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  • Rudders22
    Rudders22 Posts: 4,035
    I thought we should have kicked on after about 30 overs. We left it too late. I think India are well set to win this.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 20,975
    Last couple of overs from Curran have been great 
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 19,325
    fenaddick said:
    Last couple of overs from Curran have been great 
    No wickets until I started calling him Brainless Curran.....

    Thanks, Fanny ! 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,791
    edited July 19
    If England had reached the World Cup final tonight,  I imagine the English over rate would have been faster today  :D
  • mart77
    mart77 Posts: 5,940
    Great death bowling from Curran
  • Fanny Fanackapan
    Fanny Fanackapan Posts: 19,325
    Fanny Fanackapan said:
    fenaddick said:
    Last couple of overs from Curran have been great 
    No wickets until I started calling him Brainless Curran.....

    Thanks, Fanny ! 
    And a 4th !
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 20,975
    https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7467533/2026/07/24/root-england-test-captain-reappointed-trescothick-interim-coach/?unlocked_article_code=1.0FA.apWV.wgx3H05PWbfL&source=user_shared_article&smid=ta-ios-share
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,877
    edited July 28
    Justin Greaves had a spell in which he took 5-0 against Pakistan today. What's the chances of someone predicting one wicket maiden let alone five consecutive wicket maidens? Because it was five wickets in five overs. 
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 10,460
    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2026/07/29/stephen-fleming-to-be-appointed-englands-new-test-coach/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_tw_post_appointed-englands-new-test-coach/

    Stephen Fleming set to be the new England test coach 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,791
    Daniel Vettori next, then Richard Hadlee, then Dame Kiri te Kanawa 

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  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,437
    edited July 30
    Fleming has plenty of T20/franchise experience, but has no coaching experience experience in the longer format to my knowledge, so seems a strange appointment to me.

    I would rather have gone for Lehman or Langer. 

    But I wish him well 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,877
    Fleming appointed and Root named England Test captain
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 20,975
    edited July 30
    Addick Addict said:
    Fleming appointed and Root named England Test captain
    Crucially Fleming not starting until the SA series, Trescothick doing the Pakistan series
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 36,328
    I think it's a mistake picking Root as captain. He's had his time & is 35. 
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 24,627
    golfaddick said:
    I think it's a mistake picking Root as captain. He's had his time & is 35. 
    His record as captain is as bad as it gets.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,877
    edited July 30
    Gravesend_Addick said:
    Fleming has plenty of T20/franchise experience, but has no coaching experience experience in the longer format to my knowledge, so seems a strange appointment to me.

    I would rather have gone for Lehman or Langer. 

    But I wish him well 
    Fleming is a very good coach. He won the County Championship with Notts and also holds the record for the most number of matches captaining NZ (80) and the most wins (28) too. There's not a lot he won't know about red ball / Test cricket and he will be far more of a pragmatist and tactician than McCullum. 

    The biggest thing of all, though, is that I always get that feeling that McCullum wants to be "one of the boys" and that can be a dangerous trait especially when it comes to selecting and specifically dropping players. Fleming will keep "more of a distance" than McCullum did with the players. 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 18,474
    golfaddick said:
    I think it's a mistake picking Root as captain. He's had his time & is 35. 
    I think hes a stop gap. Theyve probably asked him to do a year see the team through a transition and then bow out (hopefully just from captaincy not from test cricket).
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,791
    cantersaddick said:
    golfaddick said:
    I think it's a mistake picking Root as captain. He's had his time & is 35. 
    I think hes a stop gap. Theyve probably asked him to do a year see the team through a transition and then bow out (hopefully just from captaincy not from test cricket).
    The worry is that his batting will be affected, especially as he wasn't even a good captain anyway. I want Root concentrating on hitting runs next summer in the Ashes, not on how to get Travis Head out.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 24,102
    I'd tend to agree on Root, but the problem is who else is there?

    Brook is too thick to bat to suit a situation let alone captain to one.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 42,877
    North Lower Neil said:
    I'd tend to agree on Root, but the problem is who else is there?

    Brook is too thick to bat to suit a situation let alone captain to one.
    I think that there are other issues with Brook than just the fact he needs to grow up at bit. One is being able to captain the side in all formats and the other will be his desire to rest at times - in addition to Australia and South Africa tours this winter there is one to Bangladesh and I suspect that he will be exempted from that one. 

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  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 20,975
    I’m guessing Brook takes over the red ball job after the WC and someone like Bethell becomes white ball captain 
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 6,233
    fenaddick said:
    I’m guessing Brook takes over the red ball job after the WC and someone like Bethell becomes white ball captain 
    I don’t know why Brook couldn’t just have taken a break from t20s internationals for a year.  I feel sorry for Root and I also think he’s a poor captain 
  • robinofottershaw
    robinofottershaw Posts: 2,060
     Broad and Buttler interviewing Stokes. Have only watched a few minutes so far, but might be of interest.

  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 28,021
    blackpool72 said:
    golfaddick said:
    I think it's a mistake picking Root as captain. He's had his time & is 35. 
    His record as captain is as bad as it gets.
    Won more tests than every other captain...
  • arny23394
    arny23394 Posts: 1,501
    MrOneLung said:
    blackpool72 said:
    golfaddick said:
    I think it's a mistake picking Root as captain. He's had his time & is 35. 
    His record as captain is as bad as it gets.
    Won more tests than every other captain...
    Also lost more than every other captain. 

    1/3 of his games as captain and 1/2 of his wins came against West Indies, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Ireland who are all poor. Unbelievable batsman, not a particularly good captain.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 72,791
    arny23394 said:
    MrOneLung said:
    blackpool72 said:
    golfaddick said:
    I think it's a mistake picking Root as captain. He's had his time & is 35. 
    His record as captain is as bad as it gets.
    Won more tests than every other captain...
    Also lost more than every other captain. 

    1/3 of his games as captain and 1/2 of his wins came against West Indies, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Ireland who are all poor. Unbelievable batsman, not a particularly good captain.
    Yes it wasn't a vintage England team, but he had Broad and Anderson in their prime, which is a massive boost.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 28,021
    arny23394 said:
    MrOneLung said:
    blackpool72 said:
    golfaddick said:
    I think it's a mistake picking Root as captain. He's had his time & is 35. 
    His record as captain is as bad as it gets.
    Won more tests than every other captain...
    Also lost more than every other captain. 

    1/3 of his games as captain and 1/2 of his wins came against West Indies, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Ireland who are all poor. Unbelievable batsman, not a particularly good captain.
    Yeah I know. 

    Was just being mischievous 

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