Cricket (None Leicestershire County Cricket Club)

[Stinkenzo]

I don't think you can have a reset in just two months without playing any games but

[Voll Blau]

You've got to give Roach credit because he's quality on his day, and that was some grab form Da Silva, but this top order are beyond parody. Feel sorry for Lees being chucked into this basket case of a line-up at the top.

[RowlattsFox]

Not watching any of it, but has it been bad shots or good bowling? 

 

There has been no chance for anyone to get any form I guess and Lees has come in having played little cricket I assume, maybe spent some time In Aus with Lions. Was never going to be easy, and we are traditionally shit in first tests of a series (and the rest more recently)

[coolhandfox]

Sums up England thinking, Root has a record breaking year batting at 4, so we move him to 3. 

 

At 3 he averages 38, compared too 51 at 4 and 67 at 5.

 

Crazy!

Edited 8 March 2022 by coolhandfox

[Voll Blau]

17 minutes ago, RowlattsFox said:

Not watching any of it, but has it been bad shots or good bowling? 

 

There has been no chance for anyone to get any form I guess and Lees has come in having played little cricket I assume, maybe spent some time In Aus with Lions. Was never going to be easy, and we are traditionally shit in first tests of a series (and the rest more recently)

Mixture, I'd say. Crawley's shot was absolutely dreadful.

[Tommy Fresh]

45 minutes ago, Voll Blau said:

Mixture, I'd say. Crawley's shot was absolutely dreadful.

Yeah but remember that double hundred a few years ago and his one half decent knock in Australia.

[Super_horns]

Different players , country ,conditions - same old problems for England !!



Mind you our record in the West Indies is very poor - one series win in 40 years 

[Corky]

We are just a dismal Test cricket team.

 

Cannot get away from it. Pathetic.

[StanSP]

5 hours ago, RowlattsFox said:

Waiting so long for test cricket to return to Pakistan and then they have a match like that. Looking at the scorecard, day 5 looked a bit of a farce  

 

Australia took 4 wickets for 728 in the test match....good batting or an absolute nothing pitch? 

Absolute road of a pitch. 

 

Not a British potholey road, a brand spanking new state of the art one! 

[Tommy Fresh]

Foakes could get out now and it would still look baffling that he is often overlooked.

[EastAnglianFox]

Foakes surprising absolutely nobody apart from the selectors, bet Roots seething deep down

[StanSP]

12 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

Foakes surprising absolutely nobody apart from the selectors, bet Roots seething deep down

Does he not like him? 

[EastAnglianFox]

7 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Does he not like him? 

 

I've no idea to to fair, it was more just a tongue in cheek dig at the very cozy relationship Root has with Buttler and the selectors.

[EastAnglianFox]

Buttler in....

[Bert]

It’s quite clear that Foakes is the better keeper for the test side…. Butler has failed so much with the bat over the last two years it’s about time someone else was given a chance. 

[Silebyfox_89]

Bairstow and Foakes proving that the selection process is flawed at the ECB.

[shilton_fox]

Bairstow in some form at the minute. Long may it continue

[Corky]

1 hour ago, Silebyfox_89 said:

Bairstow and Foakes proving that the selection process is flawed at the ECB.

Bairstow's had a decent career in the Test game but also seems wasted, mainly due to the fact they spent years wondering whether to play him as a keeper or not.

 

Just let him bat.

[Super_horns]

1 hour ago, shilton_fox said:

Bairstow in some form at the minute. Long may it continue

Thank goodness someone is !

 

Must make the others look even worse .

[Tommy Fresh]

8 hours ago, Silebyfox_89 said:

Bairstow and Foakes proving that the selection process is flawed at the ECB.

And Crawley for the wrong reasons 😂 (expecting at least a double hundred in the second innings now I've said this)

[Tommy Fresh]

9 hours ago, Bert said:

It’s quite clear that Foakes is the better keeper for the test side…. Butler has failed so much with the bat over the last two years it’s about time someone else was given a chance. 

Shame they've robbed Foakes of a few extra years of test cricket really.  It's been painfully obvious for a while he was the best option

[coolhandfox]

Lower order batting is as pathetic as the openers 

[RonnieTodger]

Wood looked solid behind the ball and then just swung wildly 

[RowlattsFox]

Only just turned on but we've turned to Leach already? Can't be a good sign. 

[RonnieTodger]

Nice to hear Gower