutely appalling today, as bad a performance as I can ever recall and that for an England team is quite some achievement.

You can talk all you like about bowlers bowling well but today they’ve put it there, built pressure and we’ve had no answer, just totally folded.

 


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