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England Cricket 2023
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(One) daft thing about that is you've a 50/50 chance of it being wrong straight away given you might bat 4th.Addick Addict said:Crawley has got Robinson's disease - he thinks we'll win at Lord's by 150 runs. Another player that can't afford to have a target on his back!
https://wisden.com/series-stories/ashes-2023/zak-crawley-on-lords-test-i-think-england-will-win-by-i-dont-know-150-runs3 -
And delivering on the promise is one step further againLenGlover said:
I think positive thinking is a large part of the 'Bazball' ethos but thinking and speaking aloud are very different things.Addick Addict said:Crawley has got Robinson's disease - he thinks we'll win at Lord's by 150 runs. Another player that can't afford to have a target on his back!
https://wisden.com/series-stories/ashes-2023/zak-crawley-on-lords-test-i-think-england-will-win-by-i-dont-know-150-runs2 -
Ben Duckett averages 60.08 at a SR of 96.39 since his return to international cricket which is extraordinary for someone who wasn't considered an opener. Here's the even more extraordinary thing - in that time he has left just 8 out of 710 balls faced.
His strength is the dab and the cut and if the opposition bowl too straight he will work the ball off his legs. In the last Test he faced 38 balls and did not leave one. The Aussies opted to bowl consistently 5th/6th stump to him and had 3rd slip and gully strategically placed for his favourite shot and Duckett got out both innings trying to cut the ball. The battle for him will be to be slightly more selective but also to throw the kitchen sink at the ball if he is going to cut and not guide it into the hands of the fielder waiting to catch it.4 -
Dan Moriarty has joined Yorkshire on loan. He played his one and only first team game for Surrey this season two weeks ago. Virdi last played a first team match last August, a Royal London game and his last CC match was in July. And we wonder why we don't produce spinners!!!3
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first ball of of the day for the washes given out but overturned on appeal. Phew.0
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Does t sound from the radio like the ball is doing much, and England should be able to eat away at the Aussies first innings score1
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We a fast approaching one of, there are many, the brilliant things about test cricket. That the team that are a long way ahead's chances of winning are getting smaller while the team that are well behind are favourites.0
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suzisausage said:first ball of of the day for the washes given out but overturned on appeal. Phew.
Bravo for "washes".0 -
Can’t take credit. Listen to the No Balls podcast (and Tailenders) and we have The Washes and The Mashes.Chizz said:suzisausage said:first ball of of the day for the washes given out but overturned on appeal. Phew.
Bravo for "washes".Also liked them calling the women’s IPL the Wipple!1 -
I won't mention the Whundred in case it upsets too many dinosaurssuzisausage said:
Can’t take credit. Listen to the No Balls podcast (and Tailenders) and we have The Washes and The Mashes.Chizz said:suzisausage said:first ball of of the day for the washes given out but overturned on appeal. Phew.
Bravo for "washes".Also liked them calling the women’s IPL the Wipple!1 -
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Kent's Tamsin Beaumont with the 5th highest ever women's Test score of 208.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/66008565
Tomorrow's county championship games will be the first of two to feature the Aussie Kookaburra ball.0 -
The theory is that players will benefit from gaining experience of the machine-stitched Kookaburra rather than seeing it for the first time when selected for an Ashes series in Australian conditions.killerandflash said:https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/66008565
Tomorrow's county championship games will be the first of two to feature the Aussie Kookaburra ball.Not sure many of the players playing these games will be in the Ashes in Australia0 -
Are they going to play all the games in Perth as well?MrOneLung said:
The theory is that players will benefit from gaining experience of the machine-stitched Kookaburra rather than seeing it for the first time when selected for an Ashes series in Australian conditions.killerandflash said:https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/66008565
Tomorrow's county championship games will be the first of two to feature the Aussie Kookaburra ball.Not sure many of the players playing these games will be in the Ashes in Australia0 -
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Of all the kits to wear !10
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At least it wasn’t the 08/09 or 14/15 kits I suppose0
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That material was beyond nasty for a modern kit and on a hot day no thank youMrOneLung said:Of all the kits to wear !3 -
Don't get me started on the 3/4 length trousers.MrOneLung said:Of all the kits to wear !1 -
Sam Curran playing a red ball game for Surrey today. Definitely another option for England if they go with another seamer instead of a specialist spinner.1
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would help balance the batting line up, too.killerandflash said:Sam Curran playing a red ball game for Surrey today. Definitely another option for England if they go with another seamer instead of a specialist spinner.0 -
Saw someone at Edgbaston last Monday in A Charlton kit, too far enough away to say anything though!0
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you're right, last monday is quite far away, he's probably not there anymore.North Lower Neil said:Saw someone at Edgbaston last Monday in A Charlton kit, too far enough away to say anything though!1 -
Just 268 target in the washes. On day 4.Go well ladies.1
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Currently 39/0 so only 229 to chase now1
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Addick Addict said:Dan Moriarty has joined Yorkshire on loan. He played his one and only first team game for Surrey this season two weeks ago. Virdi last played a first team match last August, a Royal London game and his last CC match was in July. And we wonder why we don't produce spinners!!!
It's becoming a "pass the parcel" of spinners no one really wants - following Moriarty's arrival, Dom Bess has now gone on loan from Yorkshire to Warwickshire. If you have a child right now and they have any ambition to be a pro make sure that they aren't a spinner or, if they are, that they are a batsman first!0 -
Umpires call decisions going against England0
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I had a 2 min nap and we lost 4 wickets!killerandflash said:Umpires call decisions going against England
edited as it was 20 mins not 2!1 -
Liam Dawson makes a century today, a nice reminder to the selectors.1
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One for memory lane - the last ball of the 5th and final Test of the 1968 Ashes Series. John Inverarity had batted through the innings, having opened for Australia. With three minutes to go Inverarity tried to pad up to one to Derek Underwood. LBW and that decision made the Series 1-1.
All the fielders in one picture, in a clockwise direction from keeper Alan Knott, Colin Cowdrey, Tom Graveney, Ray Illingworth, John Edrich, Ted Dexter, Derek Underwood, John Snow, David Brown, Colin Milburn and Basil D'Oliveira
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