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Post by liquidskin on Aug 10, 2021 16:50:49 GMT
Got lucky England. The numpties have finally called up Moeen, Jeez, it's so obvious, especially with Stokes missing. What to do about the Vicar though? Prince Hameed?
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Post by coverpoint on Aug 10, 2021 20:12:54 GMT
Burns, Hameed, Crawley, Root (c), Pope, Buttler, Moeen, Curran, Robinson, Broad, Anderson
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Post by liquidskin on Aug 10, 2021 20:55:10 GMT
Wood for Curran. Curran needs to be stronger in either one of his disciplines. He's pretty average at both in Test cricket. Quality one-dayer.
Look at that top 3, really poor, even without the Vicar. I remember when we had Tres, Strauss and Vaughan. Then Cook, Strauss and Trott. Even the much ridiculed 90s team had Atherton, Stewart and Hussain. They were a good side really, but SA and Australia in particular were fantastic. I see the Convicts have just lost a series 4-1 or something to Bangladesh. It's not funny though.
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Post by coverpoint on Aug 11, 2021 5:47:25 GMT
Wood for Curran. Curran needs to be stronger in either one of his disciplines. He's pretty average at both in Test cricket. Quality one-dayer. Look at that top 3, really poor, even without the Vicar. I remember when we had Tres, Strauss and Vaughan. Then Cook, Strauss and Trott. Even the much ridiculed 90s team had Atherton, Stewart and Hussain. They were a good side really, but SA and Australia in particular were fantastic. I see the Convicts have just lost a series 4-1 or something to Bangladesh. It's not funny though. I agree about the top three but who available is better? I would welcome any suggestions. The problem with Wood is that he could break down at any time. In a five day test match you cannot take the risk. |
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Post by liquidskin on Aug 11, 2021 19:54:28 GMT
Why's he there then? He can definitely play now Mo's rocked up. Anderson's the one I wouldn't risk now. Big changes from this kid.
Burns
Hameed
Crawley
Root
Pope
Buttler
Ali
Overton
Robinson
Wood
Saqib
They don't like it up 'em.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2021 16:38:03 GMT
This is turning into a classic test match, if Wood & Anderson can assist in getting us to a 50+ lead it's looking good.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2021 11:27:01 GMT
We have been awful at bowling to tailenders in the last few years but the bowling Shami & Bumra is a new low, can't see England winning this now.
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Post by joe on Aug 16, 2021 11:56:39 GMT
We have been awful at bowling to tailenders in the last few years but the bowling Shami & Bumra is a new low, can't see England winning this now. No, a win is getting further and further away with every run. A very frustrating morning. I think Root got the tactics wrong against Shami and Bumrah, should have stuck to line and length but tried to bounce them out. |
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Post by coverpoint on Aug 16, 2021 17:50:24 GMT
This is the consequence of playing joke cricket competitions! Wake up ECB before its too late your morons!
Time to drop Burns, Sibley and Curran.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2021 18:15:28 GMT
Oh dear. Our bowling this morning was poor but actually it didn't make that much difference, we would have just lost by 100 instead of 150 had we bowled better. What a woeful batting display.
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Post by flashblade on Aug 16, 2021 19:00:03 GMT
This is the consequence of playing joke cricket competitions! Wake up ECB before its too late your morons! Time to drop Burns, Sibley and Curran. Yes, but don't blame The Hundred, which has only demoted the 50 over competition. If you scrap The Hundred, you don't find more time for county cricket. The problem is more fundamental. Question: what would your favoured domestic cricket calendar look like? |
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Post by coverpoint on Aug 16, 2021 21:10:26 GMT
This is the consequence of playing joke cricket competitions! Wake up ECB before its too late your morons! Time to drop Burns, Sibley and Curran. Yes, but don't blame The Hundred, which has only demoted the 50 over competition. If you scrap The Hundred, you don't find more time for county cricket. The problem is more fundamental. Question: what would your favoured domestic cricket calendar look like? We don't need the hundred as it is a inferior quality version of the T20. County championship, 50 overs and 20 overs in that order of priority. Test cricket is the pinnacle of cricket, followed by the fifty overs and then the 20 overs. No other country plays the country. Consign the hundred to where it belongs the dustbin. |
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Post by flashblade on Aug 17, 2021 8:26:30 GMT
Yes, but don't blame The Hundred, which has only demoted the 50 over competition. If you scrap The Hundred, you don't find more time for county cricket. The problem is more fundamental. Question: what would your favoured domestic cricket calendar look like? We don't need the hundred as it is a inferior quality version of the T20. County championship, 50 overs and 20 overs in that order of priority. Test cricket is the pinnacle of cricket, followed by the fifty overs and then the 20 overs. No other country plays the country. Consign the hundred to where it belongs the dustbin. You've sidestepped the question. I've just about twigged that you don't like The Hundred, but if you take it out of the calendar, all you've done is reinstate the 50 over comp to its original status. How would you expand the CC? How would the T20 and 50 over comps be reduced, and what effect would this have on cricket's finances? |
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Post by coverpoint on Aug 17, 2021 11:31:21 GMT
We don't need the hundred as it is a inferior quality version of the T20. County championship, 50 overs and 20 overs in that order of priority. Test cricket is the pinnacle of cricket, followed by the fifty overs and then the 20 overs. No other country plays the country. Consign the hundred to where it belongs the dustbin. You've sidestepped the question. I've just about twigged that you don't like The Hundred, but if you take it out of the calendar, all you've done is reinstate the 50 over comp to its original status. How would you expand the CC? How would the T20 and 50 over comps be reduced, and what effect would this have on cricket's finances? Return to two divisions with 14 games. No need to expand the county championship. Play the whole of the T20 and 50 over competitions in a block.
Support for the hundred will die once the free ticket go and the money from Sky dries up when there is empty grounds in years 2-5.
T20 is a big money spinner for counties (more so than the hundred).
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Post by flashblade on Aug 17, 2021 13:38:05 GMT
You've sidestepped the question. I've just about twigged that you don't like The Hundred, but if you take it out of the calendar, all you've done is reinstate the 50 over comp to its original status. How would you expand the CC? How would the T20 and 50 over comps be reduced, and what effect would this have on cricket's finances? Return to two divisions with 14 games. No need to expand the county championship. Play the whole of the T20 and 50 over competitions in a block.
Support for the hundred will die once the free ticket go and the money from Sky dries up when there is empty grounds in years 2-5.
T20 is a big money spinner for counties (more so than the hundred).
I agree that we should go back to two divisions, on the assumption that the best players will end up in division 1. Then the standard of competition in Div 1 will be higher and more likely to produce decent test cricketers. That, after all, is the main (only?) justification for the CC's existence nowadays. There are already 14 CC matches in the calendar, but they are nearly all in April, May and September. Red ball cricket is no longer a summer sport! This is because the counties want to fill the summer months with white ball cricket, because that's the best time to attract white ball audiences. The question is - assuming The Hundred proves to be a failure, how (if at all) would you want to alter the existing calendar? |
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