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England Cricket 2026

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,675
    Blimey. I don't think there can be many faster outfields in the world than here. Check drives are running away from fielders. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,675
    90-2 (19 overs in 71 minutes) at drinks. A wicket each to Curran and Rashid. 


  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,675
    175-4 (37). Two wickets to Rashid now and one each to Curran and Ahmed.

    The outfield might be lightning quick but the wicket is slow and most of the wickets to fall have been down to pilot error - LBW sweeping, bowled round the legs missing a very full ball sweeping, trying to hit the cover off a "moon" ball and totally mistiming it and another caught at slip off a leading edge sweeping. Hopefully we are better at sweeping and if not that we try and hit gaps that are a bit straighter.  
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,458
    Shame there's no coverage of this on the radio 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,675
    271-6 (50)

    Although this might take some getting, the Sri Lankan innings was a bit guilty of getting going a bit late and mainly thanks to a final over from Overton that went for 23. There was certainly no discernable increase in tempo prior to that despite having wickets in hand and Mendis, in finishing on 93* off 117 balls, really should have put bat to ball late on. 

    Pick of the England bowlers was Rashid with 10-0-44-3 though Dawson offered little to the batters in returning 10-1-31-1.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,834
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    Shame there's no coverage of this on the radio 
    I think it's on Talksport
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 14,817
    Luke Wright standing down as selector post World Cup
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,834
    Unconvincing innings by Crawley
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 24,029
    killerandflash said:
    Unconvincing innings by Crawley
    I'd like a £ for everytime I've heard that
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,908
    fenaddick said:
    Luke Wright standing down as selector post World Cup
    Tbh didn't really know what he did or ever saw him interviewed. 

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  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,458
    edited January 22
    fenaddick said:
    Luke Wright standing down as selector post World Cup
    I don't really know what the selectors do. We keep playing the same players hoping they come good 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,458
    Who was our last bowler? That last over of theirs went for 23?! 

  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,834
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    Who was our last bowler? That last over of theirs went for 23?! 

    Jamie Overton
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,458
    killerandflash said:
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    Who was our last bowler? That last over of theirs went for 23?! 

    Jamie Overton
    Christ. Just looking at his figures and I thought it probably would of been him. Going at 7 an over economy, with no wickets. 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,224
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    killerandflash said:
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    Who was our last bowler? That last over of theirs went for 23?! 

    Jamie Overton
    Christ. Just looking at his figures and I thought it probably would of been him. Going at 7 an over economy, with no wickets. 
    i thought he bowled quite well - had a lot of edges that went for 4
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,458
    MrOneLung said:
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    killerandflash said:
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    Who was our last bowler? That last over of theirs went for 23?! 

    Jamie Overton
    Christ. Just looking at his figures and I thought it probably would of been him. Going at 7 an over economy, with no wickets. 
    i thought he bowled quite well - had a lot of edges that went for 4
    That's the problem, I'm just looking at the scorecard so in no way do I know how he bowled.

    Listening to talk sport for our innings and Crawley is being given a lot of criticism... Again... 
  • Shag
    Shag Posts: 4,582
    The cameraman has been MOM so far 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,458
    edited January 22
    Addick Addict said:

    Bangladesh, who are in the same group as England in next month's T20 WC, could be replaced at the last minute by Scotland.

    The Bangladesh Cricket Board recently wrote to the international governing body saying that because of political tensions between the two countries, they would not travel to India. Instead, they requested that their matches be moved to Sri Lanka. The ICC has responded that there are no specific threats relating to the Bangladesh cricket team and is unwilling to alter the fixtures this late in the day, leaving the Bangladesh Cricket Board and Bangladesh government with a choice: fulfil their group-stage fixtures in Mumbai and Kolkata, or pull out of the tournament.

    Bangladesh aren't backing down even though they've been given an ultimatum by the ICC. So Scotland will get the nod to replace. 
    I find it ridiculous. They pamper to India so they can have their matches where ever they want yet if another country has an issue they won't allow it. It's bad enough that India get funny about our players who have Pakistan heritage. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,675
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    Addick Addict said:

    Bangladesh, who are in the same group as England in next month's T20 WC, could be replaced at the last minute by Scotland.

    The Bangladesh Cricket Board recently wrote to the international governing body saying that because of political tensions between the two countries, they would not travel to India. Instead, they requested that their matches be moved to Sri Lanka. The ICC has responded that there are no specific threats relating to the Bangladesh cricket team and is unwilling to alter the fixtures this late in the day, leaving the Bangladesh Cricket Board and Bangladesh government with a choice: fulfil their group-stage fixtures in Mumbai and Kolkata, or pull out of the tournament.

    Bangladesh aren't backing down even though they've been given an ultimatum by the ICC. So Scotland will get the nod to replace. 
    I find it ridiculous. They pamper to India so they can have their matches where ever they want yet if another country has an issue they won't allow it. It's bad enough that India get funny about our players who have Pakistan heritage. 

    That's because the "I" in ICC stands for Indian and not International. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,675
    Addick Addict said:
    175-4 (37). Two wickets to Rashid now and one each to Curran and Ahmed.

    The outfield might be lightning quick but the wicket is slow and most of the wickets to fall have been down to pilot error - LBW sweeping, bowled round the legs missing a very full ball sweeping, trying to hit the cover off a "moon" ball and totally mistiming it and another caught at slip off a leading edge sweeping. Hopefully we are better at sweeping and if not that we try and hit gaps that are a bit straighter.  
    I do accept that the sweep has to be a "go to" shot at times but that's five batters, including now Duckett and Root, from nine dismissals that have got out out doing so. 

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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 65,199
    Bangladesh have dropped out of the upcoming T20 WC.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,458
    edited January 22
    Brooks gone now stumped 156 for 4. Big turn on that ball, gripped into the pitch. 

    England need 115 runs from 13 overs. Can't see it happening..
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,458
    Another stumping 158 for 5. Bethell dances down the wicket and misses the ball. Ball is turning a fair bit.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,675
    Bethell stumped too.  I take it back about not sweeping. It doesn't matter what we try to do against spin. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,675
    edited January 22
    Addick Addict said:
    Bethell stumped too.  I take it back about not sweeping. It doesn't matter what we try to do against spin. 
    To be fair to the batters, the bowlers probably bowled too many "four" balls too. Our two most experienced spinners, Rashid and Dawson, returned figures of 20-1-75-4 whereas the rest of the attack had combined figures of 30-0-186-2 with our other two spinners. Ahmed and Bethell. producing between them 13-0-80-1. 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,842
    Good to see the white ball team are keeping up the consistency of throwing away matches. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,834
    England didn't throw away the game,  they were suffocated by the Sri Lankan spinners, and as the run rate got higher ended up having to take risks to keep up.

    This was a traditional England slump against spinners on a slow pitch in Asia.  
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 40,675
    Overton only has to hit 20 off the final over of the game which is 3 less than he conceded when he bowled that final over of Sri Lanka's innings. 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,458
    Strangely we are still in this..Last over need 20 to win. 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 13,458
    Overton slogs it and it's caught. Sri lanker win.. 

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