The Cricket Thread

[Gemmill 35105]

It must be a minor adjustment to get them to just cut out the really brainless shit.

[Toonpack 6957]

It's all risk and no reward playing at them with everyone behind square. Utter madness.

[Dr Gloom 19936]

Imagine playing that shot on 98

[Alex 30654]

Exactly. It was coming too. How many chances did he want to give them? I’m fucking sick of this shit now like. Zaltz was saying the conditions (seam + swing movement) is the 5th easiest in the first 40 overs since they started recording it at lords. Something like 200 innings. So they’re throwing their wickets away in perfect batting conditions with the opposition on the ropes. 

[Alex 30654]

Fuck off 

[Dr Gloom 19936]

This is getting ridiculous 

[Dr Gloom 19936]

Why not get close to their score before trying  this shit? Or at least get in? Root is better than that 

[Alex 30654]

1 minute ago, Dr Gloom said:

Why not get close to their score before trying  this shit? Or at least get in? Root is better than that 

That is not the way of the Bazball 

[Dr Gloom 19936]

9 minutes ago, Alex said:

That is not the way of the Bazball 

they didn’t bat like this in the first test. They’re batting like dicks

[Alex 30654]

I guess they’d have batted like this with this field and these tactics though. Ego before brains tbh. What a missed opportunity here btw 

[Dr Gloom 19936]

5 minutes ago, Alex said:

I guess they’d have batted like this with this field and these tactics though. Ego before brains tbh. What a missed opportunity here btw 

That’s a good way of putting it actually. It isn’t aggression, it’s egotism. It’ll be interesting to see if Stokes is the one to call time on it. Brook doesn’t look like backing down but Stokes is playing a little more orthodox so far.  Total madness. We should be closing on 300+ for two. Instead we’re going to be 5 or 6 down at stumps. Brook dropped as I type 

[Alex 30654]

2 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

That’s a good way of putting it actually. It isn’t aggression, it’s egotism. It’ll be interesting to see if Stokes is the one to call time on it. Brook doesn’t look like backing down but Stokes is playing a little more orthodox so far.  Total madness. We should be closing on 300+ for two. Instead we’re going to be 5 or 6 down at stumps. Brook dropped as I type 

The old definition of insanity quote usually attributed to Einstein’s has rarely been so apt 

[Dr Gloom 19936]

all of their wickets have been gifts so far. that is pretty galling

[MMXXVIII 1072]

Reckon Travis Head has an outhouse filled with hiking boots of various sizes.

[Toonpack 6957]

Massive opportunity this mind, back to back tests, Lyon crocked, get some major miles into the Aussie legs.

[MMXXVIII 1072]

I like the way Stokes played there. Just calmed it down a bit when it needed fucking calming, still 3 days left.

[Alex 30654]

3 minutes ago, MMXXVIII said:

I like the way Stokes played there. Just calmed it down a bit when it needed fucking calming, still 3 days left.

He bats better when he plays himself in. You know, like just about every batsman in the history of test matches?   Just what was needed, like you say 

[Toonpack 6957]

4 minutes ago, Alex said:

He bats better when he plays himself in. You know, like just about every batsman in the history of test matches?   Just what was needed, like you say 

He played the situation like proper cricket required, do the same tomorrow and it could massively effect the whole series, in a positive way. They want to bowl short, let them, it’s way more exertion for the bowlers than bowling a rhythm length.

[Toonpack 6957]

Evidently they think Lyon is done for the match and possibly the series (from cheat Smith interview)

[MMXXVIII 1072]

8 minutes ago, Alex said:

He bats better when he plays himself in. You know, like just about every batsman in the history of test matches?   Just what was needed, like you say 

 

Was good to see him adapt to a situation and not play up to the hype surrounding his team. There will be periods when playing this so-called "Bazball" will be the right approach and it'll be great to watch, but you simply cannot do it most of the time.

 

We might have had 50 runs less but we ought to be 0 down tonight, I didn't see one genuine wicketing taking delivery from the Aussies today and they're happier tonight with us 278-4 than if we were 220-0.

[Alex 30654]

2 minutes ago, Toonpack said:

Evidently they think Lyon is done for the match and possibly the series (from cheat Smith interview)

[spongebob toonpants 3629]

21 minutes ago, MMXXVIII said:

We might have had 50 runs less but we ought to be 0 down tonight, I didn't see one genuine wicketing taking delivery from the Aussies today and they're happier tonight with us 278-4 than if we were 220-0

Pure wishful thinking to think we could be 220-0 the players just aren't capable of playing like that. If they weren't attacking they'd get out just as often just with less runs on the board.

Duckets's interview made a lot of sense afterwards

Most frustrating wicket was Joe Root's but I don't really feel I'm in a position to criticise his batting tbh

From where we wre last night to 138 behind with 6 wickets in hand and Lyon out for the game is dreamland

[MMXXVIII 1072]

3 minutes ago, spongebob toonpants said:

Pure wishful thinking to think we could be 220-0 the players just aren't capable of playing like that. If they weren't attacking they'd get out just as often just with less runs on the board.

Duckets's interview made a lot of sense afterwards

Most frustrating wicket was Joe Root's but I don't really feel I'm in a position to criticise his batting tbh

From where we wre last night to 138 behind with 6 wickets in hand and Lyon out for the game is dreamland

 

I don't think it is and I have considered that perhaps some of our batsmen can't play it any other way, but dismissed it. They were getting the horizontal bat out for singles to every short ball with men in the deep, utter madness. You'd get one every time turning it with a vertical bat to the same area and not risk it flying in the air. They played to the hype, the Aussies knew they would and it needs to be tempered.

[Toonpack 6957]

1 hour ago, MMXXVIII said:

 

I don't think it is and I have considered that perhaps some of our batsmen can't play it any other way, but dismissed it. They were getting the horizontal bat out for singles to every short ball with men in the deep, utter madness. You'd get one every time turning it with a vertical bat to the same area and not risk it flying in the air. They played to the hype, the Aussies knew they would and it needs to be tempered.

agree, if it’d been an orthodox field, fine play the hook or pull, but every fucker was behind square, it was like give us some catching practice. There was no positive outcome, a single at best, it was nuts.

[Gemmill 35105]

Has this fixed it, you fannies?