The Cricket Thread

[Sniffer]

What a win for the Bears against the Pears.

 

[Tony Towner]

What a win for the Bears against the Pears.

Particularly as England Lions nicked 2 of their players

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

Snatched defeat from the jaws of victory

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Incredible innings by Kai Smith. Never even made 50 before in over 20 List A games and ends 130 not out.

 

[Sniffer]

Snatched defeat from the jaws of victory

I must admit that at 70 odd for 5 I thought itv was game over.

 

[Tony Towner]

So we're going to create a Summer IPL in England whilst the company Strauss represents gets paid

https://twitter.com/x/status/1824693042370023749

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Strauss and Key need to go before they fuck English cricket good and proper all just to brownnose their BCCI paymasters

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

 

[Tony Towner]

Doesn't matter what the format is whenever Stokes isn't in the team I look at the tail and whince

 

[Carrotdude]

Would have potentially been better balanced to use Lawrence as the spinner and play a batter instead of Bashir

 

[Tony Towner]

Would have potentially been better balanced to use Lawrence as the spinner and play a batter instead of Bashir

I thought that's what we'd do, especially with all the noise in the press about Cox being purely Bazball. I'll not go into whether I think that's a good thing or not

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

I'd have played Cox as well, though SL's strength appears to be their batting, they have several players who average over 40 in Test cricket, so maybe that's informed the selection.

Going to rain a lot on Thursday and Friday by the look of it.

 

[Tony Towner]

Much swearing in the corridors of Old Trafford as Sri Lanka choose to bat

 

[Stan Hullis]

6/2 off 6 overs

Maybe somewhat undercooked coming into this test...

 

[Tony Towner]

6/2 off 6 overs

Maybe somewhat undercooked coming into this test...

They got hammered by a Lions C team last week

 

[Sniffer]

6-3....reviewed

Review lost 6-3

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Missed most of the morning, some unplayable deliveries and some poor shots seems to be the order of the day.

112/7.

Edit: Chalked off and 112/6 as Atkinson had already bowled two bouncers for the over.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Just gets him out pitching it up instead.

113/7.

 

[Sniffer]

Rocky Flintoff is making his first class debut for Lancashire v Surrey today. At 16 he's a year younger than when his dad made his debut.

 

[Tony Towner]

Remember when no International cricket in August last year was because of the Aussies?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1826550322472354250