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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4230 on: August 21, 2020, 05:14:09 PM »
Fine maiden 100 from Crawley. Good effort.

Also a good partnership with Buttler, hope they can keep scoring until the cloe of play today.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4231 on: August 21, 2020, 06:21:40 PM »
Buttler has been great as well. Think the promotion to 6 in the order helps.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4232 on: August 21, 2020, 06:24:15 PM »
I’m just catching up with the test after a day at work on various video calls.

Why are the guys wearing black armbands? Have I missed the passing of a former player?

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4233 on: August 21, 2020, 07:11:23 PM »
I’m just catching up with the test after a day at work on various video calls.

Why are the guys wearing black armbands? Have I missed the passing of a former player?

I wondered that too so I looked it up, I believe it's for one of the lesser squad member's mother who has passed away.  Sorry, I can't remember his name.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4234 on: August 21, 2020, 07:26:21 PM »
Dan Lawrence I think.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4235 on: August 21, 2020, 07:30:41 PM »
Ah of course, he left the squad around the same time that Ben Stokes did.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4236 on: August 21, 2020, 10:20:29 PM »
Happy to admit I have underestimated where Crawley is now. Think he has a game that could be very successful in an away Ashes.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4237 on: August 22, 2020, 11:28:37 AM »
Happy to admit I have underestimated where Crawley is now. Think he has a game that could be very successful in an away Ashes.

I think that 3,4,5,6 going forward is pretty much set now in Crawley, Root, Stokes, Pope

The openers still worry me though. Burns has real problems against left-arm pace and Sibley can basically only score on the leg side.

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« Reply #4238 on: August 22, 2020, 01:43:16 PM »
Good 100 for Buttler, a knock that should cement his place for a while.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4239 on: August 22, 2020, 01:47:21 PM »
A couple of good things due to this summer's international cricket being behind closed doors; no inane chanting / Barmy Army nonsense and especially no fecking trumpet

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« Reply #4240 on: August 22, 2020, 02:05:07 PM »
A couple of good things due to this summer's international cricket being behind closed doors; no inane chanting / Barmy Army nonsense and especially no fecking trumpet
Also, no beer snakes, and no fancy dress.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4241 on: August 22, 2020, 02:07:29 PM »
A couple of good things due to this summer's international cricket being behind closed doors; no inane chanting / Barmy Army nonsense and especially no fecking trumpet
Also, no beer snakes, and no fancy dress.

Yep, fancy dress should be banned. Apart from the Cookie Monster / Minnie Mouse couple. They can stay

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4242 on: August 22, 2020, 03:03:51 PM »
200 for Zak, fantastic knock so far.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4243 on: August 22, 2020, 03:09:08 PM »
Happy to admit I have underestimated where Crawley is now. Think he has a game that could be very successful in an away Ashes.

I think that 3,4,5,6 going forward is pretty much set now in Crawley, Root, Stokes, Pope

The openers still worry me though. Burns has real problems against left-arm pace and Sibley can basically only score on the leg side.


Crawley has impressed over the last two matches and Buttler (with the bat at least) over his last two innings. I suspect, at the moment Pope is the most vulnerable.  If I was picking a team to beat the Australians I might agree with you except I think Sibley is the “real deal”. I might want Buttler to bat at six and look to have another keeper (Foulkes or Bairstow) at 7.

 If I’m going in with only the six batsmen (Buttler as a keeper batsman) I’d hope Moeen feels able to play test cricket again. He offers a spin option and is good enough to bat at 7, despite his heroics (and being a Villa fan) I’m not sure Woakes is a regular test 7.

Anyway, great to see young lads of Test class coming through. I thought it was a year too early for Crawley, but I was clearly wrong.


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Re: The International Cricket Thread 2019+2020
« Reply #4244 on: August 22, 2020, 04:02:45 PM »
This is a phenomenal knock from both players against a decent attack. Is Crawley going to nail number 3 now?


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