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England Cricket 2021 (excluding Ashes)

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  • India are coming here this summer. I hope we prepare the pitches that maximise our bowlers strengths. Also get the most biased video replay umpires in. Should be a good watch. 

    If we lose this series 3-1. There are five tests, so weather permitting we can beat them overall by a couple.
  • MrOneLung said:
    Slightly off topic but just seen this on BBC

    Kieron Pollard struck six sixes in one over off Akila Dananjaya, who had earlier taken a hat-trick, in West Indies' extraordinary four-wicket Twenty20 defeat of Sri Lanka.
    Chasing 132 to win, my eldest son told me that a Sri Lankan fielder dropped an absolute sitter which would have made the Windies 106-7 off 7.2 overs!!!  

    Dananajaya's figures over by over:

    1-0-8-0
    2-0-17-3
    3-0-53-3
    4-0-62-3
  • I thought Woakes had gone home.
    Spot on. I forgot about that one - ironically because he'd been non stop in bubbles without playing!!! Curran? He's gone home too? In which case we should have had Archer/Broad/ Wood or anyone else available. Bess improves the tail anyway at 8.
    Curran was meant to have been back in India and available for the the 4th Test, but the logistics proved too difficult so he's just on the white ball squad flight over to India
  • 36-1 
    Leach getting a bit of turn early on , found the edge in his first over and beat the bat 
  • Stokes looks in one of those moods this morning. Let's hope he can make it count with wickets.
  • Pujara out lbw next Leach over 
    pad then bat reasonably Clearly 
    pujara Reviews and it’s hitting the middle of middle 
    40-2
  • Terrible waste of a review from Pujara
  • Stokes looks in one of those moods this morning. Let's hope he can make it count with wickets.
    Claiming that wicket. 8 ball duck for Kohli 
  • 80-4 at lunch
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  • Stokes! Yes! 
  • Get in Stokes 
  • Though that was going over in real time. 
  • Cheers oohaah 

    that was some hitting. 

    Bit that made me laugh was after the 3rd six they showed the stat The innings consisted of:

    15 dots
    6 singles 
    0 two’s 
    0 threes 
    6 fours 
    9 sixes 

    too hot to run obviously 

  • Wake up to find that after England went for a 2 seamer attack, our seamers have taken 4 of the 5 wickets 
  • Lacklustre appeal....
  • edited March 2021
    Wake up to find that after England went for a 2 seamer attack, our seamers have taken 4 of the 5 wickets 
    Kohli's stare at the wicket following his dismissal says as much as anything. Bizarre decision to do so especially as we don't have the world class spinners to compensate for the lack of pace in the side. Effectively we are playing with a three man bowling attack,

    The most positive thing of all is that we have our all rounder back - he's been shielding as a bowler in the last few years more than I have during Covid!
  • edited March 2021
    139/5 India standard annoying partnership from Ashwin and Pant 

    india 1.3 on betfair 

    runs so precious 

    Any lead over 30 and I think we’re done any lead of over 30 for us and I’ll fancy us ... 
    although hopefully India won’t be getting the 300+ I thought they would 
  • Well bowled Leachy. Mystery that Ashwin didn't review it. He's their equivalent of Bairstow!
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  • England definitely  hampered by neither Curran nor Woakes being available, or Moeen as  an off spinner you can rely on!
  • England definitely  hampered by neither Curran nor Woakes being available, or Moeen as  an off spinner you can rely on!
    They still had Stones or Wood but I get the point regarding the bad timing of sending all of them home. But then the IPL is as much the driver on that for at least one of them.
  • Can't help thinking that Pant will be releasing the handbrake soon enough
  • Wake up to find that after England went for a 2 seamer attack, our seamers have taken 4 of the 5 wickets 
    Almost the opposite to the last test, where we picked one specialist spinner and spinners got nearly all our wickets! 
  • England definitely  hampered by neither Curran nor Woakes being available, or Moeen as  an off spinner you can rely on!
    They still had Stones or Wood but I get the point regarding the bad timing of sending all of them home. But then the IPL is as much the driver on that for at least one of them.
    Curran or Woakes could have provided a number 7 batting option though, whereas Stones and Wood are more tailenders 
  • I don't get why that wasn't out? apart from the fact the on field umpire said it wasn't? 

  • This over rate is appalling. 
    Theirs was bad enough - ours in that session was 11.4. That's more than 5 minutes average to bowl an over and it's not as if the spinners haven't been on!!!
  • I don't get why that wasn't out? apart from the fact the on field umpire said it wasn't? 

    The "benefit" of "Umpire's Call"
  • I don't get why that wasn't out? apart from the fact the on field umpire said it wasn't? 

    The "benefit" of "Umpire's Call"
    I thought if it's 'in line' and hitting the stumps then it's out whether the umpire called it or not? 

  • edited March 2021
    I don't get why that wasn't out? apart from the fact the on field umpire said it wasn't? 

    The "benefit" of "Umpire's Call"
    I thought if it's 'in line' and hitting the stumps then it's out whether the umpire called it or not? 

    Depends how close to missing it was, there's a bit of margin of error, so if only just clipping, there's not enough to overturn the umpire's call, if it's hitting a 3rd of the way down the stump etc, then there is.
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