Deserves to be in the same breath as brearley, Hussain and Vaughan in all time best/most impactful leaders of English cricket. Finally turned us into a great one day side.
Special mention for Paul Collingwood, England's first World Cup winning captain.
I didn’t realise Paul Collingwood captained the women in 1973. He really did have a long, interesting career didn’t he…
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the last 2 tests. What a positive mindset they have embraced. Rolling the kiwis over is no mean feat.
yep we made them look ordinary, and they really aren't. Caught myself thinking "the real test will come vs india", but tbh new zealand and india are just about par with each other imo.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the last 2 tests. What a positive mindset they have embraced. Rolling the kiwis over is no mean feat.
yep we made them look ordinary, and they really aren't. Caught myself thinking "the real test will come vs india", but tbh new zealand and india are just about par with each other imo.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the last 2 tests. What a positive mindset they have embraced. Rolling the kiwis over is no mean feat.
yep we made them look ordinary, and they really aren't. Caught myself thinking "the real test will come vs india", but tbh new zealand and india are just about par with each other imo.
If anything, NZ may be a little ahead
In no way - batting, bowling or fielding - are NZ in the same class as India right now. A year or two ago, sure.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the last 2 tests. What a positive mindset they have embraced. Rolling the kiwis over is no mean feat.
yep we made them look ordinary, and they really aren't. Caught myself thinking "the real test will come vs india", but tbh new zealand and india are just about par with each other imo.
If anything, NZ may be a little ahead
In no way - batting, bowling or fielding - are NZ in the same class as India right now. A year or two ago, sure.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the last 2 tests. What a positive mindset they have embraced. Rolling the kiwis over is no mean feat.
yep we made them look ordinary, and they really aren't. Caught myself thinking "the real test will come vs india", but tbh new zealand and india are just about par with each other imo.
If anything, NZ may be a little ahead
In no way - batting, bowling or fielding - are NZ in the same class as India right now. A year or two ago, sure.
In results, India aren't substantially ahead compared to a year ago, when New Zealand beat them in - arguably - the most important Test match of 2021.
In red ball cricket, this year, they've lost both Tests they played in South Africa, thrashed a poor Sri Lanka twice at home and drawn with Leicestershire.
Really looking forward to the India test match. Would love to see Bairstow & co smash them all over the park
its a shame kohli is no longer captain, would have loved to have seen him stood there dumbfounded as YJB tears them apart.
They'll still spend the entire test match with the camera glued onto him. Can't stand the bloke
Same, think he's tried to pull in a kind of football-esque vibe into cricket, loosely intimidating umpires and visibly looking irritated at batsman and decisions. It doesn't help that the BCCI is a truly awful organisation. You just have to look at how root/stokes and williamson conduct themselves to see you can be nice and play hard.
Team announced, Billings plays (I'm assuming Foakes not out of isolation? but hopefully available for Surrey next week?)
Jimmy back in for Joverton (can we have him back for the T20 tomorrow night pls?)
Potentially harsh on Joverton but hard to not bring Jimmy back in. I would have made a case for Broady dropping out given he hasn't been at his best this series (Pace down, accuracy off, lower Expected wickets metric than he has ever returned in a series before etc.) But again hard to drop Broad for a big one Vs India.
Team announced, Billings plays (I'm assuming Foakes not out of isolation? but hopefully available for Surrey next week?)
Jimmy back in for Joverton (can we have him back for the T20 tomorrow night pls?)
Potentially harsh on Joverton but hard to not bring Jimmy back in. I would have made a case for Broady dropping out given he hasn't been at his best this series (Pace down, accuracy off, lower Expected wickets metric than he has ever returned in a series before etc.) But again hard to drop Broad for a big one Vs India.
Whilst Broad certainly hasn't been at his best he was better than Overton with the ball and if we could catch he would've had quite a few more poles
Team announced, Billings plays (I'm assuming Foakes not out of isolation? but hopefully available for Surrey next week?)
Jimmy back in for Joverton (can we have him back for the T20 tomorrow night pls?)
Potentially harsh on Joverton but hard to not bring Jimmy back in. I would have made a case for Broady dropping out given he hasn't been at his best this series (Pace down, accuracy off, lower Expected wickets metric than he has ever returned in a series before etc.) But again hard to drop Broad for a big one Vs India.
Whilst Broad certainly hasn't been at his best he was better than Overton with the ball and if we could catch he would've had quite a few more poles
Any idea why its starting at 10.30 tomorrow & not the very usual 11.
To not clash with the TV coverage of the blast game in the evening is what i've heard
Poor reason imo. The 2019 Ashes match at Headingley coincided with the Mens final at Wimbledon. They didn't change the time of thay did they.
Why not just start the Blast game 30 mins later.
No, they didn’t change the time. In fairness the Headingly test was 6 weeks after the Wimbledon final though. it was the longest final in Wimbledon history but not quite that long
Any idea why its starting at 10.30 tomorrow & not the very usual 11.
To not clash with the TV coverage of the blast game in the evening is what i've heard
Poor reason imo. The 2019 Ashes match at Headingley coincided with the Mens final at Wimbledon. They didn't change the time of thay did they.
Why not just start the Blast game 30 mins later.
I don't know the answer to that one but, perhaps, because the Blast game is meant to finish by 10.00pm and not 10.30pm? I suspect that, even on a weekend day, some parents of young children wouldn't want to be getting home with them at 11.00pm or even 11.30pm. Given that there are so few matches in The Blast which aren't school nights (unlike The Hundred which is played in the hols) the Counties probably aren't keen to limit their future supporters even further - the Test today, let's face it, will be mostly populated by adults.
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In red ball cricket, this year, they've lost both Tests they played in South Africa, thrashed a poor Sri Lanka twice at home and drawn with Leicestershire.
Jimmy back in for Joverton (can we have him back for the T20 tomorrow night pls?)
Potentially harsh on Joverton but hard to not bring Jimmy back in. I would have made a case for Broady dropping out given he hasn't been at his best this series (Pace down, accuracy off, lower Expected wickets metric than he has ever returned in a series before etc.) But again hard to drop Broad for a big one Vs India.
One for the future?
Why not just start the Blast game 30 mins later.