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England Cricket 2021 (excluding Ashes)

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    4 hours 10 mins.
    Only 50 minutes over time. Rohit had the medical team on at least three times and there was Billings' injury too but it's still ridiculous. Fines do nothing and it's only doing something like adding a run per minute over that will mean things changing. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    edited March 2021
    89-0 off 10

    Roy and Bairstow showing the sort of batting that makes you wonder why they aren't the opening pair in T20..........
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    edited March 2021
    This was a very interesting discussion, for those that haven't seen it, explaining why there are so few players in the world that can successfully switch, as openers, between red and white ball

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS-DzQuk7K8
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Kohli seen directing his players to field in the stands
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,912
    Anyone gonna try and tell me these 2 shouldn't be opening in T20s. 
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,365
    Anyone gonna try and tell me these 2 shouldn't be opening in T20s. 
    I get the Buttler argument to some extent, but when you have such explosive players around him I think you can afford to let him do what he does best.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Anyone gonna try and tell me these 2 shouldn't be opening in T20s. 
    We've both been singing from the same hymn book in this respect for a while. The opening position is the only one where you can't move Buttler once that decision has been made. You can, however, notionally have him batting at 5 but, depending on the situation, send him in at anything between 3 and 6. That is the difference.

  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    135-1  14.2

    Roy 46 off 35
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,314
    Stokes looks completely lost as a batsman atm
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    137-2

    Stokes 1
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Leuth said:
    Stokes looks completely lost as a batsman atm
    I think he's a batsman who plays best when it's a case of "see ball, hit ball". Whilst there is no doubt that he is one of our most technically sound batsman, I believe that he overthinks the situation when he has a relatively blank canvas to work with.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    edited March 2021
    Bairstow 94 off 66
    169-3   22.1
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,670
    Bairstow 94 off 66
    169-3   2.1
    That's some going off 2.1 overs 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    175-4  24.1

    Morgan 22 off 30
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    176-5  24.4

    Buttler 2 off 4
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    135-0
    41-5
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,978
    Here comes the collapse...
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Billings and Moeen are in having faced two balls between them in this game. Not many more than they have in the last six months.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    England doing their best to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory here
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Here comes the collapse...
    I think 135-0 to 176-5 is quite a collapse in itself
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  • Nice little umpires call there.
    Identical to the one that was turned down for England.
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,365
    Losing from there would be shocking. Roy and Bairstow have put it on a plate for you.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    217-6 

    Billings 18 off 22 (sorry I don't rate him)
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    Both Billings and Stokes dismissals were both unnecessary and similar - both tried to drive on the up, sliced across the ball and hit it straight to short cover's midriff 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    237-7

    Moeen 30 off 37
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,912
    Have the Curran's batted together for England before?
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    239-8

    S Curran 12 off 20
  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    FFS, I’m so done with this series. It’s like being stuck in Groundhog Day. 
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,978
    What a shit show
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,912
    Have the Curran's batted together for England before?
    didn't last long.