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England Cricket Summer 2020
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Both Foakes and Curran were released by England and playing for Surrey today0
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I've been looking at various stats; 3rd youngest England player (about 100 days older than David Gower was) and currently at 236 not out, the 11th highest ever.killerandflash said:
I think he's the 7th English player to do it. Rob Key was the last, and before that GowerNorth Lower Neil said:How many players have scored a double century as their first Test century, does anyone know?
And what's the highest maiden century score?
Rob Key got dropped a few tests later though - can't see the same happening to Zak Crawley!0 -
This was the leaderboard for maiden test centuries before today.North Lower Neil said:How many players have scored a double century as their first Test century, does anyone know?
And what's the highest maiden century score?
Crawley closing in on the top ten now.
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Cheers.
Didn't realise Sobers' 365 was his first Test ton!3 -
I know - that was my first reaction to that list too!North Lower Neil said:Cheers.
Didn't realise Sobers' 365 was his first Test ton!1 -
444-4 is a good sounding score
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250 moves Zak to number 10.lordromford said:
This was the leaderboard for maiden test centuries before today.North Lower Neil said:How many players have scored a double century as their first Test century, does anyone know?
And what's the highest maiden century score?
Crawley closing in on the top ten now.0 -
251* - now 9th. Only one Englishman above him.0 -
257* - now 7th!0
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One more run and Crawley will have the second highest score by an English No3.
edit: now, with 258*, he is second.
only Wally Hammond above him, with 336*.0 -
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I forgot about Test championship points.North Lower Neil said:Given we only need to draw to win the series I hope they let him bat on as long as possible (cue him being bowled next ball).0 -
This is phenomenal stuff - and not exactly a bad bowling attack!lordromford said:One more run and Crawley will have the second highest score by an English No3.
edit: now, with 258*, he is second.
only Wally Hammond above him, with 336*.1 -
Crawley now has a better top score than Tendulkar, Ponting and Kohli, apparently.
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Switch hitting now....killerandflash said:
KP?Leuth said:I thought about Trescothick and Hayden but there has to be a right-hander who was tall and murderous through midwicket0 -
Crawley gone.
Stumped for 267.
What an innings though. Hats off.7 -
Noooo0
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Fair play to the Pakistan players for their reaction to the wicket.
Congratulating him on his way back.
Good sports.7 -
Am disappointed as wanted him to get 300!lordromford said:Crawley gone.
Stumped for 267.
What an innings though. Hats off.3 -
Is this a timeless test.....? Just wondering as things have been meandering along since the drinks break. No urgency by England at all, after a 10 min spell when Crawley starting hitting 4's & 6's like they were going out of fashion.
Root obviously doesn't want to win, take the series 2-0 and go above Australia in the table.7 -
G’wan Zak 🏏❤️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻1
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a remarkable score .. let's hope he can maintain this form for a VERY long time, especially v the Ozzieslordromford said:Crawley gone.
Stumped for 267.
What an innings though. Hats off.2 -
A tricky decision to make when Stokes returns, Burns probably most at risk now0
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Oh Golfie. We're on 490-5 and you find a negative!golfaddick said:Is this a timeless test.....? Just wondering as things have been meandering along since the drinks break. No urgency by England at all, after a 10 min spell when Crawley starting hitting 4's & 6's like they were going out of fashion.
Root obviously doesn't want to win, take the series 2-0 and go above Australia in the table.1 -
Or one of the 4 seamers if Stokes can bowl.killerandflash said:A tricky decision to make when Stokes returns, Burns probably most at risk now0 -
Superb innings, his Test average has gone up from 28 to 48!1
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Jesus wept. Have a day off.golfaddick said:Is this a timeless test.....? Just wondering as things have been meandering along since the drinks break. No urgency by England at all, after a 10 min spell when Crawley starting hitting 4's & 6's like they were going out of fashion.
Root obviously doesn't want to win, take the series 2-0 and go above Australia in the table.2 -
Ignore my comment, for some reason I was counting Stokes as a batsman onlyNorth Lower Neil said:
Or one of the 4 seamers if Stokes can bowl.killerandflash said:A tricky decision to make when Stokes returns, Burns probably most at risk now
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At the next 50 over world cup, you can imagine Zak in that side as well, especially when Morgan retires. He's got all the shots0
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Just pissed off that Thursday was a glorious day & they didn't think about bringing it forward a day. If you look at the weather for Tuesday I can't see much play happening, so in effect we have 2 days & 1 session left to bowl them out twice. Play can go onto 7.30 tonight but last week at Southampton they were going off for bad light at 6.30ish.North Lower Neil said:
Oh Golfie. We're on 490-5 and you find a negative!golfaddick said:Is this a timeless test.....? Just wondering as things have been meandering along since the drinks break. No urgency by England at all, after a 10 min spell when Crawley starting hitting 4's & 6's like they were going out of fashion.
Root obviously doesn't want to win, take the series 2-0 and go above Australia in the table.
Yes......490-5 and pootling along like we have all the time in the world.0 -
Do you know what, golfie. You do actually have a point. There are ways the cricket authorities could act to maximize play and being proactive with weather reports is one of them.golfaddick said:
Just pissed off that Thursday was a glorious day & they didn't think about bringing it forward a day. If you look at the weather for Tuesday I can't see much play happening, so in effect we have 2 days & 1 session left to bowl them out twice. Play can go onto 7.30 tonight but last week at Southampton they were going off for bad light at 6.30ish.North Lower Neil said:
Oh Golfie. We're on 490-5 and you find a negative!golfaddick said:Is this a timeless test.....? Just wondering as things have been meandering along since the drinks break. No urgency by England at all, after a 10 min spell when Crawley starting hitting 4's & 6's like they were going out of fashion.
Root obviously doesn't want to win, take the series 2-0 and go above Australia in the table.
Yes......490-5 and pootling along like we have all the time in the world.
However, you made this good point a couple of days ago.
They’re playing now and Zak Crawley just got the second highest score by an England number three, also the second highest English (7th highest in the world) maiden century and was part of the highest English 5th wicket stand which was also the joint 4th highest 5th wicket stand by any nation.
We’re in control, the game is approaching being unloseable and we have a chance to win it and wrap up the series. Just because Zak scored a 4 and a 6 in successive balls a few overs ago, it doesn’t mean he can do that every over. He was clearly knackered judging by the stumping off a part timer and it’s not even as if a player, even a world class player, can just turn it on and score 10 an over off a decent attack like Pakistan.
Yes, players whack the ball all over the place in 20twenty, but test cricket is a different game. But I’m sure you know all this.
People will disagree on tactical and strategic decisions in cricket and you’re entitled to your view on how England are dealing with this situation, but it would just be nice if you could take your negative hat off for just a moment to marvel at the outstanding performance of a young, English, Kentish, Charlton Supporting cricketer who’s performed admirably over the last two days.
Please. Just for a day.8
