The International Cricket Thread

[Risso]

Surely even this England side can't stuff this up against the Dutch.

[Richard]

Buttler seems more and more like a T20 rather than ODI player. Love the Stokes Woakes combo. Think it's time for Mo to retire from all international cricket and focus on the Bears.

Can see the likes of Duckett, Salt and Jacks playing in the near future to freshen up the batting. Maybe Hain too.

[Gareth]

Sri Lanka 131-9, presuming last wicket doesn’t add loads and NZ knock them off its a good result for Englands race for 7th lol in that Pakistan have nothing to play for in the last match.

[Villan For Life]

Sri Lanka 131-9, presuming last wicket doesn’t add loads and NZ knock them off its a good result for Englands race for 7th lol in that Pakistan have nothing to play for in the last match.

As small comforts go, that’s one of the smallest that I’ve seen.

[Gareth]

Sri Lanka 131-9, presuming last wicket doesn’t add loads and NZ knock them off its a good result for Englands race for 7th lol in that Pakistan have nothing to play for in the last match.

As small comforts go, that’s one of the smallest that I’ve seen.

It sure is a very small comfort…..all those new fans they’ve attracted playing shit & giggles in August might lose interest in cricket if England don’t qualify for Champions Trophy:-)

[tomd2103]

Sri Lanka 131-9, presuming last wicket doesn’t add loads and NZ knock them off its a good result for Englands race for 7th lol in that Pakistan have nothing to play for in the last match.

As small comforts go, that’s one of the smallest that I’ve seen.

Was thinking that myself today.  It's the very bottom rung in terms of achievement. 

[JD]

Well done NZ. They had had lots of injuries but somehow have managed to (hopefully) get through to the semi finals. It would be such a NZ thing to beat India in the semi final and then lose in the final.

[PaulWinch again]

I’m very much supporting NZ. I’d love them to win, but India look pretty invincible.

[UK Redsox]

Sri Lanka suspended by the ICC due to government interference in the running of the sport.

However, the ICC continues to allow Afghanistan to compete even though they Taliban have banned the women's team.
The view of the ICC is that as long as Afghanistan are acting within the laws of the country, that's fine. Even if said laws are misogynistic.

Both stories covered in this Beeb article

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/67384199

[Lsvilla]

Sri Lanka suspended by the ICC due to government interference in the running of the sport.

However, the ICC continues to allow Afghanistan to compete even though they Taliban have banned the women's team.
The view of the ICC is that as long as Afghanistan are acting within the laws of the country, that's fine. Even if said laws are misogynistic.

Both stories covered in this Beeb article

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/67384199

It's a good job the cricket world didn't take the same approach to apartheid in SA and just continue playing against them.

[tomd2103]

Decent win for England today, even though the game was a dead rubber.  Still hard to pinpoint what went so badly wrong, but the body language and the expressions of the players was telling again today. 

Be interesting to see how they go forward from here.  Is Buttler the right man to captain it or does it need freshening up would be question number one.

[Villan For Life]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/67391422

Squads for the 50 over/T20 series in the Caribbean in December

[PaulWinch again]

Harsh on Malan to be dropped completely.

[Gareth]

So Key says World Cup was his fault for prioritising tests over 50 over….completely ignores the other reason!  I know turkeys don’t vote for Christmas but at least acknowledge that the shit and giggles nonsense ruining August prep played a part as well.

[olaftab]

Sri Lanka suspended by the ICC due to government interference in the running of the sport.

However, the ICC continues to allow Afghanistan to compete even though they Taliban have banned the women's team.
The view of the ICC is that as long as Afghanistan are acting within the laws of the country, that's fine. Even if said laws are misogynistic.

Both stories covered in this Beeb article

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/67384199

It's a good job the cricket world didn't take the same approach to apartheid in SA and just continue playing against them.

I accept your point on SA  but there the apartheid regime was proud of its sporting prowess and particularly “purity” however its slightly different in Afghanistan. There we have a government who will hand you 20 lashes for taking part in idle stuff  playing football or cricket. So we have a duty to nourish Afghan cricket wherever we can and in whatever way.