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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #800 on: March 31, 2016, 04:47:41 PM »
Oh well that's fked that then  ;D 6-1

Sorry  :-[

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« Reply #801 on: March 31, 2016, 08:07:31 PM »
Cracking game and great effort by the Windies to win after losing Gayle and Samuels early.
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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #802 on: March 31, 2016, 08:53:36 PM »
Shame its not a England vs India final.

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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #803 on: April 03, 2016, 06:09:39 PM »
England have just thrown it away!Braithwaite with 4 Sixes in the final over off Stokes :(

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« Reply #804 on: April 03, 2016, 06:20:09 PM »
How have England lost that final!

Braithwaite has slogged stoakes about like a Sunday player!!!
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« Reply #805 on: April 03, 2016, 06:23:53 PM »
Absolutely gutted

19 overs of brilliance from a unit that got absolute pelters prior to the tournament is destroyed in four deliveries.

Superb batting from Carlos Braithwaite.
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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #806 on: April 03, 2016, 06:34:39 PM »
Complaining on social media about Stokes...that was T20 Cricket at its best hats off to the Big Brathwate to hit 4 sixes one after the other takes some doing no matter what level you play at.

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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #807 on: April 03, 2016, 06:37:03 PM »
Stokes deserves criticism, he missed his length on all 4 balls, a total bottle job, great hitting from Brathwaite. England were 20 runs short anyway. Deserved victory by the best team in the world in this form of the game.
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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #808 on: April 03, 2016, 06:42:34 PM »
Missing a length is one thing ive seen quite a few in both innings today but they didnt get hit for four straight sixes as someone who has played alot of cricket that takes some doing.

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« Reply #809 on: April 03, 2016, 06:54:30 PM »
Missing a length is one thing ive seen quite a few in both innings today but they didnt get hit for four straight sixes as someone who has played alot of cricket that takes some doing.

I've played cricket for the best part of the last 20 years every Saturday I'm not down the Albion, new season starts in 2 weeks. They were length balls, all 4 of them ideal for getting under and away, It was a very poor over; he needed to get the yorker in and he failed, no shame in it because as I said we didn't get enough runs, but you cannot just write it off as good batting.
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« Reply #810 on: April 03, 2016, 06:56:06 PM »
Our lack of runs, you could argue, didnt factor in as much as it should have. Sh*te last over from stokes. Theres no way he should be hit for four straight sixes.

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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #811 on: April 03, 2016, 07:06:31 PM »
I've played cricket for the best part of the last 20 years every Saturday I'm not down the Albion, new season starts in 2 weeks. They were length balls, all 4 of them ideal for getting under and away, It was a very poor over; he needed to get the yorker in and he failed, no shame in it because as I said we didn't get enough runs, but you cannot just write it off as good batting.

Getting under and away is alot different to getting them for six.  I agree about scoring for me in T20 you need at least a target around 180 in a final.

We will have to agree to disagree as in my view those four balls could be bowled exactly the same 20 times over and you would get that type of result.

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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #812 on: April 03, 2016, 07:08:07 PM »
Theres no way he should be hit for four straight sixes.

Thats why T20 cricket is such a big draw.

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« Reply #813 on: April 03, 2016, 07:15:27 PM »
Yeah, there is some skill in hitting the right length for a Yorker - get it slightly wrong in the last over and it's likely to disappear. After he got the first one wrong and it sailed over the fence it was pressure on and he failed to recover from that.
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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #814 on: April 03, 2016, 08:43:22 PM »
Getting under and away is alot different to getting them for six.  I agree about scoring for me in T20 you need at least a target around 180 in a final.

We will have to agree to disagree as in my view those four balls could be bowled exactly the same 20 times over and you would get that type of result.
prior to todays final im sure they said that 157 was the highest score ever in a t20 final so the England score wasn't that bad on reflection.

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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #815 on: April 03, 2016, 10:10:23 PM »
Surely Braithwaite is a Yorkshireman? Shouldn't he have been playing for England?

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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #816 on: April 04, 2016, 12:22:22 PM »
Ben Choakes are some of the headlines this morning, bit unfair really
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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #817 on: May 30, 2016, 04:48:20 PM »
Alistair cooke 10,000 runs
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« Reply #818 on: May 30, 2016, 08:13:13 PM »
Superb batsman. One of England's finest.
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« Reply #819 on: May 30, 2016, 08:19:02 PM »
Brilliant achievement. 2nd best England batsman of his generation.

450 wickets for Jimmy Anderson too, great day for English cricket.
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« Reply #820 on: June 01, 2016, 12:57:45 PM »
Jimmy now number one in the rankings for the first time in his career. Superb stuff
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Re: England Cricket Thread
« Reply #821 on: July 23, 2016, 03:16:54 PM »
England going very well at the moment 513-6. Joe Root 213 no.

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« Reply #822 on: July 23, 2016, 04:17:15 PM »
The last test lords the home of cricket the pitch always favours the opposition, the groundsman should be sacked
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« Reply #823 on: July 23, 2016, 05:32:44 PM »
The last test lords the home of cricket the pitch always favours the opposition, the groundsman should be sacked
The groundsman wasn't to blame for England's batting display at Lords. Yasir took 10 wickets on a pitch that was hardly turning.
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« Reply #824 on: July 23, 2016, 06:48:19 PM »
England going very well at the moment 513-6. Joe Root 213 no.

England declared at 589 - for 8. Pakistan closed on 57-4. Trailing by 532 runs.