marko Posted 29 January 2017 Share Posted 29 January 2017 Just now, katieakita said: MOM their the Umpire what a shocker Kohli & Yuvraj as plumb as you like and Root given out after hitting the ball really need a review system in T20. Agreed. It was borderline cheating. When you've got to put up with such bias then there's got to be a review available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katieakita Posted 29 January 2017 Share Posted 29 January 2017 1 minute ago, marko said: Agreed. It was borderline cheating. When you've got to put up with such bias then there's got to be a review available. Agreed 3 very poor decisions from the same home Umpire it just does not look good, the limited over series has been cracking but the stigma of match fixing still looms over cricket. With the camera angles available there is no argument the decisions were poor and wrong reviews stop this 3 wrong decisions in only 20 overs at the bowlers end just is not good enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 29 January 2017 Share Posted 29 January 2017 Did anyone else see the end of the South Africa v Sri Lanka T20 the other night? Sri Lanka needed 5 to win, the batsman hit a four to level the scores but thinking they'd won pulled a stump out and ran off Had to be told they needed one more to win and the crowd and players looked bewildered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katieakita Posted 1 February 2017 Share Posted 1 February 2017 Sky really struggle to say again bad about Joe Root but chasing 200 in a T20 and scoring a 40 at around a run a ball puts so much pressure on everybody else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishlcfc Posted 1 February 2017 Share Posted 1 February 2017 Joe Root is our best batsman technically but there is no way that he should be playing T20 cricket, he absolutely knackers things up all the time. Getting 41 off 37 balls when you need 200+ to win is goog for nobody. Same situation a couple of days ago as well. If Root scores runs in a T20 we generally lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarles Barkley Posted 1 February 2017 Share Posted 1 February 2017 Middle order showing as much composure as most of leicesters first team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrishlcfc Posted 1 February 2017 Share Posted 1 February 2017 2 minutes ago, katieakita said: Sky really struggle to say again bad about Joe Root but chasing 200 in a T20 and scoring a 40 at around a run a ball puts so much pressure on everybody else. Haha beat me too it by about 1 minute. As good a player as he is, he's not a T20 player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 1 February 2017 Share Posted 1 February 2017 That catch by Raina .Great balance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted 1 February 2017 Share Posted 1 February 2017 What a shambles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 1 February 2017 Share Posted 1 February 2017 phenomenal collapse. 119-2 to 127 all out. 8 wickets for 8 runs in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam Posted 1 February 2017 Share Posted 1 February 2017 Dear me. Majority of that was caused by the pressure Joe root caused there. 6 in his last 12 balls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osavo Posted 1 February 2017 Share Posted 1 February 2017 Root has his moments in T20 (South Africa in the world cup springs to mind) but should not be playing in the format. Phenomenally gifted player but doesn't score quickly enough, let him focus on test and ODIs, which are clearly his real strengths. Personally would replace Root with Billings and open with Hales and Roy going forwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzy Posted 6 February 2017 Share Posted 6 February 2017 Cook resigns as test captain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leicsmac Posted 6 February 2017 Share Posted 6 February 2017 Pretty inevitable, really. Hope he still has a few good years as a specialist batsman, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 6 February 2017 Share Posted 6 February 2017 He can get on with being a batsman now, plenty of years and runs left in him yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MattP Posted 8 February 2017 Share Posted 8 February 2017 Great shame to see him go, but the right decision no doubt. Highlights are obviously the two Ashes wins, that great win in South Africa and certainly top for me, the come from behind win in India, something I'm sure we will not see again for a long long time, don't blame him for the last tour, no captain in cricketing history could win a long series in India with the spin attack we possess now. Bad points were he was too conservative, reading the KP saga I hold no beef with him at all, I agree the ECB hung him out to dry. Won't go down as a great captain, but certainly one who oversaw some incredible things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 8 February 2017 Share Posted 8 February 2017 how long you think will Cook carry on in the England team? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MattP Posted 8 February 2017 Share Posted 8 February 2017 50 minutes ago, StanSP said: how long you think will Cook carry on in the England team? I think another 3-4 years at least, then probably see how close he is to Sachin and decide whether he thinks he has enough to go for his record. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted Maul Posted 8 February 2017 Share Posted 8 February 2017 I wouldn't say he was a great captain- he was steady, pulled off some great wins and helped to build a very talented side with a promising future. He just lacked that ruthless instinct which the great sides seem to have- to make decisions in favour of trying to win games rather than not lose. One of the all-time great batsmen though- hopefully he can go back to basics, concentrate solely on scoring runs and rack up a few thousand more. It would be amazing if he got near Sachin, particularly if you consider that he's spent half his career opening against the new ball in swinging English conditions- I'm sure he'd have scored plenty more already if he'd played more games batting first on flat subcontinent tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HybridFox Posted 8 February 2017 Share Posted 8 February 2017 Interesting article in The Times today about the prosed changes the ECB have for our domestic T20 competition. Starting from 2020 (the year!), we will have 8 city-based franchises competing in a tournament designed to rival the IPL and Big Bash League. Having grown up watching county cricket here and a regular spectator at Grace Road, I'm concerned how this will affect Leicestershire. Specially given that T20 is the format that brings in the most fans. Think about it, 8 teams, so it's bound to be the big grounds - Trent Bridge, Edgebaston, Old Trafford etc. So our nearest team would most likely be Nottingham. Could a Leicester man support a Nottingham team? Hell no! It may end up a profitable tournament, but I feel it will alienate the more die-hard fans who have grown up watching their counties. Interested to know your thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MattP Posted 8 February 2017 Share Posted 8 February 2017 I'm just reading the report in The Times, it does look like end for counties like ours if these sort of plans go through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Hundreds Posted 8 February 2017 Share Posted 8 February 2017 Maybe not a "great" captain after following Vaughan and Strauss but he's a great guy and no doubt the team followed him because of this (with the exception of FIGJAM). Still a good captain if on the conservative side, but I lived through England in the 90s so any captain winning a series, let alone the Ashes is a pretty fantastic captain to me and with a 46.5 average to boot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastAnglianFox Posted 20 February 2017 Share Posted 20 February 2017 Just been asked this question at work and couldn't answer so am hoping you guys can help. Ben Stokes has just been signed in the IPL for £1.7 million! But where/who is that money actually paid to? Surely it isn't just all for him is it? Just seems a heck of a lot of money for a couple of months work, but if it is all to him then fair play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmahrez Posted 20 February 2017 Share Posted 20 February 2017 3 hours ago, EastAnglianFox said: Just been asked this question at work and couldn't answer so am hoping you guys can help. Ben Stokes has just been signed in the IPL for £1.7 million! But where/who is that money actually paid to? Surely it isn't just all for him is it? Just seems a heck of a lot of money for a couple of months work, but if it is all to him then fair play. Yep it goes to him. The IPL is a ridiculously large tournament, I think the overall viewing figures are up there with the football world cup due to the huge viewing figures in India and across Asia. As a result the players get paid a premium. 250k a week is bonkers but it is what top sports stars get paid nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanSP Posted 20 February 2017 Share Posted 20 February 2017 4 hours ago, EastAnglianFox said: Just been asked this question at work and couldn't answer so am hoping you guys can help. Ben Stokes has just been signed in the IPL for £1.7 million! But where/who is that money actually paid to? Surely it isn't just all for him is it? Just seems a heck of a lot of money for a couple of months work, but if it is all to him then fair play. on the BBC site there's an article about where the money goes. Stokes is 'charged' £3,500 per day he is at the IPL by England as part of his contract with them. So he stands to miss out on approx £100,000 by playing in the IPL but obviously this is negated by the fact he will earn so much more having signed for an IPL team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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