The Cricket Thread 2014

[tomd2103]

We ruined Finn by tampering with his action, he's only starting to recover due to being away from the England set up. Onions was fit plenty of time and he wasn't picked. In any case that's no excuse for consistently bowling too short from game to game and being out bowled at home by Sri Lanka and India.

Oh I agree, but it goes a way to explain why weare playing in test matches with two struggling experienced bowlers,  two bowlers who haven't really torn up trees in the limited number of tests they have played and a part-time spinner.

[Dave Cooper please]

If Cook stands down (and I think he will if we lose this match) then I see no reason not to give Joe Root a go as captain for the rest of the series, Our senior players, with the odd exception, are not doing it at the moment, the young players are. Why not go for a clean sweep and build for the future, there is a lot of promise in this team, it's the more senior players who are letting us down, especially in the batting department.

[UK Redsox]

Don't think you can bring someone into the starting XI and make them captain at the same time. 

Aka the Chris Cowdery plan

[tomd2103]

Don't think you can bring someone into the starting XI and make them captain at the same time. 

Aka the Chris Cowdery plan

Agree that you couldn't really do it with someone who has not been in the side before, but Morgan has and is captain of the team in other formats of the game.  He has experience of captaining many of the players in the side.  If the experienced players (Bell, Prior, Broad and Anderson) didn't like it then bye-bye chaps.   

[PaulWinch again]

"I went out for dinner with Stuart Broad last night and returned in a taxi. The driver was saying '30 quid to go to watch at Lord's tomorrow, they're rubbish!' All of this time, Stuart was sitting in the front seat. The driver then asked if he was my son. 'No,' I said. 'That's Stuart Broad.'

That made me laugh from Agnew.

[UK Redsox]

The taxi story was good but following it up with Tuffers and Aggers doing impressions of The Clangers was TMS genius.

[UK Redsox]

It gets better............. Tuffers is now doing Bagpuss impressions

[UK Redsox]

As publicized by Aggers

http://www.thelowry.com/event/heres-one-we-made-earlier

[tomd2103]

Long way to go, but there is a slight glimmer at this point.  If we were to pull a win out from this situation, it could be a real confidence boost.   

[paul_e]

Long way to go, but there is a slight glimmer at this point.  If we were to pull a win out from this situation, it could be a real confidence boost.   

As I said yesterday:

we do still have 2 guys there who have the ability to bat out a full day, these 2 have to survive the day and then bat until around Lunch tomorrow though.

If they make it to lunch safe we can start looking at what we need to do to win here.  If at least one of this pair makes it to tea we're in a very good place to try to push on, I'd prefer things if Prior and Stokes were batting well.

[Ads]

New ball will be key. If these two see off the new ball, then the balance may swing back our way.

[Dr Butler]

Root to 51 with 3 fours.....Come on England..

[paul_e]

Brillant little counter from Root here, 14 off the over and that's a lot of pressure on India suddenly.

[tomd2103]

Root to 51 with 3 fours.....Come on England..

155 to win.  The hour after lunch is going to crucial.   

[Villan For Life]

That was a massive blow losing Ali to the last ball before lunch.