The Cricket Thread 2016

[PaulWinch again]

Other than Cook and Moeen we've batted very poorly.

[Villan For Life]

Cricket is a game of stats and it's an aspect of the game that I enjoy.

I was looking at the Test number on the shirts and wondered who the last debutant was. I thought it was Buttler and I was right but from the list I looked at what struck me was the number of one cap wonders between 2010 and 2015:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_England_Test_cricketers

The List seems to be valid up until the start of the current series.

We also seem to have found a number of quality players between 2004 and 2006 (Bell, Strauss, Pietersen, Cook) who played 100+ tests.

How many of the recent debutants will get to 100 test caps? Root and Ballance for sure but who else?

Maybe history will show the period from 2004 to 2011 to be a Golden age for English Test Cricket. I hope not.

[Villan For Life]

Well batted Cook

[paul_e]

If Stokes can control his emotions he can become a big player for us. It's a big if though.

I am not convinced by him at all and his dismissal shows a lack of patience, I see him more of a 1 day player

I agree, I think he can become a good player but he needs to grow up in county cricket for a year or 2 yet, I have the same opinion of Bairstow who has probably been ruined by carrying drinks for England too often for the last 3 years and Finn who should've had a year or 2 with his county after the run up changes so he could get the thousands of deliveries required to learn the motor memory of his new runup.

[Villan For Life]

If Stokes can control his emotions he can become a big player for us. It's a big if though.

I am not convinced by him at all and his dismissal shows a lack of patience, I see him more of a 1 day player

That's my point. Aggression and emotion will help you in the one day game, if he learns to control and channel that aggression there's a natural replacement for Paul Collingwood ready and waiting.

[PaulWinch again]

Congratulations Cook. He's looked like the old Cookie in the last few innings. Now build and score bucketloads in the Ashes.

[spangley1812]

If Stokes can control his emotions he can become a big player for us. It's a big if though.

I am not convinced by him at all and his dismissal shows a lack of patience, I see him more of a 1 day player

That's my point. Aggression and emotion will help you in the one day game, if he learns to control and channel that aggression there's a natural replacement for Paul Collingwood ready and waiting.

Why is he batting above Buttler who is obviously the better batsman?

[Chris Jameson]

Delighted for Cook, hopefully it's the start of an incredibly miserable month for Piers fucking Moron culminating in humiliation for his football team.

[Villan For Life]

If Stokes can control his emotions he can become a big player for us. It's a big if though.

I am not convinced by him at all and his dismissal shows a lack of patience, I see him more of a 1 day player

That's my point. Aggression and emotion will help you in the one day game, if he learns to control and channel that aggression there's a natural replacement for Paul Collingwood ready and waiting.

Why is he batting above Buttler who is obviously the better batsman?

Maybe because he has a ton at test level but I don't think Buttler has - yet.

[PaulWinch again]

Stokes can be good if he channels his aggression, but Moeen is a much better option at 6 at the moment as he showed today. It's important Buttler supports Cook now.

[Villan For Life]

Feck. That is a blow.

[Villan For Life]

Cook and Ali aside that is a poor effort with the bat on a nothing surface.

[PaulWinch again]

Oh Cook you needed to go on. As you say other than Cook and Ali this has been a really poor batting display. Other than Ballance all of the dismissals have been avoidable.

[paul_e]

We need to let Buttler go out swinging tomorrow.

[PaulWinch again]

We've got to stop getting out to casual dismissals. But I'm delighted Cook has ended the century talk and Moeen has shown he's very capable at Test level in a pressure situation again.