Test India v England (5 Tests) + Ind A v Eng Lions (1 Tour Match and 3 FC games)

[Ohitsthatguy]

Bazball is playing your natural way

Duckett and Crawley have succeeded in India playing their own way

They will both end up with better averages than Warner in India

 

[The Passenger]

It wouldn't weird me out though, people have hobbies. It weirds me out that professional sportspeople getting paid millions still joke about who buys the rounds. It feels like something from the days where cricketers were basically amateurs getting a few bucks thrown their way to play cricket. It's more weird when you consider many of these people come from private school backgrounds and were wealthy well before their cricket careers came to be.

Agreed. Or when football clubs release their fines list (or "leaked" the club would normally say). It never looks great, no matter which way it goes.

Example: Walsall release fine list including £10 penalty for mobiles in dressing room

When players are getting fined above the UK median wage (and in some cases well above the the median) it's impossible not to appear completely out of touch. At the other end of the scale, Walsall players from League 2 (not PL rich but with a very healthy league median wage of roughly £110K/year or AU$200K) docking them £2 for anything looks exceedingly trivial.

I've never seen one of these fines lists hit the media and the club / playing group coming out looking good.

Keep it in house lads.

 

[Marshland]

Bazball is playing your natural way

Duckett and Crawley have succeeded in India playing their own way

They will both end up with better averages than Warner in India

Hardly a gold standard. Try somebody like Hayden instead.

 

[PhatBoy]

Hardly a gold standard. Try somebody like Hayden instead.

What does that mean?

Even Hayden himself only averaged 51 there despite one series where they basically couldn’t get him out.

Duckett and Crawley have done fine.

Crawley in particular is one player that for the moment they don’t have to worry about beyond the ‘good problem to have’ of turning 70s into hundreds.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

All these moral victories are beginning to become demoralizing.

 

[ioppolo]

England's middle order have been the biggest problem by far, as well as their pace bowlers. This also happens to be their most experienced part of things. Root (aside from a century), Stokes, Bairstow massively disappointing series. Anderson and Wood hugely ineffective compared to Bumrah & Shami.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

England staring down at a series-winning 4-1 deficit.

 

[Cleavy]

700th wicket for Anderson. can he get to 800?

 

[TheGreatBambino]

He will want to pass Shane Warnes 708 now. They don’t play another test until July though.

 

[danielnajdek]

Hahhahaahahaah what the hell was that Duckett.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Duckett ... the man who claims credit for teaching Indians how to bat.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

700th wicket for Anderson. can he get to 800?

Probably. England have got nobody else so he'll do a LeBron and play for as long as he wants to.

 

[The 747]

Innings defeat incoming

 

[yabsy]

700th wicket for Anderson. can he get to 800?

Just for the rest of this year alone, they have 6 tests at home & 6 away in Pakistan / NZ to increase the tally.

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[hawkman]

At least they are going at 4 an over still. That is all that matters

 

[010203]

I did have a slight chuckle when Harsha asked Nick Knight if defending is outlawed.

 

[010203]

I just caught up with Duckett's dismissal - what a dickhead but Baz would be so, so proud of him.

 

[Cleavy]

At least they are going at 4 an over still. That is all that matters

 

[Zach Package]

A light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Missed the stock ball by a week and a half

 

[010203]

Jonny Bairstow is now out LBW. Umpire's call on review.

 

[The 747]

And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?

 

[Cleavy]

read that Sharma is off the field with back stiffness. how are Bumrah's captaincy skills in his absence?

 

[MJG14]

Played OK today, but it amazes me that Jonny Bairstow is playing his 100th Test.

 

[Zach Package]

read that Sharma is off the field with back stiffness. how are Bumrah's captaincy skills in his absence?

He’s decided to bowl the spinners and let the poms just implode on their own.

Cunning stratagem

 

[010203]

Stokes gone for 2 which is fitting because he acted like a 2 year old after the Lord's test last year. Great ball by Ashwin too by the way.