England Cricket - Summer of 2018
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Bess looked good, but like people are saying, it's his bowling that needs to impress. If we wanted a spinner who could bat then there was no point in dropping Moeen1
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tbf Moeen looked like he could do neither last winter.cafcfan1990 said:Bess looked good, but like people are saying, it's his bowling that needs to impress. If we wanted a spinner who could bat then there was no point in dropping Moeen
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Yes but that is his choice.Callumcafc said:
Neither does Hales!Riviera said:
Morgan doesn't play red ball cricket, thankfully.harveys_gardener said:Could Hales and Morgan be any worse than Jennings and Malan?
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Good to be playing Ireland, though making it a 4 day Test does sound a bit patronising - you're not good enough to last 5 daysCallumcafc said:1 -
I think its more likely that the Irish don't want it a 5 day match as they don't want to be buggering around trying to change flights/ferries when they beat us inside 4 days...killerandflash said:
Good to be playing Ireland, though making it a 4 day Test does sound a bit patronising - you're not good enough to last 5 daysCallumcafc said:4 -
Jos Butler on fire0
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What I was thinking.cafcfan1990 said:Bess looked good, but like people are saying, it's his bowling that needs to impress. If we wanted a spinner who could bat then there was no point in dropping Moeen
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England 363 All Out
Lead by 189 runs.
Buttler 80 no.
Broad is a batting fool. He should have tried to stick around whilst Buttler was batting, but I expected him to give his wicket away.0 -
I reckon it'll be all over today1
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Did he waste a review while he was doing it?Covered End said:England 363 All Out
Lead by 189 runs.
Buttler 80 no.
Broad is a batting fool. He should have tried to stick around whilst Buttler was batting, but I expected him to give his wicket away.1 -
20-1
Azhar Ali b Anderson 11
Middle stump sent flying.0 -
30-2
Sohail c Bess b Anderson 8
A great diving one handed catch.0 -
42-3
Shafiq c Bairstow b Broad 50 -
84-4
Imam-ul-Haq lbw Bess 340 -
97-5
Sarfraz lbw Woakes 80 -
The roses 50 over match on Tuesday won't have competition from the Headingley Test!0
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102-6
Shadab Khan c Cook b Curran 40 -
111-7
Ashraf c Malan b Bess 30 -
115-8
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124-9
Hasan Ali c Cook b Broad 90 -
134 All Out
England win by an innings and 55 runs0 -
All over in about 2.5 days. lost a whole session due to rain & still finished before 4.30pm on the 3rd day1
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And they moan the Ireland test is only booked for 4 days.golfaddick said:All over in about 2.5 days. lost a whole session due to rain & still finished before 4.30pm on the 3rd day
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I wonder how many wickets were caught behind the wicket in this test.0
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What did Bess bowl like?0
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He bowled well, certainly well enough to keep his place in the team.McBobbin said:What did Bess bowl like?
Plus he second top scored and also took a stupendous, diving, one handed catch with his left hand.1 -
Despise 2 test series.
Perfectly poised for a decider now.
It was the same against New Zealand in 2015, one of my favourite series in recent times.
Fair play to Pakistan - they came over and played hard but in a good spirit. Some useful young players, too - good luck to them.3 -
Test cricket is in trouble if it can't deliver more close contests
We have the issue of teams struggling away from home, but now we also have teams showing massive peaks and troughs in form during a series! A 1-1 result suggests a close series, but in reality we had 2 matches where one team was miles better than the other, neither being very satisfactory matches to watch as a result.
Last summer against South Africa and the Windies also showed this pattern, with England winning and losing by massive margins in the same series.
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Agree completely, this is basically down to teams trying to hit their way out of trouble rather than bat all day for 180-2 and grind their way back into a game,killerandflash said:Test cricket is in trouble if it can't deliver more close contests
We have the issue of teams struggling away from home, but now we also have teams showing massive peaks and troughs in form during a series! A 1-1 result suggests a close series, but in reality we had 2 matches where one team was miles better than the other, neither being very satisfactory matches to watch as a result.
Last summer against South Africa and the Windies also showed this pattern, with England winning and losing by massive margins in the same series.
England are as guilty of this as anyone else.
The bottom line is that on sporting decks where 275-300 is about par then England can beat anyone, our batters specialise in getting quick 60-70s and we bat deep as well whilst our bowlers can knock over anyone when the ball is moving.
As we saw in Oz and before that in India our issue is on flat decks where you need to score 500+ just to stay in the game, we don't have the batsmen to score the big hundreds apart from Cook and he is obviously not the player he was anyway and our we don't have the high pace or quality spin to take wickets on flat decks.
Hopefully we will see some closer contests ahead in the India series because very few things beat the drama of a close Test match.2
