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Posted: **Wed Jul 26, 2023 5:57 pm**

Mahoney wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 3:21 pm Yes, I'd be in the "your fault you dopey twat" group on that.

Speaking as someone who has been stumped after a not out LBW call batting out of his crease who held the pose for a little too long. Like about 10 seconds too long before it occurred to the keeper that he could take the bails off.

Surely the ball becomes dead in that time, if all one side is doing is appealing and the other waiting for the result of the appeal? No one's trying to play cricket at that point.

Posted: **Wed Jul 26, 2023 6:50 pm**

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 4:08 pm One for the serious stattos, in the current County Championship, Middlesex scored 199 all out and the four bowlers used by Warwick each conceded 49 runs.

Not only that but a quite remarkable symmetry in the bowling figures

Hannon-Dalby 14.1- 0- 49- 3, rr 3.46
Hamza 13.0- 3- 49- 3, rr 3.77
Barnard 13.0- 4- 49- 3, rr 3.77
H Brookes 12.0- 3- 49- 1, rr4.08

Nice.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 9:40 am**

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 11:09 am
dpedin wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 9:03 am
JM2K6 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 25, 2023 11:45 am

You went blissfully quiet when England won a game and were giving the Aussies a pasting in this one after your anti-English ranting at 0-2. Just because Deepsouth has made an arse of himself, doesn't mean you have to as well.

Also we haven't lost the Ashes, and Australia haven't won them. We can't regain them, but they weren't ours to lose in the first place. Australia have a chance to win them outright but if they lose the final Test then they retain them by default on a draw, which isn't quite the same thing.

I would also love to know what irony has to do with any of this.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ...
Great stuff, thanks for your contribution

Makes as much sense as yours!

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 9:58 am**

Wait - Australia won the toss??

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:01 am**

Thor Sedan wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 9:58 am Wait - Australia won the toss??

And put England in

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:07 am**

Now my incessantly shrill temper tantrums about England getting the benefit of the toss 4 times is going to come back and bite me - England to be 450 - 2 at the end of the day.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:33 am**

It's been fascinating to watch each team's response to the loss of their best spinner.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:57 am**

55-0, sounds like Starc and Hazlewood bowling a fair few bad balls (so bad that Marsh is on after 9 overs) but Cummins is causing problems - quite a few plays and misses.

Warner has apparently dropped a sitter, which I'm sure we're all very sad to hear.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:04 am**

Now 66-2 - Marsh gets Duckett with a tickle down leg, and Cummins deservedly gets Crawley.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:14 am**

If the sky is anything like here 25 miles away, it's a heavy and rather gloomy atmosphere unlikely to improve much later, would certainly think it should help bowlers

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:20 am**

bright start looking less so after root goes,

73/3

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:27 am**

inactionman wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 10:57 am 55-0, sounds like Starc and Hazlewood bowling a fair few bad balls (so bad that Marsh is on after 9 overs) but Cummins is causing problems - quite a few plays and misses.

Warner has apparently dropped a sitter, which I'm sure we're all very sad to hear.

Some of us are......

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:30 am**

Caery dropped a sitter, Bairstow passed on the bug...

(well okay sitter is an exaggeration )

I don't know whether that is just tiredness. That's a bad miss. Carey's legs just flattened, he didn't have any power to go across. It was a straight forward edge, he would've seen that the whole way.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 11:33 am**

There's a 3 in 8 chance of one team or another getting either 4-1 or 5-0 coin toss wins in a 5 test series.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 12:11 pm**

Brook !

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:00 pm**

Moeen looks to have pulled his groin. Not good.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 1:19 pm**

Scotland beat Denmark by 33 runs. Fairly comfortable for an 18 over game.

Scotland qualify for the T20 World Cup next year, presumably in West Indies and the USA still, although dates and venues haven't been announced.

Ireland and Scotland play tomorrow in what is pretty much a dead rubber.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:06 pm**

Bazballers getting bowled trying to hit everything since lunch. 209/6

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:07 pm**

Sandstorm wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:06 pm Bazballers getting bowled trying to hit everything since lunch. 209/6

Brook throws the bat and he goes too. 7 down

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:09 pm**

oh dear, time for a 20-ball 50 from Wood.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:19 pm**

To think if not for Bazball, probably looking at 49/7...

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:23 pm**

Bairstow back to being a useless fuck - absolutely dreadful shot. I hope Sky interview him today! Would be good to see if the angry sneering arrogance was still there. 2 50s in 8 innings. Roll out the red carpet for the moody ginger Yorkshire twat.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:05 pm**

Aussies dropped 4 catches in the slips in the dead rubber match.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:07 pm**

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:23 pm Bairstow back to being a useless fuck - absolutely dreadful shot. I hope Sky interview him today! Would be good to see if the angry sneering arrogance was still there. 2 50s in 8 innings. Roll out the red carpet for the moody ginger Yorkshire twat.

I must admit - I am totally here for your angry ginger rants.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:09 pm**

What's the record for batters out by being bowled in a test innings?

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:13 pm**

Bairstow is the Ben Youngs of summer

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:23 pm**

Another dropped catch. Barmy Army trumpeter is playing The Circus Clown theme tune.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:27 pm**

283 all out. Par score I reckon.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:27 pm**

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:09 pm oh dear, time for a 20-ball 50 from Wood.

Obvs, I meant Woakes

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:28 pm**

Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:27 pm
Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 2:09 pm oh dear, time for a 20-ball 50 from Wood.
Obvs, I meant Woakes

Lol

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:30 pm**

Aussie are going to struggle this evening......England bowlers will be fancying these conditions.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:35 pm**

Jimmy's barely swung a ball all summer, this would be a really good time to start moving it again...

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:51 pm**

Tough chance, but a less chunky keeper might have taken that.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:15 pm**

Nothing for the English bowlers out there this evening.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:48 pm**

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:51 pm Tough chance, but a less chunky keeper might have taken that.

To be fair on that one he wouldn't have had sight of it all the way, but a younger more agile keeper may have got to it if they'd moved across a bit in anticipation since it was always going down leg side

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 5:35 pm**

tabascoboy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:48 pm
JM2K6 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:51 pm Tough chance, but a less chunky keeper might have taken that.
To be fair on that one he wouldn't have had sight of it all the way, but a younger more agile keeper may have got to it if they'd moved across a bit in anticipation since it was always going down leg side

Yes, his footwork and anticipation are also substandard, like his catching and his general agility & response time

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 5:42 pm**

JM2K6 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 5:35 pm
tabascoboy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:48 pm
JM2K6 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 3:51 pm Tough chance, but a less chunky keeper might have taken that.
To be fair on that one he wouldn't have had sight of it all the way, but a younger more agile keeper may have got to it if they'd moved across a bit in anticipation since it was always going down leg side
Yes, his footwork and anticipation are also substandard, like his catching and his general agility & response time

Sounds like what you’re both saying is the a decent wicketkeeper would have caught it.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 5:43 pm**

Woddy wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 5:57 pm
Mahoney wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2023 3:21 pm Yes, I'd be in the "your fault you dopey twat" group on that.

Speaking as someone who has been stumped after a not out LBW call batting out of his crease who held the pose for a little too long. Like about 10 seconds too long before it occurred to the keeper that he could take the bails off.
Surely the ball becomes dead in that time, if all one side is doing is appealing and the other waiting for the result of the appeal? No one's trying to play cricket at that point.

Still holding the pose means he hasn’t completed the movement of playing the shot. So it’s still live imo.

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 5:44 pm**

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 5:42 pm
JM2K6 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 5:35 pm
tabascoboy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:48 pm

To be fair on that one he wouldn't have had sight of it all the way, but a younger more agile keeper may have got to it if they'd moved across a bit in anticipation since it was always going down leg side
Yes, his footwork and anticipation are also substandard, like his catching and his general agility & response time
Sounds like what you’re both saying is the a decent wicketkeeper would have caught it.

You may very well say that, I couldn't possibly comment...

Posted: **Thu Jul 27, 2023 6:00 pm**

Biffer wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 5:42 pm
JM2K6 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 5:35 pm
tabascoboy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 27, 2023 4:48 pm

To be fair on that one he wouldn't have had sight of it all the way, but a younger more agile keeper may have got to it if they'd moved across a bit in anticipation since it was always going down leg side
Yes, his footwork and anticipation are also substandard, like his catching and his general agility & response time
Sounds like what you’re both saying is the a decent wicketkeeper would have caught it.

A Test quality keeper would've had a much better chance, at least. Bairstow gives himself no chance.

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