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#2876 |
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Congrats to Sarah Taylor as she announced on Twitter she is 5 months pregnant. she would have been 3 months gone, while playing in the T20 World Cup.
With her on leave and Charlotte Edwards retiring, it will mean s major rebuild, and you could say the 2 women you associate England Cricket with are gone, Charlotte Completely, Sarah who knows. Looking forward to having Test Cricket back tomorrow. Yes Sarah Taylor is taking time away from the game but considering she may be back for next months series with Pakistan it's highly unlikely she is 5 months pregnant. (Happy to be proved wrong though!) |
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#2877 |
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It's funny because all of the talk before this has been about how England should easily beat Sri Lanka 3-0 in this series
How many years is it now that we have consistently had problems at the top of the order? 3 or 4? How much longer until it is sorted out? I would wager a tenner you wont reply. |
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#2878 |
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Stokes and Bairstow need to swap places in the batting line up
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Good partnership spoilt by the weather
One point looking at 400+, then thinking 150 may be good and ending up thinking 300 is achievable Good old Test cricket
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Good partnership spoilt by the weather
One point looking at 400+, then thinking 150 may be good and ending up thinking 300 is achievable Good old Test cricket ![]() The one good thing about points across the three forms of cricket (maybe to produce a table some day) is that points could be deducted for rubbish over rates, as they do in the CC, but doing that now is meaningless. Personally, I'd have it where the fielding side can't go for lunch/tea until their allocated overs are bowled, so if lunch is 1 - 1.40, they go in at 1.20 and come out at 1.40 so a shortened break for them!! That would upset Gatt - what, only half a lunch break?? Get a move on, skip!! Of course, that's unfair on the umpires so I would have three of them in rotation so one is always resting. Think there are four at a Test anyway (TV, 2 on-field and isn't there a fourth around the dressing rooms - anyone??) It's also a bit unfair on the batsman who could have been in all day, but I have met some who wouldn't mind as if they are in good nick, 40' break is a bit of a disruption to them. Apart from Mike Gatting, obviously
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#2881 |
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I got to see afternoon session on tv. A year or so ago i never ever thought id say this........... but how good was Bairstow! I dont mean in terms of runs but how he scored them and played his innings. Dominating the bowlers from ball one and didnt put a foot wrong.
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#2882 |
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Congrats to Sarah Taylor as she announced on Twitter she is 5 months pregnant. she would have been 3 months gone, while playing in the T20 World Cup.
With her on leave and Charlotte Edwards retiring, it will mean s major rebuild, and you could say the 2 women you associate England Cricket with are gone, Charlotte Completely, Sarah who knows. Looking forward to having Test Cricket back tomorrow. https://twitter.com/Sarah_Taylor30 |
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#2883 |
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When is the Lords test match, as it would great if Alastair Cook reaches Ten thousand runs at the home of cricket
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#2884 |
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When is the Lords test match, as it would great if Alastair Cook reaches Ten thousand runs at the home of cricket
Hopefully he reached 10,000 before Lords because if he doesn't it means he'll have been out cheaply in 4 innings which isn't what we need |
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It looked to me like Cookie was wearing his Grey Nichols helmet, the one with the larger gap which is now banned by the ECB in domestic cricket, but is apparently allowed in Test cricket.
Can anyone confirm this? |
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It looked to me like Cookie was wearing his Grey Nichols helmet, the one with the larger gap which is now banned by the ECB in domestic cricket, but is apparently allowed in Test cricket.
Can anyone confirm this? |
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It looked to me like Cookie was wearing his Grey Nichols helmet, the one with the larger gap which is now banned by the ECB in domestic cricket, but is apparently allowed in Test cricket.
Can anyone confirm this? Apparently Cook wasnt happy with the new regs as it impaired his visibility. Athers did say he was using the helmet in the country games and has scored a 100 with it. So he may have got used to it know. Botham as you can imagine, wasnt a fan of cricketers being told what they had to wear as protection. |
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He is wearing the helmet as per the regulations i.e. the one with the smaller gap between the peak and the top of the guard. The guard is also fixed and can not be adjusted. Athers and Botham were discussing this yesterday as he was batting.
Apparently Cook wasnt happy with the new regs as it impaired his visibility. Athers did say he was using the helmet in the country games and has scored a 100 with it. So he may have got used to it know. Botham as you can imagine, wasnt a fan of cricketers being told what they had to wear as protection. |
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He is wearing the helmet as per the regulations i.e. the one with the smaller gap between the peak and the top of the guard. The guard is also fixed and can not be adjusted. .
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#2890 |
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The neck ones are voluntary.
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assumed they would add the 30 minutes on at the start today to make up for the lost time yesterday
always seems to make sense to me to add it at the start rather than the end given we never finish on time anyway |
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Yeah.......I was expecting an early start today
I think TMS were as well because they came on air at 10AM |
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seem to say this at the start of almost every day of test cricket but this is a big session
whole session will be bowled with the old ball, if these two can get set against the older ball and bat through most of the session it sets us up well sri lanka just need 2 wickets to get to the tail tho |
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What would be your solution ? Who would be your top 5 ? You seem to diss any 5 we pick. Last year it was Hales, now he is doing ok its the rest. So who would be your world beating top 5 ?
I would wager a tenner you wont reply. |
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#2895 |
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that could be a costly drop
looked like the bowler thought it was coming back at him quicker than it did |
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hales falls just short of his century
very important innings from him tho after being at the other end watching the little collapse from 49-0 to 83-5 yesterday |
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Thats sad to see in Hales dismissal. If youre going to hit in the air then the ball ought to go into the stand or out of the ground. I think he'll be pleased to get them past 200 but disappointed with the lame manner of the way he got out.
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Ali out
7 wickets down Broad in next |
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Broad out, bowled for 2
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Ali out
7 wickets down Broad in next ![]() Great start son |
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