Crawley and Curran play in place of Archer and Stokes
Pakistan win the toss and will bat
Another plot against Sussex, so that they can't win the Bob Willis Trophy. Leave Archer and Robinson carrying the drinks. As if Kent would have scored more than about 100 rather than 506 for 1 if those two had not wasted their time with the England squad.
Quite uncanny how when we were playing at Manchester the rain was up there and it was nice down south, but when we switch venues it's now raining down south and nicer in the north...
Watched "The Cricket Debate" on Sky last night. Mark Butcher asking Dominic Cork& Matt Prior about the current "bad light" rules & what could be done to get more cricket played (this was after seeing Michael Vaughan doing an interview, well after play was abandoned, in bright sunshine). One suggestion, especially now when there aren't any spectators, was to start play earlier. Why wait until 11am if the weather looks good at 10.30 or even 10am. As I said on Saturday, there was a delay Sat am & play didn't start until 12.30......only for them all go off for lunch an hour later !! Madness !! In that instance the umpires should have said at 12 noon that they would have an early lunch & be ready to start play at 12.30 (OMG.. just 30 mins instead of the time honoured tradition of 40!!). Sometimes you have to change things a little.
Glad I watched the sport on BBC this morning - "it's the last day of the 2nd Test and a draw seems to be the most likely outcome".
When was the last time the same Test side lost 19 wickets on Day 5 of a match? The answer is never!
That wouldn’t be needed for an England win though. Buttler hits 200 off 60 balls and we declare with a lead of 50. Jimmy takes all 10 as we bowl them out for 7.
Admittedly I’d be surprised if the above were to happen.
Watched "The Cricket Debate" on Sky last night. Mark Butcher asking Dominic Cork& Matt Prior about the current "bad light" rules & what could be done to get more cricket played (this was after seeing Michael Vaughan doing an interview, well after play was abandoned, in bright sunshine). One suggestion, especially now when there aren't any spectators, was to start play earlier. Why wait until 11am if the weather looks good at 10.30 or even 10am. As I said on Saturday, there was a delay Sat am & play didn't start until 12.30......only for them all go off for lunch an hour later !! Madness !! In that instance the umpires should have said at 12 noon that they would have an early lunch & be ready to start play at 12.30 (OMG.. just 30 mins instead of the time honoured tradition of 40!!). Sometimes you have to change things a little.
Especially true when there are no fans at the moment - you don't need to give fans a chance to get to the ground, and you don't need to cater to the corporate fans off for a 1pm lunch etc.
Can someone please assure me that Sibley hasn't cemented his place in this team for the next 5 years. I refuse to believe that we don't have better opening batsmen than him somewhere in the county game now or coming through the ranks.
Dont you just the game of cricket. Its been wet for 4 days & finally they get out there, play for 3 hours & then, in bright sunshine, they all go off early because it's in the laws that they can.
Someone needs to rip up the laws of cricket & start again. Its fucked.
Dont you just the game of cricket. Its been wet for 4 days & finally they get out there, play for 3 hours & then, in bright sunshine, they all go off early because it's in the laws that they can.
Someone needs to rip up the laws of cricket & start again. Its fucked.
Back to my ongoing beef with playing times of the current Test series.
Weather tomorrow looks really poor & supposedly rather windy from Friday onwards.
However Thursday looks dry & sunny all day. But the Test match starts Friday. So why not just bring it forward a day......and even then factor in a rest day or 2. No fans in the ground so no problem with ticket sales. Players hardly played last week so no problem with being tired or "bowled out". Win/win.
Won't happen in a million years though. Just imagine getting to the 5th day & running out of time due to previous rain delays when everyone can see that playing on Thursday would give a whole uninterrupted days play.
Cricket needs to take a look at Golf & how they alter tee times to make sure they finish before any storms arrive.
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Cricket is a fucked up game.
I expect they will go off a 7pm in bright sunshine.
Especially Burns, Crawley and Sibley.
When was the last time the same Test side lost 19 wickets on Day 5 of a match? The answer is never!
I refuse to believe that we don't have better opening batsmen than him somewhere in the county game now or coming through the ranks.
Someone needs to rip up the laws of cricket & start again. Its fucked.
Weather tomorrow looks really poor & supposedly rather windy from Friday onwards.
However Thursday looks dry & sunny all day. But the Test match starts Friday. So why not just bring it forward a day......and even then factor in a rest day or 2. No fans in the ground so no problem with ticket sales. Players hardly played last week so no problem with being tired or "bowled out". Win/win.
Won't happen in a million years though. Just imagine getting to the 5th day & running out of time due to previous rain delays when everyone can see that playing on Thursday would give a whole uninterrupted days play.
Cricket needs to take a look at Golf & how they alter tee times to make sure they finish before any storms arrive.
Bit tough that Curran never got the chance to bat in his one match!