England cricket 2022
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Re: England cricket 2022
We've won a series against the world champions after 1 win in the previous 16 Tests or whatever it was. Sounds like progress to me.Bend it like Repka wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 8:54 pmWe are not moving in the right direction, we are creating false hope that will bite us in the butt. 50 for 6 is a disgrace. Bairstwo and Overton have papered over the cracks, this innings's errors will be forgotten until the next collapse.
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Re: England cricket 2022
Got thoroughly sunburned at Headingley on an entertaining day yesterday. A shame Overton didn’t get his ton today.
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Re: England cricket 2022
We have no batsman capable of taking the shine off the ball. TBF to the top order yesterday, Boult’s bowling was near perfect but they are ready to collapse at any moment anyway.Bend it like Repka wrote: ↑Fri Jun 24, 2022 8:54 pm We are not moving in the right direction, we are creating false hope that will bite us in the butt. 50 for 6 is a disgrace. Bairstwo and Overton have papered over the cracks, this innings's errors will be forgotten until the next collapse.
Crawley cannot put away the drive.
Popes techinque is flawed. He will fail over and over
Stokes now thinks he can hit ever ball for 6
They are not playing test cricket. India and Oz will flatten us again. We are learning nothing, just repeating the same mistakes.
We’ve opted to play to our strengths. It isn’t Test cricket, but we have no batsmen capable of batting that way and no system in which they will learn given how much of a joke the county game is (and they wouldn’t play in most of it anyway) so there is no alternative.
It is not like this gung ho style is seeing us exclude more capable batsmen. They just don’t exist.
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Re: England cricket 2022
Rory Burns has an openers mentality. Crawley does not.
Malan looked far better at number 3 than Pope does.
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Re: England cricket 2022
Malan is 34 and averages 27. He wasn’t worth backing. Pope is only 24 and averages 30. He is worth a proper go.Bend it like Repka wrote: ↑Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:23 pm Rory Burns has an openers mentality. Crawley does not.
Malan looked far better at number 3 than Pope does.
Same with Burns (32, 30) vs Crawley (24, 27).
I have my doubts about Crawley, but he has youth on his side.
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Re: England cricket 2022
Crawley needs to learn that unless it's short and wide or a rank long hop, just leave anything outside off stump. Enough with the drives in the first 5 overs.
Get the shine off the ball and see off the first pair instead of going for dreamy cover drives that you constantly nick.
Get the shine off the ball and see off the first pair instead of going for dreamy cover drives that you constantly nick.
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Re: England cricket 2022
Billings replaces Foakes who has Tested positive for Covid. Was his bad back a symptom, a coincidence or a lie?
Seems odd they are still even testing when everyone else (who doesn’t have a risk factor) is just getting on with it. Billings not bad to have if a run chase is needed today/tomorrow.
Seems odd they are still even testing when everyone else (who doesn’t have a risk factor) is just getting on with it. Billings not bad to have if a run chase is needed today/tomorrow.
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Re: England cricket 2022
To get a first innings lead from where we were Friday lunchtime is nothing short of astonishing.
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Re: England cricket 2022
So yesterday Foakes has a bad back. Today he tests positive for covid and now England allowed a sub.
Shithousery.
Shithousery.
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Re: England cricket 2022
If the Aussies or Indians had done something similar we’d be very unhappy. NZ are such an amenable lot and the series is done so we’ll get away with it. Kohli and co wouldn’t be so quiet about it if it was next week.westham,eggyandchips wrote: ↑Sun Jun 26, 2022 11:01 am So yesterday Foakes has a bad back. Today he tests positive for covid and now England allowed a sub.
Shithousery.
Doesn’t look great to me.
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Re: England cricket 2022
Blundell and Mitchell deserve to win NZ one test this series. They've been superb.
England wicketless this morning.
England wicketless this morning.
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Re: England cricket 2022
So NZ collapse last five for 52,Billings unorthodox but held on. 10 for Leach, good to see
We all expect England to chase this down so all out for 150 is on the cards.
I do like the look of Potts, makes things happen.
free final day tomorrow, bet the Yorkies found that painful to announce.
We all expect England to chase this down so all out for 150 is on the cards.
I do like the look of Potts, makes things happen.
free final day tomorrow, bet the Yorkies found that painful to announce.
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Re: England cricket 2022
These two were a run out waiting to happen. Fantastic from NZ though.
Ollie Nope and Crappy Crawley at the crease now, expectations not very high.
Ollie Nope and Crappy Crawley at the crease now, expectations not very high.
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Re: England cricket 2022
Feels like Crawley should already have been out half a dozen times. Just wish he’d try and play himself in ffs.
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Re: England cricket 2022
Straight to the man waiting for him.
So 4 single figure scores, a 40 and 25. In a winning team. Not good enough.
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