The Cricket Thread 2016

[DaveD]

I reckon I could hit a six from a Duminy half-tracker mind.

[paul_e]

I reckon I could hit a six from a Duminy half-tracker mind.

I was on about the one he hit the over before which was  good length delivery from a quick (at about 88-89mph) and he he just placed it over the rope utterly effortlessly.  I agree on duminy though, the 6 in that over was an absolute stinker of a delivery that had to go for 6, the follow up was piss poor as well because Buttler knew exactly what was coming and milked it for 4.

[Villan For Life]

I do enjoy the positive brand of one day cricket that we now play. It's in stark contrast to the way we performed at last year's World Cup.

The T20 World Cup starts next month. England are 8-1 at the moment, that's worth a punt.

[DaveD]

Yeah, sorry, I knew what you meant, I was just being facetious because just as I read your comment, Duminy lobbed that long hop up.

[hipkiss92]

The traditional 'double your score after 30 overs' would get England somewhere around 450 at the moment.

[paul_e]

Yeah, sorry, I knew what you meant, I was just being facetious because just as I read your comment, Duminy lobbed that long hop up.

I'm watching on sky go so I thought I might be further behind than I expected.

The traditional 'double your score after 30 overs' would get England somewhere around 450 at the moment.

I'm not sure that is relevant any more, now that teams are attacking from the off and trying to just keep that up what you're really looking for is adding 140-160 for the last 20 in most cases.  As I said earlier, we'll be right up around 400 unless something goes very wrong here.  The best thing is we have players at 7-10 who can easily go at 150-200% for the last 10 so if this pair and then Morgan and Stokes can get to that point safely we can go all out and aim for 100+ at the end.

[PaulWinch again]

Buttler is on a mission here.

[PaulWinch again]

It's a brilliant 100 from Buttler.

[PaulWinch again]

Annoying he's out, we're going to struggle to get 400 now I suspect.

[PaulWinch again]

399-9, tailed off a little bit at the end but a cracking innings overall.

[Villan For Life]

The innings tailed away a little but we did well to get to 399. We should have got 430+ against that attack.

I don't think that we will bowl as badly as they did so we should win this one.

[paul_e]

It's telling that there's a few people disappointed about not getting 400, a year ago getting 300 was beyond us.

From what I saw (I had to turn it off after 30 overs and I've just put it back on) Buttler, Hales and Roy were superb and all did their jobs perfectly, it looks like Stokes and Moeen also did a good job of pushing things along.

As for tailing off, we got 102 from the last 10, I think that'll do.

[paul_e]

What a fucking catch, that's right up there with the best I've ever seen.

[Chris Smith]

What a fucking catch, that's right up there with the best I've ever seen.

Brilliant wasn't it and he made it look look easy.

[paul_e]

What a fucking catch, that's right up there with the best I've ever seen.

Brilliant wasn't it and he made it look look easy.

The more times you see it the better it gets, Live it was like an optical illusion where the ball just disappeared.  I'm really not overstating this, it's truly spectacular.