International cricket thread

ArmaniJeanss

68/7.
This is just a mental day.

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Not sure if feasible but should play another 4-day (max) test match starting from tomorrow. Better than going back to the hotel bubbles.

MFPM

Archer gone. 400 test wickers for Ashwin

Beasty

boccy23 wrote: »

What's the record for the shortest test? This one won't go 5 sessions at this rate.

109.2 overs

Beasty

Hopefully Leach can get that elusive century....

:pac:

MFPM

England 9 down! Looks like India will need 50-60 to win. They'll lose wickets but it should be achieved at a relative canter even given what's gone on...

Mysterypunter

I was wrong yesterday predicting a 3 day test. Fantasy land stuff from Alastair Cook, if Broad can get 60 and India are 10/4 in their second innings then England have a chance, why do they bother?

Mysterypunter

England 112 & 81. Disaster with the bat

MFPM

81 all out. India need 49 to win!

Doodah7

Predicting India will win by eight wickets from here.

dfx-

Mysterypunter wrote: »

I was wrong yesterday predicting a 3 day test. Fantasy land stuff from Alastair Cook, if Broad can get 60 and India are 10/4 in their second innings then England have a chance, why do they bother?

he really has been a poor pundit in the series, I don't know if he's better on TMS. First test was the same, everything was a positive situation for England.

MFPM

Mysterypunter wrote: »

England 112 & 81. Disaster with the bat

Yet all the focus is on the bowlers and the absence of a second spinner, it's a fair enough point but it's not the reason England are staring down the barrel here.

MFPM

India win by 10 wickets just well before day two finishes. A canter in the end.


By the by I think that means it's India v New Zealand in the test championship in June.

Edit: if England draw this series then Australia qualify not India.

byronbay2

That pitch was an absolute JOKE! From the very first over, there was dust flying every time the ball hit the surface. I know the home team has the opportunity to produce a pitch that suits their style of cricket but to deliberately create such an unfair pitch just so their 3 spinners can win them the match is infuriating. Sanctions should follow but won't, of course!

boccy23

It's actually a pity for Channel 4. Having bought the rights and being able to look at a Day/Night test that doesn't even get into the second night and not into the weekend.
This will not help terrestrial TV get back into the live TV market.

dohboy

boccy23 wrote: »

It's actually a pity for Channel 4. Having bought the rights and being able to look at a Day/Night test that doesn't even get into the second night and not into the weekend.
This will not help terrestrial TV get back into the live TV market.

Yes very disappointing tbh. Was looking forward to 4/5 days of action. Little else to be doing these days!

Simon Hughes did an interesting bit of analysis on Ch4, saying the pink ball skids on quicker as it has more lacquer, hence why there was loads of LBWs. The lacquer keeps the ball a lot shinier too. He showed an 80-over pink ball beside an 80-over red ball and they were like chalk and cheese.

Tom Mann Centuria

Some of the pitches for international cricket would get clubs hit with fines. They're anti cricket.

Strumms

boccy23 wrote: »

It's actually a pity for Channel 4. Having bought the rights and being able to look at a Day/Night test that doesn't even get into the second night and not into the weekend.
This will not help terrestrial TV get back into the live TV market.

Test matches should be decided by moments of skill, brilliance and overall performances of cricketing aptitude... it shouldn’t be about who ‘manages conditions’ better.... I’ve never bought into that crap.

Here we have..a 5 day test...over in less then 2 days...

387 runs over 4 innings, in less than 2 days.. an average score per innings of 97 runs..

England made a bollocks of it but India too only scoring 145 runs in their first innings is indicative as to the dreadful quality of the pitch..

The ICC should be of the ability to fine countries who produce cricket pitches which are not of a standard... which spoil the enjoyment of the sport for cricket fans the world over....

Within a 7 year period...

1st pitch that is substandard...

£100,000 fine

2nd pitch that is substandard...

£160,000 fine

3rd piece of crap pitch...

£200,000 fine... removed from the next World Cup and playing tests at neutral venues for 12 months..

It could be decided the parameters for a good pitch...consistent bounce / performance and no danger to players...

Danger is obvious... a ball off a good length heading towards a batsman’s throat..NO...UNSAT

Next ball off the same length raps the batsman on the shin... NO... UNSAT also...

A pitch should not be the deciding factor of any game of cricket.

Talent and a teams ability to out perform and outwit the opposition should be the only way to decide a game..

nice bit of green

boccy23 wrote: »

It's actually a pity for Channel 4. Having bought the rights and being able to look at a Day/Night test that doesn't even get into the second night and not into the weekend.
This will not help terrestrial TV get back into the live TV market.

Absolutely, booked today off work partly so I could watch a bit this morning.

boccy23

England's defeat to India in Ahmedabad was the shortest completed Test match since 1935.

Mysterypunter

boccy23 wrote: »

England's defeat to India in Ahmedabad was the shortest completed Test match since 1935.

That's mad, I thought that a Pakistan v Australia test a few years ago might have been shorter, and when I looked it up, found that the scores were Pakistan 59 & 53, but the aussies made 310. Amazingly, Matthew Hayden made 119 and beat Pakistan by an innings on his own. It was played in Sharjah in October 2002, there were 147 completed overs in the Australia v Pakistan test, 138 in the England India one

VillaMad

Freesports/Premier Sports have done a deal to broadcast all Zimbabwe and Afghanistan tests, ODI's and T20 fixtures for the next two years.

Includes, Ireland test matches against Zimbabwe next September and April 2022.

VillaMad

Another 2-day test match with Zimbabwe beating Afghanistan by 10 wickets. Both teams were missing a few with Rashid Khan notably absent with a finger injury. Pitch was pretty green on the first day and it made it difficult to survive against the new ball. Sean Williams hit an excellent century for Zimbabwe which gave them a lead of 119. Afghanistan struggled once again against the new ball and they could only get a lead of 16, which Zimbabwe chased down comfortably.

Australia beat New Zealand in the third T20 in an empty Wellington. Maxwell was brilliant with the bat after a scratchy start and they easily won in the end as New Zealand gave away their wickets as they fell behind the run rate. Agar got 6-30 but Riley Meredith was very impressive on debut with some rapid pace and he got the key wicket of Kane Williamson.

Mysterypunter

VillaMad wrote: »

Another 2-day test match with Zimbabwe beating Afghanistan by 10 wickets. Both teams were missing a few with Rashid Khan notably absent with a finger injury. Pitch was pretty green on the first day and it made it difficult to survive against the new ball. Sean Williams hit an excellent century for Zimbabwe which gave them a lead of 119. Afghanistan struggled once again against the new ball and they could only get a lead of 16, which Zimbabwe chased down comfortably.

Australia beat New Zealand in the third T20 in an empty Wellington. Maxwell was brilliant with the bat after a scratchy start and they easily won in the end as New Zealand gave away their wickets as they fell behind the run rate. Agar got 6-30 but Riley Meredith was very impressive on debut with some rapid pace and he got the key wicket of Kane Williamson.

Zimbabwe did well, the tall fast bowler Muzarabani is very impressive, and Williams performed a rescue act from 38/4. Lots of new faces in the Afghan side, which is good for the future, even though they didn't perform, felt sorry for the opening bat who got a pair, including a dismissal to the first ball of the match. Might get another go in the next test. Some of the batting in the match was club standard

Gillespy

Ahmedabad Part Deux tomorrow morning
Nice and early again. Despite everything the series is still alive. As is the last position in the test championship final.

Bumrah is out. Also out of the T20 and ODIs. Off getting ready for his wedding, which must be a new one. Woakes is gone home too. God knows what kind of team England put out. Big mess with all the resting and rotating. Bess likely recalled unless they go with Virdi or maybe Parkinson.

Funny but also now boring to watch the back and forth about the pitches. Kohli, who once gave out about the shape of a ground in a defeat can't understand the complaning at all.

Mysterypunter

Crazy start to the T20 series between West Indies and Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka pushed and prodded their way to 131/9 in a forgettable innings, but the real fireworks occurred in West Indies chase. Simmons and Lewis opened and put on 52 in 19 balls, until a hat trick from Danjanaya the spinner. Lewis, Gayle first ball and Pooran first ball the victims. 62/4 when Simmons departed. Then amazingly Pollard hit Danjanaya for six 6s in the 6th over. Was 98/4 off 6 overs, and is now 101/6 off 6.5 overs, with Pollard out, and Fabian Allen out first ball, Dwayne Bravo blocked the hat trick ball from Hasaranga, and it's 101/6 off 7 overs, with Holder and Bravo at the crease

Mysterypunter

West Indies won by 4 wickets

Mysterypunter

England batting, and Sibley is out to Axar Patel, second ball, was a straight ball again, and missed, sounds familiar 10/1

Gillespy

England's scorecard not the prettiest sight again. Stokes 50 the only highlight so far. 144-5 at tea is a decent recovery.

MFPM

England 166/6 Pope out in bit of a bizarre way, played the ball onto his pad and then caught by Gill...

MFPM

Foakes out now, 170/7....Will they fall short of 200 once more?