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#3351 |
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yes England plays the most, can't see him scoring more than tendulkar, need another 6K runs and got a feeling he going to call it day after the next ashes.
at best reckon he getting 14K Also not sure the number games will matter too much considering reckon Cook would play similar amount of games the greats played. Anyway the more meaningful stat is how many test or innings it took to reach the milestone and cook ranks lowly in that stat which explains his low average. Cooks is remarkable player though since he reached 10k runs with 3 shots and it took what close 6-7 years for teams to actually find his weakness. Can't see him getting much more now though, life could be really difficult for him now if team bowl really full and slightly wide at him, really struggles to score runs and get him self out when teams do this. Actually find it remarkable an opener with this weakness averages 45 and play for england more remarkable when you considering his strongest aspect and the conditions he prospers the most his asian and spinning conditions when all the people thought the guy can't play spin lol. |
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They just showed the odi ranking in the WI games so surprised England are still 6 in ODI.
Really tight between WI, pak, ban and possible England but england will win games and stay way clear of the trouble. |
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#3353 |
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Narine causing problems for the South Africans with his spin having returned from a ban.
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Narine causing problems for the South Africans with his spin having returned from a ban.
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Good win for the West Indies over a full strength South Africa
Their returning T20 stars doing the damage with Narine and Pollard marking their comebacks with excellent performances |
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Good win for the West Indies over a full strength South Africa
Their returning T20 stars doing the damage with Narine and Pollard marking their comebacks with excellent performances by my calculation Pakistan are close to being confirmed to the qualification stage of the world cup if they lose 5-0 to England in that series. even if they lose the other 5 games in the tri series they still gained 4pt from the tri series and now got a 4pt advantage over Pakistan. WI not playing the Champions trophy might be a blessing in disguise, don't have games to lose points. |
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I was just looking at the womens batting averages for last year, and can see why Caroline Edwards world was 'turned upside down'.
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/eng...2015;type=year Rather than being a country mile ahead of the rest her averages were only really at the top. A shame for the England women really, a mixture of youth alongside skill and eperiencecounts more than the fear factor of a manager making their mark. Maybe some upcoming South African women have British passports to boost the sideback to quality? |
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Cricket Writers is on and they are discussing the papers
Unfortunately they are sat on the balcony at Taunton before the pro-50 game and the tannoy is competing with them.... |
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Cricket Writers is on and they are discussing the papers
Unfortunately they are sat on the balcony at Taunton before the pro-50 game and the tannoy is competing with them.... You could see them getting fistracted by what was going on around them |
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Cricket Writers was only actually on for 20 minutes, they have them stuck on the balcony whatever the weather and it was cancelled altogether the week the test match finished early. There seems to have been a decision to downgrade it from an in depth studio discussion programme like Sunday Supplement to a brief chat before whatever match Sky is covering that day
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After an impressive performance against South Africa, West Indies are performing embarrassingly against Australia
Not the best of wickets but 88/7 is more down to poor/awful shot selection than unplayable deliveries |
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I've given up on Cricket Writers........why do they even bother putting in in the listings. Today it was shown as starting at 10.00........and when it didn't come on I just turned the telly off
I didn't know it was coming on at 10.30 It hardly seems worth bothering trying to catch it now....... |
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Another poor decision by a 3rd umpire overturning a not out call on the field in the WI/Aus game
Virtually impossible to tell if he hit it and the laws state that there should be conclusive evidence which there wasn't |
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More terrible umpiring decisions with lbws now...two plumb hitting halfway up middle stump not given on finch and one given that would have missed a 5th stump to dismiss maxwell.
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And another lbw given not out that was hitting halfway up middle to save Lyon. Joel Wilson has had a shocker - 3 plumb LBW's given not out and the only one he gave out was missing by a mile.
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Sarah Taylor is taking a break from the England team while she addresses some mental issues around panic attacks whilst playing
With Lydia Greenway and Charlotte Edwards having left the fold the team is going to look quite different as the 3 stalwarts all leave at the same time New coach.....Mark Robinson I think it's a good sign......the team was getting stale and seemed to have settled for sliding down the pecking order after years of being on top Fresh blood and a bit more hunger needed.........if there's any fresh blood around that is....... |
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Sarah Taylor is taking a break from the England team while she addresses some mental issues around panic attacks whilst playing
With Lydia Greenway and Charlotte Edwards having left the fold the team is going to look quite different as the 3 stalwarts all leave at the same time New coach.....Mark Robinson I think it's a good sign......the team was getting stale and seemed to have settled for sliding down the pecking order after years of being on top Fresh blood and a bit more hunger needed.........if there's any fresh blood around that is....... Dunno myself, I do think the constant travel does play a part. |
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So depression again for a cricketer. Becoming a theme. Foxy Fowler in his recent round of interviews insists that it's actually a good thing that cricket is catching it early, and other sports have the same troubles, but people just suffer in silence.
Dunno myself, I do think the constant travel does play a part. You can see that that might cause some anxiety.......you can have a long time to fret and worry and churn over your form and the opposition etc I guess it's pretty unusual in sport.........most sports would be like football, start at 3pm, play for 90 minutes |
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I wonder if there's something fairly unusual in cricket in that you can sit for hours knowing that you're going to be called upon but not knowing when it's going to be
You can see that that might cause some anxiety.......you can have a long time to fret and worry and churn over your form and the opposition etc I guess it's pretty unusual in sport.........most sports would be like football, start at 3pm, play for 90 minutes |
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cook wins the toss and england bat first
as expected same team as the last game |
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as expected same team as the last game
I'm not a fan of massive chopping and changing, but I am a fan of 'having a look' at new players in a confident, winning side. I think this would have been an opportunity for Jake Ball, Vince at 3 and a new batsmen in the side. IMO, they didn't need to replace Stokes with another (sort of )all-rounder anyway. |
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Maybe others will disagree, but I'm not sure what the value is of keeping Compton in this side. Even if he now scored 100, should he keep his place based on how he's done otherwise?
I'm not a fan of massive chopping and changing, but I am a fan of 'having a look' at new players in a confident, winning side. I think this would have been an opportunity for Jake Ball, Vince at 3 and a new batsmen in the side. IMO, they didn't need to replace Stokes with another (sort of )all-rounder anyway. personally i think we have seen enough of compton to say that he probably doesn't deserve to still be in the side and that there are other options around. as has been said by a couple of other FMs i would prefer to see bairstow bat at #5 as a specialist batsman and bring buttler back in at #7 with the gloves. bairstow looks wasted at #7 imo, i know he isn't batting there atm but will be when stokes comes back, and i think buttler is a better keeper. |
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bit of a defensive field from sri lanka with just 2 slips in right from the start for cook
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the comment that was made in the build-up was that england prefer to give a player one game too many to see if they can contribute than drop them one game too soon
personally i think we have seen enough of compton to say that he probably doesn't deserve to still be in the side and that there are other options around. as has been said by a couple of other FMs i would prefer to see bairstow bat at #5 as a specialist batsman and bring buttler back in at #7 with the gloves. bairstow looks wasted at #7 imo, i know he isn't batting there atm but will be when stokes comes back, and i think buttler is a better keeper. Compton was guaranteed this series since in the early part of the summer not many batsman actually putted their name up for Selection. Ballance didn't fix technique and was struggling in county cricket, bell got injured and he wasn't going to get picked anyway. Westley isn't even good enough to be picked, Surprised he getting mentioned just because he was leading the run charts. unlikely they were going to change the team and then have the new batsman play 1 test wait for like a month for the next test match. Far better to give Compton one more Test match and then in the next month in the county championship Compton, hildreth, borthwick and all the batting contenders can show the selectors they should be the ones being picked. Reckon Borthwick the favourite to being picked for the Pakistan series. |
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looks like it will be a very long day in the field for the Sri lankan team.
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