The Official Cricket Thread

[inactionman]

States the obvious perhaps, but the new ball looks to be pretty important on this pitch.

[duke]

States the obvious perhaps, but the new ball looks to be pretty important on this pitch.

Makes you wonder why the Aussies didn't take it immediately?

[shaggy]

States the obvious perhaps, but the new ball looks to be pretty important on this pitch.

Makes you wonder why the Aussies didn't take it immediately?

Arrogance, obvs

[JM2K6]

States the obvious perhaps, but the new ball looks to be pretty important on this pitch.

Makes you wonder why the Aussies didn't take it immediately?

It's always a double edged sword, it can go for runs pretty quickly

[tabascoboy]

Back to the beach hut for Deepsouth.

Still MIA, wonder why...

[Insane_Homer]

592, Jimmeh leaves Barstool stranded on 99*

lead of 275

[tabascoboy]

It looks like there have been showers all around the Manchester area but none over Old Trafford. Providence maybe...?

[Deepsouth]

Back to the beach hut for Deepsouth.

Still MIA, wonder why...

Love you boys. Some of us don't run.....

[inactionman]

shame

[Deepsouth]

shame

There's a lot of that to go around......

[Deepsouth]

Jimmy and Broad....

[Mahoney]

Just had a look at the spell lengths from the 1st Aussie innings - very interesting*, the longest spell by a quick was 5 overs. My recollection was that 7 over spells or even longer were quite common not long ago.

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	1st spell	2nd spell	3rd spell	4th spell	5th spell	6th spell	7th spell	Total
Broad		4		2		4		4							14
Anderson	4		4		5		3		1		3			20
Woakes		5		5		2		3		2		2		4	23
Wood		4		5		5		2		1					17
Ali		2		9		6									17
														Total	91

* yes, yes...

[Deepsouth]

Just had a look at the spell lengths from the 1st Aussie innings - very interesting*, the longest spell by a quick was 5 overs. My recollection was that 7 over spells or even longer were quite common not long ago.

Code: Select all

	1st spell	2nd spell	3rd spell	4th spell	5th spell	6th spell	7th spell	Total
Broad		4		2		4		4							14
Anderson	4		4		5		3		1		3			20
Woakes		5		5		2		3		2		2		4	23
Wood		4		5		5		2		1					17
Ali		2		9		6									17
														Total	91

* yes, yes...

You win mate. On stats.....

[Deepsouth]

The state of Atherton.....

[Deepsouth]

Oh yes. Root and the spirit of Cricket....

[Deepsouth]

So Root knew and didn't alert his Captain to it........

[Paddington Bear]

Forecast is making me very nervous.

Meanwhile north of the wall Scotland are being given a very serious fright by Jersey

[Deepsouth]

So Root knew

[Paddington Bear]

Very soft dismissal from Smith. Aussie rain dance incoming

[Insane_Homer]

Barstool takes a catch

Smith gone, 97/3

[Insane_Homer]

Head gone

Aussies will need 2 days of unrelenting, a Noah's ark style rain to escape this one now.

[Torquemada 1420]

Head gone

Aussies will need 2 days of unrelenting, a Noah's ark style rain to escape this one now.

This is great stuff. The Aussies are heading towards the ignominy of losing after a 2 nil lead in a Test series. Sure this has never happened in the Ashes but struggling to think if has ever happened in a 5 match series. Windies won against Eng in 90 but the 2nd Test was abandoned rather than lost.

[Torquemada 1420]

Back to the beach hut for Deepsouth.

Still MIA, wonder why...

Love you boys. Some of us don't run.....

Surely runs is what the Aussies need?

[Deepsouth]

Still MIA, wonder why...

Love you boys. Some of us don't run.....

Surely runs is what the Aussies need?

We shall see mate. English weather being what it is we shall see....

[Deepsouth]

Head gone

Aussies will need 2 days of unrelenting, a Noah's ark style rain to escape this one now.

This is great stuff. The Aussies are heading towards the ignominy of losing after a 2 nil lead in a Test series. Sure this has never happened in the Ashes but struggling to think if has ever happened in a 5 match series. Windies won against Eng in 90 but the 2nd Test was abandoned rather than lost.

As we said gentleman. Root knew. Unlike the English we won't cry about it.....

Brexit England disgraceful and very feral......

[Paddington Bear]

Head gone

Aussies will need 2 days of unrelenting, a Noah's ark style rain to escape this one now.

This is great stuff. The Aussies are heading towards the ignominy of losing after a 2 nil lead in a Test series. Sure this has never happened in the Ashes but struggling to think if has ever happened in a 5 match series. Windies won against Eng in 90 but the 2nd Test was abandoned rather than lost.

I wish I had confidence we’re going to get the c.40 overs we’ll likely need to finish this off given the forecast. Nail every cover in Lancashire to that ground tonight.

[Thor Sedan]

Game is easy when you play well and get to choose at the toss 4 out of 4.

[Torquemada 1420]

Head gone

Aussies will need 2 days of unrelenting, a Noah's ark style rain to escape this one now.

This is great stuff. The Aussies are heading towards the ignominy of losing after a 2 nil lead in a Test series. Sure this has never happened in the Ashes but struggling to think if has ever happened in a 5 match series. Windies won against Eng in 90 but the 2nd Test was abandoned rather than lost.

I wish I had confidence we’re going to get the c.40 overs we’ll likely need to finish this off given the forecast. Nail every cover in Lancashire to that ground tonight.

I think you are worrying unnecessarily. Aus won't last 50 overs and the forecast allows enough for that (with any added time).

On another note, Smith and Head once again show that modern batsmen are clueless against the short ball (off a genuine quick).

[Torquemada 1420]

Game is easy when you play well and get to choose at the toss 4 out of 4.

Fair to say Eng have had all the rub of the conditions where that has been material.

[Paddington Bear]

This is great stuff. The Aussies are heading towards the ignominy of losing after a 2 nil lead in a Test series. Sure this has never happened in the Ashes but struggling to think if has ever happened in a 5 match series. Windies won against Eng in 90 but the 2nd Test was abandoned rather than lost.

I wish I had confidence we’re going to get the c.40 overs we’ll likely need to finish this off given the forecast. Nail every cover in Lancashire to that ground tonight.

I think you are worrying unnecessarily. Aus won't last 50 overs and the forecast allows enough for that (with any added time).

On another note, Smith and Head once again show that modern batsmen are clueless against the short ball (off a genuine quick).

Fully agree on the short ball. Head’s in many ways is more criminal - a top order international should not be left looking like that by a telegraphed bouncer. What a difference Wood makes, and a genuine character as well which is always great to see

[Torquemada 1420]

Fully agree on the short ball. Head’s in many ways is more criminal - a top order international should not be left looking like that by a telegraphed bouncer. What a difference Wood makes, and a genuine character as well which is always great to see

You can't help liking both Woakes and Woods.

[Hal Jordan]

Just seen Wood's dismissal of Head. Absolute brute of a ball.

[TedMaul]

Head gone

Aussies will need 2 days of unrelenting, a Noah's ark style rain to escape this one now.

This is great stuff. The Aussies are heading towards the ignominy of losing after a 2 nil lead in a Test series. Sure this has never happened in the Ashes but struggling to think if has ever happened in a 5 match series. Windies won against Eng in 90 but the 2nd Test was abandoned rather than lost.

As we said gentleman. Root knew. Unlike the English we won't cry about it.....

Brexit England disgraceful and very feral......

You are a lesion on this board.

[Enzedder]

Game is easy when you play well and get to choose at the toss 4 out of 4.

Aussie would have batted first both times for the last 2 tests, I reckon

[Deepsouth]

This is great stuff. The Aussies are heading towards the ignominy of losing after a 2 nil lead in a Test series. Sure this has never happened in the Ashes but struggling to think if has ever happened in a 5 match series. Windies won against Eng in 90 but the 2nd Test was abandoned rather than lost.

As we said gentleman. Root knew. Unlike the English we won't cry about it.....

Brexit England disgraceful and very feral......

You are a lesion on this board.

And you are a bitter sad old man......

[Biffer]

The Aussies deserve to lose this series purely because they're playing such awful, negative cricket. This 7/8/9 men on the boundary shit is just a symptom of a complete lack of ideas on how to play England when they bat aggressively. It's dreadful stuff. I can't imagine Border, Taylor or Ponting having so little imagination.

[Torquemada 1420]

Just seen the forecast.

[Sandstorm]

The Aussies deserve to lose this series purely because they're playing such awful, negative cricket. This 7/8/9 men on the boundary shit is just a symptom of a complete lack of ideas on how to play England when they bat aggressively. It's dreadful stuff. I can't imagine Border, Taylor or Ponting having so little imagination.

Don’t make your fast bowlers into captains. They’re all Beasts of Little Brain.

[tabascoboy]

The Aussies deserve to lose this series purely because they're playing such awful, negative cricket. This 7/8/9 men on the boundary shit is just a symptom of a complete lack of ideas on how to play England when they bat aggressively. It's dreadful stuff. I can't imagine Border, Taylor or Ponting having so little imagination.

Don’t make your fast bowlers into captains. They’re all Beasts of Little Brain.

Well to be fair to Bob Willis, he did an OK job. 18 Tests as England captain with 7 wins, 5 losses, and 6 draws, 29 ODI matches, winning 16 and losing 13. Not great but not terrible either. Maybe it depends as much on the other senior players you have around you.

[Biffer]

Forecast is making me very nervous.

Meanwhile north of the wall Scotland are being given a very serious fright by Jersey

Some poor batting at the top of the order from Scotland, looked to me that they had come out with the intention of hitting 240, rather than looking to start towards 180 and take it from there. Good bowling in the end made the win, two wins from two for Scotland, four games to play. Sell out crowd for next Friday vs Ireland.