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Post by Nobbygas on Jan 16, 2022 8:30:33 GMT
After his 6 wickets Mark Wood to hit the winning runs with a six over long on......you heard it here first.
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Post by lostinspace on Jan 16, 2022 9:39:39 GMT
Oh dear...3 down in quick succession!!! 86--3
and Stokes now 92--4... doing their best to throw this away...@9:58am
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Post by eppinggas on Jan 16, 2022 9:45:37 GMT
England went from slight odds-on favourites to 3-1 pretty quickly. England now 5-2 and looks like it's all down to Stokes and Root...
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Post by eppinggas on Jan 16, 2022 9:58:06 GMT
Stokes WTF.
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Post by alftupper on Jan 16, 2022 10:25:33 GMT
Root gone too. 4 of our "best" batsmen out for the addition of 19 runs. Same old, right to the bitter end.
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Post by lostinspace on Jan 16, 2022 10:40:16 GMT
and now Billings catches the give my wicket away disease..FFS! just under an hour to go...all out? [11:30 finish today].....and now Pope!! there goes his sainthood!!!
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Post by eppinggas on Jan 16, 2022 10:57:21 GMT
oops
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Post by lostinspace on Jan 16, 2022 11:05:37 GMT
all over!!! need this lot to be deported to the colonies......oh hang they are already there!!!
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 16, 2022 11:30:45 GMT
Well at 68-0 I thought perhaps. Stupid I know.
I’m all out of words to describe how bad this has been. I think some of the posters on here have made more effort than our batsmen.
I’d say all they wanted to do was pack their bags and go home but most are off to the West Indies. Perhaps too much cricket in the Chase for ££££s.
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Post by lostinspace on Jan 16, 2022 11:42:57 GMT
Extras 3rd top scorer,so consistent!! now calls for a complete and thorough re think of where English cricket is WANTING to go... limited overs [££££] or test style cricket for the purist , but they say there is not a lot wrong with things,blind leading the blind!!![apologies to those with limited vision]
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Post by bluetornados on Jan 16, 2022 12:46:01 GMT
Extras 3rd top scorer,so consistent!! now calls for a complete and thorough re think of where English cricket is WANTING to go... limited overs [££££] or test style cricket for the purist , but they say there is not a lot wrong with things,blind leading the blind!!![apologies to those with limited vision] England 68-0 & 56-10 = 124 all out, Nathan Lyon who has 415 test wickets was not required to bowl 1 single ball, that is how easy it was for Australia. Extras from all 5 test matches scored 97 runs. Joe Root wants to continue as England captain despite their 4-0 hammering in the Ashes series in Australia. Root has led England in 61 Tests, more than any other man, but has not won any of his three Ashes series in charge. The 31-year-old has seen his team win only one of their past 14 Tests since February of last year. "I believe that I am the right man to take this team forward. If that decision is taken out of my hands, so be it," he said. "I have an appetite to carry on and turn things around. "At the minute we are going through a real tough stage as a group of players and the performances haven't been good enough, but I'd love the opportunity to try to turn things around and for us to start putting in performances from an English Test team." A 146-run defeat in the final Test in Hobart saw England beaten 4-0 by Australia, just as they were four years ago in Root's first tour as captain. Chasing 271 for victory, England lost all 10 wickets for 56 runs to be bowled out for 124, the sixth time in the series they failed to reach 200. "It's disappointing to be beaten as heavily as that," added Root. "It's a difficult one to take yet again. "It's clear and very evident what we need to do to improve, the adjustments that need to be made." |
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Post by Nobbygas on Jan 16, 2022 14:34:31 GMT
Well at 68-0 I thought perhaps. Stupid I know. I’m all out of words to describe how bad this has been. I think some of the posters on here have made more effort than our batsmen. I’d say all they wanted to do was pack their bags and go home but most are off to the West Indies. Perhaps too much cricket in the Chase for ££££s. Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa all seem to be able to compete in all forms of cricket. |
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Post by tenniscourtgas on Jan 16, 2022 22:28:32 GMT
Just when you think England can’t get any worse, they manage to plunge to new depths.
Although I have BT, I have seldom bothered to watch much of the last few months shambles, even though for most of my life, I have regularly woken in the middle of the night, early in the morning, to catch up with one of the greatest of all sporting contests.
I did decide to watch England’s second innings this morning, and like other posters, started to think a miracle might be possible.
Following Burns’s dismissal, that must be one of the most pitiful exhibitions of batting it would be possible to see, with a complete lack of pride or application.
The players seemed quite content to make fools of themselves against our biggest rivals, who enjoy nothing more than rubbing our noses in it.
Another three Tests to come in the West Indies in a couple of months, no idea who can slot into the batting line up to make any real difference.
With the schedule, the likes of Lawrence, Overton and Bess, must have spent nearly four months having not played a single match!
I am also getting irritated by the fact that the County Championship fixtures are still not out for next season, apparently not until the end of January at least.
I am trying to plan my summer, and need dates so I can avoid The Hundred and T20 Blast!
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Post by alftupper on Jan 16, 2022 23:00:43 GMT
I am trying to plan my summer, and need dates so I can avoid The Hundred and T20 Blast! I wouldn`t go that far, but it is deeply sad that a format of the game designed to appeal to those with the attention span of a goldfish, should occupy pretty much the whole of summer, while the 4 day game is allotted a few weeks at the end of spring and the beginning of autumn. |
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Post by alftupper on Jan 16, 2022 23:29:28 GMT
I’m all out of words to describe how bad this has been. I think some of the posters on here have made more effort than our batsmen. I reckon, I could have done better with the bat. Starts to daydream......
"And Pat Cummings reaches his mark, he turns in the blistering heat and comes running in, he`s up to the wicket..he bowls to Tupper, who launches the ball over the midwicket boundary for six. My word, what a shot that was. That went even further than any of his previous twenty seven sixes. What an incredible innings this man has played.
He came to the crease with England having lost their first nine batsmen for no runs, and he`s taken the score on to 413 for nine.
Finally, there`s some respite for the demoralised Australian bowlers; 12th man is on with the drinks. Tupper downs his pint of McEwan`s Champion Ale, then resumes his position in front of the stumps, his handsome, chiselled features, a study in concentration.........."
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Post by lostinspace on Jan 17, 2022 7:59:26 GMT
I’m all out of words to describe how bad this has been. I think some of the posters on here have made more effort than our batsmen. I reckon, I could have done better with the bat. Starts to daydream......
"And Pat Cummings reaches his mark, he turns in the blistering heat and comes running in, he`s up to the wicket..he bowls to Tupper, who launches the ball over the midwicket boundary for six. My word, what a shot that was. That went even further than any of his previous twenty seven sixes. What an incredible innings this man has played.
He came to the crease with England having lost their first nine batsmen for no runs, and he`s taken the score on to 413 for nine.
Finally, there`s some respite for the demoralised Australian bowlers; 12th man is on with the drinks. Tupper downs his pint of McEwan`s Champion Ale, then resumes his position in front of the stumps, his handsome, chiselled features, a study in concentration.........."
😂😂😂😂😂🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏🏏...yet still lost by an innings 😉 |
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Post by Nobbygas on Jan 17, 2022 8:58:39 GMT
I’m all out of words to describe how bad this has been. I think some of the posters on here have made more effort than our batsmen. I reckon, I could have done better with the bat. Starts to daydream......
"And Pat Cummings reaches his mark, he turns in the blistering heat and comes running in, he`s up to the wicket..he bowls to Tupper, who launches the ball over the midwicket boundary for six. My word, what a shot that was. That went even further than any of his previous twenty seven sixes. What an incredible innings this man has played.
He came to the crease with England having lost their first nine batsmen for no runs, and he`s taken the score on to 413 for nine.
Finally, there`s some respite for the demoralised Australian bowlers; 12th man is on with the drinks. Tupper downs his pint of McEwan`s Champion Ale, then resumes his position in front of the stumps, his handsome, chiselled features, a study in concentration.........."
That was believable until the last line, "handsome, chiselled features". That really was stretching it a bit too far. Your bowling figures need to improve though. 10-0-360-0 |
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Post by bluetornados on Jan 17, 2022 9:49:52 GMT
Ashes: Replace County Championship to save England Test team - Jonathan Agnew.
As someone who loves English cricket, cares for English cricket and has been involved with English cricket for most of my life, to again stand on the outfield and watch Australia celebrate another Ashes landslide is very bitter.
On every tour bar one since 1987, England have come to Australia and been hammered.
At the end, English cricket looks at itself and says "we'll do this and we'll do that", then nothing happens.
If anyone believes we can carry on doing things the same way and expect different results, they are utterly mistaken. It can't keep going on like this and it is time for a sweeping change.
How can it be done?
Firstly, you have to understand that the 18 first-class counties essentially control the domestic structure.
For that reason, I wish the 18 county chairmen had been down there on the Hobart outfield with me to see Australia celebrating. That would make them fully understand that something needs to be done.
In the four years since England were last beaten down under, the only major change to the game in England and Wales has been the introduction of The Hundred, a spurious additional format that no-one else plays.
Yes, I know it was the brainchild of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and I understand that it was done to protect the finances of the game.
But the counties get their payout from The Hundred and they make money from the T20 Blast, while at the same time getting little back from first-class matches.
Therefore, I am proposing that we take the eight teams from The Hundred, add two more, and create a new first-class competition that replaces the County Championship.
It would not involve the same players as The Hundred, but you could have the same system of a draft. In one move it ensures that the best are playing against the best, it cuts down on the number of games and it is easier to thread first-class cricket throughout the summer.
It would be lovely if the counties could come up with their own solution, but with 18 of them there are always going to be issues around the number of games and the right format for the competition.
Instead, the ECB should say that this is the way first-class cricket in England and Wales will move into the future.
We must wake up to the fact that if our first-class game is not fit for purpose, then England will not have any Test cricketers.
I know what I am suggesting is radical, but the time has come to streamline the elite level of first-class cricket in the UK.
Captain Joe Root says he wants to continue, which solves the problem of there currently being no obvious successor.
Does that mean it is the right decision? Time will tell. Maybe if English cricket wakes up to the fact that the Test team is in crisis, then wholesale changes of leadership are required, including Root. Someone else would step up.
England can come back from this humbling down under, but it will take time.
Australia will travel to the UK to defend the urn in 2023 and they are currently favourites to end a 22-year streak without an away Ashes win.
English cricket should not wait 18 months to wake up to the fact that drastic change is needed.
It has to happen now.
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Post by alftupper on Jan 17, 2022 10:39:08 GMT
I reckon, I could have done better with the bat. Starts to daydream......
"And Pat Cummings reaches his mark, he turns in the blistering heat and comes running in, he`s up to the wicket..he bowls to Tupper, who launches the ball over the midwicket boundary for six. My word, what a shot that was. That went even further than any of his previous twenty seven sixes. What an incredible innings this man has played.
He came to the crease with England having lost their first nine batsmen for no runs, and he`s taken the score on to 413 for nine.
Finally, there`s some respite for the demoralised Australian bowlers; 12th man is on with the drinks. Tupper downs his pint of McEwan`s Champion Ale, then resumes his position in front of the stumps, his handsome, chiselled features, a study in concentration.........."
Your bowling figures need to improve though. 10-0-360-0 I`m not happy with Joe Root about that. He took me off, just as my hangover was starting to subside. I was no longer throwing up down at third man, or seeing nine stumps as I ran in to bowl. |
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Post by warehamgas on Jan 17, 2022 21:20:23 GMT
Just when you think England can’t get any worse, they manage to plunge to new depths. Although I have BT, I have seldom bothered to watch much of the last few months shambles, even though for most of my life, I have regularly woken in the middle of the night, early in the morning, to catch up with one of the greatest of all sporting contests. I did decide to watch England’s second innings this morning, and like other posters, started to think a miracle might be possible. Following Burns’s dismissal, that must be one of the most pitiful exhibitions of batting it would be possible to see, with a complete lack of pride or application. The players seemed quite content to make fools of themselves against our biggest rivals, who enjoy nothing more than rubbing our noses in it. Another three Tests to come in the West Indies in a couple of months, no idea who can slot into the batting line up to make any real difference. With the schedule, the likes of Lawrence, Overton and Bess, must have spent nearly four months having not played a single match! I am also getting irritated by the fact that the County Championship fixtures are still not out for next season, apparently not until the end of January at least. I am trying to plan my summer, and need dates so I can avoid The Hundred and T20 Blast! The fixtures are out later than usual. I’ve renewed my Somerset membership and I’m not sure why they’re so late this year. Perhaps we’re going to have a change of schedule and even some red ball cricket in August. |
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