The Cricket Thread 2016

[Villan For Life]

This is starting to look pretty tricky here.

Looks like it will be a 500 plays 500 first innings game and a poor advert for test Cricket.

I'm surprised that the ball hasn't started to reverse. It's 60 overs old and the Indians were getting some reverse in our innings. We are supposed to be masters at Cricket's dark art!

[UK Redsox]

Victor wants to know which batsman has been hit the most on the helmet in an innings.

Even Andrew can't bring up the stats for that


EDIT - In baseball, this wouldn't be a problem because 'Hit By Pitch" is a standard stat to keep

[Dave Cooper please]

It's pitches like this that give Test cricket a bad name, nothing for the seamers, very little for the spinners, as flat as a witch's tit and utterly pointless, except for making India's batting averages look good.

[UK Redsox]

Unless the pitch falls apart tomorrow, this Test is going to get very dull

[PGW]

Well i think the last 10 minutes brought the test to life, getting those 2 late wickets have given England a massive boost, both centurions now back
in the pavilion. A lot now rests on what the bowlers can do up till Lunch tomorrow. With the door slightly ajar we now need to bowl India out some
time after lunch with maybe 120 lead. Then a breezy knock undoubtedly losing wickets along the way increasing our lead to 250-280 to give us a chance on turning wicket
on Sunday.
Odds are still in favour of a draw...but their's a sniff.
Woakes incidentally was superb today.

[Chris Jameson]

Just been writing about the 1958 Brisbane Ashes Test where Trevor Bailey scored 68 runs from 427 deliveries as England scored 198 in 119.2 eight ball overs. 106 runs were scored in a day's play!

[dave.woodhall]

Victor wants to know which batsman has been hit the most on the helmet in an innings.

Even Andrew can't bring up the stats for that


EDIT - In baseball, this wouldn't be a problem because 'Hit By Pitch" is a standard stat to keep

In God's name, why?

[Richard E]

Victor wants to know which batsman has been hit the most on the helmet in an innings.

Even Andrew can't bring up the stats for that


EDIT - In baseball, this wouldn't be a problem because 'Hit By Pitch" is a standard stat to keep

In God's name, why?

Because it leads to an automatic walk for the batter. And everything in baseball generates stats.

[Villan For Life]

Well i think the last 10 minutes brought the test to life, getting those 2 late wickets have given England a massive boost, both centurions now back
in the pavilion. A lot now rests on what the bowlers can do up till Lunch tomorrow. With the door slightly ajar we now need to bowl India out some
time after lunch with maybe 120 lead. Then a breezy knock undoubtedly losing wickets along the way increasing our lead to 250-280 to give us a chance on turning wicket
on Sunday.
Odds are still in favour of a draw...but their's a sniff.
Woakes incidentally was superb today.

Yes he was and he deserved a couple of wickets. He's been England's cricketer of the year for me. Much improved and a natural successor to Jimmy.

[olaftab]

Victor wants to know which batsman has been hit the most on the helmet in an innings.

Even Andrew can't bring up the stats for that


EDIT - In baseball, this wouldn't be a problem because 'Hit By Pitch" is a standard stat to keep

In God's name, why?

Because it leads to an automatic walk for the batter. And everything in baseball generates stats.

I thought the term was Clubber?

[olaftab]

It's pitches like this that give Test cricket a bad name, nothing for the seamers, very little for the spinners, as flat as a witch's tit and utterly pointless, except for making India's batting averages look good.

You have hit the nail..... Most of the world records are held by Indian batsmen foe a reason🤔

[PGW]

A 49 lead, should have been 77 but Cook dropped a shocker. Not as many as i was hoping for. Which means we have to bat half decent.
Had the lead been nearer to the 100 i would have batted to try and set a target but i think now bat to ensure the game is safe but still
scoring at a decent rate. We don't want to end up with another ''Adelaide'' on our hands by allowing Indian bowlers to tie us down.

What a beautiful site in Hobart seeing Aussies skittled for 85...nothing finer apart from us doing the skittling!!!

[PaulWinch again]

Well bowled Adil. Weirdly though we're probably the most likely team to lose here, purely as even if we bat well it's going to be difficult to get enough to have enough time to declare.

[paul_e]

Well bowled Adil. Weirdly though we're probably the most likely team to lose here, purely as even if we bat well it's going to be difficult to get enough to have enough time to declare.

Cook's natural caution should mean there's very little chance of us declaring low and them making the runs. I think we'll bat until the middle of the second session as a minimum and he'll only declare if, even with an extra half hour, they looking at 5+ an over. I suspect he'll be aiming for 280-300 as the lead.

[UK Redsox]

What a beautiful site in Hobart seeing Aussies skittled for 85...nothing finer apart from us doing the skittling!!!

Great catches at the end from Duminy and De Kock