Cricket 2019

[Vacamion]

 

I was up today at 05:00 for work, but I am soooooo having 45 minutes or so of this. 

 

Glass of Port, chunk of Stilton. 

 

Bob's yer uncle. 

 

 

[Corky]

This Sky punditry pairing

 

[ealingfox]

How many times is this guy going to call him Joe Burns?

[fuchsntf]

Quiet but interesting start..so far no Silly or nonsensical shots....unusual for England openers....

 

Whoops Sibley ...

Edited 20 November 2019 by fuchsntf

[ealingfox]

Sibley ffs

[fuchsntf]

3 hours ago, fuchsntf said:

Quiet but interesting start..so far no Silly or nonsensical shots....unusual for England openers....

 

Whoops Sibley ...

Since this post...120/3..... No poor start.but again 3 poor shots,3 wickets....Yes  kiwis  have bowled Fairy well,But England too carefull..

Root presently..has lost bis mojo, hes having One of those periods....But its Early doors,so no panic!

[Voll Blau]

Solid day's work. Looks like we showed exactly the kind of discipline we've been missing.

[RowlattsFox]

How long until people say we are boring. Good to see some determination not to throw it away, it's only a good day if we can cash in with Stokes and Butter tomorrow. Solid start. 

Edited 21 November 2019 by RowlattsFox

[ealingfox]

 

Who is the third umpire in this? Stevie Wonder?

[Guest MattP]

That's seriously close - about an inch up at the back it might just be behind but impossible to tell.

 

Can stay with the on field decision. 

[ealingfox]

1 hour ago, MattP said:

That's seriously close - about an inch up at the back it might just be behind but impossible to tell.

 

Can stay with the on field decision. 

 

It's clearly a no-ball. 

[Guest MattP]

6 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

It's clearly a no-ball. 

It's not clear at all, about a cm or so above the top of the black back part of the heal could feasibly be behind the line as you can't see all the white line behind it.

 

On balance I'd say it's probably a no ball - but it's not certain. 

[ealingfox]

4 minutes ago, MattP said:

It's not clear at all, about a cm or so above the top of the black back part of the heal could feasibly be behind the line as you can't see all the white line behind it.

 

On balance I'd say it's probably a no ball - but it's not certain. 

 

I cant say I agree. More than clear enough and should have been called. Nobody would have complained about it being called a no-ball.

[UniFox21]

Lovely catch to get Stokes out there 

[cambridgefox]

Oh dear.Lot of hardwork undone very quickly.

[fuchsntf]

Archer & Curran,came out with all that Morning Coffee Adrenilin,But still half asleep....4 wickets vor 60,with Stokes & Pope well set....

if it aint the First 4,the Middle will do their damnest to give Away strong positions...

 

Edited 21 November 2019 by fuchsntf

[Stinkenzo]

Never seen this happen before

[RowlattsFox]

Disappointing to not go big but 350 is progress I guess  Doesn't look like a pitch you can score quickly on. Shame Buttler had to bat with the tail again. As in most test cricket these days, two evenly match teams with bowlers being the better test players.

[Bobby Hundreds]

Think 350 is a very good score on this pitch, NZ wobbling to 140-4. It's such a luxury having Buttler coming in at 7, been really impressed with him the last 3-4 tests.

[Guest MattP]

Bowled as poor as I've seen today. Leach and Archer woeful.

 

Hard to see us winning from here.

[RowlattsFox]

Bowlers again struggling overseas and Root struggling with captaincy when nothings happening. 

[Guest MattP]

Before we think about building a team to win in Australia we need to get a team who can be competitive in New Zealand. 

 

Early days but Leach really struggling on a pitch Santner has 3-6 on

[surrifox]

The bowling at the 7th wicket pair was frankly embarrassing - no plan or attempt to make something happen just waiting for a declaration 

[ealingfox]

Pope, mate - talk me through that. Ffs

 

Crazy catch though!

Edited 25 November 2019 by ealingfox

[RowlattsFox]

Again, rubbish when opposition get in front. Going to be a long winter for this test team, can't see them winning too many apart from maybe in Sri Lanka. Root needs a break, lost all his confidence with the bat and is messing around too much trying to get it back.