The Cricket Thread

[Mel Evo]

Well. The views are spectacular at least.

 

[Carrotdude]

Root Duckett and Pope with one good innings each, Crawley has been surprisingly good, other than that a bit of a disaster of a series with the bat. Always going to be slaughtered with the ball with the spinners we’ve got but I was hoping for much more from the batsmen.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

harsh on Bashir and Hartley. Thrown into the deep end they have done well

 

[Tony Towner]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1765669308439388588

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Batting wise:

Crawley is doing fine and no concern at all (imagine saying that a year ago)
Duckett will always be high risk, equally so at home where he refuses to leave the ball, we'll have to see how sustainable that is
Pope has too many low scores and his record vs Ind/Aus is really poor, should be in peril now
Root will continue to get runs though perhaps not in the volume he did 2-3 years ago, he's 33 now and nearly everyone starts to decline a bit at that age
Bairstow shouldn't play again, not the best option at #5 when Brook is back and that injury means he's nowhere near fit enough to keep
Stokes hasn't been great against spin here, got to back him to sort it out and hopefully start bowling again too
Foakes to me will forever struggle to score enough runs, I don't think teams can carry a keeper who averages sub-30, it's not 1987, others disagree
The tail is pretty lame, you really miss having a peak Swann/Woakes/Mo at 8

Whether the management see fit to change it now or give this lot a soft home summer against what should be weak opposition, who knows

 

[Tony Towner]

Where batsmen have got big scores no other batsman has backed them up with even a half century
Root 122 Foakes 47 (I'm ignoring Robinson)
Duckett 153 Stokes 42
Pope 196 Duckett 47

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

700 wickets for Anderson.

Only bit of good news as England are getting a pasting

 

[Trips]

Some achievement

Good job he got it at the tail-end of the first innings as its looking unlikely he'll get a go second time round

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

20 years ago today:

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

One of the great reviews

https://twitter.com/x/status/1774075774284243452

 

[Squeak]

One of the great reviews

https://twitter.com/x/status/1774075774284243452

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.