The Cricket Thread 2013

[Steve R]

Quick quiz question whilst we wait for the Ashes to get under way.

At which ground did Frederick Spofforth return match figures of 14 for 37 for the Australians against an England XI?

[Dave Cooper please]

Quick quiz question whilst we wait for the Ashes to get under way.

At which ground did Frederick Spofforth return match figures of 14 for 37 for the Australians against an England XI?

Blimey. I know he took fourteen wickets at The Oval in 1882 against England (been reading up on my Ashes history in preparation) but that was for a lot more than 37, Nope, dunno.

[dave.woodhall]

Quick quiz question whilst we wait for the Ashes to get under way.

At which ground did Frederick Spofforth return match figures of 14 for 37 for the Australians against an England XI?

Blimey. I know he took fourteen wickets at The Oval in 1882 against England (been reading up on my Ashes history in preparation) but that was for a lot more than 37, Nope, dunno.

Aston Lower Grounds?

[eastie]

Mr w is correct on may26 1884 - 7-34 and 7-3 .

[Steve R]

It is indeed the Aston Lower Grounds, one of only two first class matches played on the old cricket ground.

Scorecard

[Dave Cooper please]

That's what I call a low scoring game! Probably not a great wicket then?

[cdbearsfan]

Buffalo Bill must have fucked it up.

[cdbearsfan]

No, I'm talking shite. Just checked and that was three years afterwords.

[Steve R]

That's what I call a low scoring game! Probably not a great wicket then?

I think the ground/wicket must have been fairly new. From what I could make out the land had been used by us before moving to Perry Barr, by Birchfield when they first started up and only shows as a cricket ground on maps from the early 1880s onwards.

Then again, maybe the English batsmen were crap.

[PaulWinch again]

Got to laugh at the Essex vs England toss, Bopara won and said 'it looks like a great pitch to put runs on the board, so we'll have a bowl.' It was very funny.

[PaulWinch again]

Cook gone for 18 to Tymal Mills bowling at 90 mph looks a prospect.

[PaulWinch again]

Oh shit, Root looks injured.

[PaulWinch again]

Hopefully just an impact injury.

[PaulWinch again]

Root gone for 41.

[PaulWinch again]

Mills gets Trott, he looks a good bowler.