seems like it needs a metaphorical hammering from the fans and media to get this lot motivated .. great all round team performance, lets hope the standard stays high for the rest of the SA leg and into the Sri L series
seems like it needs a metaphorical hammering from the fans and media to get this lot motivated .. great all round team performance, lets hope the standard stays high for the rest of the SA leg and into the Sri L series
England seem to have a shocking record at the start of series, especially away from home where they go into the First Test completely under cooked, but then the preparation for this series was especially shambolic
There really is nothing like a tense denouement of a 5 day test match ..pure theatre and big Ben is the match winner..again, superb viewing..a privilege to watch
I've criticised Roots captaincy in the past but credit where it's due he got it bang on today.
Root on the leg slip position (Jimmy) that drew a wicket next ball:
"I can't take credit for that, that was down to Stuart"
Take your point but a) it wasn't just that one thing that he did well today. There were loads of instances in the field and managing bowlers in the middle session (esp with Anderson missing) so that we had quick to bowl when the ball was reversing in the evening.
b) it happened under his captaincy so he is ultimately responsible for it. I'm sure senior players suggest weird stuff to him all the time particularly in that situation. It's up to him to decided which ones to go with.
c) he takes the rap when it goes badly so he gets the praise when it goes well.
Don’t get me wrong I love a bit of cricket as much as anyone but my family in San Diego described it as “aristocratic baseball but less happens” when I took them to the Oval
Ben Stokes is up there with Botham as the best all rounder I have ever seen. He has got the lot, he can bat properly or give it a bash when the needs arise, he is one of the finest catchers there's ever been. Also The way he steamed in today bowling at the end of a 5 day Test Match shows what great stamina he has.
Don’t get me wrong I love a bit of cricket as much as anyone but my family in San Diego described it as “aristocratic baseball but less happens” when I took them to the Oval
The Americans created baseball because they never had the intelligence to play cricket. Not your family obviously .
Don’t get me wrong I love a bit of cricket as much as anyone but my family in San Diego described it as “aristocratic baseball but less happens” when I took them to the Oval
I'm sorry I cant have this.
I understand how people may find cricket boring. But to say that less happens than in baseball is just a lie. Baseball is the worlds slowest game. It can go on for 9 hours and have 4 or 5 innings each way and the score can still be 0-0. At least in cricket if you have 9 hours play you'll have hundreds of runs and a number of wickets.
The only way you can have "less happening" at cricket than baseball is if you're talking about all the "entertainment" that happens between play because they had to add stuff to the game to account for the fact that the average baseball fans attention span is less than that of a gnat.
Don’t get me wrong I love a bit of cricket as much as anyone but my family in San Diego described it as “aristocratic baseball but less happens” when I took them to the Oval
The Americans created baseball because they never had the intelligence to play cricket. Not your family obviously .
Americans are obsessed with baseball and, those who have experienced it, pretend cricket is a poorer game.
I think this is in part because they still think that the lesser of those two sports is somehow "theirs" and that they invented it. But, of course, both cricket and baseball were popularised in England a long, long time before the United States was created.
By all accounts, the last time two Kent players were involved in a Test wicket was over 23 years ago. Mind you, it was as fine a victim as you could wish to snare:
Trent Bridge 1996 England v India
Sachin Tendulkar caught Min Patel bowled Mark Ealham
To put the wicket in perspective, the Indian legend did manage to get 177 off 360 balls!
By all accounts, the last time two Kent players were involved in a Test wicket was over 23 years ago. Mind you, it was as fine a victim as you could wish to snare:
Trent Bridge 1996 England v India
Sachin Tendulkar caught Min Patel bowled Mark Ealham
To put the wicket in perspective, the Indian legend did manage to get 177 off 360 balls!
Don’t get me wrong I love a bit of cricket as much as anyone but my family in San Diego described it as “aristocratic baseball but less happens” when I took them to the Oval
I have been to a couple of baseball games in the States that were pretty dire.
By all accounts, the last time two Kent players were involved in a Test wicket was over 23 years ago. Mind you, it was as fine a victim as you could wish to snare:
Trent Bridge 1996 England v India
Sachin Tendulkar caught Min Patel bowled Mark Ealham
To put the wicket in perspective, the Indian legend did manage to get 177 off 360 balls!
Joe now has twice as many Test wickets as Min, something to gloat about when he returns to Kent!
By all accounts, the last time two Kent players were involved in a Test wicket was over 23 years ago. Mind you, it was as fine a victim as you could wish to snare:
Trent Bridge 1996 England v India
Sachin Tendulkar caught Min Patel bowled Mark Ealham
To put the wicket in perspective, the Indian legend did manage to get 177 off 360 balls!
Does Bridgetown March 1998 count for two Kent players involved in a Test wicket?
WI v England, 5th Test
Dean Headley c Roland Holder b Carl Hooper
There may be other occasions after that one but Carl Hooper was the first Kentish overseas player I thought of playing against England!
By all accounts, the last time two Kent players were involved in a Test wicket was over 23 years ago. Mind you, it was as fine a victim as you could wish to snare:
Trent Bridge 1996 England v India
Sachin Tendulkar caught Min Patel bowled Mark Ealham
To put the wicket in perspective, the Indian legend did manage to get 177 off 360 balls!
Does Bridgetown March 1998 count for two Kent players involved in a Test wicket?
WI v England, 5th Test
Dean Headley c Roland Holder b Carl Hooper
There may be other occasions after that one but Carl Hooper was the first Kentish overseas player I thought of playing against England!
Overseas players are more of a grey area for me, the way they come and go and can play for several counties and franchises, but last November in the 2nd Test in New Zealand
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"I can't take credit for that, that was down to Stuart"
b) it happened under his captaincy so he is ultimately responsible for it. I'm sure senior players suggest weird stuff to him all the time particularly in that situation. It's up to him to decided which ones to go with.
c) he takes the rap when it goes badly so he gets the praise when it goes well.
Not your family obviously .
I understand how people may find cricket boring. But to say that less happens than in baseball is just a lie. Baseball is the worlds slowest game. It can go on for 9 hours and have 4 or 5 innings each way and the score can still be 0-0. At least in cricket if you have 9 hours play you'll have hundreds of runs and a number of wickets.
The only way you can have "less happening" at cricket than baseball is if you're talking about all the "entertainment" that happens between play because they had to add stuff to the game to account for the fact that the average baseball fans attention span is less than that of a gnat.
I think this is in part because they still think that the lesser of those two sports is somehow "theirs" and that they invented it. But, of course, both cricket and baseball were popularised in England a long, long time before the United States was created.
Ask any Derby County fan.
Once they've sampled that, baseball will pale into insignificance ...
By all accounts, the last time two Kent players were involved in a Test wicket was over 23 years ago. Mind you, it was as fine a victim as you could wish to snare:
Trent Bridge 1996 England v India
Sachin Tendulkar caught Min Patel bowled Mark Ealham
To put the wicket in perspective, the Indian legend did manage to get 177 off 360 balls!
WI v England, 5th Test
Dean Headley c Roland Holder b Carl Hooper
There may be other occasions after that one but Carl Hooper was the first Kentish overseas player I thought of playing against England!
Lord's Test, 1981
Bob Woolmer, lbw Alderman 9
Denly c Watling b Henry 4