The Official Cricket Thread

[Deepsouth]

Must be keen on actually winning a series here, I imagine.

Quick question - where's the karmic involvement here?

The rain is coming from Ireland I believe

[Deepsouth]

So when will the call it? Tea. Or when Joe Root says so? Or when England declares victory

[JM2K6]

Must be keen on actually winning a series here, I imagine.

Quick question - where's the karmic involvement here?

The rain is coming from Ireland I believe

So you've no idea eh

[Deepsouth]

Must be keen on actually winning a series here, I imagine.

Quick question - where's the karmic involvement here?

The rain is coming from Ireland I believe

So you've no idea eh

No it's you who have no idea. The state of your cricket and country indicates that. So after all the hullabaloo about the Cricket saving Bazball it turns out that it was nothing more than Bazzbawl.

England has failed to win the Ashes on home soil once again

Is there any sport you guys are good at lol.......

[JM2K6]

The rain is coming from Ireland I believe

So you've no idea eh

No it's you who have no idea. The state of your cricket and country indicates that. So after all the hullabaloo about the Cricket saving Bazball it turns out that it was nothing more than Bazzbawl.

England has failed to win the Ashes on home soil once again

Is there any sport you guys are good at lol.......

The state of our cricket? We're the reigning champions in 2 of the 3 formats, have turned around a slump in the Test team to be unbeaten in the last 5 series, and have just been robbed of the opportunity to finish off a spectacular shellacking of the #1 side in the world by 1.5 days of rain which would've tied up a fantastic series with one to play.

It's genuinely comical watching you play all Billy Big Bollocks when your team has been saved from a battering by the rain, especially as you were too chickenshit to show your face after the previous defeat. Every normal cricket fan is loving this series - only a complete ignoramus has watched these 4 Tests and still thinks England are shit. All the bluster can't hide your relief at the weather intervening here, and nobody's fooled. Days of you crying your eyes out about Joe Root not claiming a catch he wasn't sure about really isn't giving you any moral high ground either

[Deepsouth]

The state of this board. And they accused me of running...

It's like a death in the family in here.

Hello anyone there

[Deepsouth]

So you've no idea eh

No it's you who have no idea. The state of your cricket and country indicates that. So after all the hullabaloo about the Cricket saving Bazball it turns out that it was nothing more than Bazzbawl.

England has failed to win the Ashes on home soil once again

Is there any sport you guys are good at lol.......

The state of our cricket? We're the reigning champions in 2 of the 3 formats, have turned around a slump in the Test team to be unbeaten in the last 5 series, and have just been robbed of the opportunity to finish off a spectacular shellacking of the #1 side in the world by 1.5 days of rain which would've tied up a fantastic series with one to play.

It's genuinely comical watching you play all Billy Big Bollocks when your team has been saved from a battering by the rain, especially as you were too chickenshit to show your face after the previous defeat. Every normal cricket fan is loving this series - only a complete ignoramus has watched these 4 Tests and still thinks England are shit. All the bluster can't hide your relief at the weather intervening here, and nobody's fooled. Days of you crying your eyes out about Joe Root not claiming a catch he wasn't sure about really isn't giving you any moral high ground either

Nah your just not very good. You can't even beat this average Australian side on your home soil again. Back to back. Maybe you should schedule more Tests against Ireland and maybe Scotland. More your level I would have thought
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[Grandpa]

Shouldn't someone let Deepsouth's parent's know where he is?

[JM2K6]

No it's you who have no idea. The state of your cricket and country indicates that. So after all the hullabaloo about the Cricket saving Bazball it turns out that it was nothing more than Bazzbawl.

England has failed to win the Ashes on home soil once again

Is there any sport you guys are good at lol.......

The state of our cricket? We're the reigning champions in 2 of the 3 formats, have turned around a slump in the Test team to be unbeaten in the last 5 series, and have just been robbed of the opportunity to finish off a spectacular shellacking of the #1 side in the world by 1.5 days of rain which would've tied up a fantastic series with one to play.

It's genuinely comical watching you play all Billy Big Bollocks when your team has been saved from a battering by the rain, especially as you were too chickenshit to show your face after the previous defeat. Every normal cricket fan is loving this series - only a complete ignoramus has watched these 4 Tests and still thinks England are shit. All the bluster can't hide your relief at the weather intervening here, and nobody's fooled. Days of you crying your eyes out about Joe Root not claiming a catch he wasn't sure about really isn't giving you any moral high ground either

Nah your just not very good. You can't even beat this average Australian side on your home soil again. Back to back. Maybe you should schedule more Tests against Ireland and maybe Scotland. More your level I would have thought
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"hahah you guys are so shit that we squeaked past you in the first two Tests, lost the 3rd, and were heading for an absolute mauling in this one but got saved by the rain. You're shit, that's why it would've been 2-2 with one to play otherwise"

Geez, you really are not bright at all, are you? 3 incredibly close games and one very one-sided one in favour of England but washed out, and you're acting like it's been 4 easy wins

[Deepsouth]

The state of our cricket? We're the reigning champions in 2 of the 3 formats, have turned around a slump in the Test team to be unbeaten in the last 5 series, and have just been robbed of the opportunity to finish off a spectacular shellacking of the #1 side in the world by 1.5 days of rain which would've tied up a fantastic series with one to play.

It's genuinely comical watching you play all Billy Big Bollocks when your team has been saved from a battering by the rain, especially as you were too chickenshit to show your face after the previous defeat. Every normal cricket fan is loving this series - only a complete ignoramus has watched these 4 Tests and still thinks England are shit. All the bluster can't hide your relief at the weather intervening here, and nobody's fooled. Days of you crying your eyes out about Joe Root not claiming a catch he wasn't sure about really isn't giving you any moral high ground either

Nah your just not very good. You can't even beat this average Australian side on your home soil again. Back to back. Maybe you should schedule more Tests against Ireland and maybe Scotland. More your level I would have thought
.

"hahah you guys are so shit that we squeaked past you in the first two Tests, lost the 3rd, and were heading for an absolute mauling in this one but got saved by the rain. You're shit, that's why it would've been 2-2 with one to play otherwise"

Geez, you really are not bright at all, are you? 3 incredibly close games and one very one-sided one in favour of England but washed out, and you're acting like it's been 4 easy wins

So still no concession coming from the English dressing room hey?

Spirit of Cricket my arse

[JM2K6]

Nah your just not very good. You can't even beat this average Australian side on your home soil again. Back to back. Maybe you should schedule more Tests against Ireland and maybe Scotland. More your level I would have thought
.

"hahah you guys are so shit that we squeaked past you in the first two Tests, lost the 3rd, and were heading for an absolute mauling in this one but got saved by the rain. You're shit, that's why it would've been 2-2 with one to play otherwise"

Geez, you really are not bright at all, are you? 3 incredibly close games and one very one-sided one in favour of England but washed out, and you're acting like it's been 4 easy wins

So still no concession coming from the English dressing room hey?

Spirit of Cricket my arse

"It's against the spirit of cricket to wait for a game to be called off by the officials for weather reasons" is a new one. Utterly batshit mental, and sadly par for the course from you given how little you seem to know about the sport, but there you go. Another Bazzamacca Special.

[Deepsouth]

"hahah you guys are so shit that we squeaked past you in the first two Tests, lost the 3rd, and were heading for an absolute mauling in this one but got saved by the rain. You're shit, that's why it would've been 2-2 with one to play otherwise"

Geez, you really are not bright at all, are you? 3 incredibly close games and one very one-sided one in favour of England but washed out, and you're acting like it's been 4 easy wins

So still no concession coming from the English dressing room hey?

Spirit of Cricket my arse

"It's against the spirit of cricket to wait for a game to be called off by the officials for weather reasons" is a new one. Utterly batshit mental, and sadly par for the course from you given how little you seem to know about the sport, but there you go. Another Bazzamacca Special.

But but we were told by Sir Baz and Sir Benny that results don't matter. Only the style and the Spirit of Cricket mattered.
Surely the Kiwi deities weren't being mendacious were they..

[TedMaul]

Watching The Open. Be back to you later Barry once you’ve tired yourself out being laughed at.

[JM2K6]

So still no concession coming from the English dressing room hey?

Spirit of Cricket my arse

"It's against the spirit of cricket to wait for a game to be called off by the officials for weather reasons" is a new one. Utterly batshit mental, and sadly par for the course from you given how little you seem to know about the sport, but there you go. Another Bazzamacca Special.

But but we were told by Sir Baz and Sir Benny that results don't matter. Only the style and the Spirit of Cricket mattered.
Surely the Kiwi deities weren't being mendacious were they..

That doesn't make any sense. Style and the spirit of cricket are nothing to do with rain. There are animals in cosmetics testing laboratories that would post less gibberish than you're managing right now. Are you okay? Have we missed some coded cry for help in these posts that would explain their incredibly erratic and conspicuously nonsensical nature? Is there someone we should call to come get you?

[Deepsouth]

Mate I'm lovin' it. We have the hypocrites 2-1 down on their own soil with nearly only one test to go......

What's not to love
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[Deepsouth]

And there it is once again.

RETENTION of the ASHES by AUSTRALIA on foreign soil

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[Paddington Bear]

The fuck up was Edgbaston, not here. Threw a game away there

[JM2K6]

The fuck up was Edgbaston, not here. Threw a game away there

Bairstow's selection and the lack of a good alternative to Leach, basically. England have had plenty of opportunities and wasted a lot of them - a large % of that is on Angry Johnny and his shit hands

[Sandstorm]

Both these teams are sub-par Ashes squads. Wouldn’t get close to the better teams we’ve seen in the recent past.

[Paddington Bear]

The fuck up was Edgbaston, not here. Threw a game away there

Bairstow's selection and the lack of a good alternative to Leach, basically. England have had plenty of opportunities and wasted a lot of them - a large % of that is on Angry Johnny and his shit hands

Pretty much. No one ever doubted he had the ability to pull off a knock like he did in this test, but our doubts about his keeping were proven again and again. Looks like he spent his injury lay off eating which can’t have helped.

Leach is just unfortunate, and given the turn and bounce Root got yesterday I have a feeling he might have run through them yesterday

[Grandpa]

Both these teams are sub-par Ashes squads. Wouldn’t get close to the better teams we’ve seen in the recent past.

Not surprising with England in particular. It's a team of mostly white ball cricketers playing red ball cricket. And it will get worse as white ball cricket pays better...

[Biffer]

Perhaps Root should focus his energies elsewhere re rules changes. Maybe a 'one hand, one bounce' change to the catching laws would be more his style

So Root didn't celebrate and suggested they have a look at it because he wasn't sure.

Mitchell Starc grassed it and has been whining like a puppy for the last couple of weeks because he wasn't given a catch that wasn't actually a catch. Yeah.

[Deepsouth]

So Australia have again retained the Ashes in England with still the possibility of a winning series. We flogged England 4-0 last time in Oz. Again in 2019 we retained the Ashes on English soil and the series before that in Oz we peeled them once again 5-0..
I mean they just aren't very good at this game are they. Will England be able to achieve the hallowed status of a single test win in Australia in two years time. 1 single test match win.

C'mon England, C'mon England lol......

[Deepsouth]

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Ahh sweet, sweet Karma. Absolutely delicious. But winning doesn't matter boys yeah.... We have won the Moral Ashes 15-0.

Clownshop.......

[Deepsouth]

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Ah yes, the morally virtuous ones

[Gumboot]

The fuck up was Edgbaston, not here. Threw a game away there

Bairstow's selection and the lack of a good alternative to Leach, basically. England have had plenty of opportunities and wasted a lot of them - a large % of that is on Angry Johnny and his shit hands

Pretty much. No one ever doubted he had the ability to pull off a knock like he did in this test, but our doubts about his keeping were proven again and again. Looks like he spent his injury lay off eating which can’t have helped.

Leach is just unfortunate, and given the turn and bounce Root got yesterday I have a feeling he might have run through them yesterday

Yep, I suspected that the failure to select Foakes would come back to bite England. The problem's been Stokes' inability to bowl, which means he's essentially being picked as a batter, and there's no room for both a specialist keeper in Foakes and Bairstow as purely a batter.

Anyway, the series may be gone but England have the momentum going into The Oval test. Australia were comprehensively outplayed at Old Trafford, and were surprisingly flat coming off a 9-day break. The loss of Lyon has created extra work, and pressure, for the quicks. Conversely, the Aussie batters have struggled to cope with Wood's extra pace, and England suddenly looks like it has such a wealth of fast bowling depth that an all-time great in Anderson may miss out on form.

Plenty still to play for, then. As a neutral, I'm loving this Ashes series. Just wish I could watch more of it live.

[Margin__Walker]

Hosing it down in the NW. Forecast looks rank. This game is done.

24 hours later and it's a beautiful sunny day here naturally

[Gumboot]

Hosing it down in the NW. Forecast looks rank. This game is done.

24 hours later and it'd a beautiful sunny day here naturally

Rest Days Matter!

[Thor Sedan]

I am still struggling to believe that England didn't get up and win this series. I have been banging on about it - but home advantage, 4 wins out of 4 for the toss - they should have been far and away.

They are definitely the better bowling and batting side - BUT - 18 catches dropped (Root and Stokes 6 each and JB 5) - drops which resulted in 401 extra runs being scored. I find this amazing considering the premium that Baz puts on fielding in matches.

The best thing to come out of this is that piers morgan has been crying up a storm to rival the rains of Manchester - of course simply highlighting his own pleadings of rain in the 2013 Ashes. Anything that brings him displeasure is my happy place.

[inactionman]

Scotland really giving it a bit of the long handle against Italy in the T20 WC qualifier - 109-1 after 10.

[Biffer]

Scotland really giving it a bit of the long handle against Italy in the T20 WC qualifier - 109-1 after 10.

Now 151/1 from 12

[Biffer]

Scotland really giving it a bit of the long handle against Italy in the T20 WC qualifier - 109-1 after 10.

Now 151/1 from 12

Hairs has 90 from 32 balls, could be heading to one of the fastest odi tons.

[inactionman]

I am still struggling to believe that England didn't get up and win this series. I have been banging on about it - but home advantage, 4 wins out of 4 for the toss - they should have been far and away.

They are definitely the better bowling and batting side - BUT - 18 catches dropped (Root and Stokes 6 each and JB 5) - drops which resulted in 401 extra runs being scored. I find this amazing considering the premium that Baz puts on fielding in matches.

The best thing to come out of this is that piers morgan has been crying up a storm to rival the rains of Manchester - of course simply highlighting his own pleadings of rain in the 2013 Ashes. Anything that brings him displeasure is my happy place.

I know there's been chapter and verse said about the perils of bazball, but I think falling* for Oz's pretty crude tactics with the short ball in the first two tests also didn't help matters. Especially as we were within shouting distance in both.

But dropped catches - as was ever the case in Test cricket - really didn't help.


* not in the sense of being suckered, just felt like we could have just opted to let short balls go a bit more - we'd already got them to react by putting men back.

[inactionman]

Scotland really giving it a bit of the long handle against Italy in the T20 WC qualifier - 109-1 after 10.

Now 151/1 from 12

Hairs has 90 from 32 balls, could be heading to one of the fastest odi tons.

Got his ton off 40 balls.

[Biffer]

Scotland really giving it a bit of the long handle against Italy in the T20 WC qualifier - 109-1 after 10.

Now 151/1 from 12

Hairs has 90 from 32 balls, could be heading to one of the fastest odi tons.

100 in 40 balls. Seventh fastest 100 in T20 matches.

[inactionman]

Now 151/1 from 12

Hairs has 90 from 32 balls, could be heading to one of the fastest odi tons.

100 in 40 balls. Seventh fastest 100 in T20 matches.

Assume this is at the Grange? From memory, boundaries aren't that long, but even so that's some brutal hitting.

[Biffer]

McMullen out for 96 from 50 balls. Scotland 239/2 with one over to go.

[Biffer]

Hairs has 90 from 32 balls, could be heading to one of the fastest odi tons.

100 in 40 balls. Seventh fastest 100 in T20 matches.

Assume this is at the Grange? From memory, boundaries aren't that long, but even so that's some brutal hitting.

Yeah, at the Grange

[Biffer]

Slightly underwhelming last over, end on 245/2

[Hal Jordan]

Shouldn't someone let Deepsouth's parent's know where he is?

Leave them alone for a bit, they need the respite care this place offers.