The Cricket Thread

[Deutsch Wolf]

Bairstow by calendar year:

2012: 32.66 (7 innings)
2013: 27.07 (15 innings)
2014: 9.00 (2 innings)
2015: 31.00 (12 innings)
2016: 58.80 (29 innings)
2017: 34.31 (19 innings)
2018: 30.45 (20 innings)
2019: 18.55 (19 innings)
2020: Didn't play
2021: 24.43 (17 innings)
2022: 76.46 (16 innings)

 

[Trips]

Bairstow has more test runs in the last 25 days than Kohli has in the last 18 months

 

[Dinowolf]

Obviously saving himself for the new regime.

 

[Sniffer]

The Spin | Chance to Shine’s long slog breaches boundaries to find first internationals

Lauren Bell and Issy Wong are the first capped players helped by a charity that is successfully taking cricket to the streets

www.theguardian.com

A good initiative that needs to continue. Chance to shine with their community coaches helps to bridge the gap between schools and clubs whilst the All Stars scheme, although good, relies on parents seeing the advertising and taking kids to clubs.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Cricinfo running with this as the team later:

Roy
Buttler
Malan
Moeen
Livingstone
Brook
SCurran
Jordan
Mills
Topley
Parkinson

 

[BillyDee]

India win the toss and choose to bat first.
Fools...

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Reece Topley is shit. No idea why he's still considered part of the thinking. We have loads of better options than him especially as he's a total liability in the field and can't bat for toffee.

 

[BillyDee]

Suspect India will be disappointed to be less than 200 after the start they got, but 10 an over ain't easy.

 

[BillyDee]

This is not going well...

 

[Tony Towner]

Recruiting expensively for the T20 side, winning the Group and blobbing spectacularly in the 1/4s. Pah

 

[PuntsWolf]

Absolutely battered (ENG). Brook and Ali should have gone way before they did. No one seemed to be able to use the middle of the bat.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Gleeson and Willey in, Mills and Topley out (the latter hopefully forever)

 

[Stan Hullis]

Didn't realise Gleeson was 34! Fair play

Not many that can make their international debut and be older than me these days!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Makes me wistful to think I saw Jimmy play for England and I was still at university.

Good bowler is Gleeson. Hope he goes well, not too happy with our recent plan of picking all left arm seamers (none of whom are very good)

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Broad on co-comms is very enjoyable.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Makes me wistful to think I saw Jimmy play for England and I was still at university.

When I was at University it was Botham, Lamb, Robin Smith, Alec Stewart ,Neil Fairbrother, Phil De Freitas, Derek Pringle etc etc

Fuck me I am ancient.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

God I'm sick of David Willey. Never ever been any good.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

When 10 an over looks like he is doing okay then he is too shit to ever be involved. Going to be chasing 225 plus here.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Au revoir Virat.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

3-6 now for Gleeson!