The Cricket Thread

[Tony Towner]

Brainless to bowl anything at him that isn't over hip height and straight, he can't move

 

[Tony Towner]

The brainlessness continues

 

[Carrotdude]

What an astonishing innings

 

[Sniffer]

What an innings.

 

[Tony Towner]

Remarkable innings. Afghanistan author's of their own downfall post the cramp though

 

[Sniffer]

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This is where it all went wrong.

 

[Tony Towner]

Sycophants...he was shite

https://twitter.com/x/status/1721933474808963576

 

[Tony Towner]

Qualifying for the Champions Trophy isn't really a high watermark, but we should be OK now as long as Pakistan don't hammer us

world cup cricket - Google Suche

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

We played pretty well bar what's become a familiar middle order slump.

Thing is we really should have chased what Afghanistan, India and Australia set us and be well placed to go through.

 

[Tony Towner]

Yes, someone qualifying with 4 defeats is 1 more than I thought you'd be able to afford at the start of the tournament

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

On the quiet, some of the attack are ending up with ok figures:

Topley 8 wickets @ 22.87
Willey 8 wickets @ 25.37
Rashid 13 wickets @ 27.53
Woakes 9 wickets @ 30.11

All perfectly fine.

It's the batting - Malan and Stokes average 46 and 44 apiece which is what you'd want/expect, but everyone else has been a disaster (Root maybe gets a partial pass for his first two innings, but it's been grim since). Bairstow, Buttler, Moeen and Livingstone don't even average 20.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Bizarrely Wood has bowled the most Despite going at 6.5 an over averaging just shy of 60.

 

[Dinowolf]

IMO most of England's problems have stemmed from poor Captaincy and poor selection esp. batters.
People trying to knock the cover off every ball in a 50 over match, whatever the conditions was brainless. Ironically our most aggressive batsman, Stokes, showed how it should be done in his last innings, v Netherlands.

 

[Sniffer]

The Sri Lankan side must have a party to get to later. 70 for 4 after nine overs and that includes a wicket maiden. Perrera has a 50 off 25 balls.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Rain forecast I think

 

[AndyWolves]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1722684656238096589

 

[Tony Towner]

Livingstone instead of Hain. Just fuck off

https://twitter.com/x/status/1723551294596477403

 

[Carrotdude]

Yeah the rest of it isn’t too bad, makes sense to get Pope, Duckett and Crawley involved but Livingstone is a waste

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Begs the question what the point was in giving Malan a contract.

 

[Tony Towner]

Hands up, who is surprised? The ICC will do nothing.

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