The Cricket Thread

[Tony Towner]

By this time next we'll have been hammered in the Ashes so Key and Baz will be fucked off and we can maybe look at trying to win games of cricket rather than entertain again. I'd imagine we'll be looking for a new Test captain then too

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

In fairness there's not much wrong with the Test results. Pakistan doctored pitches to a ludicrous extent otherwise we never lose that series. Battered NZ away in the two live games. Comfortably won at home last summer. Were definitely the better team in the last Ashes and Aus got away with 2-2. India away....well we just aren't equipped for that challenge.

What we all said years ago regarding 50 over cricket is coming home to roost, how is anyone supposed to thrive in this format when they never ever play it? Muddled selections all round here (Smith at 3 being the oddest of them) and at least three players in Salt, Livingstone and Overton who have no business being in an ODI set up, two of them are T20 cloggers and one is the kind of shite we used to pick in the 90s.

 

[BillyDee]

Vaughan was berating some of the batters this morning for approaching the game like a T20 not a 50 over innings.
Why might that be, Michael?