BillyDee
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Once, according to the Beeb
The Cricket Thread
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Paddingtonwolf
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ROAD
Going to need 350
Going to need 350
Paddingtonwolf
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That is a par score
Tony Towner
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We aren't defending this runs wise. May well bowl them out though
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In relative terms beaten comfortably. The bowling is too samey, fast and lacking variation. Buttler and Livingstone played themselves in and got themselves out when we needed to put the peddle down.
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Yeah, you'd think with a platform and 15 overs to go it was made for those two. Neither of them did anything.
The bowling was never great when we were in our 2015-2019 peak tbh. We just outscored teams. Problem now is that as opposed to having seven proper options as we often had in the Bayliss years (wasn't uncommon for us to pick say Woakes, Archer, Wood, Plunkett, Rashid, Stokes and Mo all in the same team) we've gone in here with what you might generously term four and a half bowlers. If one of your four has a stinker like Carse did (and anyone can on any given day) then you're in massive trouble.
And of course we compound that by having our sole bowling reserve as Overton, who can neither bat nor bowl to anywhere near international standard.
The bowling was never great when we were in our 2015-2019 peak tbh. We just outscored teams. Problem now is that as opposed to having seven proper options as we often had in the Bayliss years (wasn't uncommon for us to pick say Woakes, Archer, Wood, Plunkett, Rashid, Stokes and Mo all in the same team) we've gone in here with what you might generously term four and a half bowlers. If one of your four has a stinker like Carse did (and anyone can on any given day) then you're in massive trouble.
And of course we compound that by having our sole bowling reserve as Overton, who can neither bat nor bowl to anywhere near international standard.
