The Cricket Thread

[Deutsch Wolf]

Durham did totally collapse!

27/1 at lunch. All out for 85 inside an hour and a bit and relegated.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

A nice piece on Woakes

Farewell the Wizard: Chris Woakes could cast spells but let his cricket do the talking | Ali Martin

Chris Woakes always put the team first and hit the heights for England with an enviable Test career and two World Cup wins

www.theguardian.com

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

We've already named our team vs NZ for Saturday

Salt
Buttler (wk)
Bethell
Brook (c)
Banton
Curran
Cox
Carse
Dawson
Rashid
Wood

Yes we are fielding Cox at 7, even though he's not keeping. We'll need Curran to bowl all his overs too, which he rarely does in internationals

 

[Wolftone]

Cummins faces up to stressful reality of Ashes mortality

Captain’s ailing back makes it advantage England with Australia requiring two players to replace their leader

observer.co.uk

 

[Trips]

We've already named our team vs NZ for Saturday

Salt
Buttler (wk)
Bethell
Brook (c)
Banton
Curran
Cox
Carse
Dawson
Rashid
Wood

Yes we are fielding Cox at 7, even though he's not keeping. We'll need Curran to bowl all his overs too, which he rarely does in internationals

Guess which of the bowlers got tonked round the park at more than 12 an over?

 

[Trips]

Score card for our top 7 in NZ makes interesting reading

Smith 0
Duckett 2
Root 2
Bethell 2
Brook 135
Buttler 4
Curran 6

Jamie Overton (46) the only other player to make double figures, as NZ are cruising to a win

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Proper village cricket stuff, when a lad from the firsts doesn't get picked so drops down to play for fourths because they're a man short.

Also how the living fuck are Overton and Curran 40% of our attack, how is that ever going to work.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Cummins definitely out of the First Test

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Central contracts dished out, more notable for who's not on there really:

Bairstow (finally, nearly 18 months since he last played in any format for England)
Leach
Livingstone
Stone
Topley

Curran has somehow got a 2 year deal, based on what I do not know, not like he's even been very good since we brought him back (certainly not with the ball, and he isn't good enough to play as a specialist batsman)

 

[Sniffer]

23. I missed 2 England players and had successfully deleted from my memory quite a few Aussies.

Ashes quiz: Name every England and Australia player to hit an Ashes century since 2005

The Ashes returns on 21 November and to get you in the mood we thought we'd Test your knowledge with a quiz.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Mel Evo]

25. I’m still trying to work out the one missing England player but I’m sure I’m at a grinding halt on Aussies.

 

[North Shropshire Lad]

22. Discounted some that I thought had finished by/in 2005

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

32, missed two Aussies and one Englishman

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Ashes quiz: Name every England & Australia player with five-wicket haul since 2005

The Ashes returns on 21 November and to get you in the mood we thought we'd Test your knowledge with a quiz.

www.bbc.co.uk

25/26. Missed one Aussie who I think everyone else will also miss

 

[Sniffer]

24

God only knows how I missed a current England player and I’m guessing the other is the one nobody will get.

15 attempts at attempting to spelling Kaspa was all in vain too.

 

[Mel Evo]

19 :/

 

[PuntsWolf]

Christ only missed 2 Aussies but 4 englishmen... (one out top 10 ffs)

 

[Mel Evo]

Loathe to align myself with the ‘has beens’, but more specifically the pitch for the warm up game sounds particularly useless for the purpose. The description of Brook’s knock makes it seem like the venue could have been better planned.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Hmmm - well it sort of needs to be in Perth as a six hour flight from other states would have been sub-optimal. Optus is out of the question as they need to get the test pitch together and there is a sheffield shield game at the WACA. So there weren't really a lot of options.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

Wood injured - suspected hamstring - on first day of the tour. Bad news but sadly not surprising.