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TBH Joe Root would regret them when he as a big slump or is struggling to score centuries in his later years.
think he missed out close to 10 centuries in 18 months which is quite remarkable. the only person that I can remember having a similar run was tendulkar during 2006-2008 where he struggled to get over the 90s in both formats. think tendulkar said at the time the more desperate he got to get a century the more he would get out during the 90s. you can really see the same thing with Root, it is killing him getting out for 70-80s, he essentially tries to hard when he gets to the nervous 70s really now. Not really sure why root getting nervous or batting differently at 70s considering he making scoring look so easily when he reaches 50-60 runs. for a top player Root conversion rate is quite poor. scoring 9 centuries after going past 50s 28 times is very odd for a top player. |
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I know we all taking the piss out of sri lanka batting but they should be ok here if the ball doesn't move much since the pitch look very slow although seeing how awful they batting been for 2 years, 250 is still a tough task if the big 3 fail.
looks like groundsmen prepared similar pitches to the what Sri lanka normally get when they tour england in recent times. |
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TBH Joe Root would regret them when he as a big slump or is struggling to score centuries in his later years.
think he missed out close to 10 centuries in 18 months which is quite remarkable. the only person that I can remember having a similar run was tendulkar during 2006-2008 where he struggled to get over the 90s in both formats. think tendulkar said at the time the more desperate he got to get a century the more he would get out during the 90s. you can really see the same thing with Root, it is killing him getting out for 70-80s, he essentially tries to hard when he gets to the nervous 70s really now. Not really sure why root getting nervous or batting differently at 70s considering he making scoring look so easily when he reaches 50-60 runs. for a top player Root conversion rate is quite poor. scoring 9 centuries after going past 50s 28 times is very odd for a top player. He needs a ton very quickly. |
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he essentially tries to hard when he gets to the nervous 70s really now
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My favourite comment from TMS yesterday was about Cooke getting out in the nervous nine thousands.
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Interesting chat about Test Cricket on Sky just now
Very much agree about the pricing policy. We just clubbed together to get our brother-in-law a birthday present of a ticket for the second day's play for the Pakistan Test at Lords £90
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#3082 |
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Ticket prices in this country for the cricket is a joke, won't change though till 2020. Durham would love to sell tickets cheaper but they can't afford too because they paid close to a million for this test.
Likely to make a loss for the test even with 50 pounds tickets. |
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Why isn't the Sky TV money being used to make ticket prices more affordable?
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Why isn't the Sky TV money being used to make ticket prices more affordable?
the SKY money is already used to support the counties, not just the ones with test venues. someone will correct me if i am wrong here but there is now a set fee that a county is charged if they want to host a test. its then up to the county to set the ticket prices to try and make enough money to cover the fee for hosting the test and make a profit. so the obvious way for the ECB to help would be to lower to hosting fee but i think it would be difficult for the ECB to insist that there is a cap on ticket prices at venues who will argue they can sell out at the prices they already charge, even if it would help the likes of durham. |
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Both batsmen dropped already this morning
Maybe Sri Lanka only catch the difficult ones
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Both batsmen dropped already this morning
Maybe Sri Lanka only catch the difficult ones ![]() |
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Why isn't the Sky TV money being used to make ticket prices more affordable?
Currently sky deal with Ecb only allow Ecb to finically survive not make profit, they only actually make big profits when India tours and an small profit when the ashes played barring that they make losses in every series and the sky deal doesn't cover all the expenses. |
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not sure its quite as simple as that
the SKY money is already used to support the counties, not just the ones with test venues. someone will correct me if i am wrong here but there is now a set fee that a county is charged if they want to host a test. its then up to the county to set the ticket prices to try and make enough money to cover the fee for hosting the test and make a profit. so the obvious way for the ECB to help would be to lower to hosting fee but i think it would be difficult for the ECB to insist that there is a cap on ticket prices at venues who will argue they can sell out at the prices they already charge, even if it would help the likes of durham. Lords and oval both got platinum packages and Trent bridge got a good package as we'll Prices varies depending on how much the counties bid for the games. Anyway Ecb gonna scrap it after 2020 and just give the games to the counties with their being some sort of arrangement to share the profits generated from the games. |
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But the current system far better than the blind process which saw cardiff pay 2.5 million for a Sri Lanka test and predictably made a massive loss so in terms of a test match fee 900 k is quite low fiqure, so question have to be asked if Durham a viable test venue if they can't afford 900k
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But the current system far better than the blind process which saw cardiff pay 2.5 million for a Sri Lanka test and predictably made a massive loss so in terms of a test match fee 900 k is quite low fiqure, so question have to be asked if Durham a viable test venue if they can't afford 900k
i'm all for trying to take international cricket to as many supporters as possible but imo we do have too many test venues in the UK its about an hour from durham to leeds by train so hardly inconveniencing the north east if no tests were at chester-le-street and they had to go to headingley |
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Chandimal has handed the keepers gloves to Mendis
Don't think SL will want him off the field for long as it will affect their batting order |
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Chandimal has handed the keepers gloves to Mendis
Don't think SL will want him off the field for long as it will affect their batting order |
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i was just in the process of typing a post about how crucial those early dropped catches were looking with how good this partnership was now looking and before i could even hit enter woakes got out
![]() hopefully the tail can hang around for a bit with ali and get us up over the 400 mark and him to his 100 |
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broad doesn't last long , would expect ali to have a real go now as wouldn't think finn or anderson will last long either
hopefully a good sign for us that the ball has started nipping around a little when we will be bowling fairly soon |
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Surprising stat I just heard whilst listening to TMS . They just said that Moeen is the 5th fastest in terms of Tests played to 50 wickets and 1000 runs (25 Tests)
Stokes (22) is the quickest with Trevor Bailey, Tony Greig and Ian Botham the others Exalted company indeed |
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Good morning session for England with over 100 runs
well on top now..........already feels like SL are out of the game and can't win from here |
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Well done Moeen Ali.
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Well done Moeen
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Well done Moeen
![]() Sri Lanka's fielding going from bad to worse
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another dropped catch by sri lanka
maybe sri lanka dont want to bat
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