Cricket thread

[Grant Fondo]

Joe Root's face summed it up, a mix of frustration and embarrassment.
Didn't think we would make the run chase, but we didn't even get passed the Aus 2nd innings of 155, which says it all

 

[Accy cyclist]

England saved from a total 'whitewash' by a measly draw in the 4th test. What an embarrassment they are!!

 

[Dogtrousers]

Time to move on.

 

[AndyRM]

Good read this, talks a lot of sense.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/60016410

Sadly though I think it may be too late.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Good read this, talks a lot of sense.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/60016410

Sadly though I think it may be too late.

Yes, Aggers always talks a lot of sense.
Still Windies T20 might put the spring back in our step. Only one Ashes player in squad (Billings). Funny that?

 

[downesy]

What's really galling is we didn't even force them to revert to type and cheat. It's been a bit of a recent highlight watching Aussie captains and players troop by one by one , crying on national tv, after being caught out( sadly not by an England player)

 

[Oldhippy]

Don't do sport myself but why are we crap at all the games we refined or invented?

 

[Grant Fondo]

Don't do sport myself but why are we crap at all the games we refined or invented?

I wonder if its a ting-yang thing betwixt footy and cricket? One on the slide, the other doing quite well.

 

[matticus]

Don't do sport myself but why are we crap at all the games we refined or invented?

You could start here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICC_Men's_Test_Team_Rankings#Current_rankings

 

[PaulB]

Some surprising news has been leaked to the press today. Apparently, Novak Djokovic has been approached to see if he'd apply for the role of coach of the England cricket team. While it's accepted he has no formal training in the sport, it is acknowledged that it took the Australians two weeks to get him out.

 

[Grant Fondo]

Some surprising news has been leaked to the press today. Apparently, Novak Djokovic has been approached to see if he'd apply for the role of coach of the England cricket team. While it's accepted he has no formal training in the sport, it is acknowledged that it took the Australians two weeks to get him out.

Very drole

 

[Chromatic]

Did anyone watch the 2nd T20 against the West Indies, we nearly threw an almost impossible to lose position away?

 

[jowwy]

Did anyone watch the 2nd T20 against the West Indies, we nearly threw an almost impossible to lose position away?

ive seen both matches....destroyed in the first match and then last night when we should have been cruising to victory, we had a bowler in Chris Jordan that strayed so far away from what got him into the team was comical. He's a death bowler with pace and a great yorker, yet he was bowling short and in the slot for big hitting batsman.......and why they bowled wides like there were was crazy, they should have bowled straight at the stumps, if it went for 6 fine, but at least it wasn't free runs and another ball to hit (possibly) for six, absolute crazy. 5 wides in the last 3 overs.......

 

[Chromatic]

ive seen both matches....destroyed in the first match and then last night when we should have been cruising to victory, we had a bowler in Chris Jordan that strayed so far away from what got him into the team was comical. He's a death bowler with pace and a great yorker, yet he was bowling short and in the slot for big hitting batsman.......and why they bowled wides like there were was crazy, they should have bowled straight at the stumps, if it went for 6 fine, but at least it wasn't free runs and another ball to hit (possibly) for six, absolute crazy. 5 wides in the last 3 overs.......

The final over, bowled by Mahmood was even worse, the first ball should have been called a wide, he was lucky it wasn't.

 

[jowwy]

The final over, bowled by Mahmood was even worse, the first ball should have been called a wide, he was lucky it wasn't.

totally agree........good job they won, otherwise they would have been scarred by that if they had lost it in that manner