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Post by Aj_June on Jun 14, 2022 16:52:32 GMT
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 14, 2022 16:53:27 GMT
I am so distort that I was busy in work and missed it. Curse my bad luck. Well done England!
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 14, 2022 17:39:37 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 15, 2022 4:06:17 GMT
Great win for England. Good win for Australia in Sri Lanka chasing a challenging total.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 16, 2022 17:29:33 GMT
Big win to Sti Lanka in Game 2. Old school bowler's game. Aussies rolled for 189. Lankans by 26 runs. They are playing some good cricket. If not for Maxwell's game 1 heroics they'd be 2-0 up.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 16, 2022 17:54:10 GMT
Some really soft dismissals from both sides in the SL v AUS game.
Bangladesh rolled for 100 odd on Day 1 of their Test in WI.
I’ve been reading some pretty stupid commentary around England’s chase and how it’s all down to McCullum and Stokes compared to several stonewall efforts over the last few seasons. No one seemed to mention the fact that the pitch on Day 5 at Trent Bridge was still a road, and the other games were on well worn and far from great batting pitches……
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 16, 2022 18:07:52 GMT
Some really soft dismissals from both sides in the SL v AUS game. Bangladesh rolled for 100 odd on Day 1 of their Test in WI. I’ve been reading some pretty stupid commentary around England’s chase and how it’s all down to McCullum and Stokes compared to several stonewall efforts over the last few seasons. No one seemed to mention the fact that the pitch on Day 5 at Trent Bridge was still a road, and the other games were on well worn and far from great batting pitches…… To be fair, the game they're comparing it to, the one where England were set 270 in 72 overs and made no effort, featured far from difficult batting conditions. They didn't want to risk losing. Simple as that. Having made that point I really did see Day 5 as a free swing for England. 1-0 up having lost the series the year before. They were already guaranteed a better series result and, given they're re building,a last day loss going for a win wasn't going to draw any real criticism.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 17, 2022 13:33:16 GMT
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 17, 2022 13:55:55 GMT
That is the highest List A innings score ever recorded. The best in men’s ODI cricket was England’s 481 against Australia at Trent Bridge. The best in women’s ODIs was New Zealand’s 491 against Ireland in Dublin.
The best in all domestic 50-over cricket was Surrey’s 496 against Gloucestershire in 2007.
Now, there is a new holder. Not quite to the 500, but top of the tree.
What a display of hitting. Livingstone scored 66 from 22. Buttler 162 from 70. England hit 26 sixes today, which means 156 runs by that method alone.
And don’t forget, Netherlands won the toss and asked them to bat.
That’s it for me. Tim de Lisle will be the one to take you through the chase, such as it might be in the circumstances. The rest of you, take a deep breath and lie down.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 19, 2022 23:36:22 GMT
Good win to Sri Lanka. Australia have had some injuries (Cummins and Smith), but still have enough good ODI players that you'd expect them to compensate against a weak Sri Lankan side. But they didn't last night. Nissanka 137 in a 4 wicket win chasing 292.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 20, 2022 4:17:17 GMT
Good win to Sri Lanka. Australia have had some injuries (Cummins and Smith), but still have enough good ODI players that you'd expect them to compensate against a weak Sri Lankan side. But they didn't last night. Nissanka 137 in a 4 wicket win chasing 292. The sort of pitch where you needed 3 or 4 spinners in the side.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 20, 2022 6:30:05 GMT
Good win to Sri Lanka. Australia have had some injuries (Cummins and Smith), but still have enough good ODI players that you'd expect them to compensate against a weak Sri Lankan side. But they didn't last night. Nissanka 137 in a 4 wicket win chasing 292. The sort of pitch where you needed 3 or 4 spinners in the side. They might cone across some of those in the upcoming World Cup so they'd want to find some quick. When's Zampa back?
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 21, 2022 17:47:37 GMT
Sri Lanka take the ODI series winning by 4 runs in a thriller defending 258. Warner made 99. Cummins 35. For the winners Asalanka led the way with 110.
Given that I said they'd do well not to get swept in all 3 formats, the Lankans certainly showed me. Doubt they'll have much joy in the tests though.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 22, 2022 6:34:25 GMT
Just saw the highlights of Game 4 and...far too many Australian middle order bats have no idea how to score freely off spin. Some positively daft dismissals, no doubt brought on by perceived pressure of accumulated dot balls. I don't remember Travis Head ever leaving room for a Sherman Tank between his front pad and his bat quite like he did last night.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 22, 2022 18:29:59 GMT
BBL bringing in a player draft next season. That's fine with me. But they're talking about this "bringing in the best international talent." Not going to happen guys. The problem isn't a draft or money. The problem is the BCCI. Indian players who are eligible for national selection can not play in domestic T20 leagues outside India. So the day where Kohli, Ashwin, Jadeja or whoever will be running around for a BBL franchise is still a long way off.
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 22, 2022 19:18:14 GMT
BBL bringing in a player draft next season. That's fine with me. But they're talking about this "bringing in the best international talent." Not going to happen guys. The problem isn't a draft or money. The problem is the BCCI. Indian players who are eligible for national selection can not play in domestic T20 leagues outside India. So the day where Kohli, Ashwin, Jadeja or whoever will be running around for a BBL franchise is still a long way off. Yeah, pretty hypocritical policy of BCCI. Not that I care about T-20 but BCCI is hell of a greedy and disgusting organisation.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 24, 2022 19:55:49 GMT
Weird game again last night. Sri Lanka do pretty well to scramble to 160 after being 8-85. Australia then laboured to 6-121 in response before Carey and Green got them home.
If that was weird the test was down right unbelievable. Leach hurrying through NZ's tale to bowl them out for 329. England's top order then disintegrates to 6-55 before Bairstow snashes another hundred putting on 209 unbroken with debutant Jamie Overton(89no). Leaving the game in a pretty interesting position with England trailing by 65 with 4 wickets in hand.
Bairstow is the best batter that no one is talking about ATM. 4 hundreds this calendar year.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 25, 2022 6:01:18 GMT
I think the key to Bairstow is simple - just bat. Doesn’t matter the situation, just play the game the way you play the game. Test, ODI or T20 - bat the same.
I’d say Daryl Mitchell is having a purple patch just as good too - 3 Tests, 3 tons.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 25, 2022 9:12:27 GMT
I think the key to Bairstow is simple - just bat. Doesn’t matter the situation, just play the game the way you play the game. Test, ODI or T20 - bat the same. I’d say Daryl Mitchell is having a purple patch just as good too - 3 Tests, 3 tons. If any stat makes you "the first since Bradman" to do almost anything than yes: you're in a purple patch. Mitchell's form is remarkable.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 27, 2022 12:37:06 GMT
Eoin Morgan set to retire from international cricket England's World Cup-winning captain Eoin Morgan is set to retire from international cricket. An official announcement could be made on Tuesday. Under Morgan, England won the 2019 World Cup and reached the top of the one-day and Twenty20 rankings. The 35-year-old, who took charge of the T20 side in 2012 and one-day side in 2014, has struggled for form and fitness in recent times, with Jos Buttler the favourite to replace him. England face India in a three-match T20 series starting on 7 July, while the T20 World Cup in Australia begins in October. Morgan is England's leading run-scorer in one-day and T20 cricket with 6,957 and 2,458 runs respectively. His tally of 225 ODIs and 115 T20s is also an England record. "He's done a remarkable job," England all-rounder Moeen Ali told BBC Test Match Special. "It is a shame. It is strange to comprehend the side without him. Things move on and you have to get used to it, but it is sad. "I'm not surprised at the same time because he is a very selfless person and probably is thinking about the team more than anything. "We've been so strong over the years and he probably feels like his time is done and that he's given enough time for Jos, or whoever the captain is going to be, to embed his way." Morgan took over from Alastair Cook as ODI captain and oversaw England's miserable 2015 World Cup campaign when they were knocked out in the group stages. But he implemented a new, attacking approach which helped England break the record for the highest one-day total three times. They achieved that feat most recently in making 498-4 against the Netherlands last week, but Morgan made ducks in his two innings in the series and missed the third ODI with a groin problem. He has only one half-century in his past 26 white-ball innings for England. "To change the mindset of a whole country and the way they play their cricket is a massive achievement - it is so difficult to do," Moeen said. "To then be a very good captain on top of that, tactically on the field and to look after the players... "There were so many times where people were caught on the boundary and they were like 'I should have just hit a single' and he was like 'no, no, next time you hit it out of the ground'. We'd never come across a captain like that before." www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/61951802Great captain and all round lovely bloke. Would he be allowed to represent Ireland now? Although they may not want him given his poor form.
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