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Author Topic: The Cricket Thread 2014  (Read 262600 times)

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #285 on: March 27, 2014, 03:13:28 PM »
I think it's time to draw a line under Dernbach and Bresnan.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #286 on: March 27, 2014, 03:13:51 PM »
yup

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #287 on: March 27, 2014, 03:16:55 PM »
I know people defend Dernbach by saying when he bowls. However for a man who is apparently all about variations, he's had plenty of time to perfect his art and he hasn't. He isn't good enough and that wide followed by 6 sums him up.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #288 on: March 27, 2014, 03:21:20 PM »
Great penultimate over from Jordan.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #289 on: March 27, 2014, 03:21:48 PM »
it's allright...Bresnan is on to bowl the last over....just when we need a very tight over..:(

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #290 on: March 27, 2014, 03:27:44 PM »
16 off the last over....190 to win so got to bat extremely well...the Slinger will murder them :(

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #291 on: March 27, 2014, 03:27:54 PM »
Absolutely diabolical from Bresnan. He is fucking uselss, as is Dernbach and neither should play for England again. Bresnan's bowling has clearly gone since his elbow problems. Short of a miracle we have no chance.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #292 on: March 27, 2014, 03:31:20 PM »
England can do 190 however conditions and batting second under lights means not likely.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #293 on: March 27, 2014, 03:32:47 PM »
Well Sri Lanka have never lost scoring 160 +. England have massive problems, the fielding was a disgrace. For 'front line' bowlers Bresnan and Dernbach regularly turn in woeful displays. England's best ODI bowler recently has probably been Bopara and he doesn't bowl an over.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #294 on: March 27, 2014, 03:35:53 PM »
Well Sri Lanka have never lost scoring 160 +. England have massive problems, the fielding was a disgrace. For 'front line' bowlers Bresnan and Dernbach regularly turn in woeful displays. England's best ODI bowler recently has probably been Bopara and he doesn't bowl an over.

indeed strange that Ravi did not get a bowl, Collingwood is the England fielding coach, which after seeing their fielding display certainly surprised me.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #295 on: March 27, 2014, 03:35:54 PM »
I am sorry but Broad is out of his depth. His bowling selections were poor and ending with Bresnan WTF.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #296 on: March 27, 2014, 03:36:57 PM »
England can do 190 however conditions and batting second under lights means not likely.

Batting 2nd in these conditions is probably beneficial as the dew increases and the ball comes onto the bat a bit nicer.

The reason we won't do it is because we are shit.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #297 on: March 27, 2014, 03:36:58 PM »
As I say it's time to end Bresnan's England career. They ended Pietersen's and frankly Bresnan's performances over the last couple of years have been fucking awful on the whole.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #298 on: March 27, 2014, 03:40:36 PM »
Lumb gone 0/1.....

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2014
« Reply #299 on: March 27, 2014, 03:40:57 PM »
What a start, 0-1 off 5 deliveries. English cricket is getting back to 90s standards at the moment.

 


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