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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 15, 2022 9:32:44 GMT
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Post by WullieFort on Apr 15, 2022 10:19:07 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 15, 2022 11:47:21 GMT
I wouldn't say the timing is right. Long overdue more like. I guess Stokes will be next skipper. Broad would have been a chance 2 years ago but not now. Buttler and Vince should be on the scrapheap so far as test selection. Alex Lees would be an intriguing affirmative pick which is why there's no way in the world they'd do it. English conservatism would be too worried he'd be an Ian Craig rather than a Graeme Smith. Rory Burns, before they'd turned him into a basket case trying to "improve" his technique looked a possible successor, but for now isn't in their first XI. Again if he steps down two years ago Buttler, Burns and Broad are all possible skippers. Now, it's just Stokes, which will be a disaster for both he and the team.
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Post by weststigersbob on Apr 16, 2022 18:33:04 GMT
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Post by weststigersbob on Apr 16, 2022 18:38:46 GMT
IPL is a little bit all over the shop at the moment. Except Mumbai Indians can’t do anything but lose ATM.
One thing that they have done though is unearth a potential superstar in Dewald Brevis. He was pretty good for RSA in the U/19 WC , but he’s played 2 pretty handy cameos so far. Needs to do it for longer, and to ‘construct’ his innings a bit more (even at T20 level), but jeez, the sky is the limit.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 19, 2022 5:10:40 GMT
Ryan Campbell in intensive care in London after suffering a heart attack over Easter. Getting conflicting reports: some saying he's unresponsive in a coma and others that he is conscious and has been able to breath unassisted on occasion.
Either way bad news. He was at the park with his kids, felt tired and had to lie down. A passer-by who knew first aid stopped to help him while they waited 15 minutes for an ambulance.
Campbell, for those who don't remember, was a WA keeper who opened the batting for Australia a couple of times and 3 T20Is as well. One of the early innovators of the ramp and switch hits.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 20, 2022 6:06:32 GMT
Good news on Campbell. He's awake and so far responding well. Had a pacemaker put in. Hope he continues to improve.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 27, 2022 12:25:18 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 27, 2022 21:21:25 GMT
Flower and Fletcher were both good coaches who had a positive impact on the team. The issue with both is that they stayed in the job too long. It may be counter intuitive to leave at the height of your success, but that's the path of sustained success. You leave your successor a winning team in good nick for him to tweak as he sees fit rather than crumbled ruins.
Bayliss I don't know. Clearly a good white ball coach, a good series win in South Africa. Didn't have much to work with, but I'd argue Fletcher didn't either.
I don't think coaches are that important in cricket but I do think a bad coach can make a team worse. People use John Buchanan as an example of coaches not being that significant, mainly because Shane Warne said so along with others (Ponting disagreed btw) but not many teams have the kind of quality and experience the 2000-2007 Aussies had where they could more or less coach and motivate themselves. Some teams need a Phil Simmons to hammer in the basics. Pakistan could do with a Bob Simpson to teach them how to field. Most teams need a coach. No team needs the wrong coach.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 28, 2022 9:33:26 GMT
Stokes to be named new Captain.
Can’t see it working tbh.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Apr 28, 2022 20:49:07 GMT
Stokes to be named new Captain. Can’t see it working tbh. Me neither. I think there'll be something of a dead cat bounce, but nothing long term.
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 3, 2022 16:12:38 GMT
WG Grace has 10 matches wiped from iconic first-class record. One hundred and fourteen years after the legendary Victorian era cricketer's last match - and more than a century after his death - he has had 685 runs, 67 wickets and two centuries wiped from the records books. In a ruthless move the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack has decided that 10 of Grace's matches were not at first-class level and as a result updated its records. Grace, regarded as one of biggest 'celebrities' of Victorian England, can rest easily, however. He still has the small matter of 54,211 first-class runs, 2,809 wickets and 124 centuries to his name from a career that spanned 44 seasons between 1865 and 1908. Grace's run haul is only bettered by four men, all pre-war cricketers, while he opened the batting for England beyond his 50th birthday. But the move, which brings Wisden in line with the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians, does mean Grace's historic feat of becoming the first player to score 100 first-class hundreds actually happened two weeks later than first thought - bad news for any owners of memorabilia which carries the original date. Wisden editor Lawrence Booth told the Times: "The time has come to accept that the Almanack should be more concerned with record than romance." The situation is eerily similar to one iconic moment on Test Match Special when BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew tricked pundit and former England opener Geoffrey Boycott into thinking there was a discrepancy with his first-class record... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/61308258
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Post by hoskotafe3 on May 31, 2022 8:50:58 GMT
Australian schedule announced. Two tests against the Windies at Perth and Adelaide and then 3 against the Saffers who have agreed to play boxing day and new year for the first time in 14 years.
Two 3 games ODI series against Zimbabwe and New Zealand, then a two game T20I series vs West Indies followed by a 3 game T20I series against England. Then the World T20 followed by a 3 game ODI series against England.
The tests I've already mentioned will be followed by 3 ODIs against the Saffers. Then the women play 2 T20Is and 3 ODIs against Pakistan.
I think that cam be described as a shit ton of cricket coming up.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 2, 2022 21:29:55 GMT
Well, that was quite a first day of cricket at Lord's. 17 wickets falling. Potts on debut and bowling slightly faster than military medium, taking 4 wickets as did the not quite on debut and much slower than military medium James Anderson.
NZ bundled out for 132 so advantage England right? 59 run opening stand, best in ages, 1-75 just after tea...soli stuff from England. On the way to an enormous lead and...yep they funked it up. 7-116 at stumps. By no means certain of a first innings lead and NZ in the driver's seat unless they bat as poorly as they did in the first innings.
I'll have more to say once Kayo actually uploads some highlights.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 3, 2022 1:05:09 GMT
Crawley- keeps going hard at balls outside off and eventually nicks them Lees- gets a long way across but I really hope they don't turn him into a basket case trying to "fix" him. Pope- got a good nut early Root- looked in complete control and then hit one to gully-such is life Stokes- horrible shot a a full wide one. Bairstow- never looked like getting going Potts- got a slow one at awkward height and had no idea what to do with it- still a ghastly dismissal mind you
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 3, 2022 20:19:40 GMT
NZ absolutely miles ahead now. In effect 4-227 with Mitchell and Blundell both not out in the 90s after putting on 180 together. Let's face it, anything over 200 is pretty safe against the current England line up, and they're looking at 300+.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 3, 2022 21:56:06 GMT
Stokes out!
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 4, 2022 20:07:17 GMT
NZ absolutely miles ahead now. In effect 4-227 with Mitchell and Blundell both not out in the 90s after putting on 180 together. Let's face it, anything over 200 is pretty safe against the current England line up, and they're looking at 300+. Exactly it was my thought yesterday. NZ were miles ahead however now it seems the match is well poised. Definitely going to tune in when the game starts tomorrow.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 4, 2022 20:39:06 GMT
NZ absolutely miles ahead now. In effect 4-227 with Mitchell and Blundell both not out in the 90s after putting on 180 together. Let's face it, anything over 200 is pretty safe against the current England line up, and they're looking at 300+. Exactly it was my thought yesterday. NZ were miles ahead however now it seems the match is well poised. Definitely going to tune in when the game starts tomorrow. Indeed. 61 needed by England with 5 wickets in hand and Root still in. Stokes 54 really dragged England back into the game from 4-69 chasing 277.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 4, 2022 21:15:34 GMT
Stokes was so lucky. Out to a no ball on 1.
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