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England Cricket 2024

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  • England Lions 304-8 and still 37 runs behind. Ollie Robinson 84* (102)
  • 421-7 off 110 overs at close for a lead of 175

    Wood          13-0-43-0
    Hartley        25-0-131-2
    Leach          25-6-54-1
    Rehan         23-3-105-1
    Root           24-2-77-2





    Leach & Root our best 2 spinners. Combined they leaked the same number of runs as Hartley but in half the overs. 
  • Leach had a knee problem which restricted how much he could bowl, which didn't help matters...
    A shame as he bowled well for the most part.
  • Talking about our young spinners, they have the Windies in a spot of trouble at 98-5 with Farhan Ahmed, 15 year old younger brother of Rehan and 17 year old Taz Ali taking a couple of wickets each. 
  • West Indies 156-7 against our U19s and still requiring 37 to win
  • edited January 26
    West Indies win by 2 wickets with 9 overs to spare. England stay top of the Group stage, however, by virtue of a superior NRR.
  • edited January 27
    Sounds as if Leach will not be bowling at all today which is a big blow. Hoping we can wrap up this India innings before lunch without him.

    Mark Wood and Joe Root to start day 3.
  • So Leach is bowling after all - let’s see how he goes
  • edited January 27
    Root has Jadeja lbw but he reviews it, gonna be close
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  • Decision stands by the skin of its teeth, bat / pad was undetermined on which came first and then umpires call twice on both line and stumps.
  • edited January 27
    Root has two in two and is on a hat trick! Bumrah bowled through the gate.

    Jadeja 87 lbw b Root
    Bumrah 0 b Root

    436-9
  • Rehan Ahmed gets the last wicket, bowling Axar for 44 on one that kept low.

    Way the pitch has behaved the last 20 minutes is somewhat concerning… 


    436 all out and a lead of 190 for India.
  • edited January 27
    20-0 after 6 overs, trail by 170

    Crawley 16 (21)
    Duckett 4 (15)
  • edited January 27
    45-1

    Crawley (31) 33 c Sharma b Ashwin

    A very entertaining innings. Beaten in the air on that one, takes the edge and caught at slip
  • edited January 27
    Excellent session for England that. Almost six runs an over, taking the game to Ashwin and co.

    89-1, trail by 101.

    Duckett 38 (42)
    Pope 16 (15)
  • Bumrah is doing exactly what Wood couldn't as he gets his 4th wicket of the game - trapping Root LBW for 2

    117-3 and 73 behind
  • Duckett out for 47 (52)
    swiftly followed by Root 2 (6)

    117-3 both wickets to Bumrah

    cnuts waited till I got up
  • Meanwhile The Lions lost to India A by an innings and 16 runs
  • Bairstow leaves one that turns back in to him and bowled by Jadeja 
    10 (24)

    140-4 
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  • Bairstow opts to leave a ball from Jadeja with fatal consequences

    140-4 
  • 50* (54) for Pope
  • Excellent 50 for Pope off 54 balls. 
    Needs to kick on now.
  • Pope reads Charlton Life! 
  • Ashwin bowls Stokes with a beauty for 6 (33)


  • 172-4 at tea and we trail by 18 runs

    Pope 67* (94)
    Foakes 2* (12)
  • 172-4 at tea and we trail by 18 runs

    Pope 67* (94)
    Foakes 2* (12)
    Would that it were 4!
  • edited January 27
    Leuth said:
    Pope reads Charlton Life! 
    I've been one of his biggest fans on here since the first time he came into the team - despite the fact that he plays for Surrey - and it's no secret that I advocated years ago that he needed to move up the order when we were batting him at 6/7. I've also suggested that his injuries have caused him to have a bit of a stop/start career.

    When I checked his scores in the last 18 months I found that he's batted 21 times  in that period - against SA (5-H), Pakistan (5-A), NZ (4-A), Ireland (1-H), Australia (4-H) and India (2-A) scored 901 runs at an average of 47.11. If we were to take that 205 against Ireland out then this drops to 38.33. That really is very good especially given the fact that more than half of those innings have been away from home.

    If we look at his runs batting down the order and at 3 we find this:

    Below 3 - 35.06
    At 3 - 46.36

    If we then take out that 205 against Ireland this becomes:

    Below 3 - 32.32
    At 3 - 39.75

    The times when he has looked fallible is when he's gone in with an exaggerated Bazball mindset rather than playing every ball on its merits but still looking to be positive and not reckless. As he was in the first innings in this match - but would anyone care to guess when the last time was that he batted anywhere? It was on 28th June last year when he had to bat with that shoulder injury. Perhaps he is someone who really would have benefitted with a warm up match here!!!

    In the absence of anyone better and the fact that Root refuses to bat at 3, I'm really not sure that we could ask for more, could we? 
     
  • We have a lead!!!
  • Very good post.
    Can't really argue with anything you say to be fair. 
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