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England Cricket 2021 (excluding Ashes)

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  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    That is a very unfortunate way to get out!
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    130/9
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    135 all out 
    5 wickets for Bess 
  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,145
    Crawley trying to get run out 🙄 but survives 
    Test match run outs straight red 

    8-0
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,982
    SL batting was awful.
    2 out to reverse sweeps.
    We bowled well enough, but surely this is a 300 minimum 1st innings wicket.
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Saved the follow-on by tea on day one.  Good start..!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,982
    10-1

    Sibley caught behind.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,982
    17-2

    Crawley caught.
  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    WTF was that shot?
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,651
    edited January 2021
    It's starting to look like a challenging first innings score.
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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    edited January 2021
    More solid batting at the Big Bash today than the Test...
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,671
    Some beautifully bad cricket played today!
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    Proper trophy  :D


  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    Bumble pauses his commentary so he can go and collect the bins. 
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    127 for 2 - trail by 8.  Stumps day 1. 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,907
    I'm torn here. I want Bairstow to do well but I dont want him to move above Burns, Pope, Lawrence or Foakes in the pecking order.

    He's proven he isnt good enough multiple times and those above don't (or don't yet) have internationally recognised glaring flaws in their technique. It'd be like bringing Ballance back now.

    Having said that I reckon a slow spinning wicket suits Bairstow and he is one of our better players of spin so does suit this winter. In England/Aus I wouldn't want him in consideration.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    cantersaddick said:
    I'm torn here. I want Bairstow to do well but I dont want him to move above Burns, Pope, Lawrence or Foakes in the pecking order.

    He's proven he isnt good enough multiple times and those above don't (or don't yet) have internationally recognised glaring flaws in their technique. It'd be like bringing Ballance back now.

    Having said that I reckon a slow spinning wicket suits Bairstow and he is one of our better players of spin so does suit this winter. In England/Aus I wouldn't want him in consideration.
    But then Bairstow's technique WAS fine, it just went down the pan when he started turning himself into a top white ball player. Maybe he can rediscover his previous way of playing
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    He's for sure going to have a lump on his ankle in the morning! 
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,907
    killerandflash said:
    cantersaddick said:
    I'm torn here. I want Bairstow to do well but I dont want him to move above Burns, Pope, Lawrence or Foakes in the pecking order.

    He's proven he isnt good enough multiple times and those above don't (or don't yet) have internationally recognised glaring flaws in their technique. It'd be like bringing Ballance back now.

    Having said that I reckon a slow spinning wicket suits Bairstow and he is one of our better players of spin so does suit this winter. In England/Aus I wouldn't want him in consideration.
    But then Bairstow's technique WAS fine, it just went down the pan when he started turning himself into a top white ball player. Maybe he can rediscover his previous way of playing
    At the risk of losing the world class limited overs player he is? I'd really rather he stayed as he is and helped our one day side.
  • Addickted2TheReds
    Addickted2TheReds Posts: 7,735
    47* for Bairstow.

    That should keep him in the side until 2026...
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  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    How lovely to sit at home and watch England playing test cricket  again, I stay  indoors all the time during lockdown and find it hard on my mental health, so to have a morning relaxed watching the cricket is great.
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,877
    killerandflash said:
    Proper trophy  :D


    Can’t we afford new kits? Roots has been washed so often they are yellow
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,877
    cantersaddick said:
    I'm torn here. I want Bairstow to do well but I dont want him to move above Burns, Pope, Lawrence or Foakes in the pecking order.

    He's proven he isnt good enough multiple times and those above don't (or don't yet) have internationally recognised glaring flaws in their technique. It'd be like bringing Ballance back now.

    Having said that I reckon a slow spinning wicket suits Bairstow and he is one of our better players of spin so does suit this winter. In England/Aus I wouldn't want him in consideration.
    He is already above flakes and unfortunately always will be. Agree with the other 3 
  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    SantaClaus said:
    It's starting to look like a challenging first innings score.
    I can’t read this without humming a certain Christmas song 
  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    Nobody watching today? England have progressed serenely to 247-3. Root 123*, debutant Lawrence 55*. Bairstow was out in the second over of the day, but no further wicket since then. 
  • Gravesend_Addick
    Gravesend_Addick Posts: 7,299
    Not surprised by Lawrence performance here.  Followed his career & always thought he'd be a top test match batsman. 

    Some awful Sri Lankan bowling has helped too!
  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    Yep, Sri Lanka have been woeful so far (as a catch goes down off a leading edge from Lawrence). Keep going Dan
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Go Dan! Glad that Root is cashing in as well
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,835
    From the BBC 

    That is the record partnership for England for any wicket at Galle - beating the 114 Root and Bairstow put on in this match.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,835
    Gravesend_Addick said:
    Not surprised by Lawrence performance here.  Followed his career & always thought he'd be a top test match batsman. 

    Some awful Sri Lankan bowling has helped too!
    Like Crawley his first class average is not what you would call great , but he definitely has ‘it’ 

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