The Cricket Thread

[Carrotdude]

As long as it doesn’t deteriorate too much into day 2/3 then it’s fine and means both sides have a chance of a good first innings score. With their tail we have a good chance to keep them around 400 which would be a good effort I’d say.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

I was at Headingley in 2008 to watch Darren Pattinson's one and only game

Great selection guys. Memory might be off but Hoggard was bowling well after a winter crisis and I think Simon Jones was actually fit for once too. No, let's pick some random Aussie and the captain doesn't even know who he is.

Also got sunburnt despite it being overcast all day and watched Ashwell Prince and AB De Villiers rack up a massive score. Top day all round!

Chris Read keeping and the Western Terrace sang "Readie show us your arse" for ages until he waved a keeping glove behind his backside to massive cheers. Easily pleased/fooled in Yorkshire.

Edit: must have been a couple of years before Pattinson's game as their England careers didn't overlap. Headingley has always been a staple test in my summer watching.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Read played a bit in summer 2006 vs Pakistan when Geraint Jones simply had to be ditched

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Was definitely one of the 'Read to the rescue' games. Was in the period where (and as I type I realise it's never really changed) we favoured a batsman who could keep instead of a keeper who could/couldn't bat. Despite said batsman ever really averaging more than five to ten more with the bat than the keeper who supposedly didn't know which end to hold.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Geraint Jones was awful with the bat too, averaged 23 in the end

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

James Foster played less than 10 tests. This should be sufficient info to win any argument as to whether we have our keeper selection policy correct over the last 25 years.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Foakes, despite his captain saying "he's the best keeper in the world", is probably one more 'resting' away from telling England to stuff it.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Alec Stewart's record as a specialist batsman was superb but of course we had to mess with that.

Matt Prior was the best of both worlds (genuinely one of my favourite England players ever) but you don't get players like that coming through all the time.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Prior was our Gilchrist. Worth his place for a number of years for both disciplines and they both had the ability to take a game away from the opposition, either with quick runs or adding unexpected runs with the tail.

 

[Sniffer]

Prior was our Gilchrist. Worth his place for a number of years for both disciplines and they both had the ability to take a game away from the opposition, either with quick runs or adding unexpected runs with the tail.

He wasn't the finished article with the gloves to begin with. When he had a break and came back he certainly was.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Tiny Tim Ambrose with his one shot to cover point stepped in for a while.

Prior ended up being a superb keeper. The Flying Beard!

 

[jd1981]

Fuck in hell Jimmy Anderson same age as me still picks up 3 wickets at econ of 1.88 on a very flat pitch.

 

[jd1981]

Need a partnership from Stokes & Foakes to get us anywhere near India’s total. Bumrah has been excellent.

 

[Tony Towner]

Hate it when teams do this sort of shit. Seems to happen a lot at U19 level

https://x.com/SkyCricket/status/1753746801503428877?t=LEkJJXRnKIN35EywlYJxKA&s=09

 

[Carrotdude]

There really should be some sort of common sense allowed in cricket. Ball isn’t even moving, the umpires should be able to just negate shitty appeals like that

 

[BillyDee]

Umpires could have just said the ball was dead..?

 

[Carrotdude]

Assume they technically aren’t allowed to according to the rules so omit ends up as this farce.

Similar lines to when they have a tea break or something with needing 5 to win

 

[jd1981]

It’s embarrassing to even appeal that, no common sense the ball is as dead as can be it’s stopped dead not moving anywhere. The handling ball rule was bought it to stop deliberate obstruction of the field or preventing the ball hitting the wicket ie Graham Gooch in 93, not this utter bollocks.

 

[jd1981]

It was irrelevant as England battered them in the end.

 

[Tony Towner]

Let's hope for some sensible aggressive batting