Cricket thread

[swee'pea99]

Smith failed, for a change, out for 80

Shocking. I suppose everyone has the occasional off day.

Apparently Smith isn't just the highest scoring batsman of the series, despite missing one test altogether; he's scored more than twice as many runs as Ben Stokes, who's next highest. Bonkers.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

As Boycott said, Buttler should have possibly played further up the batting order..

He should be up, Root should be down, Roy shouldn't have been there at all, Leach could go up a bit, but we seem to have found an opening pair. Other than that, nice settled batting lineup

 

[downesy]

Glad we squared the series I think it was a fairly even contest, Australia's bowling attack is probably the most consistent in test matches at the moment .
Archer is going to be immense and I like the look of Curran, our future bowling prospects look pretty good. Batting erm I'll pass on that for now there are some up and coming batters, but I have not seen enough of them to comment just yet.
Lastly my last mention of the cheat(honest) I wish pundits and commentators would stop comparing him to Donald Bradman , he is not fit to lace his boots.
The Don to my knowledge was never banned for cheating, nor did he allow a culture of cheating and bad sportsmanship to thrive in his dressing room .
Ps great series for Broad too

 

[Accy cyclist]

Well done England. At least we didn't lose the series. Maybe some payback due to the Aussies in the forthcoming RWC. We live in hope!

 

[downesy]

Don't buy the s*n

 

[Dayvo]

Well, that's the County Championship concluded with.

Essex well-worthy winners (in my unbiased opinion ) after drawing with Somerset in an exciting final game.

In addition to winning the county 1st division title, they won the national T/20 final last week.

And to top it off, my old club, Brentwood CC won the Essex Premier League.

My next game will be on the beach in India in January where I expect the wicket to be damp and will take a lot of spin.

 

[Chromatic]

And to top off all of that Gloucestershire got promoted.

 

[AndyRM]

Really pleased to see Scotland qualify for the T20 World Cup next year with an excellent win over the UAE, especially after we missed out on this years 50 over version.

 

[Dec66]

Bob Willis has drawn stumps... RIP Bob.

 

[downesy]

Rip Bob great bowler.

 

[Rocky]

RIP Bob - I remember watching the final day of the 1981 3rd test. I was sitting having a haircut in a barbers shop in the Roman Road, Bethnal Green. They had a black and white telly on the wall. The shop was packed as he skittled out the Aussies. I used to think of it as the Willis test rather than the Botham test (as it was subsequently called).

 

[Dayvo]

Not the most charismatic of people, but he was a fierce competitor and was a fine fast bowler and gave it his all.

He was also very knowledgeable about the game and was an admired commentator on Sky.

RIP RGD.

 

[Pale Rider]

England have a chance of a record breaking run chase in South Africa.

Root and Buttler are over the trots and will bat.

Slow start by the look of it, but they have all day to get 240 runs.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

England have a chance of a record breaking run chase in South Africa.

Root and Buttler are over the trots and will bat.

Slow start by the look of it, but they have all day to get 240 runs.

I'm keeping an eye on it.

 

[Pale Rider]

History is, of course, against them, but the Australians discovered in the summer this England team is capable of unlikely run chases.