Cricket (None Leicestershire County Cricket Club)

[LiberalFox]

We're always shit at cricket when the Tories are in power.

[Corky]

11 hours ago, Vacamion said:

 

I know the batting is pants, but by leaving Anderson and Broad at home, we were always going to struggle.

 

Our blunt bowling attack allowed the Windies to get a lead earlier, which they really shouldn't have achieved, and this has hastened our demise in the batting in the last two sessions.

 

 

 

 

We're without our five best bowlers in this Test- Broad, Anderson, Archer, Robinson and Wood. Not taking one of Broad or Anderson with Archer missing and Wood's unreliable fitness was a huge gamble in a place we usually struggle at.

 

Our dismal Test record continues.

[RonnieTodger]

1 hour ago, surrifox said:

I’m struggling to remember a more depressingly poor England side than this shower and I doubt there is a solution within the current set up . Root simply has to step down or be told to resign as great cricketer though he is ,he cannot get the best out of his players and lacks tactical awareness .

Jimmy and Broad are at the end of their fine careers and they needed to be replaced and their omission isn’t the problem. What happened to Archer ? One good series 3/4 years ago (?) and he’s never heard of again .

He’s had surgery on his elbow I think 

[Voll Blau]

2 hours ago, surrifox said:

I’m struggling to remember a more depressingly poor England side than this shower and I doubt there is a solution within the current set up . Root simply has to step down or be told to resign as great cricketer though he is ,he cannot get the best out of his players and lacks tactical awareness .

Jimmy and Broad are at the end of their fine careers and they needed to be replaced and their omission isn’t the problem. What happened to Archer ? One good series 3/4 years ago (?) and he’s never heard of again .

Archer's had injury problems and is poorly managed, same as Wood is - and Stokes to a degree.

 

All overbowled because we've no choice when our batters give our bowlers nothing to bowl at so regularly.

Edited 27 March 2022 by Voll Blau

[Tommy Fresh]

Pretty depressing, but I can't decide if the test team is more depressing than the ODI side used to be. Remember when players like Dalrymple and Yardy were seen as specialist picks. But for the most part the ECB pretty much just picked the same players across all formats.

[Tommy Fresh]

4 hours ago, surrifox said:

I’m struggling to remember a more depressingly poor England side than this shower and I doubt there is a solution within the current set up . Root simply has to step down or be told to resign as great cricketer though he is ,he cannot get the best out of his players and lacks tactical awareness .

Jimmy and Broad are at the end of their fine careers and they needed to be replaced and their omission isn’t the problem. What happened to Archer ? One good series 3/4 years ago (?) and he’s never heard of again .

Issue with the captaincy is, Root is probably the only player guranteed to be playing every test and not miss out due to fitness or form. If we had any other consistent picks, Root should have had it taken off of him after he came out slamming the bowlers for not following instructions.

 

I can already see them giving it Crawley at some point 😢

Edited 27 March 2022 by Tommy Fresh

[Super_horns]

2 hours ago, RonnieTodger said:

He’s had surgery on his elbow I think 

Twice I think .

 

Probably an issue that won’t go away easily .

[DoveValleyFox]

Aggers has just commented on the BBC that England have to remain positive because in Leach, Woakes and Mahmood they have three very determined batters.

 

Where do we start with that comment 

[StanSP]

My word what a catch from Holder! 

[Corky]

Mark Butcher making the salient point earlier that the type of bowling that has wrecked us in this innings is precisely the type they'd face in the County Championship.

[UniFox21]

On the plus, we can't now ignore our issues by masking them with a series win over the WI

[Super_horns]

1 minute ago, UniFox21 said:

On the plus, we can't now ignore our issues by masking them with a series win over the WI

Only beaten them once in 50 years over there I believe.

 

Well it’s pretty much all over

Such a shambles .

I didn’t realise we weren’t able to appeal a LBW shout towards the end of the West Indies innings as we’d run out of reviews .

Sums the test up !

[Tommy Fresh]

1 hour ago, UniFox21 said:

On the plus, we can't now ignore our issues by masking them with a series win over the WI

Yeah but they'll use this whole red ball reset as the reason why 

[Tommy Fresh]

Surely they don't give the job to Collingwood, just get it over and done with and give Kirsten the test job already

[Super_horns]

Root said he won’t quit.

 

Probably knows there isn’t anyone to replace him apart from Stokes who potentially doesn’t want it.

[RowlattsFox]

It's got to a stage where Lees is seen as a success because he got to 30 a few times. 

 

Any new coach as to get the best of the current players and a few that have already been tried. 

 

Insane decision to leave Broad and Anderson at home when we've ended up having to use 6th and 7th choice bowlers who are good home bowlers, but offer no threat on flat pitches. 

 

They need to play outside of tests, difficult during the winter I appreciate that. 

 

 

[Osavo]

We are genuinely the worst test side in the world right now aren't we. Depressing.

[Super_horns]

Michael Vaughan on 5live tonight .

 

Is that the first time since the Yorkshire race row last year ?

Edited 28 March 2022 by Super_horns

[when_you're_smiling]

17 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Michael Vaughan on 5live tonight .

 

Is that the first time since the Yorkshire race row last year ?

He was in the studio for BT for the last test.

[RonnieTodger]

[jaqo88]

On 27/03/2022 at 10:27, Tommy Fresh said:

Surely they don't give the job to Collingwood, just get it over and done with and give Kirsten the test job already

I’d want Langer personally, fire some proper mentality into the squad that has been missing for far too long

[Tommy Fresh]

22 minutes ago, jaqo88 said:

I’d want Langer personally, fire some proper mentality into the squad that has been missing for far too long

I like Langer but without a doubt if I had to chose between the two, Kirsten would get the job.

Edited 29 March 2022 by Tommy Fresh

[Corky]

Langer could probably bat and still average more than the lot we've got now.

[leicsmac]

England women look like putting up a good total in the World Cup semi final against SA. Great century from Wyatt, helped by a bit of luck but in games like this you sometimes need that.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

7 hours ago, leicsmac said:

England women look like putting up a good total in the World Cup semi final against SA. Great century from Wyatt, helped by a bit of luck but in games like this you sometimes need that.

They've done really well to come back from the brink of elimination and get to the final. However, I think the Aussie women are a level above them. They'll need 3 or 4 players to have the game of their lives to stand a chance, which is possible, but unlikely.