International cricket thread

Mysterypunter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122531270#Comment_122531270

Plenty of the doing it, but as mentioned above Josh Little is 25, he's getting battered in a slogging competition which includes semi professionals and semi retired players

Strumms

Mel Jones, Nasser & Atherton rightly criticising all the delay tactics by Sri Lanka.

Bowlers spending an absolute and absurd age running in and warming up when it’s their turn to bowl , multiple visits by medical personnel due to knocks and niggles, why aren’t the players leaving the field and the 12th man coming on ? Ridiculous ! They’ve asked the umpires to put the ball through the rings several times, when it goes through, still standing around arguing with the umpires. Their over rate as demonstrated is pathetic as a result.

You can only presume with weather forecasted and light an issue that they are just trying to waste time. A backwards attitude.

And now they are 2 wickets down having scored 1 run 🤦🏻‍♂️

MFPM

Mathews and Mendis putting up some good resistance and while SL lead by 51 with 6 wickets in hand, this match is only going in one direction weather permitting.

Edit: I spoke too soon! Mathews gone.

Mysterypunter

82 in front, 6 down. Got to day 4 I suppose

Gillespy

Early days but England look to have found a good one in Jamie Smith. Rob Key's simple motto of stats are for prats and instead picking on attributes and temperament working again.

Mysterypunter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122536797#Comment_122536797

It's just a pick Surrey players system. No one else gets a look in

Mysterypunter

Bangladesh making good progress replying to Pakistans 1st innings 448/6dec. They are 389/6 at lunch on day 4, Mushfiqur Rahim 101*

ArmaniJeanss

SL going nicely enough. 7th wicket stand nearing 80 and the lead is over 130 with 4 wickets left. 200 lead is feasible. New ball about 5 overs away though.

Strumms

gladly, hopefully the lead gets to 200+ and there is a bit of a competitive chase.

I was thinking it might have ended in a damp squib an English team chasing 140….

Strumms

two giveaway English wickets 😳 door slightly ajar for SL….

why are batsman when chasing a modest total trying to play switch hits / reverse sweeps..?

Edit : 3 giveaways, Lawrence lbw, never moved his feet

Mysterypunter

England got home by 5 wickets, quick question, why were they playing until 7:15, should have called stumps and tomorrow could have been rained off. Don't get that they kept going

Strumms

I’d say the umpires did all they could to keep facilitating play and I’d be on their side on this occasion.

Lots of time wasting by the Sri Lankans…. PPE issues, pads, boots, helmets being adjusted, coming on and off the field , injuries ….if the ball disappeared to the fence the Sri Lankans wanted the umpire to put it through the measuring rings, on one occasion the ball was a handful of overs old.

Im guessing they were allowed to play late because of the numbers of overs lost…. Chris Gaffaney and Paul Reiffel did well. I even recall one of the times the ball was again thrown to Reiffel to check, he gives it a cursory feel and look and throws it back…. without using the rings….basically saying.. ‘ fûck off its grand, play ‘… 😅

ArmaniJeanss

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122540369#Comment_122540369

I think once there is significant time lost (Friday morning was a write-off wasn't it) then they can add an extra hour to subsequent days, light permitting.

Gillespy

A lot better contest than everyone expected. Sri Lanka look far stronger than the West Indies did. They look a genuine threat. Top order was blown twice and they still made a good game of it. It needed a high class innings by Root to get England home. He's definitely changed his approach this summer, far less gung ho. He playing like someone with Sachin's record in his sights.

Gillespy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122540369#Comment_122540369

Making up for overs lost to rain. Said on commentary they could play until 8pm which was very optimistic.

Gillespy

Pakistan have made a right mess of their second innings.

Mysterypunter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122541283#Comment_122541283

Sure did, Bangladesh win by 10 wickets, set just 30 to win

Tom Mann Centuria

Time to check their online betting accounts again.

Strumms

5 overs into SA’s chase and it’s 67/1. Absolutely murdering the West Indies in their own backyard.

West Indian bowlers absolutely clueless.

Just bowling short and leg side, SA lads just flat bat pulling it for 4 or hooking the higher delivery for 6. As I type a second wicket down Hendricks chops on but only after scoring an explosive 44 from 18 deliveries….🐶

Gillespy

Yea Viv Strumms, talk nah.

Mysterypunter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122543919#Comment_122543919

Murdered them all right, 149 all out chasing 180. On an unrelated topic, what are England at? Josh Hull career bowling average of 62, county championship average of 84, a rabbit who doesn't bat, but he's 6foot 7. So was Bruce Reid, and all he got was injuries. Rob Key was a complete non trier as a player, don't know how he got so far in the game, probably because he's a yes man

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122544147#Comment_122544147

71/1 after 5.4 overs, SA we’re absolutely cruising and it was murder. Batsmen 5-11 only scored single digit scores, collapse and some. Credit to the West Indian bowlers though some shots were 👀

Rob key got so far because he was performing domestically. in domestic cricket he in the end averaged over 40 and scored a rake of hundreds and fifties.

Matches: 299

Ave.: 40.45

Centuries: 54

Fifties: 76

Plus England were struggling to find good opening batsmen… just couldn’t take that domestic brilliance into international cricket…

Mysterypunter

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122544166#Comment_122544166

Fitness level 0, and I agree about South Africa, but they couldn't keep up the momentum, I don't watch much slog cricket anyway, lots of bits and pieces players in it, but it's the same all the time. Bored of it. No one has any patience or concentration any more

VillaMad

England going for physical traits over stats is hugely disrespectful to actual wicket-takers such as Porter or Cook for whom the door is closed. They've also picked previously the likes of Pennington and Tongue who are also very tall. It seems like they are basing their whole squad selections around the Ashes next year and that's their whole selection policy now, so we'll see whether they are right.

Would imagine though that Olly Stone will be the replacement for Wood and they will just have a look at Hull in practice.

Gillespy

They're trying to cover all bases really when you think of it. Wood is picked to win the match in front of them. Woakes is being kept around for the India series next summer. And Atkinson, Bashir and other young quicks are picked with the Ashes in mind.

Too bad for the county pros doing well but it wasn't this England team that figured out topping the averages doesnt translate in test success. As long as they're going to Australia they talked about needing pace and height. Jardine wanted Larwood specifically for his pace not his stats. Hutton with Tyson the same.

VillaMad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122545571#Comment_122545571

I get their reasons alright as nobody wants to face 90 plus mph bowling and Mitchell Johnson essentially won an Ashes on his own for Australia, but even looking at the last Ashes in Australia, Scott Boland took 18 wickets at an average of 9 whilst bowling only around the 80mph mark because he was hugely consistent in line and length over and over again.

I'm not saying that Key/Stokes/McCullum are wrong in their approach as I get it and there is no guarantee of any success from any other county bowler, but I do think there is a time and place for every bowler in cricket and you have to treat each bowler on their own merits, rather than striking a line through them because of one particular downfall.

Gillespy

Talented young Australian batsman Will Pucovski has retired from all cricket. Career plagued by concussion problems sadly this seems like the only sensible decision to make.

Another retirement has been Shannon Gabriel. Big West Indies fast bowler, seemed to always be bowling no balls but thanks mostly to Fazeer Mohommed it will be his batting that he will be best remembered for.

wazzzledazzle

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122557495#Comment_122557495

That retirement for Pucovski i'm surprised didn't come a couple of years ago. Think it was nearly double figures with concussions. It was inevitable anyway unfortunately, although what i saw of him, he just seemed like a decent player, nothing more really.

These guys who retire early, always seem to be considered "promising" or "talented"

Strumms

so Sri Lanka’s morning in the 2nd test. England gifted them all 3 wickets. Some bizarre shot selections given the game situation.

Dan Lawrence out driving a ball he should 100% have been cutting it’s that short and wide. A lot of eyebrows raised and criticism flowed when he was selected to open the batting and that criticism has been justified so far based on that carry on back up the pavilion shot.

Ollie Pope pulls the ball skywards thinking he’s in the IPL. Captain, eh ?!

Duckett with a good 40 but top edges to deep point. He has to know the fielder is there…so why not glance it round the corner…

MFPM

Pope's shot was particularly bad, he's probably feeling the pressure to contribute with the bat but that was a terrible shot. England's batting is increasingly fragile without Root's contributions.