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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,319
    edited 12:57AM
    Australia lead down to 85 as we’ve made it to the first bowling change.

    Boland on now
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,319
    286 all out. Archer edges to slip off Boland’s second ball.

    Australia lead by 85.

    30 mins until the lunch break. Would be lovely to get a wicket or two.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,089
    Carter said:
    Honestly test match cricket has a way of ruining me. Never really watched it until 2019 ashes with Stokes at headingly. 

    Stayed up until 3am weds morning - left for work at 6am 

    Woke up at 3am this morning again left work at 6am.

    Felt flat, angry, hopeless. Promised myself this morning to forget about the cricket and get a decent sleep tonight. 

    Now im wide awake playing out scenarios where stokes, Archer, Tongue all get centuries and now starting to believe. 

    Win this match, we win the series, nailed on. 

    The momentum of a test match cricket game is mentally draining, when its spread across 5 days

    I do kinda like it tho


    Test cricket is the first 5 series of Game of Thrones, the sopranos, breaking bad. Long form spells interspersed with red hot spells of intense drama. T20 is watching a reel on twitter, its 20 seconds of crowd work by a comedian. A bag of haribo. 

    To understand test cricket is to love it and consign yourself to rained off run chases, batting collapses the like of which England have always been market-leaders in. To feel the raw fear english batsmen felt as Courtney Walsh or Curtly Ambrose had a ball tossed at them by Brian Lara and given a wide grin and a wink to go and cause come stumps to rocket out of the ground. Failing that to break a few ribs. Its Allan Donald and a tough northern posh boy from Manchester facing each other down. Its Shane Warne doing things physics should not allow a cricket ball to do, poor Mike Gatting. 

    Its also Ben Stokes carrying a cricket bat that need two mere mortals to lift, out to the middle of Headingly as we dribbled to another tragic collapse and failure. A beer snake holding more attention than the bed shitting taking place in the square. Then Stokes becoming an immortal as Jack Leach cleans his specs at the other end not knowing what the fuck is happening around him. Its Monty Panesar the guy who dangled the ball on string but stubbornly refused to take fielding or batting seriously, displaying such a dedication to being a shit fielder and batsman the first test in Cardiff was all over. Then the Lutonian blocked and held off a tiring but still rabid Australian attack to seal a draw on the day Oasis played their last ever UK show before Liam finally going too arsehole for his brother to handle. 

    You tasted the crack of a truly unfathomable run chase by a one man wrecking ball of a cricketer. Test match cricket crack and now you are tainted for eternity 
    In my head, this is being read out by Des Lynam to a beautiful slow motion montage at the end of a series 
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,493
    Carter said:
    Honestly test match cricket has a way of ruining me. Never really watched it until 2019 ashes with Stokes at headingly. 

    Stayed up until 3am weds morning - left for work at 6am 

    Woke up at 3am this morning again left work at 6am.

    Felt flat, angry, hopeless. Promised myself this morning to forget about the cricket and get a decent sleep tonight. 

    Now im wide awake playing out scenarios where stokes, Archer, Tongue all get centuries and now starting to believe. 

    Win this match, we win the series, nailed on. 

    The momentum of a test match cricket game is mentally draining, when its spread across 5 days

    I do kinda like it tho


    Test cricket is the first 5 series of Game of Thrones, the sopranos, breaking bad. Long form spells interspersed with red hot spells of intense drama. T20 is watching a reel on twitter, its 20 seconds of crowd work by a comedian. A bag of haribo. 

    To understand test cricket is to love it and consign yourself to rained off run chases, batting collapses the like of which England have always been market-leaders in. To feel the raw fear english batsmen felt as Courtney Walsh or Curtly Ambrose had a ball tossed at them by Brian Lara and given a wide grin and a wink to go and cause come stumps to rocket out of the ground. Failing that to break a few ribs. Its Allan Donald and a tough northern posh boy from Manchester facing each other down. Its Shane Warne doing things physics should not allow a cricket ball to do, poor Mike Gatting. 

    Its also Ben Stokes carrying a cricket bat that need two mere mortals to lift, out to the middle of Headingly as we dribbled to another tragic collapse and failure. A beer snake holding more attention than the bed shitting taking place in the square. Then Stokes becoming an immortal as Jack Leach cleans his specs at the other end not knowing what the fuck is happening around him. Its Monty Panesar the guy who dangled the ball on string but stubbornly refused to take fielding or batting seriously, displaying such a dedication to being a shit fielder and batsman the first test in Cardiff was all over. Then the Lutonian blocked and held off a tiring but still rabid Australian attack to seal a draw on the day Oasis played their last ever UK show before Liam finally going too arsehole for his brother to handle. 

    You tasted the crack of a truly unfathomable run chase by a one man wrecking ball of a cricketer. Test match cricket crack and now you are tainted for eternity 

  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,319
    Carse gets Weatherald!

    8-1
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,304
    And that's what I mean. 

    Starc, Cummins & Boland bowed some terrific balls that were in the right spot time after time.

    Archer's first over......2 no-balls and a big wide down the leg side. Also speed nowhere near where it should be. 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 13,014
    Fantastic from Carse
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 13,014
    fenaddick said:
    Fantastic from Carse
    Although a bit lucky!
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 34,304
    Carse gets Weatherald!

    8-1
    Wow. If reviewed it would have been not out. Ball pitching outside leg
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 70,430
    fenaddick said:
    Fantastic from Carse
    Even better by Travis Head  :D

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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,319
    Australia 17-1 at lunch.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 13,014
    I make that England’s session, let’s see what I wake up to 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 64,319
    edited 3:11AM
    53-2

    Labuschagne edges Tongue to slip and Brook scoops it just before it hits the turf

    Need a couple more in the next hour