I blame the ECB for this shambles! Hardly any first class cricket played by many of our team this season so far, as ECB is to busy chasing a quick buck by brining in the very stupid Hundred comp, at the same time as One day cup and T20'S. If you play lots of one day cricket and the shots played in those comps, Championship and Test cricket discipline just doesn't exist. It's not fucking rocket science!!
Some of our batsman haven't played in red ball game for 2 months!
Don't call a score pathetic until both teams have batted
I wouldn't normally, but we lost 7 wickets for 45 runs, which included 3 ducks (not including Burns). These are supposed to be test batsmen, to me that is pathetic. If India collapse like that I'll say so as well, but I fear we are on a tonking and it's due, in my opinion, to poor ECB strategy as far as first class and test cricket is concerned.
White ball excellence doesn't preclude Test excellence though. It is extremely possible to focus on both. Rohit Sharma is one of the most violent hitters in world cricket on his day and he's out there looking absolutely solid
Bairstow first red ball game of the season and Curran first since jan according to TMS
Commentator said Buttler hasn't played proper cricket since February.
It’s all okay though, we have the 100
You have to be patient, the excellent youth set ups & academies at the London Skittles, Manchester Dirigibles & Birmingham Rockets will be churning out future test players for years to come….
Bairstow first red ball game of the season and Curran first since jan according to TMS
Because bairstow is a world class white ball batsman and a dogshit red ball batsman - we dropped Roy like a hot potato when it was clear he couldn’t deploy an effective forward defensive, so why have we given bairstow so many tries?
Bairstow first red ball game of the season and Curran first since jan according to TMS
Because bairstow is a world class white ball batsman and a dogshit red ball batsman - we dropped Roy like a hot potato when it was clear he couldn’t deploy an effective forward defensive, so why have we given bairstow so many tries?
Not disagreeing, he has had so many chances and isn’t taking them.
the point was that our batsmen do not play enough red ball cricket which is why the test team struggle to score 200.
ih hameed (spelling) played, when was the last county innings he played?
billings (appreciate he isn’t in the squad and shouldn’t be), how many county games as he had this season
Bairstow first red ball game of the season and Curran first since jan according to TMS
Because bairstow is a world class white ball batsman and a dogshit red ball batsman - we dropped Roy like a hot potato when it was clear he couldn’t deploy an effective forward defensive, so why have we given bairstow so many tries?
Bairstow is a yorkie ,root is a yorkie and silverwood is a yorkie..just saying
If you want responsibility, you have to look at Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, and the ECB board (including its former chair) which has empowered him to make a series of self-defeating decisions. Harrison, a man who has been seen in public less often than the Loch Ness Monster over the last 12-months, risks being remembered in cricket as Dr Beeching was with railways or Margaret Thatcher was with coal mines. If the policies he is pursuing go unchecked, they could destroy the red-ball game.
But he may have looked around Trent Bridge, noted the packed stands and considered it an excellent day. It's only when they are hit in the pockets that they will realise the folly of what they have done. That day will come but, by then, many of our current administrators will have sailed off into a golden sunset.
Bairstow first red ball game of the season and Curran first since jan according to TMS
Commentator said Buttler hasn't played proper cricket since February.
Did Commentator mention how many first class games the Indian players have had this summer?
No but I will lay you any odds you like that the Indian players will have played and practiced a lot more red ball than Buttler in that time. Actually I can evidence it if you really want me to.
Look at Buttler's dismissal - 17 balls faced and no runs on the board so he decides to throw his hands at one and nicks off. That is the shot of someone who is feeling scoreboard pressure when that simply shouldn't be the case.
Anyway, I'm now off to watch my son play some County age group red ball cricket. While I still can!!!
If you want responsibility, you have to look at Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, and the ECB board (including its former chair) which has empowered him to make a series of self-defeating decisions. Harrison, a man who has been seen in public less often than the Loch Ness Monster over the last 12-months, risks being remembered in cricket as Dr Beeching was with railways or Margaret Thatcher was with coal mines. If the policies he is pursuing go unchecked, they could destroy the red-ball game.
But he may have looked around Trent Bridge, noted the packed stands and considered it an excellent day. It's only when they are hit in the pockets that they will realise the folly of what they have done. That day will come but, by then, many of our current administrators will have sailed off into a golden sunset.
Yes, at £120 a ticket next week I'll be thinking twice about attending future Tests if we're looking so abject.
If you want responsibility, you have to look at Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, and the ECB board (including its former chair) which has empowered him to make a series of self-defeating decisions. Harrison, a man who has been seen in public less often than the Loch Ness Monster over the last 12-months, risks being remembered in cricket as Dr Beeching was with railways or Margaret Thatcher was with coal mines. If the policies he is pursuing go unchecked, they could destroy the red-ball game.
But he may have looked around Trent Bridge, noted the packed stands and considered it an excellent day. It's only when they are hit in the pockets that they will realise the folly of what they have done. That day will come but, by then, many of our current administrators will have sailed off into a golden sunset.
Yes, at £120 a ticket next week I'll be thinking twice about attending future Tests if we're looking so abject.
Agreed. £135 for me next Friday, that's a fortune and massively more than I'd spend if I went to a 100 match
If you want responsibility, you have to look at Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, and the ECB board (including its former chair) which has empowered him to make a series of self-defeating decisions. Harrison, a man who has been seen in public less often than the Loch Ness Monster over the last 12-months, risks being remembered in cricket as Dr Beeching was with railways or Margaret Thatcher was with coal mines. If the policies he is pursuing go unchecked, they could destroy the red-ball game.
But he may have looked around Trent Bridge, noted the packed stands and considered it an excellent day. It's only when they are hit in the pockets that they will realise the folly of what they have done. That day will come but, by then, many of our current administrators will have sailed off into a golden sunset.
Yes, at £120 a ticket next week I'll be thinking twice about attending future Tests if we're looking so abject.
Agreed. £135 for me next Friday, that's a fortune and massively more than I'd spend if I went to a 100 match
England fast bowler Jofra Archer will miss this winter's T20 World Cup and the Ashes in Australia with a stress facture in his right elbow.
The 26-year-old will not play again this year, instead taking an extended break from cricket, with the injury due to be reviewed in the autumn.
Even when Archer is fit, it will be for a period of white-ball cricket so his progress can be managed.
Pace bowler Olly Stone is already an Ashes doubt with a back injury.
Archer's injury is the latest setback for England, after all-rounder Ben Stokes last week announced he is taking an "indefinite break" from the game to focus on his mental wellbeing.
If you want responsibility, you have to look at Tom Harrison, the ECB chief executive, and the ECB board (including its former chair) which has empowered him to make a series of self-defeating decisions. Harrison, a man who has been seen in public less often than the Loch Ness Monster over the last 12-months, risks being remembered in cricket as Dr Beeching was with railways or Margaret Thatcher was with coal mines. If the policies he is pursuing go unchecked, they could destroy the red-ball game.
But he may have looked around Trent Bridge, noted the packed stands and considered it an excellent day. It's only when they are hit in the pockets that they will realise the folly of what they have done. That day will come but, by then, many of our current administrators will have sailed off into a golden sunset.
Yes, at £120 a ticket next week I'll be thinking twice about attending future Tests if we're looking so abject.
Agreed. £135 for me next Friday, that's a fortune and massively more than I'd spend if I went to a 100 match
Quite right we're also £135 next Friday.
My tickets are £80 Thursday and £60 Sunday. If it lasts till Sunday.
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the point was that our batsmen do not play enough red ball cricket which is why the test team struggle to score 200.
ih hameed (spelling) played, when was the last county innings he played?
billings (appreciate he isn’t in the squad and shouldn’t be), how many county games as he had this season
But he may have looked around Trent Bridge, noted the packed stands and considered it an excellent day. It's only when they are hit in the pockets that they will realise the folly of what they have done. That day will come but, by then, many of our current administrators will have sailed off into a golden sunset.
Look at Buttler's dismissal - 17 balls faced and no runs on the board so he decides to throw his hands at one and nicks off. That is the shot of someone who is feeling scoreboard pressure when that simply shouldn't be the case.
Anyway, I'm now off to watch my son play some County age group red ball cricket. While I still can!!!