The Cricket Thread

[Carrotdude]

Yeah Foakes is ill so Pope is keeping which isn’t ideal but at least Jacks gets a debut!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I really need to see a doctor about these wild, feverish dreams...

 

[Trips]

Scored more runs in the first 20 overs today than in the T20 final

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Might go and stick that on then. Clearly a complete road though so no chance of a positive result.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

494-6 is the all time first day test runs scored record, just so we can keep tabs on progress.

 

[sycophantia]

Not going to be much of a match this, is it.

 

[Sniffer]

If Pakistan bowl the 90 overs, we need 4.5 runs per over to break the record posted by Paddy above. Current rate is 6.15.

 

[Carrotdude]

Realistically probably only 25 overs left so would need to get 6.5 an over to reach that

 

[Tony Towner]

You always lose the best part of an hour in Pakistan, no option of playing in the dark anymore

 

[jd1981]

What’s the odds on a draw?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Unibet will give you 11/8, which when we've only just gone past tea on Day One speaks volumes...

BetVictor will give you 16/1 on a Pakistan win.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Top three all with centuries now.

Cook/Strauss/Trott may have done it at some point but DEFINITELY not since that era!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Will be miles short of a full 90 overs. With that the runs in a day record would have been destroyed.

 

[Sniffer]

Fastest centuries for England by an opener and number 3!

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Most runs in a single day was 588 on day 2 of England v India Old Trafford 1936. If this was a full 90 overs it was under threat.

 

[Sniffer]

Top three all with centuries now.

Cook/Strauss/Trott may have done it at some point but DEFINITELY not since that era!

Did they do that in saving a game vs South Africa one winter?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Wonder if a Mr S Broad is sat somewhere in a leafy part of Nottinghamshire congratulating himself on giving this tour a miss.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Did they do that in saving a game vs South Africa one winter?

Defo did it at The Gabba in Nov 2010. 517/1

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Most runs in a single day was 588 on day 2 of England v India Old Trafford 1936. If this was a full 90 overs it was under threat.

140 overs bowled in that 1936 game apparently!

 

[Sniffer]

Defo did it at The Gabba in Nov 2010. 517/1

I'm thinking of Trescothick and Strauss in 2004 - The number 3 (Butcher) didn't get a ton. Thorpe did at 5.