The Cricket Thread 2016

[Villan For Life]

Playing a one day friendly against a Prime Ministers XI today. 327-3 off 44 with Bell 156 off 128.

One observation, why can't we hit sixes? Thirty-five fours and only one six!

[Villan For Life]

We must have gone berserk.......five sixes in last 6 overs.

391-6 off 50 with Bell out at the death for 187 off 145.

[PaulWinch again]

That's some knock from Bell and the top 3 as a unit did very well again.

[PaulWinch again]

Glenn Maxwell is doing some serious damage.

[Villan For Life]

We won by 60 runs.

A good run out with several of the batsmen getting a decent knock & Broad getting a 4-fer. Jordan was expensive though.

For England Lions, Trott got 211 not out.

[Villan For Life]

An unusual catch by Woakes

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NqUmL7afvrc

[tomd2103]

We won by 60 runs.

A good run out with several of the batsmen getting a decent knock & Broad getting a 4-fer. Jordan was expensive though.

For England Lions, Trott got 211 not out.

The fact they got over 300 is a bit of a concern really.  I suppose Jimmy Anderson has still got to come back, so that should boost our attack.  Heard Dominic Cork say on the radio this morning that he would like to see Finn come in possibly in place of Tredwell when we get on the faster tracks, with Root and Moeen sharing the spinning duties.   

[PaulWinch again]

Finn needs to get back to actually bowling fast, he isn't close to his best again yet. I'd guess it was a pretty flat deck looking at the scores.

The A tour is bringing up some interesting options for who opens with Cook. Lyth, Robson, Lees and Trott have all scored big runs.

[Villan For Life]

We won by 60 runs.

A good run out with several of the batsmen getting a decent knock & Broad getting a 4-fer. Jordan was expensive though.

For England Lions, Trott got 211 not out.

The fact they got over 300 is a bit of a concern really.  I suppose Jimmy Anderson has still got to come back, so that should boost our attack.  Heard Dominic Cork say on the radio this morning that he would like to see Finn come in possibly in place of Tredwell when we get on the faster tracks, with Root and Moeen sharing the spinning duties.   

I'd keep Tredwell in the side. Slower bowlers are harder to score off in limited overs cricket.

We've packed our side with traditional English seamers in the past and we've got nowhere.

[tomd2103]

Finn needs to get back to actually bowling fast, he isn't close to his best again yet. I'd guess it was a pretty flat deck looking at the scores.

The A tour is bringing up some interesting options for who opens with Cook. Lyth, Robson, Lees and Trott have all scored big runs.

A part of me wants Trotty to have a full summer at Edgbaston with Warwickshire, as I worry what being thrown back into the international spotlight could do to him.  Again, listening to Dominic Cork this morning he was saying that the word is that they could well go with Lees in the next test series.     

[paul_e]

We won by 60 runs.

A good run out with several of the batsmen getting a decent knock & Broad getting a 4-fer. Jordan was expensive though.

For England Lions, Trott got 211 not out.

The fact they got over 300 is a bit of a concern really.  I suppose Jimmy Anderson has still got to come back, so that should boost our attack.  Heard Dominic Cork say on the radio this morning that he would like to see Finn come in possibly in place of Tredwell when we get on the faster tracks, with Root and Moeen sharing the spinning duties.   

I'm not concerned, we'd set them a truly ridiculous target that they were only going to stand a chance at if they came out swinging and in T20 mode for the entire innings and only a very good innings from one of the top T20 batsmen in the world got them even close to making a game of it.  Short form cricket is all about scoreboard pressure and we did a great job of creating that.  I hope they take some confidence from it and try to do the same any time they open the innings.

[peter w]

[taylorsworkrate]

Well another fabulous start to a ODI from our boys.

[paul_e]

Today was an example of what can happen if you start aggressively and bowl accurate and fast.  Anything that happened after the 3rd ball was all about pressure, the deliveries for Bell and Taylor were fantastic.  On top of that the pitch looks like a 240-250 par to me so I'm not sure we're that far off the pace.

[PaulWinch again]

It was a brilliant knock from Morgan and at least him coming back to form is a major plus. However the rest was pretty shambolic and we need to take wickets.