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England Cricket 2024

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  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,203
    We’re being hammered here
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    England were 1.07 (1/14) at one point. With the score on 44-0 off 4 they are 2.64 (13/8)
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    And there's another drop - that's two sitters and two half chances in this innings to date
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    edited October 2024
    Some awful bowling so far as well 
    It isn't getting any better. These are two big girls with big levers and we are just bowling in their arc the whole time. I'm surprised that the point of difference of Bell's pace hasn't been utilised to date.

    Edit - Bell actually opened and went for 14. I must have been watching the racing at the time!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    67-0 off 6
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    edited October 2024
    And there's another drop - that's two sitters and two half chances in this innings to date
    Drop number 5!!!
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,203
    Lack of captain on the pitch is showing, as with Pope deputising for the men’s test team. Fields are all wrong and not quite the right bowlers at the right time either
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,203
    ANOTHER drop
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    Drop number 6!!!
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,683
    England have bowled and fielded well this competition. 

    Until today,  this is awful 

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    89-0 off 10
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    England were 1.07 (1/14) at one point. With the score on 44-0 off 4 they are 2.64 (13/8)
    The Windies are 1.04 now. Some serious fingers burnt on Betfair with £138,000 matched at that 1.07 and almost £5m matched at 1.12 and less. Much of that will be regurgitated money but many serious backers will have had thousands on to win relative pennies. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    Drop number 7. Bouchier has dropped 3 of them. Then at last we take one, courtesy of Wyatt
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,338
    This has potential to be an all-time-bad game. Just need a bit of WI choking... 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    fenaddick said:
    Lack of captain on the pitch is showing, as with Pope deputising for the men’s test team. Fields are all wrong and not quite the right bowlers at the right time either
    I do agree with you but Sciver-Brunt, with almost 250 internationals to her name, is experienced enough to lead. It's the dropped catches that have really killed us especially those in the PP because, had they been taken, then we would have had enough time to reign them back. 
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,203
    Matthews caught by Gibson, game on?
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    Matthews decides to come out in sympathy with England and gives Gibson a chance to catch her. Two new batters at the crease but the only realistic way we can win is if the Windies get themselves out. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,338
    Leuth said:
    This has potential to be an all-time-bad game. Just need a bit of WI choking... 
    You can see it happening in real time too. Oh they got a boundary. Still... 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,338
    The choke is cancelled, with that 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    A run out but, with 6 runs needed off 18 balls, it is game over

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  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,338
    Can I add, Alex Hartley is maybe the worst cricket commentator of all time. I say this as someone who's usually in favour of there being more women commentators (Urooj Mumtaz in the Test earlier being excellent for example) 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    A run out but, with 6 runs needed off 18 balls, it is game over
    Or perhaps not. Ecclestone bowls Dottin and two batters that haven't faced a ball are in. We would have absolutely walked this had we held a couple of those early catches.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    And Ecclestone bowls a full bunger first ball to Alleyne that is smashed for a boundary!!!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    And Ecclestone bowls a full bunger first ball to Alleyne that is smashed for a boundary!!!
    Make that two full tosses. The West Indies win and deserved to do so. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,338
    Leuth said:
    Can I add, Alex Hartley is maybe the worst cricket commentator of all time. I say this as someone who's usually in favour of there being more women commentators (Urooj Mumtaz in the Test earlier being excellent for example) 
    Oh that's Lydia Greenway lmao. I was thinking she didn't sound quite right. She's also bad 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    Leuth said:
    Leuth said:
    Can I add, Alex Hartley is maybe the worst cricket commentator of all time. I say this as someone who's usually in favour of there being more women commentators (Urooj Mumtaz in the Test earlier being excellent for example) 
    Oh that's Lydia Greenway lmao. I was thinking she didn't sound quite right. She's also bad 

    You were right to question yourself - one's a Lancastrian and the other's from, down the road, Orpington!
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,338
    Leuth said:
    Leuth said:
    Can I add, Alex Hartley is maybe the worst cricket commentator of all time. I say this as someone who's usually in favour of there being more women commentators (Urooj Mumtaz in the Test earlier being excellent for example) 
    Oh that's Lydia Greenway lmao. I was thinking she didn't sound quite right. She's also bad 

    You were right to question yourself - one's a Lancastrian and the other's from, down the road, Orpington!
    Fine. When I spotted some semi-articulate magnanimity towards the WI, I realised it couldn't be Hartley actually
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,231
    That was a shocker of a performance by the English women and the fielding and catching were as poor as I have seen from this group of players.

    Had bad luck with Heather Knight retiring hurt and winning 3 out of 4 but you have to play better than that under pressure and the Windies were outstanding and smashed the English bowlers from ball 1.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    340-8

    Aamer Jamal, is on 31* (59) but appears to be struggling with a hip injury. If that prevents him from bowling then Pakistan will have an all spin attack. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,815
    358-8 (117) at lunch