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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jan 28, 2022 17:41:37 GMT
Scorchers hump the 6ers in the BBL Final.
Heather Knight shows more fight than the entire men's team combined mustered in the Ashes series.
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Post by Aj_June on Jan 30, 2022 7:15:33 GMT
Just saw the ending of women's Ashes.What an incredible match. Great performance by both sides. Ended in a thrilling draw.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jan 30, 2022 7:27:41 GMT
Bit of a butcher by England. Really needed to take it deep retaining wickets, but threw too many away stupidly. In the end, Kate did well to bat out the draw. They needed 44 off 60 balls with 7 wickets in hand and lost 6 wickets in 47 balls.
Makes it hard for England. They need to win all 3 ODIS or two wins and a No Result or Tie. Had they won, they would have been in the boxes at with the amount of rain we're getting.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 3, 2022 1:06:42 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Feb 3, 2022 17:49:34 GMT
That's Sir Andrew Strauss to you... commoner! Ashley was just keeping the seat warm for Andrew while he dealt with Ruth's death by the look of it. Giles clearly erred in giving Silverwood control of everything even when it clearly wasn't working and coming out after every loss and saying "We're just building to the Ashes." They sure were. To be fair, you can only polish a turd so much, and England don't have a lot of good red ball batters in particular and cricketers in general. I keep saying they need selectors who actually watch county games rather than look at figures on spreadsheets.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 3, 2022 22:12:51 GMT
That's Sir Andrew Strauss to you... commoner! Ashley was just keeping the seat warm for Andrew while he dealt with Ruth's death by the look of it. Giles clearly erred in giving Silverwood control of everything even when it clearly wasn't working and coming out after every loss and saying "We're just building to the Ashes." They sure were. To be fair, you can only polish a turd so much, and England don't have a lot of good red ball batters in particular and cricketers in general. I keep saying they need selectors who actually watch county games rather than look at figures on spreadsheets. As expected, Silverwood is out too: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/59754595Just rejoice at that news!
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 5, 2022 1:29:58 GMT
Langer for England?
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Feb 5, 2022 3:46:30 GMT
JL officially leaving has looked a formality for a few months now, really since before the World T20.
Mixed feelings on it. Team finished much higher than they could have at the 2019 WC, won the World T20 and would have been in the WTC Final had they not been fined points for slow over rates. And, most importantly, many players in the Australian set are better now than they were when he took over (though all openers have gone backwards). On the other hand: he's a dick and always has been with the type of personality that will implode quickly when it happens.
Meh. Whoever takes over will inherit an excellent bowling attack and some World Class top, middle and lower order batting. Can't see us winning in the SC though.
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 5, 2022 4:24:23 GMT
It will be really interesting to see who takes over both England and Australia.
I think Australia should seriously look toward Jason Gillespie. I’m not sold on Bayliss nor McDonald. Gillespie is level headed, and has the personality needed for Australian coach - he’s happy to be in the background. Everyone knows that the Captain is #1 - not the coach.
England - Langer is a bad idea. He’s the sort of coach that works well when the talent is there, but needs focus. England need a ‘squeeze every ounce of talent out’ type coach. More nurturing, cajoling. I think Stewart is the man they need. Done wonders at Surrey. Maybe he can unlock Ollie Pope away from the Oval…
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 5, 2022 6:16:20 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 5, 2022 6:19:47 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Feb 6, 2022 19:06:45 GMT
Good old predictable Chappelli comes out swinging saying that who coaches is unimportant as the captain runs the show and Lehmann was a significant part of the problem. He then added that CA didn't start doing a bad job 6 months ago, they've been doing it for 60 years. CA's biggest problem is that no one on the board "knows anything about playing cricket." Always the same opinions from Ian and I love it!
I don't really disagree with him on any of that. I think a bad coach can drag a team down, while a less skilful team needs a skills based coach and an inexperienced team needs a mentor type. It's not complicated. And cricket boards never know anything about cricket.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Feb 8, 2022 17:36:48 GMT
Dizzy supposedly ruling himself out, but I wouldn't be reading too much into his comments. He's basically saying, a few days before the Sheffield Shield return, that he's focussed on South Australian cricket. Of course he is, and he shouldn't be publicly talking about walking out with a year to go on his contract at this point in time either. I'd be very surprised if he wasn't approached by CA.
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 9, 2022 4:03:06 GMT
The fact they picked Parkinson, Foakes and Saqib is a 100% positive. England should be winning even without Broad and Anderson in the Windies.
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 9, 2022 4:10:36 GMT
Pat Cummins has issued a statement that sounds and looks far to political (ie bland) than it should.
Honestly - I wish someone at CA would simply come out and and tell the truth as to why they don’t want Langer coaching anymore.
Anyone around cricket in Australia knows - Langer is tactically inept, and gets the shits when his word is challenged. He literally didn’t get sacked 6 months ago only because a) the Ashes were on, and b) the proviso that during the T20 WC he had no say in team selection or tactics and was basically there as a motivator and head cheerleader. As soon as Tim Paine was axed, Langer was a dead man walking.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Feb 9, 2022 10:03:06 GMT
Add to that Australia were expected to suck at the WT20, justifying the decision CA had already made about Langer. Worse luck they go and win it which makes Langer look good and CA look like complete tits. But who am I kidding? Look like? They are complete tits! Every single one of them! Should have sacked him six months ago.
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 9, 2022 10:44:33 GMT
Furthermore, it’s telling that the so called “Langer PR Machine” not once backed his actual win/loss record, player development or anything technical not tactical at all. The entirety of it was basically he was a tough, gritty, hard working family man of utmost professionalism and integrity. Basically a “good bloke”. Under Langer, Australia finished a quite distant 4th in the ‘19 WC, lost twice at home to India, didn’t win a Test series away, and at times looked utterly hapless as a T20 side. Yeah, he won the Ashes 4-0, and recency bias suggests a corner turned. But let’s be honest, it was easily the weakest England side to tour in living memory…..
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Post by weststigersbob on Feb 9, 2022 16:40:49 GMT
The fact they picked Parkinson, Foakes and Saqib is a 100% positive. England should be winning even without Broad and Anderson in the Windies. I don't know much about Parkinson, but the other two look promising. I watched three of the recent T20s, WI look decent-ish, if nothing special, so I think the series will be close. Parkinson is the leg spinner from Lancashire. Played a few ODI and T20’s for England before. 100 odd county wickets at 23 is a decent record. The best thing about him though is that he actually gives the ball a decent rip. The worst - he has a naturally ‘flat’ trajectory. But from what I’ve seen of him, like all leg spinners, is if they give the ball some air they go good. And he goes good giving it a rip and tossing it up. The Windies are not much chop at all in Test cricket. Or ODI cricket having been towelled twice by India now. T20 is their definite string suit, and England without any test players only lost 3-2 against a full strength side.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Feb 13, 2022 0:53:05 GMT
Windies might not be good at test cricket but they beat England there last time they toured and in 2009 as well. England had a much better team on both those tours while the Windies, on 2009 particularly, had one of the worse teams they've ever put out. England have a weak batting line up and nothing can be taken for granted, including winning away against the Windies.
Pucovski suffered another concussion yesterday. Surely, it's time for a tap on the shoulder? Get into admin, get into umpiring, get into commentary, but playing cricket ain't for you, Will. Sad to see a career over at 24, but a concussion case in their late 30s is far sadder.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 16, 2022 15:33:51 GMT
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