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Post by hhsussex on Jun 12, 2014 9:52:47 GMT
Congratulations to Chirs Jordan on confirmation that he will get his first Test cap in preference to Woakes. I'm sure we all hoped for that but so many strange selection decisions have been made in the last few months that it doesn't do to be too complacent about what might seem locical, common-sense choices.
Anyway, perhaps a test for the new look England batting order if the wicket is grassy, as claimed, and I hope they play the Sri Lankan medium pacers sensibly too.
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Post by maxh on Jun 12, 2014 10:41:53 GMT
Feel a bit for Robson there but he didn't really know what he was doing, you have to hit that kind of delivery, not just play at it. Ugly from Cook, and he knew it.
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Post by ketmandid on Jun 12, 2014 17:07:09 GMT
What a difference a few months make, England were in the position where they would make 150, with the last 5 wickets putting on 10, during the winter and are now closing on 300 (just passed it).
Or maybe it was the bowling?
Well done Matty, I was not sure you were going to be back but you are certainly making good use of your chance.
You never know, England might make 400?
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 12, 2014 17:16:45 GMT
What a difference a few months make, England were in the position where they would make 150, with the last 5 wickets putting on 10, during the winter and are now closing on 300 (just passed it). Or maybe it was the bowling? Well done Matty, I was not sure you were going to be back but you are certainly making good use of your chance. You never know, England might make 400? Agreed, he's played very well with some lovely, vintage strokes and he looks to be smiling and enjoying himself. Joe Root has played very well too at a different tempo. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2014 20:36:21 GMT
What a difference a few months make What a difference facing 75 mph bowling makes! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2014 21:13:49 GMT
What a difference a few months make What a difference facing 75 mph bowling makes! What a missyeguts you are BM. Lets make no judgement on one day, but it was a good day for England. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2014 22:07:20 GMT
What a difference facing 75 mph bowling makes! What a missyeguts you are BM. Lets make no judgement on one day, but it was a good day for England. But "let's make no judgement on one day" is the point I was making. We were awful all winter faced with real pace and lost the Ashes 5-0 and we cannot and should not make any judgement that says we have improved based on the bowling we saw today. I'd like to think Root and Prior would have played Johnson or even Malinga with similar ease...but unfortunately the record over not one day but many months makes that seem rather unlikely. |
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 13, 2014 6:54:38 GMT
What a missyeguts you are BM. Lets make no judgement on one day, but it was a good day for England. But "let's make no judgement on one day" is the point I was making. We were awful all winter faced with real pace and lost the Ashes 5-0 and we cannot and should not make any judgement that says we have improved based on the bowling we saw today. I'd like to think Root and Prior would have played Johnson or even Malinga with similar ease...but unfortunately the record over not one day but many months makes that seem rather unlikely. True enough but you can only play the team in front of you at the time, and 75 mph or 95 mph, bad shot selection and poor technique will out. What can be seen even against lesser opposition are the elements of what we call temperament: patience, improvisation when it is appropriate, and good footwork in all circumstances. You would need to add physical courage and extreme reflexes to face a Johnson, its true, but not every bowler is a Johnson and not every courageous player is technically gifted. Both Root and Prior showed signs of learning from their experiences in their innings yesterday, which was particularly welcome coming from Prior with all his weight of history and previous swagger before the humbling experiences of last year. As for the others, Moeen played one flat-batted shot too many and to the wrong ball, but otherwise looked very fluent and nicely wristy, which should be an asset later this summer against more gifted spinners than Herath, and there wasn't much time to form any opinion of Robson at Test level. Ballance looked quite entertaining but a bit flat-footed and I would want to see him coping with the extremes of pace and spin. |
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Post by ketmandid on Jun 13, 2014 15:03:21 GMT
I am not sure if this is the same for everyone but for some reason I can watch the Sky coverage through cricinfo. Don't get me wrong it makes me happy to watch especially as my Willow subscription is pretty useless (I had to pay $16 a month to watch England lose 5-0 but it was nice to be able to watch test cricket at 6.00 PM on Christmas day).
Is the ESPN coverage available on cricinfo for everyone or just for me in the US?
Back to the game, SL seemed to be giving up in the field and now England need to be ruthless.
I saw that Jordan is 663, I wonder who will be 666?
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 13, 2014 15:13:23 GMT
I am not sure if this is the same for everyone but for some reason I can watch the Sky coverage through cricinfo. Don't get me wrong it makes me happy to watch especially as my Willow subscription is pretty useless (I had to pay $16 a month to watch England lose 5-0 but it was nice to be able to watch test cricket at 6.00 PM on Christmas day). Is the ESPN coverage available on cricinfo for everyone or just for me in the US? Back to the game, SL seemed to be giving up in the field and now England need to be ruthless. I saw that Jordan is 663, I wonder who will be 666? No televisual coverage on cricinfo in uk - just the scoreboard and the laboured comments. There is an alternative to Sky, based on P2P sharing, which is probably of dubious legality so I won't publish the link here but it works fine for me and doesn't add coppers to Rupe's Evil Empire. Ideally 666 ought to be a Damian, don't you think?  |
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Post by jim on Jun 13, 2014 16:22:12 GMT
Great to see Matt and CJ at Lords today. Off to the Oval next!
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Post by hhsussex on Jun 13, 2014 16:31:12 GMT
Great to see Matt and CJ at Lords today. Off to the Oval next! And great for them to combine in Chris' first test wicket. Long may the partnership continue. |
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Post by ketmandid on Jun 13, 2014 17:27:22 GMT
Now we are seeing why England scored 575. Flat pitch.
Silva has had some luck, lots of plays and misses, edges through the slips but you need that (although Root was supreme).
So now we have three more days of batting, let's hope not, some excitement please.
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Post by mrsdoyle on Jun 13, 2014 17:31:09 GMT
I would like to think that Root's innings at 5 will mean he is not asked to open again for a good while
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2014 18:40:42 GMT
Enjoyable day's cricket and good to see Jordan sticking at his task with such commitment on a flat pitch.
But Strauss really is an irritatingly trite commentator. His public school boy demeanour as Sangakkara approached his century was excruciating. "He's never got his name on the board!" "He's got a really good chance to get on the board now!" "Getting on the board will top a wonderful career!" And then as he went to three figures, "He's on the board! He's on the board!" I thought the poor chap was going to wet himself (silly, excitable Strauss, that is, not the admirable, phlegmatic Sangakara).
Apparently what Strauss was getting in such a froth over was the honours board inside the away dressing room in the Lord's pavilion - a board 99.9 per cent of your viewers will never get to see, Andrew.
Sangakkara wrote himself into the record books today - in Wisden and every other reference source, where we can all see and recognise his innings - not least his supporters back home in Sri Lanka. As a side effect, he gets his name in gilt lettering on a piece of oak in the Lord's dressing room. Very nice, I'm sure. But it is a minor side effect of his achievement, not the main deal. It would be rather like Lizzie Yarnold thinking the MBE she got today was more important than her Olympic gold medal.
Why couldn't you just applauded a fine century like everyone else in the ground, Andrew, instead of jumping up and down saying "he's on the board, he's on the board" like some arcane ritual out of Tom Brown's Schooldays?
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