The Cricket Thread

[Paddingtonwolf]

One to get

 

[BillyDee]

Get in! Fantastic result for England, but also great for Test cricket to see away wins at Hyderabad and the Gabba in the same day.

 

[Mel Evo]

Amazing day of cricket. What an incredible performance from England.

 

[Sniffer]

With a competent spin attack then I'd agree. We've got two with next to no experience at all, one a part timer and Leach who can do a job but I wouldn't pick him over any of their spinners.

Aged well

 

[jd1981]

Struggling to think of a better test win by England, some serious mental strength shown by many of the players especially after days 1 & 2.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Headingley 1981

 

[Tony Towner]

Very different conditions though and let's not forget at least 2 of their team backed them to lose. Imagine the noise that would make now?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Without Rahul and Kohli, and to a lesser extent Jadeja, Rohit is suddenly doing a lot of heavy lifting in their batting line up

 

[Tony Towner]

TMS is woke, because its the Telegraph and everything needs to be.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1751929934090731954

 

[Mel Evo]

TMS is woke

https://twitter.com/x/status/1751929934090731954

The hell does he mean by that - too many female commentators? Jonny Liew might be surprised to read that Aggers is Woke, Michael Vaughan even more so.

 

[Tony Towner]

Any I think, as you point out Agnew and Vaughan are as dyed in the wool Tory as you can get.

Liew is an absolute arse though

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Liew is a fucking wanker.

Just caught up with yesterday's play as was obviously otherwise occupied in real time, Hartley really did bowl very nicely.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Leach confirmed as out on Friday.

So Bashir and Jimmy in for Leach and Wood?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

You would think so. Wood couldnt do anything in Hyderabad and the Visak pitch is supposed to be much more of a bunsen

 

[Johnny75]

You would think so. Wood couldnt do anything in Hyderabad and the Visak pitch is supposed to be much more of a bunsen

Not sure that plays into India's hands at all. Our spinners look better than theirs which is just weird at this point.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Apparently visak is hard to make anything other than a raging turner. They need result pitches and are hoping our batting has a couple of collective brain farts

 

[Sniffer]

Leach confirmed as out on Friday.

So Bashir and Jimmy in for Leach and Wood?

Yes.

England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Ben Stokes, Ben Foakes, Rehan Ahmed, Tom Hartley, Shoaib Bashir, James Anderson.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

England Test debutants between Anderson and Bashir

Can you name the England Test debutants between James Anderson and Shoaib Bashir?

www.sporcle.com

90/97 for me, a couple of uncharacteristic terrible misses in there

 

[Sniffer]

47 and my mind went blank! I could picture so many, knew their counties but couldn't remember their names

 

[Carrotdude]

Only 50 for me - 2003/4 and 2008-10 were complete dead zones for my brain