One more cheap wicket and yes, I think it is.
*Commentator's curse invoked*
*Edit - sure you'd said game over! 😀
Good to see that Woakes looks back to form
[quote=howsyourdad1 ]I mean game on
Stealth edit there!
haha I remember saying on this very forum that a game of cricket is never over, that's why its so good. but...
Good to see that Woakes looks back to form
Indeed. I wonder if he's one of those players who needs plenty of overs? He certainly looked undercooked when he was recalled to the test side.
Finally! That 4th wicket partnership was going too well.
Big chase
[quote=howsyourdad1 ]Big chase
How over is the game do you think?
Haha precisely
Hopefully a good- un!!
Moeen v Messrs Duckworth and Lewis.
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Good old DL 🙂
He'd clearly been told that rain was coming. And to crack on to the DL par and beyond. Which he did, in style!
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Ruh Oh, Shaggy...
The Butler/Mo partnership was a biggy- 5 down and 40 behind on D/L was a big ask. It was also naive from Holder bringing on the spinner. IND/Aus/SA/NZ would have known the rain was imminent and bowled out their best bowlers imho.
It seems pretty unequivocal that Stokes has chinned someone. Best scenario now is that it is demonstrated that the bloke laying spark out threatened to use the bottle on Stokes and he was acting in self defense. Doesn't look good, though.
I expect he will have been provoked because not even a firebrand like Stokes is going to risk everything by twotting an innocent bystander, but this is just conjecture.
What a shame.
Yeah, that's not a good look for Stokes. Better be some seriously good witness statements given his previous, or his broken hand will be the least of his ashes worries.
What is he doing being out that late in he middle of a series?
Why be out that late on a Sunday in Bristol, in Mbargo of all places? Asking for trouble.
How pissed must he have been? Ok he got some decent punches in but those aren't the actions of a sober, rational professional sportsman.
Why didn't Hales intervene properly?
Why didn't stokes take one of the many opportunities he had to walk away?
Shameful.
Agreed
What is his previous? Is he a convicted brawler or just the incident where he broke his hand punching a locker?
I've never been a fighter so have no idea how the police will treat him considering the other bloke was armed.
I listened to the whole game up to the point of England's dismal collapse where I finally gave up at 5 down and about 30 runs behind DL....
Oh well - England are pretty resilient these days!
I'd be interested to see the bit before that video started, to see what the guy with the bottle was doing and provocation Stokes had. But that's pretty damming and It's be hard to argue with any police action or ban he might get.
Bugger. One of England's most important players.....
Whilst the cocktail of youth and cash inevitably results in some casualties, I've never understood why such well paid sportsmen (celebs etc) don't have a minder on hand 24/7 to minimise the prospects of such events if they insist on trying to have a night life. I'm surprised their employers don't make it a 'benefit' of their employment or similar contractual arrangement (I do appreciate it's a numbers game).
Fwiw I'm a Judge Dredd fan so no sympathy for drunken aggressors becoming victims.
Not entirely happy with shot selection but can't argue with the strike rate.
Not entirely happy with shot selection but can't argue with the strike rate.
😀
Well, now he’s been arrested he qualifies for the Aussie team (Poor, and 1970’s racist I know)
Listening to TMS yesterday they were querying why the test squad news was leaked. I can’t believe they had to ask that, it was “leaked” to deflect press away from this story
[url= https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/cricket/4563431/ben-stokes-england-axe-shocking-video-street-punch ]sun video[/url]
The press are probably doing Stokes a favour here, given what the defence could make of such publicity if it ever made it to court.
The press are probably doing Stokes a favour here
depends of what the ECB make of their star player brawling in the street I suppose.
I doubt any press reports will have an effect on that, they presumably have the details anyway. I presume there has to be a suspension at minimum, which is likely to make selection even more tricky.
even when it's front page ?
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The other bloke was swinging a bottle around before Stokes started. Is he really going to get more than a caution for a bit of wild flailing, mostly in self-defence, and connecting with one punch?
Not exactly what you want to see from England vice-captain, I grant you. Why couldn't he just nick a pedalo and wobble around Bristol docks for a bit?
[quote=Klunk ]even when it's front page ?
Yes, even then - at least I hope the Sun has no influence on ECB disciplinary proceedings, it certainly shouldn't do.
Unsurprisingly, the convicts are agitating to discourage our possibly soon to be convict from attending their colony...
That headline should read "England's desperation to retain The Ashes....". Don't forget that my gloating Aussie pals 😀
They also seem to have forgotten that we did quite well enough without a star all-rounder in 2010 😆
[quote=howsyourdad1 ]That headline should read "England's desperation to retain The Ashes....". Don't forget that my gloating Aussie pals
Or maybe "Australia's desperation to win the Ashes shows in economy with the truth". Warner wasn't suspended for any Test matches, and "provoked" is an interesting interpretation of that incident.
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/41427891 ]ah bless poor lass[/url] is feeling fragile !
Yes, even then - at least I hope the Sun has no influence on ECB disciplinary proceedings, it certainly shouldn't do.
Members of the ECB board are understood to have spoken on Thursday morning via video conference, and the footage obtained by The Sun newspaper has been reviewed at the highest levels of the organisation.
it may not have "influence" but has brought things to a head!
Stokes and Hales have both been suspended by the ECB.
they were very naughty boys.
Ya know. The way I read the report was he was put upon by 2 lads one with a bottle and he fought them off. Good on him I thought.
Having watched that video it looked pretty wrong.
There's a moment at the beginning where Stokes has almost both guys pinned down. He's laying into one. The other guy gets a kick in the head from the other lad who's got white trainers. I assume that was Hales.
Then really Stokes shoulda walked away but he keeps going after them until he flattens one guy.
Pretty horrible really. I'm disappointed - I'm going to the ODI at Soton tomorrow and won't get to see Stokes. His Ashes tour must be in jeopardy also.
I don't see what choices the ECB have after watching that. Regardless of what happened before the video you can't claim self defence after the initial scuffle.
Ummmmmm that video.im guessing it's hard to be semi famous.
He had the red mist for sure but someone came at him with a bottle and that could be life ending. That may be him done in the international game all for a night on the piss.
Good brawler for a cricketer I hope he comes out the other side mentally intact
Starts of as self defence ends up as assault on people who clearly dont want to fight.
Never really sure how much things like this should impact on sport. Its not good but plenty of folk have criminal records and dont lose their jobs.
