The Cricket Thread

[Squeak]

One of the great reviews

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— TheCricketMen (@thecricketmen) March 30, 2024

I mean, you can see why they went for it.

 

[Tony Towner]

Stokes has decided to skip the T20 WC, which is disappointing

 

[Carrotdude]

I can’t really ever remember him doing much in t20s tbh

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

He hasn't, that 50 in the 2022 final was his first ever for England, and for years he hasn't bowled much in white ball cricket even when he was mostly fit.

 

[Tony Towner]

Without him we don't win the last final

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

True enough, but that's a one-off performance at odds with the rest of his career. At this point I'd back Jacks to do more in T20 batting at 4 and bowling a few overs.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Salt
Buttler
Bairstow
Jacks
Brook
Livingstone
Curran
Rehan/Mo
Rashid
Archer (yes I know)
Topley

I'd be minded to go something like that. Duckett, Wood, Rehan/Mo and Hain to make up the squad.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

ECB still pushing the hundred and looking for private investment in the franchises which won’t at all unbalance the county game against the ten counties they randomly left out of their shit pyjama jamboree.

Kill the hundred. Kill it with fire.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Sam Cook currently with figures of 11-9-9-5 for Essex vs Notts. Seems odd that he doesn't ever seem to be on England's radar, especially for home games. He averages 19 in first class cricket.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Brook clearly frustrated by having to sit and wait to bat for three days having had the winter off. Currently on 83 off 53 against Leicestershire in what is a pure quest to get all the batting points they can.

 

[Sniffer]

Sam Cook currently with figures of 11-9-9-5 for Essex vs Notts. Seems odd that he doesn't ever seem to be on England's radar, especially for home games. He averages 19 in first class cricket.

Finished with 6-14.
19 is a ridiculous first class average even if he is a horses for courses bowler. Don't know much about the history of which recent English bowlers would have a better record than that without ever being selected for test cricket.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Finished with 6-14.
19 is a ridiculous first class average even if he is a horses for courses bowler. Don't know much about the history of which recent English bowlers would have a better record than that without ever being selected for test cricket.

Ben Coad averages 20 but he's clearly a notch short of the quality/pace required (no shame in that).

I think Cook is a fair bit better than that. Possibly has a chance this year with no Broad, Jimmy possibly not able to play every single Test, patience seeming to run thin with Robinson, Archer definitely not back any time soon, Mahmood with a lot of work to do to get back into the picture and Potts kind of on the edge.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

100 off 69 balls for Brook

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

I think this is a long hard summer for Worcs, but good to see a decent start with the bat at the very least.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

England Watch 2024, Week One

Kent 284 & 290/4 dec vs Somerset 403

M Parkinson 25

T Banton DNB & 3-1-7-0

T Banton 28
J Rew 57

M Parkinson 31-3-116-2

Lancashire 202 vs Surrey 15/0

K Jennings 11
J Bohannon 84
T Hartley 16*

T Lawes 8-1-20-1
D Lawrence 28-2-91-4
J Overton 4-0-23-0

T Hartley 1-0-4-0

Essex 253 & 374/9 dec vs Nottinghamshire 293 & 80

J Cox 84 & 0
S Cook 6* & 29

H Hameed 34 & 10
B Duckett 21 & 5
J Clarke 104 & 19

S Cook 18-5-59-4 & 14-10-14-6

Worcestershire 360 & 295/3 vs Warwickshire 333

R Yates 1-0-5-0 & DNB

R Yates 26

Glamorgan 620/3 dec & 31/2 vs Middlesex 655

J De Caires 28-0-147-0 & 4-0-10-0

Leicestershire 354 & 26/0 vs Yorkshire 264/6 dec

R Ahmed 28 & DNB

M Fisher 14-3-59-1 & DNB

H Brook 100*

R Ahmed 5-0-43-0

Northamptonshire 371 & 170/9 vs Sussex 478/9 dec

O Robinson 22-7-67-2 & 10-4-19-2
J Carson 24-3-80-0 & 14-4-52-2
T Haines 1-0-1-0 & DNB

T Haines 133
J Carson 61
O Robinson 32*

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Sam Cook currently with figures of 11-9-9-5 for Essex vs Notts. Seems odd that he doesn't ever seem to be on England's radar, especially for home games. He averages 19 in first class cricket.

I like good nicknames and think 'Little Chef' is up there. It's not quite 'Judy' [for Puncheon] levels of good but decent.

 

[Tony Towner]

Only 1 positive result in round 1. A lot of that is to do with the weather, but Mark Robinson was very critical of using the Kookaburra ball in April

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Only 1 positive result in round 1. A lot of that is to do with the weather, but Mark Robinson was very critical of using the Kookaburra ball in April

It's a total piece of shit in terms of equipment, I wish the ICC would regulate properly and make Southern Hemisphere teams use a proper ball. Makes for terrible cricket on the whole.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Sam Northeast was equally dismissive. 1300 runs in the first innings at Lords.

 

[Kenny]

Sadiq Khan has mugged KP or something

Gotta go into London today.
NO WATCH and a plastic ring!
Congrats, @SadiqKhan ! 👍🏼 pic.twitter.com/5f6oSVuV5S

— Kevin Pietersen🦏 (@KP24) April 9, 2024