The Cricket Thread

[Deutsch Wolf]

Mott sacked, Buttler staying as white ball captain (more for lack of alternatives, I suspect)

 

[BillyDee]

Mott the Hopeless

 

[ROVERT47]

Harry Brook on fire tonight.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Mott the Hopeless

He deserved respect for how he brought through all the young dudes

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Pennington injured now so unlikely to play vs SL.

Cook is fit again so I would expect him to join the squad.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Or not...

Stone in. Crawley ruled out so Lawrence is set to open and Jordan Cox of Essex is the new spare batter.

 

[Tony Towner]

That's Olly Stone who has been fit for half of Notts' matches which to be fair is half more than he usually is and is taking wickets at 47 a piece

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

And will be 32 by the time of The Ashes, which is what we're told we're building towards.

Cook's never getting a go by the look of it.

 

[Tony Towner]

IF the County 50 over tournament counts for anything then Ed Barnard deserves a call up when they are experimenting

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

IF the County 50 over tournament counts for anything then Ed Barnard deserves a call up when they are experimenting

 

[Carrotdude]

Graham Thorpe has passed away. Horrible news.

 

[Trips]

Awful news, absolutely no age at all.

He was my favourite batsman when I first started getting interested in cricket when I was about 10/11. Loved watching him bat

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Brilliant player. Basically the only batsman we had in the 1990s who could play spin.

Desperately unlucky to miss out on 2005, he'd been averaging 50+ since he came back in 2003. The conversation should have been Bell or Pietersen, not Pietersen or Thorpe.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Thorpe by opponent:

Australia 45.74
Bangladesh 81.33
India 35.37
New Zealand 53.23
Pakistan 51.61
South Africa 35.88
Sri Lanka 49.92
West Indies 42.43
Zimbabwe 23.33

Thorpe by calendar year:

1993 46.00
1994 39.56
1995 40.90
1996 35.78
1997 53.84
1998 30.50
1999 24.50
2000 42.22
2001 54.90
2002 52.60
2003 44.30
2004 73.15
2005 40.16

 

[Carrotdude]

Considering how bad we were for a lot of his career and how tough it was for batters in that era he really was a superstar.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

 

[Tony Towner]

Similar early first third of his career to Root, a lot of nice 70s without going on. Like Root he fixed it.

 

[BillyDee]

That lifted knee pull shot. Just class.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

19 years ago today. Flintoff's career was one of moments more than sustained greatness, but when he was on, he was on.

 

[Carrotdude]

He was very special on his day. Always wonder the player he’d have been if he’d been more committed to his fitness when he was still playing.

I saw a new programme of his being advertised the other day and I hadn’t quite realised the mess that his top gear crash had caused.