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TheJacko2000 · « **Reply #975 on:** March 07, 2018, 06:30:46 AM »

Mark Wood though... again.

And Morgan, not bowling out Woakes or Curran.

Only ourselves to blame.

Fritzl Palace · « **Reply #976 on:** March 07, 2018, 06:51:06 AM »

Quote from: TheJacko2000 on March 07, 2018, 06:30:46 AM

Mark Wood though... again.

And Morgan, not bowling out Woakes or Curran.

Only ourselves to blame.

Agreed. Woakes must always bowl his full allocation.

LiamTheBaggie · « **Reply #977 on:** March 07, 2018, 08:00:49 AM »

Have to say - New Zealand looks a wonderful country to play cricket. What a place

caravanc58 · « **Reply #978 on:** March 07, 2018, 11:31:39 AM »

Quote from: TheJacko2000 on March 07, 2018, 01:47:37 AM

Surreal innings by England. Raced to 260 for 1. Then 46 for 8. Then 18 off the last 5 balls from Curran. Centuries for Bairstow and Root. Single figures for virtually everyone else.

Should still be a winning total but it's a very good pitch.

one of the craziest one dayers I've seen, sixes and fours all over the place for England until they reached 260, then I think we went 5 overs with a single being the highest scoring run.

TheJacko2000 · « **Reply #979 on:** March 22, 2018, 02:06:11 AM »

Speechless. England are 23 for 8, 64 minutes into the 1st test.

Fritzl Palace · « **Reply #980 on:** March 22, 2018, 06:03:40 AM »

Christ. That was not what I was expecting to wake up to...

Albionic · « **Reply #981 on:** March 22, 2018, 09:22:18 AM »

October to April, whoever "planned" this tour wants sacking, ridiculous!

BRIAN · « **Reply #982 on:** March 22, 2018, 09:31:01 AM »

Why do we have to play so much cricket? Money!!! My favourite sport has gone mad. The players will be knackered and although getting good financial rewards will mostly have short carreers.

LiamTheBaggie · « **Reply #983 on:** March 22, 2018, 11:55:41 PM »

Quote from: TheJacko2000 on March 22, 2018, 02:06:11 AM

Speechless. England are 23 for 8, 64 minutes into the 1st test.

You got your pads?

TheJacko2000 · « **Reply #984 on:** March 23, 2018, 12:15:36 AM »

Quote from: LiamTheBaggie on March 22, 2018, 11:55:41 PM

You got your pads?

Season starts in 5 weeks... I'm not in for my batting though...

Was truly awful last night. Here I am again though waiting for it to start. Glutton for punishment.

LiamTheBaggie · « **Reply #985 on:** March 23, 2018, 01:12:51 PM »

Quote from: TheJacko2000 on March 23, 2018, 12:15:36 AM

Season starts in 5 weeks... I'm not in for my batting though...

Was truly awful last night. Here I am again though waiting for it to start. Glutton for punishment.

Even so, you could still offer something with the bat

The rain has been undoubtedly our best player so far

BigFrank20 · « **Reply #986 on:** March 25, 2018, 07:21:26 AM »

Aussies cheat at cricket, shock horror no wonder they kicked our arses in the last series, we ought to demand a re-match!

Not really they'd still hand us our rear ends without cheating

TheJacko2000 · « **Reply #987 on:** March 25, 2018, 07:52:27 AM »

England making a better fist of their 2nd innings. Bowling depth extremely concerning outside Anderson and Broad.

TheJacko2000 · « **Reply #988 on:** March 25, 2018, 08:24:39 AM »

Stoneman absolutely brain dead. Gets his 4th fifty in tests and has been out before reaching 57 each time. Compared to Henry Nicholls who got a century over 4 different days the levels of application are night and day.

Adder · « **Reply #989 on:** March 25, 2018, 10:00:07 AM »

Quote from: TheJacko2000 on March 25, 2018, 07:52:27 AM

England making a better fist of their 2nd innings. Bowling depth extremely concerning outside Anderson and Broad.

Yes we fail to get the big players out in their own countries. We couldn't get Kohli out in India, Smith in Australia and Williamson starts with a ton in this series. Root should be our big player - talented but usually gets himself out (as do most of the rest also).

GREGMT · « **Reply #990 on:** March 25, 2018, 08:20:12 PM »

Let's be totally honest we don't have a bowler in Trent Boult's class. He's the Kiwi's best bowler since Hadlee, although Bond was decent when fit.

The pitch was pretty flat when we were shot out for 58 and the Black Caps made 427 on it!

There looks to be a massive problem with England:

1) Trevor Bayliss free wheeling and just picking up his massive salary like Capello/Eriksson?
2) Root not a motivator as captain?
3) Team unable to switch from white ball slogging to Test Match batting?

Adder · « **Reply #991 on:** March 25, 2018, 09:39:09 PM »

We've had a load of trouble against top class left arm pace...Johnson, Stark, Boult.
We haven't for ages had a left armer remotely in that class so our batsmen are not used to it. I've watched a lot of cricket over 50 plus years and I'm struggling to think of one English/British left armer in that class.
Bowling machines in the nets are not the same. So we just need to find a quick left armer who can bowl it in the right place.......

DaveWBA · « **Reply #992 on:** March 27, 2018, 09:30:12 AM »

We have no spinner, only two batsmen capable of making a score and a coach that doesn't watch County Cricket. Where do you start with that?

TheJacko2000 · « **Reply #993 on:** March 30, 2018, 03:02:25 AM »

Glutton for punishment. I'm here again watching this shambles. Cook is surely finished at test level, find it incredible Vince was recalled and middle order extremely fragile.

Don't even get me started on the useless Wood being back in the team.

Currently 115/5. Just lost 3 wickets for 1 run in 9 balls. Bairstow and Stokes trying to rebuild.

beechyboy90 · « **Reply #994 on:** March 30, 2018, 03:06:40 AM »

Quote from: TheJacko2000 on March 30, 2018, 03:02:25 AM

Glutton for punishment. I'm here again watching this shambles. Cook is surely finished at test level, find it incredible Vince was recalled and middle order extremely fragile.

Don't even get me started on the useless Wood being back in the team.

Currently 115/5. Just lost 3 wickets for 1 run in 9 balls. Bairstow and Stokes trying to rebuild.

I can't work out which one is wetting me off/upsetting me more, these bellends or the tossers in blue and white stripes. World Cup can't come quick enough so those nobs can let me down too haha

TheJacko2000 · « **Reply #995 on:** March 30, 2018, 06:27:44 AM »

Got themselves out of jail there. Excellent from Bairstow and a great knock from Wood, can't personally see it but maybe it'll give him some confidence and improve upon his dreadful record with the ball.

Fritzl Palace · « **Reply #996 on:** March 30, 2018, 12:04:15 PM »

Lower order to the rescue as ever

Dan · « **Reply #997 on:** March 30, 2018, 12:30:53 PM »

Aside from Root, Bairstow, and Stokes (in his all rounder position anyway), the rest of the batting line up needs to go. Not remotely good enough and hasn't been for some time.

It's sad to say, but Cook is done, he never really recovered his form 2013 onwards and now gets out too cheaply too often. A couple of double hundreds shouldn't hide that. Stoneman, not good enough by a longshot, Vince one of the worst selections ever (22 average after 13 games!), Malan not good enough either.

Not sure who the replacements should be, but big changes need to happen. Farbrace needs to go, the county championship not producing good enough players is one thing, but he doesn't even pick good players from there. Vince has been in dreadful county form 3 years in a row yet for some reason we persist with him in the naive belief he's going to be good.

Adder · « **Reply #998 on:** March 30, 2018, 03:23:41 PM »

Quote from: Dan on March 30, 2018, 12:30:53 PM

Aside from Root, Bairstow, and Stokes (in his all rounder position anyway), the rest of the batting line up needs to go. Not remotely good enough and hasn't been for some time.

It's sad to say, but Cook is done, he never really recovered his form 2013 onwards and now gets out too cheaply too often. A couple of double hundreds shouldn't hide that. Stoneman, not good enough by a longshot, Vince one of the worst selections ever (22 average after 13 games!), Malan not good enough either.

Not sure who the replacements should be, but big changes need to happen. Farbrace needs to go, the county championship not producing good enough players is one thing, but he doesn't even pick good players from there. Vince has been in dreadful county form 3 years in a row yet for some reason we persist with him in the naive belief he's going to be good.

This is the problem, if you keep throwing people out of the team, who has their hand up to come in ? There's a few candidates for the one day line up but who will have the technique to stand up to test cricket ?

I think it's too early to throw Stoneman out just yet as he's earned the chance with runs in county cricket. He needs to score bigger when he gets to 50 but so far he's had 5 tests against a very strong Aussie attack and it's Boult and Southee in this series.

Not sure why you pick on Farbrace for the selection from the county game. There's a selection committee to blame for that.

WBAinDEVON · « **Reply #999 on:** April 03, 2018, 01:26:12 PM »

Only England struggle to see out a test match