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1st of August is the start of the test series against India.
it is utterly pathetic. 13 one day or 20 20 games between now and the next test. A 'series' of 2 tests against ****stan. sure maybe England players get to play more for their counties but i doubt it. I just don't understand the logic.
Haha! Gotta love the Aussies! In Google Translate, the edited version is: " It's in our blood, blud "
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/44387412
Scotland set England 371 to win Shome mishtake shurly ? :-0
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Nail biter
Belter!
They should play more games on postage stamps!
Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Joe Root, your boys took a hell of a beating!
You forgot Geoffrey Boycott TJ.
🙂
Sorted
Don't know how I'm going to come with the upcoming summer of sport: If I have to watch a world cup match like the England v Iceland one in the Euros, I'll need to sit on an incontinence pad or get a catheter fitted or something...or learn to control my mirth a bit better. 🙂
There'll be dancing in the streets of Stockbridge tonight!!!!
I've just driven through Stockbridge, no one was dancing.
Do we get to deep fry the stumps and put them in a wee jar?
Straya batting first.
So, they’ve handed out 4 and 6 cards printed on sandpaper 😂😂😂😂
Great start, up and down England again
Classic TMS commentary moment just now...
"Willey got Head"
Oh do stop it, Aggers! Etc.
Brilliant 😂😂😂😂
4 down
Rough going for Australia. A very abrasive attack from England.
5 down
Jimmy as a pundit
They're going to need to show some grit here. The rub doesn't seem to be going their way.
I don’t care any more, I’m still chuckling like a schoolboy about Willey getting Head 😂
I'm chuckling at Australia!
Still, we've got to bat soon...
Imagine my surprise...
Looks as if Plunkett might just have pulled this one back in the 45th over!
So today, Australia have lost at cricket, football, and rugby.
Most excellent
113-0 after 14 overs.
19 off the last over!
Yup, galloping along, for now...
Aggers, just now...
"Deep in to the Belvoir"
That's how to reach your hundred!
47 from the last 3 !!!!
291-1 @ 9 an over 🙂
500 has to be on the cards at this rate! 🤣🤣🤣
Oh, for some sandpaper eh?
This is carnage. Hales must be eyeing the 170-odd he scored against ****stan a few seasons ago.
It's almost as good as Vince yesterday!
aussie pie chuckers 🙂
LOL big billy dispatched!
I have a call early tomorrow morning with my team in Australia.
Wonder what I should open the conversation with...
This is why our test cricket is on the wane, but it’s great watching!! Next 3 in Morgan, Buttler & Mo !!!
To be fair to Aus - their fielding has been remarkably good.
Bonkers, utterly bonkers. Heading for the highest ODI score by some margin at the moment.
"Great news, Bruce, we got a wicket at last!"
"Fair dinkum, Bruce, who's in next?"
"Buttler, Bruce"
"Oh, crap..."
@CFH, your opening gambit for your team phone call just needs to be hysterical laughter, ending the call, calling them back with more hysterical laughter and repeat at least once more before uttering a syllable 😃
it's like the paperclip game
400 is up
you can't bowl there! or there!
42 off 12 balls for morgan 😀
You can't post fast enough to keep up. Now record fastest ODI 50 (for an Englishman).
morgan going to hit a hundred at this rate
LOL
450 up
LOL last 50 in 3 overs
boooooooo
calypso collapse
Typical England - some early promise, then it fades away leaving us just short of a decent total.
- yep, raced home to see records broken and the end of the carnage, and it's been shit.
Well one record at a time, save the 500 till later in the series
Let me get this right, Australia won the toss and elected to field? At Trent Bridge? 😂😂😂
Good call. 😂😂😂
Typical England – some early promise, then it fades away leaving us just short of a decent total.
😀
behind the run rate already 😉
Aggers on TMS earlier,
There's been some brilliant fielding here today. Mainly by the crowd.
🙂
Also
“umpires will have to ice their shoulders”
And Moeen gets Head, that will be satisfying
And Moeen gets Head, that will be satisfying
Oh how I hate watching the Aussies get thumped
Dreadful
Australia's biggest ever ODI defeat looming?
i can remember the days when if run rate went above a run a ball you were in trouble 😀
brutal stuff from england talk about sticking the boot in!
Outstanding.
*ripples*
Well you have to say somebody like Warner and Smith could put 100 on each so that is still England winning that one 😉
I'd have preferred to see them beaten with the Bogan in the team but off we go
I also wonder what England would have scored in a few games if they had batted first rather than chase most of the time
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Call me old fashioned but you need a balance between bat and ball. That has been removed from one day cricket now.
Much as I love seeing us thump the Aussies (maybe we should declare next time!) now good balls are going for six and are clearing the boundary by considerable distance. Think it was Butler who pulled a ball from way outside off and got in no position or shape, but ball still flew over the boundary.
Realise Trent Bridge isn’t the biggest too but some of those were worth 12 they went so far.
Call me old fashioned but you need a balance between bat and ball. That has been removed from one day cricket now.
Not always, there have been some seam friendly games quite recently - only last week England lost 7 wickets chasing 214 - and there are times when you just have to marvel at the hitting. But as TMS said yesterday, you wouldn't want to watch this every game and I do think the balance has been skewed, not least by muscle bound gym enhanced players with 3lb+ bats where as you say, even a half hit ball still flies over the rope.
Limit on bat weights?
Did we enforce the follow-on?
Call me old fashioned but you need a balance between bat and ball
The english bowlers coped well enough. It’s not our fault the crims are shit.
It’s not the weight of the bat but how they are made these days that has the biggest influence. I don’t think bat weights are much heavier than 10-15 years ago.
2 balls has had a big influence, sides rarely get reverse swing in 50over games now.
another suggestion on the BBC website, that I'll admit has crossed my mind about the disparity between batting and bowling ......
"Flip me, Jimmy, you're bowling brilliantly today. Shame i've got to take you off, but i need you for later"
vs
"Effin hell Jonny, you're seeing it like a bloody football. Keep going lad, you could get 200 here!"
Do we increase the allowance for bowlers - say 2 bowlers are allowed a max of 15 each and the others are limited to 10?
or -
Batsmen retire after say 75 balls = 1/4 of the innings, but can come back in at say 5th wicket down?
I know cricket likes its records and it'll mess up highest / fastest scores, best bowling averages, etc., but anything to make it slightly more even?