Cricket: International Discussion Thread

[WaxLyrical]

Australia's players have chosen to withdraw from the Australia A tour of South Africa after there was no material progress made in pay talks between Cricket Australia and the Australian Cricketers Association this week.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/1108827.html

 

[Agent_Smith]

Didn't realise there is a day/night test match between England and the West Indies starting at 15:00.

 

[Creag]

Didn't realise there is a day/night test match between England and the West Indies starting at 15:00.

Thanks for the heads up

Pink ball in an English evening is going to be swinging right angles.

 

[Dan C]

ENG 514/8 decl

Alastair Cook 243
Joe Root 136

WI 44/1 (16.0 Ovs)

Stumps day 2

 

[Creag]

West Indies are aiming to bat again today.

 

[Dan C]

WI 145/8

 

[Creag]

WI 168 all out... and England have enforced the follow on. It's the right call. They lead by 346 and conditions are favourable to bowling.

Woeful by the Windies

 

[Dan C]

WI 168 all out... and England have enforced the follow on. It's the right call. They lead by 346 and conditions are favourable to bowling.

Woeful by the Windies

Where's Lara ?

 

[Agent_Smith]

Where's Lara ?

Lara, Chanderpaul, Richardson and Haynes all needed right now. They can't be any worse than the current top order.

 

[Creag]

Where's Lara ?

Lara, Chanderpaul, Richardson and Haynes all needed right now. They can't be any worse than the current top order.

You may as well add Gordon Greenidge to that batting order. Those were the days. Those were the days.

 

[Creag]

Scorecard Summary

ENGLAND 514/8 d (135.5 OVERS) 1ST INNINGS
AN Cook 243 (407)
JE Root 136 (189)
KAJ Roach 2/86 (28.0)
RL Chase 4/113 (26.2)

WEST INDIES 168 (47 OVERS) 1ST INNINGS
J Blackwood *79 (76)
KA Hope 25 (47)
JM Anderson3 /34 (15.0)
TS Roland-Jones 2/31 (6.0)

WEST INDIES 137 (45.4 OVERS) 2ND INNINGS
KC Brathwaite 40 (76)
RL Chase 24 (47)
JM Anderson 2/12 (7.0)
SCJ Broad 3/34 (10.0)

England win by an innings and 209 runs

 

[WaxLyrical]

And we have a West Indian as our new coach.

:wtf:

 

[pinball wizard]

And we have a West Indian as our new coach.

:wtf:

Who? I've been sleeping for a week.

 

[Agent_Smith]

Who? I've been sleeping for a week.

Otis Gibson (not sure if it's been offically announced yet though, but it is apparently a done deal).

 

[DanDango]

Who? I've been sleeping for a week.

England pace guru Ottis Gibson closing in on South Africa role
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/cr...e-guru-Ottis-Gibson-closing-South-Africa.html

England's fast-bowling coach Ottis Gibson is likely to be confirmed as South Africa's new head coach after the end of the Edgbaston Test against West Indies, leaving the ECB with a tricky decision over when to name his replacement.

Gibson, who had been contracted by the ECB until next year, will continue to work with England until the end of the current three-match series.

But with a compensation package nearing agreement between the ECB and Cricket South Africa, he will not be around for next month's white-ball games.

 

[pinball wizard]

Otis Gibson (not sure if it's been offically announced yet though, but it is apparently a done deal).

Awesome. the offspring of a lift and a guitar can't be any worse than the muppet we just got rid of?

 

[Pom_in_Pretoria]

WI 168 all out... and England have enforced the follow on. It's the right call. They lead by 346 and conditions are favourable to bowling.

Woeful by the Windies

It certainly was woeful...I cannot help thinking that England will be desperately under-cooked when the really important stuff starts in November, considering both WI and SA just laid over and died.

 

[WaxLyrical]

It certainly was woeful...I cannot help thinking that England will be desperately under-cooked when the really important stuff starts in November, considering both WI and SA just laid over and died.

WI rolled over. SA bent over.

 

[Pom_in_Pretoria]

WI rolled over. SA bent over.

Same difference ...Either way, England are likely to go into the Ashes without having faced any meaningful opposition this summer which cannot be good for their chances.

I really think it is time to set up a two tier system now with the big 3 (IND/AUS/ENG) and the the best of the rest being in one league and all the others in tier 2.

 

[Dan C]

India vs Sri Lanka 2nd ODI.

SL 236/8

India

Score after 15 overs IND 102-0
Score after 18 overs IND 119-5



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