Cricket 2010 Thread

[olaftab]

Pakistan.

I can only speak for our section but the majority of guys supporting them by us were aged 15-30 and looking to antagonise anyone that they could.
I sure as shit don't expect an Asian lad in an England shirt to be threatened with physical violence for doing so and nor do I find it acceptable to be accused of being a murderer by some c*** in a Saddam Hussein mask for celebrating Afridi losing his wicket.

We also had people running down aisles to try and throw their flags over England fans and blowing those fucking irritating horns two inches away from people's faces.

Like I said, never again.

Sadly I can only endorse your comments. There is a breed who know f all about cricket but pay big money to turn up  at matches for some  dreadful nationalistic behaviour. They have a major chip on shoulder  problem and can be compared with  lo life footie fans.

[hilts_coolerking]

I think a worse problem and one, for the most part, we avoid these days was picking a player for one or two tests against strong opposition and then discarding them.

The number of talented players that were tried against the West Indies and Australia in the 80s and 90s only to be discarded after their initial failure is shocking.  As if failure on debut against arguably the two most dominant teams in Test cricket history is reliable evidence of a player's ability.

Admittedly a few of them were bad picks and a few were persevered with (notably Gooch, Atherton and Flintoff) but overall the management, such as it was, of the England side in the 1980s and early 90s was disgraceful.

Robin Smith? Discarded prematurely to say the least.

Possibly, although his demise coincided with the re-emergence of quality spin in Test matches - which was his particular Achilles Heel.  

I say that as his biggest fan though.  When he made his debut against the West Indies in 1988, I remember being so glad that someone actually looked to be relishing the fight.  I remember one particularly good stand with Allan Lamb until Lamb tore a hamstring or something.  But it was brilliant while it lasted.

I saw some stats on cricinfo recently though about the first half of Robin Smith's Test career compared to the second; the extent to which his form fell away was considerable.

But those square cuts.  Never seen anyone before or since play the shot with as much power as that.

[TheTimVilla]

Tredwell in, Carberry out but that's not the story here. What a crazy session. Somebody told Tamim Iqbal it was a T20. They were 108 for 1 off 15 overs, Swann went for 20 in one over and we had 5 fielders on the boundary!

125 for 3 now though.

[Villan For Life]

Tredwell in, Carberry out but that's not the story here. What a crazy session. Somebody told Tamim Iqbal it was a T20. They were 108 for 1 off 15 overs, Swann went for 20 in one over and we had 5 fielders on the boundary!

125 for 3 now though.

Harsh on Carberry really but the need to play 2 spinners would outweigh it. I wonder what would have happened if KP had not got runs in the 1st test? Would they have gone with the extra batsman this time?

Update.......Finn back on after his 1st spell of 2-0-22-0 and takes a wicket with his 1st ball!

[Villan For Life]

The squad for the 20/20 World Cup has been announced.

No huge surprises but I do question the logic of taking the injury-prone Sidebottom. I think he has very quickly become yesterday's man.

[Chris Jameson]

Warwickshire 165/7 against Yorkshire.

It will be a struggle for Yorkshire this season but pleased to see 10 of the starting line up are Yorkshire born players.

[Chris Smith]

Warwickshire 165/7 against Yorkshire.

It will be a struggle for Yorkshire this season but pleased to see 10 of the starting line up are Yorkshire born players.

I doubt we'll get many opportunities to play both Bell and Trott so it's a disappointing start. Then again cricket on 9th April in England is mad.

[Chris Jameson]

217 all out.

[Dave P]

217 all out.

Pissflaps!

And we cant get the rollers out to help our seamers tomorrow so that was a great toss for your lot to win.

[cdbearsfan]

The Bears are going to be shite this year. Despite being massively wealthy, they never sign anyone any good. I predict relegation, but hope I'm wrong.

[Mazrim]

Never sign anybody any good?
Lara? Donald? Pollock? Sangakarra?

We havent signed the players we should have in the last two years though, granted.

[cdbearsfan]

Ok, I meant recently - 'never' may have been an exaggeration. Sangakkara and Steyn were the last two good ones I remember.

[Villan For Life]

Central contracts and the IPL mean that the days of having a Lara, a Donald or a Pollock for a season are gone which is a real pity.

I'm not sure that the Bears will set the world alight this year but we should sit comfortably in mid-table. I'd like to see them improve in the one day formats because we've been poor here for a while now.

[Dave Cooper please]

A lot will depend on the bowling of Woakes and the two Tahir's, we should be able to bat well enough (yes, yes, 217 all out, I know) but we might struggle to bowl teams out.
Mid-table seems fair enough, it would be nice to reach a cup final for once.

[cdbearsfan]

Anyone else keeping an eye on the score on Cricinfo?

They have got an advert above asking "who will win the Champions League" next to pictures of Lionel Messi and... err... Wayne Rooney.

Ho ho ho.

281/7 lead of 224. All three results possible. Could be a good day's cricket tomorrow for anyone luck enough to have the day off work.