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usedtobe · July 2023

guitars4you said:

Sunak say's it is just not cricket - Waiting for a response from the Labour Party

They’ll agree with him..

Kittyfrisk · July 2023

usedtobe said:

guitars4you said:

Sunak say's it is just not cricket - Waiting for a response from the Labour Party

They’ll agree with him..

Well, sometimes it is possible to simply agree about things.
Being nominally in opposition doesn't apply to every aspect of life

Gassage · July 2023

My piece now up in the good old Thunderer, known to all at The Times

As a member and cricketer this incident pained me to watch and it's far from the #spiritofcricket as you can get.

MCC members let themselves and cricket down with their fury (thetimes.co.uk)

#ashes2023 #ashes #longroom #JonnyBairstow #mcc

Teetonetal · July 2023

Stuckfast said:

The frustrating thing for me was that England reached a point where they needed less than 80 to win, with four wickets in hand, and no close fielders for Stokes. When they started hiding the ball outside off stump, he was at no risk of getting out unless he tried to hit sixes. Could he not have done it in ones and twos from there?

I assume with his knees he wants to run as little as possible.

Teetonetal · July 2023

Gassage said:

My piece now up in the good old Thunderer, known to all at The Times

As a member and cricketer this incident pained me to watch and it's far from the #spiritofcricket as you can get.

MCC members let themselves and cricket down with their fury (thetimes.co.uk)

#ashes2023 #ashes #longroom #JonnyBairstow #mcc

Isn't it all just part of the #bants that cricket is so famous for?

Hattigol · July 2023

Gassage said:

So The Times asked me to write a piece on this.

So I have.

In 2014, I was asked by the MCC Players & Fixtures Chairman to draft a note outlining the behaviour of Playing Members- those that are gifted enough as cricketers alone to be fast tracked into membership due to their contribution to the sport on the field of play.
Byline: James While is Snr Rugby Correspondent for Planet Rugby and a regular contributor to The Cricketer. As an MCC Playing Member, he has represented the Club almost 200 times in eight different countries of the world.

Easy on that modesty....

guitars4you · July 2023

Jesus - No Pope for the rest of the series

No Foakes to be brought in - There was an option there to move Bairstow up the order and bring in Foakes - Looks like option a) is to bring in Lawrence - An other option is to move Stokes up to 3 (Jacques Kallis style) then bring in Woakes or Ali as an additional bowler who can bat a bit at #7 as well

munckee · July 2023

guitars4you said:

Jesus - No Pope for the rest of the series

No Foakes to be brought in - There was an option there to move Bairstow up the order and bring in Foakes - Looks like option a) is to bring in Lawrence - An other option is to move Stokes up to 3 (Jacques Kallis style) then bring in Woakes or Ali as an additional bowler who can bat a bit at #7 as well

I don't really know Lawrence that well but doesn't seem a better option than bringing Ali back if his finger has recovered to me or Foakes. Pope not exactly smashing the runs so far to be fair.

scrumhalf · July 2023

Who could take over the gloves if YJB gets crocked?

guitars4you · July 2023

The ballad of John and oh no !!!!!

ewal · July 2023

Teetonetal said:

Stuckfast said:

The frustrating thing for me was that England reached a point where they needed less than 80 to win, with four wickets in hand, and no close fielders for Stokes. When they started hiding the ball outside off stump, he was at no risk of getting out unless he tried to hit sixes. Could he not have done it in ones and twos from there?

I assume with his knees he wants to run as little as possible.

Cricket's a strange game at times. In what other sport would you play someone who was injured to the extent that tactics have to change to accomodate them? Assuming Stokes was more injured in this match than the chronic injury that prevents him from bowling, should he not be dropped for the next game?

Tannin · July 2023

Assume you want to win the game. How many batsmen can you think of in either team who you would pick ahead of an injured Stokes? Root and Smith, sure. Labuschagne, Head, Khawaja, maybe. Even if you picked all of those just mentioned, your best-of-two-teams side still has injured-as-is Stokes in it, and not the last man picked either.

chris78 · July 2023

guitars4you said:

Jesus - No Pope for the rest of the series

No Foakes to be brought in - There was an option there to move Bairstow up the order and bring in Foakes - Looks like option a) is to bring in Lawrence - An other option is to move Stokes up to 3 (Jacques Kallis style) then bring in Woakes or Ali as an additional bowler who can bat a bit at #7 as well

I've read they're going to move Brook to 3 with Root, Stokes, Bairstow, Ali, Woakes as our order.

Root should be 3 for me.

Gassage · July 2023

Teetonetal said:

Gassage said:

My piece now up in the good old Thunderer, known to all at The Times

As a member and cricketer this incident pained me to watch and it's far from the #spiritofcricket as you can get.

MCC members let themselves and cricket down with their fury (thetimes.co.uk)

#ashes2023 #ashes #longroom #JonnyBairstow #mcc

Isn't it all just part of the #bants that cricket is so famous for?
Banter by proxy ain't a good look.

crunchman · July 2023

chris78 said:

guitars4you said:

Jesus - No Pope for the rest of the series

No Foakes to be brought in - There was an option there to move Bairstow up the order and bring in Foakes - Looks like option a) is to bring in Lawrence - An other option is to move Stokes up to 3 (Jacques Kallis style) then bring in Woakes or Ali as an additional bowler who can bat a bit at #7 as well

I've read they're going to move Brook to 3 with Root, Stokes, Bairstow, Ali, Woakes as our order.

Root should be 3 for me.

That's a long tail. 3-0 here we come.

Mellish · July 2023

Going 0-2 down in the Ashes and *still* winning is a big ask.

Australia play hard cricket and I have to say England were the architects of their own downfall in parts of the second Test with poor batting/bowling and dropped catches.

As a neutral I just want
to see good cricket with each player their best. If it's Oz or England on top doesn't matter a jot to me. It's the game I love

Gassage · July 2023

crunchman said:

chris78 said:

guitars4you said:

Jesus - No Pope for the rest of the series

No Foakes to be brought in - There was an option there to move Bairstow up the order and bring in Foakes - Looks like option a) is to bring in Lawrence - An other option is to move Stokes up to 3 (Jacques Kallis style) then bring in Woakes or Ali as an additional bowler who can bat a bit at #7 as well

I've read they're going to move Brook to 3 with Root, Stokes, Bairstow, Ali, Woakes as our order.

Root should be 3 for me.

That's a long tail. 3-0 here we come.

I am sorry, I simply cannot see that.

There's 3 blokes with test hundreds batting 7, 8 and 11.

crunchman · July 2023

Gassage said:

crunchman said:

chris78 said:

guitars4you said:

Jesus - No Pope for the rest of the series

No Foakes to be brought in - There was an option there to move Bairstow up the order and bring in Foakes - Looks like option a) is to bring in Lawrence - An other option is to move Stokes up to 3 (Jacques Kallis style) then bring in Woakes or Ali as an additional bowler who can bat a bit at #7 as well

I've read they're going to move Brook to 3 with Root, Stokes, Bairstow, Ali, Woakes as our order.

Root should be 3 for me.

That's a long tail. 3-0 here we come.

I am sorry, I simply cannot see that.

There's 3 blokes with test hundreds batting 7, 8 and 11.

They just have to bowl short at Moeen and Broad these days. They have been worked out.

Woakes is ok, but he's not as good as Pope.

Gassage · July 2023

True re Woakes and Pope.

Moeen is as likely to get 150 as 15. Dangerous.

guitars4you · July 2023

Looks like it is now confirmed with Brook at 3 - A bit of a gamble as he doesn't even play there for Yorks

Ben Duckett, Zak Crawley, Harry Brook, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Chris Woakes, Moeen Ali, Stuart Broad, Mark Wood, Ollie Robinson.

Anderson rested and probably a good move as it has happened so far for him - Bit unlucky for Tongue as did a good job at Lords

I'm there tomorrow - 1st day - looking forward to it

usedtobe · July 2023

Kittyfrisk said:

usedtobe said:

guitars4you said:

Sunak say's it is just not cricket - Waiting for a response from the Labour Party

They’ll agree with him..

Well, sometimes it is possible to simply agree about things.
Being nominally in opposition doesn't apply to every aspect of life

I was implying that Starmers a Tory, and basically agrees with everything they do.. but you probably knew that..;)

vasselmeyer · July 2023

Mark Wood showing what true pace can do. Outstanding bowling.

UnclePsychosis · July 2023

Frustrating afternoon for Scotland who really should be kicking themselves for not seeing off the Netherlands in the WC qualifiers. Some woeful captaincy in my view. A bit of a strange one, the team have overachieved this tournament but equally we effectively had the Netherlands 0/4 chasing 170 in a T20 and blew it. Frustrating.

The closed shop that is international cricket continues to frustrate. Its mental that beating West Indies and Zimbabwe doesn't bring qualification. Pretty fed up of the ICC's insistence on not letting any of the smaller nations have a chance to threaten the bigger boys so thankfully the next WC is bigger.

Anything interesting happen in the wee game today?

munckee · July 2023

It started great then not so great then great again now not so great again.

UnclePsychosis · July 2023

munckee said:

It started great then not so great then great again now not so great again.

Par for the course then.

From the first two tests I got the impression that if either team had any consistency, they'd run away with the series.

Nitefly · July 2023

UnclePsychosis said:

Frustrating afternoon for Scotland who really should be kicking themselves for not seeing off the Netherlands in the WC qualifiers. Some woeful captaincy in my view. A bit of a strange one, the team have overachieved this tournament but equally we effectively had the Netherlands 0/4 chasing 170 in a T20 and blew it. Frustrating.

The closed shop that is international cricket continues to frustrate. Its mental that beating West Indies and Zimbabwe doesn't bring qualification. Pretty fed up of the ICC's insistence on not letting any of the smaller nations have a chance to threaten the bigger boys so thankfully the next WC is bigger.

Anything interesting happen in the wee game today?

I really thought Scotland had done enough with 279. Hard luck, that.

UnclePsychosis · July 2023

Nitefly said:

UnclePsychosis said:

Frustrating afternoon for Scotland who really should be kicking themselves for not seeing off the Netherlands in the WC qualifiers. Some woeful captaincy in my view. A bit of a strange one, the team have overachieved this tournament but equally we effectively had the Netherlands 0/4 chasing 170 in a T20 and blew it. Frustrating.

The closed shop that is international cricket continues to frustrate. Its mental that beating West Indies and Zimbabwe doesn't bring qualification. Pretty fed up of the ICC's insistence on not letting any of the smaller nations have a chance to threaten the bigger boys so thankfully the next WC is bigger.

Anything interesting happen in the wee game today?

I really thought Scotland had done enough with 279. Hard luck, that.

Not sure there was much luck involved.

Could (should) have scored more runs, and some of the bowling was woeful. A "learning experience" I think.

earwighoney · July 2023

UnclePsychosis said:

The closed shop that is international cricket continues to frustrate. Its mental that beating West Indies and Zimbabwe doesn't bring qualification. Pretty fed up of the ICC's insistence on not letting any of the smaller nations have a chance to threaten the bigger boys so thankfully the next WC is bigger.

100%.

The WC qualifiers have been a delight to watch. Some great, close and exciting games.

scrumhalf · July 2023

vasselmeyer said:

Mark Wood showing what true pace can do. Outstanding bowling.

Just watching the highlights. He is seriously rapid. And he always comes across in interviews as a thoroughly decent bloke. Pleased for him.

guitars4you · July 2023

Just got home - Enjoyed the day - Great atmosphere - Hard to fault the whole experience - back to TMS tomorrow

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