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?

 

[Trips]

Heard Atherton earlier put James Vince name forward as potential new England white ball captain, my TV nearly had a size 11 going through it

 

[Tredman]

Vince as England captain and Meslier back in the PL. 2025 is the year which just keeps on giving.

 

[Tony Towner]

Fuck India, I hope the Aussies beat them again

 

[jd1981]

Fuck India, I hope the Aussies beat them again View attachment 13117

Does the final get moved to Dubai if India get there?
The ICC are just BCCI puppet masters.
Looking at the last 3 ICC tournaments everything has been done to make things as cosy for India as possible.

 

[Tony Towner]

Yep

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

BCCI are as big a stain on cricket as the bloody hundred

 

[jd1981]

India have bowled well but Darren Mitchell with a strike rate around 56% is getting NZ nowhere.

 

[Tony Towner]

Congratulations to India for managing to win one of the tournaments doctored in their favour

 

[jd1981]

Same hotel, same ground and zero travelling.
Everyone else back and forth to suit their needs.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/cricketing-great-stuart-macgill-guilty-of-facilitating-330k-cocaine-deal/news-story/3975f15cf9b14f896b390c5cd554513e

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Mark Wood going to miss all the Tests this summer, time to move on sadly