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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2023 11:50:36 GMT
This is one dumb ass cricket team.
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Post by GRL on Jul 2, 2023 12:32:16 GMT
First Bairstow passes up the chance to seriously maim a protester then he does that.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2023 14:15:33 GMT
Well, Ben Stokes is a legend.
A phenomenal sportsman. A proper legendary sportsman.
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Post by Incognito on Jul 2, 2023 14:32:32 GMT
Pray for rain NOW
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Post by Peroni on Jul 2, 2023 15:04:08 GMT
Let me cut the grass first
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Post by Peroni on Jul 2, 2023 18:38:59 GMT
Looks like Mark Wood or Moeen will return in place of Stokes for the next test. Were he not captain, tbfl, he’d be struggling to keep his place. Hardly bowling, not scoring many runs… Which was your point I guess. Cost England the match prior to last day bash, so it doesn't count. Will keep his place due to injury list.
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Post by GRL on Jul 2, 2023 19:10:17 GMT
Yes, a good shout from the London branch, wasn't it?
These are two very moderate sides cancelling one another out, mostly. All of the bowlers on both sides, apart from Tongue, are well past their best; Robinson isn't test class. It's the best format of cricket and very absorbing, nevertheless.
But please spare me these women commentating and middle-aged men in the crowd drinking Butty Bach from a plastic beaker and signalling four. Listen to Jim Maxwell; he's good.
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Post by Peroni on Jul 3, 2023 10:28:40 GMT
I think it was underhand what Carey did.
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Post by Peroni on Jul 3, 2023 10:49:55 GMT
Back in the 80's its the sort of thing you would expect when playing Herefordians.
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Post by GRL on Jul 3, 2023 12:49:48 GMT
Funnily enough, I left in '79.
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Post by eggchaserbull on Jul 3, 2023 12:50:58 GMT
After two tests, I really can't get into this vibe that they've been brilliant, extraordinary (insert your own exaggerated adjective).
They've been close, yes, therefore exciting, but the standard ain't been great. I shan't bother watching much more if it's just going to be short-pitched deliveries and fielders placed around the boundary.
Is this what the preparation of test match pitches now produces?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2023 14:11:53 GMT
I listened to it on Saturday afternoon and it was bizarre. I think they completely stopped giving ball by ball commentary.
By the end of it I had drank four pints of strong ale and was none the wiser.
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Post by Peroni on Jul 4, 2023 10:12:06 GMT
Cricket's laws say the ball is dead "when it is clear to the bowler's-end umpire that the fielding side and both batters at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play".
Given the body language of umpire at bowling end before the stumps were broken, the ball was dead. Or he's not a very good umpire.
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Post by GRL on Jul 4, 2023 10:34:06 GMT
It was at the Oval in 1882 when WG Grace ran out the Australian Sammy Jones for wandering out of his crease under a misapprehension the ball was dead. "I taught the lad a lesson," Grace said afterwards.
In 2006 the current England head coach Brendon McCullum ran out Muttiah Muralitharan as the Sri Lanka great left his crease to congratulate Kumar Sangakarra, who had just reached a ton.
Get over it.
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Post by Peroni on Jul 4, 2023 10:50:53 GMT
What's the point of the rules then? Personally quite glad of the result to prove this love island phase of 20/20 test cricket doesn't work 24/7. However it does reduce the likelihood of a draw in english summers. But if we're after results and entertainment then lets knock 5 day games on the head and replace with 5 days of the John Player league style match ups.
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Post by GRL on Jul 4, 2023 12:51:50 GMT
Cricket's laws say the ball is dead "when it is clear to the bowler's-end umpire that the fielding side and both batters at the wicket have ceased to regard it as in play". Given the body language of umpire at bowling end before the stumps were broken, the ball was dead. Or he's not a very good umpire. England have accepted that the ball was not dead according to the law; that is not remotely in question. There is a difference between the umpire's body language and what was going on inside his head - into which not even you can see. There has been much talk about the spirit of the game; that is the debate. Very ironic; England, trying to be clever and achieving the opposite under the tutelage of this Antipodean asshole, have lost all sense of what cricket is remotely about.
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Post by Peroni on Jul 4, 2023 13:14:52 GMT
So you would be quite happy as a fielding side if whilst you're returning the ball to the bowler and one(1) of your mates fumbles it whilst you're all looking at your wags on the boundary, so the batsmen take the opportunity to saunter to the other end and take a run, as in their mind the ball is not dead.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2023 13:14:59 GMT
The tables have been turned between the two teams. We are way more cocky than the Australia team and they are seemingly captained by a decent sort.
If I was an Aussie I would think the England team was largely made up of pantomime villains.
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Post by GRL on Jul 4, 2023 14:12:19 GMT
So you would be quite happy as a fielding side if whilst you're returning the ball to the bowler and one(1) of your mates fumbles it whilst you're all looking at your wags on the boundary, so the batsmen take the opportunity to saunter to the other end and take a run, as in their mind the ball is not dead. I played for 35 years and that never happened once. Straw... clutch... They're mostly habs these days.
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Post by Peroni on Jul 4, 2023 14:44:09 GMT
Strewth. I'll just go and find a bigger hammer.
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