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Author Topic: The International Cricket Thread  (Read 796112 times)

Offline john e

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6015 on: December 08, 2021, 12:28:21 AM »
Obviously I’m hoping in the next couple of days someone replying to my post with
‘This aged well’

Offline Villafirst

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6016 on: December 08, 2021, 12:33:19 AM »
Pathetic! 11/3 Root gone for a duck!

Offline taylorsworkrate

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6017 on: December 08, 2021, 12:38:15 AM »
This is only slightly worse than I thought we'd start to be honest.

I said to friends that we'd be around 75/6 at lunch. We are going to have to bat out of our skins now to get 75 in total this innings.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6018 on: December 08, 2021, 12:41:02 AM »
Had to chuckle at the commentators debating where the 5th test should be played as it could be a decider….the only way the 5th is a decider is if the first four get washed out.


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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6019 on: December 08, 2021, 12:44:47 AM »
Questionable decision to bat first and then the worst start possible with Burns getting bowled first ball of the series by a leg stump half volley.  Hate to be pessimistic, but think the tone for the series is already set.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6020 on: December 08, 2021, 12:50:55 AM »
Questionable decision to bat first and then the worst start possible with Burns getting bowled first ball of the series by a leg stump half volley.  Hate to be pessimistic, but think the tone for the series is already set.

The series will be 5-0 unless weather intervenes. That's been blatantly obvious for ages.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6021 on: December 08, 2021, 01:01:51 AM »
Burns in particular is a dreadfully poor batsman at this level to play the number of Test's that he has.

Poor technique and absolutely no idea where his stumps are.

Offline tomd2103

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6022 on: December 08, 2021, 01:10:11 AM »
Burns in particular is a dreadfully poor batsman at this level to play the number of Test's that he has.

Poor technique and absolutely no idea where his stumps are.

The position of his front foot was bizarre.

Stokes gone now.  29-4.

Offline Gareth

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6023 on: December 08, 2021, 01:15:29 AM »
Burns in particular is a dreadfully poor batsman at this level to play the number of Test's that he has.

Poor technique and absolutely no idea where his stumps are.
He got a free pass in the summer when the media focus was on getting Sibley out of the team…..

The cupboard is pretty bare but maybe Bairstow opens with Hameed next game.

Pretty short odds that Woakes will be top scorer in this innings now

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6024 on: December 08, 2021, 01:25:38 AM »
Goodnight everyone.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6025 on: December 08, 2021, 02:04:17 AM »
Maybe we'll all wake up to a surprising match position?
Night night.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6026 on: December 08, 2021, 04:52:02 AM »
147 all out  Comes to something when your relieved that you've posted over 1 hundred.  I live an hour north of Brisbane, it's overcast and v muggy all day today, the pitch is juiced and green. 

If you're still not choosing to bowl in those circumstance's then you'll never bowl 1st in your life. Utterly mental decision that never looked like working. Like Nasser Hussain on 02 but in reverse.
« Last Edit: December 08, 2021, 05:10:16 AM by OzVilla »

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6027 on: December 08, 2021, 06:21:10 AM »
Listened to it on the radio, i kept falling asleep and waking up to different batsmen at the crease. I was thinking I would be waking up to a disastrous first inning ls score, but 147 is a pretty good score for this England team isn't it? It's more than they usually get.

Offline Havencheese

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6028 on: December 08, 2021, 06:39:24 AM »
I have no idea what Burns was thinking walking across his stumps, laughable.

Australia have to bat on this deck too, a green top. The more that ball ends up over the rope though, the ball will carve up pretty quickly and that attack will get no benefit.

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Re: The International Cricket Thread
« Reply #6029 on: December 08, 2021, 07:01:44 AM »
Oh well through that all out of the window. Absolutely appalling.

 


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