The Cricket Thread 2014

[PaulWinch again]

Hales is starting to become consistently good now, I'd like him in the ODI side.

[paul_e]

bugger, Buttler was looking really dangerous there.

[paul_e]

Hales is starting to become consistently good now, I'd like him in the ODI side.

Agree, really good batting *from Hales* here, just hasn't had anyone stay with him long enough, Buttler did ok and did get us in the game at least.

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah I think the trio of Bell, Root and Morgan stagnated the innings too much, but you never know.

[paul_e]

unlucky for Hales

[PaulWinch again]

That's probably that but well done Hales.

[Dave Cooper please]

We're giving it a go and that at least is an improvement.

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah it's been a decent effort. The mistakes are poor catching, one horror over from Jordan(who I rate highly) and having Bell and Root at 3 and 4.

[Dave Cooper please]

Well you could say that Malinga is a genius, and his figures show he's bloody good...but he is chucking it, how the fuck has he got away with it all this time? How can you pick a ball as a batsman when it's coming from that angle?

[olaftab]

Malinga is a cheat tonight, has always been a cheat and will carry on being a cheat as long as he plays cricket.

[paul_e]

I agree, I hate that, despite him being very talented, his success is almost entirely down to the fact that his action is something people just don't face enough of to learn to play it. I'm convinced that if there were a few similar to him in county cricket he'd be found out.  Look at the Jordan wicket, that wasn't a good delivery it was just that the line was so strange that Jordan just didn't pick it.  The delivery to get Hales was a good one though, largely because bowling slow and straight after you just been clubbed to the boundary for bowling the same thing is very brave.

[PaulWinch again]

Yep he has a questionable action, but we lost the game in the middle overs we really need to get our game changers higher up the order.

[Villan For Life]

We got closer than I thought we would.

I like the look of this side with Bopara coming in late. Jordan and Gurney have bags of potential and when Hales gets it right he's as good as anyone.

[olaftab]

Yep he has a questionable action,

No it's not questionable. It's just wrong. I really don't know how he is allowed to get away with it when many others have been banned for slight deviations.

[paul_e]

it's a sri lankan thing, murali was very lucky to be allowed to play internationally as well