England Cricket Tours 2018-19 (and everything off the field during that period)
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I imagine Root (91no) and Morgan (90no) are a bit annoyed that the weather prevented them making centuries!0
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Only the China man bowler ;-)killerandflash said:
Did Prince Phillip sledge the opposition?LenGlover said:
I'm an old git but not quite that old.Johnnysummers5 said:
Did you see him play?LenGlover said:
Bill Voce got 98....Addick Addict said:Here's a stat - no England left arm fast bowler has ever taken 100 Test wickets. For whatever reason we don't seem to produce left armers whereas the likes of Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan seem to have a conveyor belt of them.
Could Sam Curran be the first to do so?
There were a lot less tests back then plus World War 2 which took out 6 years of his career. He was past his peak as a bowler after the War.
Although having said that I have vague memories of a televised Lords Taverners v Old England match in the early sixties when I were a lad and I think Voce might have been in the OlD England side. The likes of Norman Wisdom, Brian Rix and Prince Phillip no less played for the Lords Taverners. One of the umpires was 100 years old and apparently umpired a match when WG Grace was playing.
Before you ask I didn't see WG play either
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I saw most of the great Surrey team, from the 1950s May, Laker, Lock, Alec and Eric Bedser and so on also Godfrey Evans, Doug Wright and most of the Kent team from that eraLenGlover said:
I'm an old git but not quite that old.Johnnysummers5 said:
Did you see him play?LenGlover said:
Bill Voce got 98....Addick Addict said:Here's a stat - no England left arm fast bowler has ever taken 100 Test wickets. For whatever reason we don't seem to produce left armers whereas the likes of Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan seem to have a conveyor belt of them.
Could Sam Curran be the first to do so?
There were a lot less tests back then plus World War 2 which took out 6 years of his career. He was past his peak as a bowler after the War.
Although having said that I have vague memories of a televised Lords Taverners v Old England match in the early sixties when I were a lad and I think Voce might have been in the OlD England side. The likes of Norman Wisdom, Brian Rix and Prince Phillip no less played for the Lords Taverners. One of the umpires was 100 years old and apparently umpired a match when WG Grace was playing.
Before you ask I didn't see WG play either
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I'm fascinated by Kamindu Mendis who apparently bowled both right arm off spin and slow left arm in this game. He didn't take any wickets but was more economical than the others. He also scored 22 runs, but disappointingly only batted left handed.3
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shame. you would think with all this talk by the ECB and other cricket councils that they want more youngsters and people in general to get into cricket that they wouldn't put it completely behind a pay wall.Gravesend_Addick said:
I think that's the norm. Channel 5 have rights to highlights of home series, but I think shy have exclusive rights to overseas seriesKarim_myBagheri said:just had a look but I cant seem to find any scheduled highlights on free to air TV. has sky got complete exclusivity?
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I'm not sure overseas tours, other than The Ashes, have EVER had any terrestrial TV coverage to be fair.Karim_myBagheri said:
shame. you would think with all this talk by the ECB and other cricket councils that they want more youngsters and people in general to get into cricket that they wouldn't put it completely behind a pay wall.Gravesend_Addick said:
I think that's the norm. Channel 5 have rights to highlights of home series, but I think shy have exclusive rights to overseas seriesKarim_myBagheri said:just had a look but I cant seem to find any scheduled highlights on free to air TV. has sky got complete exclusivity?
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This tweet shows both actions!thai malaysia addick said:I'm fascinated by Kamindu Mendis who apparently bowled both right arm off spin and slow left arm in this game. He didn't take any wickets but was more economical than the others. He also scored 22 runs, but disappointingly only batted left handed.
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really? you might be right cos as far as I remember channel 4 only had home series. still, it would be nice if they changed it to be available to all, just a highlight show is all we are asking. seems to be the norm as its pretty poor that ITV has lost out on England football matches to sky.killerandflash said:
I'm not sure overseas tours, other than The Ashes, have EVER had any terrestrial TV coverage to be fair.Karim_myBagheri said:
shame. you would think with all this talk by the ECB and other cricket councils that they want more youngsters and people in general to get into cricket that they wouldn't put it completely behind a pay wall.Gravesend_Addick said:
I think that's the norm. Channel 5 have rights to highlights of home series, but I think shy have exclusive rights to overseas seriesKarim_myBagheri said:just had a look but I cant seem to find any scheduled highlights on free to air TV. has sky got complete exclusivity?
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Second game washed out
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Why? Perfectly playable!killerandflash said:Second game washed out
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Just a heads up that I've made a Twitter account in the style of PlentyOfShots, but for cricket. Posting old clips etc.
The @ is WIR_DB
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(I do plan on bringing PlentyOfShots back, but I promised to do it only once Roland sells. So I've been waiting a while unfortunately)
But yeah, please do follow @ WIR_DB on Twitter if you're on there. It'll be good, promise.5 -
Sky Sports coverage of the 1st ODI international starts 9.30am tomorrow.0
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And radio coverage on TalkSport, probably their digital chanel.Covered End said:Sky Sports coverage of the 1st ODI international starts 9.30am tomorrow.
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You've got some famous (in the cricket world at least) followers. I just got a notification saying a few people I follow followed you so had already seen the account before it was posted here. Like the look of it.plentyofshots said:Just a heads up that I've made a Twitter account in the style of PlentyOfShots, but for cricket. Posting old clips etc.
The @ is WIR_DB
eg
(I do plan on bringing PlentyOfShots back, but I promised to do it only once Roland sells. So I've been waiting a while unfortunately)
But yeah, please do follow @ WIR_DB on Twitter if you're on there. It'll be good, promise.1 -
You're too kindcantersaddick said:
You've got some famous (in the cricket world at least) followers. I just got a notification saying a few people I follow followed you so had already seen the account before it was posted here. Like the look of it.plentyofshots said:Just a heads up that I've made a Twitter account in the style of PlentyOfShots, but for cricket. Posting old clips etc.
The @ is WIR_DB
eg
(I do plan on bringing PlentyOfShots back, but I promised to do it only once Roland sells. So I've been waiting a while unfortunately)
But yeah, please do follow @ WIR_DB on Twitter if you're on there. It'll be good, promise. 1 -
Listening to the BBC's "The cricket social". No ball by ball commentary, but all the weird and interesting conversations you get listening to TMS0
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I think it is really clever and a bit cheeky what TMS have done here. They're on air via the BBC website and Sports App throughout the whole tour and they know people will tune in for something like this as many do for the chat as much as they do for ball-by-ball commentary. They will report on whats happening regularly and I think they will deter a lot of avid radio fans (like me) from bothering to even find where to listen to TalkSports efforts.killerandflash said:Listening to the BBC's "The cricket social". No ball by ball commentary, but all the weird and interesting conversations you get listening to TMS
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I think this especially works for these "lesser" overseas tours where people aren't exactly on the edge of their seats worried about the score and result.Riviera said:
I think it is really clever and a bit cheeky what TMS have done here. They're on air via the BBC website and Sports App throughout the whole tour and they know people will tune in for something like this as many do for the chat as much as they do for ball-by-ball commentary. They will report on whats happening regularly and I think they will deter a lot of avid radio fans (like me) from bothering to even find where to listen to TalkSports efforts.killerandflash said:Listening to the BBC's "The cricket social". No ball by ball commentary, but all the weird and interesting conversations you get listening to TMS
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But your missing out on Jarrod Kimber on talksport. If you haven't read any of his books you need to.0
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SL won the toss and put England in.
Eng 92-2 15 overs rain stopped play.0 - Sponsored links:
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I'd say it's unlikely there'll be any more play0
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Is it raining in Gravesend as well?Gravesend_Addick said:I'd say it's unlikely there'll be any more play
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The dry season is December - March by which time our tour will be well and truly over.Gravesend_Addick said:I'd say it's unlikely there'll be any more play
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Sri Lanka moved the dates of this tour from the original schedule. Why they moved it to the monsoon season is very odd. Maybe they were just scared of Liam Plunkett...5
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Inspection at half passed0
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Inspection now moved to 3.45Cafc43v3r said:Inspection at half passed
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It's looking like it may be a 30 over game.0
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There's one area of the ground that is causing concern. They have to start by 5.00 for the match to qualify for the minimum of 20 overs - if that happens we will have 5 more overs to bat!
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Match abandoned.0
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Hand shakes and off they go..0
