England Cricket chat

[TightEnd]

'England are one-dimensional, poorly captained and selecting the wrong team' - Geoffrey Boycott off his long run, breathing fire

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2016/12/12/alastair-cook-kidding-thinks-england-close-matching-india/

[TightEnd]

the chennai pitch being dried after the cyclone

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[Magic817]

Jimmy is ruled out of the 5th test

[tikay]

Jimmy is ruled out of the 5th test

Never knew you were a cricket sort, Matt?

Do you play, or just watch?

[Magic817]

Jimmy is ruled out of the 5th test

Never knew you were a cricket sort, Matt?

Do you play, or just watch?

Big cricket fan. I used to play a bit when at school but that was quite a few years ago now!

[tikay]

Jimmy is ruled out of the 5th test

Never knew you were a cricket sort, Matt?

Do you play, or just watch?

Big cricket fan. I used to play a bit when at school but that was quite a few years ago now!

Never knew that.

Batter, bowler, all-rounder?

[tiger]

Short leg

[nellberg]

Stolen off twitter ...

Root conversion rate of 50's into hundreds 11/38 (28.9%)

rest of the ICC top 5: Smith 16/34 (47.1%); Kohli 15/29 (51.7%); Williamson 14/38 (36.8%); Amla 25/56 (44.6%)

[TightEnd]

Root in this series: 124, 4, 53, 25, 15, 78, 21, 77 and 88 = 485 runs at 53.88. Very good, but feels like a missed opportunity.

turning a couple of 50s into matchwinning big hundreds would have made it a great series

[tikay]

TMS have struggled with "the line" from Chennai, understandably given the recent problems there.

Real Heath Robinson stuff today.

And Aggers sems to have become a plumpy.

[TightEnd]

754-7

highest score ever against England

man alive, the bowlers will be looking forward to green tops in April at trent bridge!

[tikay]

754-7

highest score ever against England

man alive, the bowlers will be looking forward to green tops in April at trent bridge!

And just 7 Extras, which is going some in such an innings.

[Doobs]

754-7

highest score ever against England

man alive, the bowlers will be looking forward to green tops in April at trent bridge!

And just 7 Extras, which is going some in such an innings.

love the summary; "Karun Nair hits 303 not out (dropped on 217)"

If only that catch was held, when he was only on 217.

I one met Chris Scott on a stag do, and he would have something to say at this point.  In my experience, maybe not, but his "friends" will happily fill you in. 

I wonder if Tighty could get this one without google.

[TightEnd]

dropped Lara at Edgbaston? Lara went on to get 501*?

[Doobs]

dropped Lara at Edgbaston? Lara went on to get 501*?

That is the one.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/chris-scott-drop-brian-lara-the-spin-cricket

I must have met him not long after that and I am pretty sure Simon Hughes wasn't the only one to hear this line.

Later, the story would come about that Scott said: “I bet he’ll go on and get a hundred now.” That was a line he gave to Simon Hughes at a party a couple of years later, which Hughes then used on TV. Maybe Scott did say that. He isn’t certain. “I may have said it. But I’m sure it wasn’t the first thing I said. The first thing I said wasn’t fit for publication.”