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Cricket .. England in South Africa & Sri Lanka 2019/2020
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Stones was out and for 120 then not soon after went Buttler for 10
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Stones should have stuck to football.Alwaysneil said:Stones was out and for 120 then not soon after went Buttler for 14 -
The only thing worse than getting out for next to nothing is sitting with your pads on for six hours and then doing it!Alwaysneil said:Stones was out and for 120 then not soon after went Buttler for 11 -
I just dont think Buttler has it with the bat at test level.1
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Mmmmm.....Butler not doing much with the bat lately.....Bairstow back in the frame again maybe?1
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Surely, getting out for nothing is also worse than getting out for next to nothingAddick Addict said:
The only thing worse than getting out for next to nothing is sitting with your pads on for six hours and then doing it!Alwaysneil said:Stones was out and for 120 then not soon after went Buttler for 1
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A little bit worse obvs0
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Suggesting Bairstow as the replacement will annoy Canters just a bit4
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Hopefully FoakesSoundAsa£ said:Mmmmm.....Butler not doing much with the bat lately.....Bairstow back in the frame again maybe?5 -
Banton? Cox?
Nah, should be Foakes2 - Sponsored links:
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"Go f**k yourself. Tw*t!'cantersaddick said:I just dont think Buttler has it with the bat at test level.
As Buttler would say.
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Foaking hell, can’t believe people are still suggesting players who’s names begin with B as the best wickie option for England.Do sometimes read Leuth’s fanatical support for Sarr and smile wryly. But it has to be Foakes.2
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Agree its time for Foakes...he wont smash the ball round the park but he ll stay in and sell his wicket dearly ...and of course he is the better keeper
I see pope as our 3 of the future with yjb as a possible 6
Buttler as our keeper/bat for 1 dayers2 -
Or maybe the keeper who is widely regarded as the best in the country and one of the best in the world who also has a test batting average over 41.SoundAsa£ said:Mmmmm.....Butler not doing much with the bat lately.....Bairstow back in the frame again maybe?3 -
Sam BillingsAlwaysneil said:Foaking hell, can’t believe people are still suggesting players who’s names begin with B as the best wickie option for England.Do sometimes read Leuth’s fanatical support for Sarr and smile wryly. But it has to be Foakes.
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cantersaddick said:
Or maybe the keeper who is widely regarded as the best in the country and one of the best in the world who also has a test batting average over 41.SoundAsa£ said:Mmmmm.....Butler not doing much with the bat lately.....Bairstow back in the frame again maybe?
Who can that be?0 -
Definitely Foakes.Alwaysneil said:Foaking hell, can’t believe people are still suggesting players who’s names begin with B as the best wickie option for England.Do sometimes read Leuth’s fanatical support for Sarr and smile wryly. But it has to be Foakes.
Not sure Sarr qualifies to play for England, let alone keep wicket.1 -
Where to start?Addick Addict said:
Thanks and it wasn't one particular incident. I just got tired of the unsubtle intimidation of players and lack of respect shown to Umpires. I will still score when required because I am away from what's going on in the middle.Lincsaddick said:
sorry to read that you have quit umpiring due to player's bad behaviour .. I get that young, indeed some older players at club level are apt to copy the behaviour of famous test players appearing on the telly .. a similar problem to amateur officials having problems in all too many sportsAddick Addict said:Nasser and Michael Holding going head to head is fantastic TV. But Nasser you are so wrong because, as Holding says, a lot of senior cricketers have stopped playing because of the antics of some younger players and a lot of Umpires, including myself, have stopped officiating for that reason.
It is not the celebration but the fact that he runs straight up to Root so much so that Root has to walk around him to leave the pitch.
Don't get me wrong we always had what I would call "banter" when I played and I was probably the most vociferous in that respect. But whereas I might have said to a batsman "your pads have a lovely middle you'll have to let me know where you bought them afterwards" to someone who kept padding up but now you hear "try use that fxxxxxx thing in your hand you useless cxxx". And it all then kicks off from there. Offering each other out in the car park. Pathetic behaviour.
I played football at a fairly decent level and you expected that sort of thing. Unfortunately, it has migrated to cricket too.
The game at the top level has to set an example...rabadas actions could quite easily have started a free for all in a club game. Firstly his skipper should have publicly admonished him and he should have apologised at the end of play
I can't defend Buttlers behaviour in the previous game and he shouldn't escape censure. Broad and Anderson are always giving it too.
It really is such a bad example.Responsibility lies with leaders on and off the pitch.if I sound like a reactionary old fart but when I first started playing cricket and behaved poorly I would have been in physical danger from half of my older team mates(some of whom would have served in the war)
In this instance rabada could have wheeled away towards cover or gulley,he had got the wicket ...that's all he needed to do
This isn't specifically a criticism of rabada, it's a criticism of leadership and how poor behaviour has besmirched the game
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As well as Foakes coming in at 7 (which I have been saying almost as long as Canters), Sam Curran's job is to turn himself into a good enough batsman that he can take the number 6 slot as and when Pope eventually does move up to 3.
We will then have a situation where we can have three front line seamers plus Stokes and Curran and a spinner or, if the situation does demand it, two front line quickies and two spinners plus those two.
Curran is a winner and does make things happen but he isn't, in my opinion, that 3rd seamer. But in the same way that we have a Stokes to throw the ball to, we would have a second serious option.2 -
Pope getting bit bogged down here.0
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#bravoAddick Addict said:
SA had a one on the off and four on the leg field for Nortje too until Sibley drove one through cover but then they took a slip out to plug the gap.Addick Addict said:Rabada bowling to Sibley with no one between gully and mid off!
This wicket is doing nothing and would be disappointed if we can't get 350 and possibly 400 plus2 -
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Pope 94
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Pope 100 no0
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Yes Popey boy. What a player.3
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Bess out 1
426-8
Tea taken.0 -
1st of many centuries for England.cantersaddick said:Yes Popey boy. What a player.
A great find.1 -
Pope has played brilliantly, almost throughout the innings. What a great pleasure to see someone scoring what will surely be one of many, many hundreds.
He should be inked in for the number six spot for a very long time. He may, eventually, be pushed up the order, but I hope the urge to experiment in that way is resisted. If England want to be the best in the world, they need to have the best player in the world in as many positions as possible. Stokes, Pope, Broad and Anderson could become the best numbers five, six,, ten and eleven in the world in the world. We need to fill a few more spots, but Pope should be the fourth piece in the jigsaw.
Very, very impressed.1 -
I agree, but broad and Anderson aren’t getting any younger. I think archer and Curran could replace their roles, with archer being the strike bowler.Chizz said:Pope has played brilliantly, almost throughout the innings. What a great pleasure to see someone scoring what will surely be one of many, many hundreds.
He should be inked in for the number six spot for a very long time. He may, eventually, be pushed up the order, but I hope the urge to experiment in that way is resisted. If England want to be the best in the world, they need to have the best player in the world in as many positions as possible. Stokes, Pope, Broad and Anderson could become the best numbers five, six,, ten and eleven in the world in the world. We need to fill a few more spots, but Pope should be the fourth piece in the jigsaw.
Very, very impressed.I think jury’s still out on sibley and Crawley, burns when he’s fit should get back in the team.0 -
Sam Curran is no Stuart Broad.kentaddick said:
I agree, but broad and Anderson aren’t getting any younger. I think archer and Curran could replace their roles, with archer being the strike bowler.Chizz said:Pope has played brilliantly, almost throughout the innings. What a great pleasure to see someone scoring what will surely be one of many, many hundreds.
He should be inked in for the number six spot for a very long time. He may, eventually, be pushed up the order, but I hope the urge to experiment in that way is resisted. If England want to be the best in the world, they need to have the best player in the world in as many positions as possible. Stokes, Pope, Broad and Anderson could become the best numbers five, six,, ten and eleven in the world in the world. We need to fill a few more spots, but Pope should be the fourth piece in the jigsaw.
Very, very impressed.I think jury’s still out on sibley and Crawley, burns when he’s fit should get back in the team.0
