The Cricket Thread 2014

[Colhint]

Congratulations to our very own Ian Bell. Today he overtook Alec Stewart to become England's second highest one day scorer. Another 408 would see him pass Paul Collingwood to become number 1

[pooligan]

Well done Ian Bell. Annoying to see we lost Woakes for the game against Middlesex,so that he could carry the drinks out to the players again

[Villan For Life]

Well done Ian Bell. Annoying to see we lost Woakes for the game against Middlesex,so that he could carry the drinks out to the players again

In hindsight it hardly mattered did it?

If being with England, surrounded by better players improves his game then the Bears will benefit.

[PaulWinch again]

Carberry and Bresnan back in the ODI and 20/20 squads, not too happy about the latter. Also I get the impression that Moores doesn't rate Ali too much as he's dropped out of the ODI squad.

[Villan For Life]

Carberry and Bresnan back in the ODI and 20/20 squads, not too happy about the latter. Also I get the impression that Moores doesn't rate Ali too much as he's dropped out of the ODI squad.

Very surprised at Carberry's selection. I thought his chance had gone.

[PGW]

Quite like what Middlesex have done today playing two T20 Blast home games on the same day, seems as though there is a fair crowd in for the 2 games,
game 1 Middx v Essex commencing now,noon then 16:00 game 2 Middx v Sussex.
I daresay this is only due to all the international commitments for Lords and had to find time within the schedule.

Expecting 15000+
Monty Panesar opening bowling for Essex - his first T20 game in 3 years.

[PGW]

Middx 180-5 in their 20.
Some exciting stuff from Eoin Morgan 77 i think 9 x 4's 4 x 6's.
He wasn't top scorer though, that went to Dawad Malan 85 but not so quick.

[PaulWinch again]

Kieswetter is looking good again, he should be in and amongst the wicketkeeper options.

[PaulWinch again]

I rate Jordan but that was an awful penultimate over.

[Villan For Life]

I rate Jordan but that was an awful penultimate over.

I thought that there were a lot of good things in our performance in the field. Gurney bowled intelligently for a debutant and our ground fielding was good. We need to take those sharp chances though.

[PaulWinch again]

Gurney was excellent, and there was more energy in the field. The catching was shocking though.

[PaulWinch again]

Batting is going nowhere at the moment.

[paul_e]

Poor decision from Root, no need to chase one behind his legs.

[PaulWinch again]

This is a really poor batting display at the moment.

[PaulWinch again]

Whatever happens in this game having Bell at 3 and Root at 4 is not the way forward in Twenty20 cricket.