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?
England Women smashing it around in the T20 right now
250-3 highest T20 International score
Oi England stop it! How are kids of today ever going to understand what it feels like to witness another collapse if all you ever do is stuff it round the park and make our Australia cousins just look stupid. Even the ladies are doing the same. Mutter , mutter, pah!
How are kids of today ever going to understand what it feels like to witness another collapse
Short memory? We collapsed against ****stan a month ago
Head c Willey b Rashid 63 (Aus 101-1)
Keeps happening there
Willey got Head again?
fantastic relay catch on the boundary by Roy & Overton to dismiss Marsh
2 years, page number 63 ...
On the TMS live text feed...
I think England should play a one-off warm-up match against Australia ahead of their five-match series against Scotland next year.
😁
Heh heh!
That's cruel
Willey got Head again?
A bit like 'the bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey' from the olden days 🙂
It was actually the other way round, if it happened at all. And that Willey was the current Willey’s Dad I think. So the Willeys have spread their seed.
Off we go again, chance of the Whitewash and Australia have chosen to help their bowling records by batting first 😉
Well it looks Like England are aiming to see as much of the football as possible here 😉 All out for kick off?
I’m hoping CFH has another call to Oz tomorrow.
Jos, you are a star.
🙂
Sadly not!
Looking like they will struggle to make 200 here!!
Yup, SCurran with two in an over
Oh dear, I almost feel sorry for them
I almost feel sorry for them
No you don't.
No you don’t.
You’re right, I don’t. This is delicious 😂
Hmmmm.
Hang on there... what is happening here
Normal service has been resumed.
200 looking like a long way now
I’ve just swapped. Footy on the TV, cricket relegated to iPad.
Well went out for a ride and gave old trafford a bit of space expecting people to be leaving any moment, pleasantly surprised to see this is still going, can they hang on for this one!!
come on Jos
come on england!
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Well they left that late!!
5 nil !!!!!!!!!!!!
Love it. Really rubbing the bogan noses in it by letting them think they had a chance.
Tense!
A whitewash 👍
Never in doubt.
Buttler4PM
Edna Everidge
Paul Hogan
Crowded House
Clive James
Germaine Greer
Your boys took a a hell of a beating!
So who makes way for Stokes? Or does no one?
TBH he has not really got many recent performances behind him to justify himself as either a batsman or a bowler.
I think I might consider having him as an option alongside Moeen Ali - pick one of them depending if you need an extra spinner or seemer. Or do you play him has someone who must bowl all 10 instead of a pure seem bowler? Nice dilemma to have.
Good decision to bring the Buttler back into the test side. That was a very conservative innings by his standards, but absolutely epic.
