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England Cricket 2024

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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    Pope out to a loose shot, and Root should have been out LBW...
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,839
    Brook gone.

    Going to be following on at this rate!
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    Brook follows. We should avoid the follow on hopefully.
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,881
    edited July 2024
    Baz ball without a brain

    see ball smack ball. Doesn’t matter that we are over 200 runs behind and now into the lower order

    edit, I forgot about stokes and thought smith was in next
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    edited July 2024
    266-7, 16 runs behind
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,626
    Early into the morning session we were 54-5. Didnt think at tea we would be virtually at parity with 3 wickets in hand.

    Hopefully get past 300. 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    Early into the morning session we were 54-5. Didnt think at tea we would be virtually at parity with 3 wickets in hand.

    Hopefully get past 300. 
    Bazball giveth and Bazball taketh away.
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,995
    Smith bowled for 95 to a ball that shot through very low.
    Superb innings
    337-8
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,673
    Horrible way to get out on 95 😔
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,626
    Early into the morning session we were 54-5. Didnt think at tea we would be virtually at parity with 3 wickets in hand.

    Hopefully get past 300. 
    Going better than I"d hoped at tea. A lead of 80+ is more than useful. 
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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,764
    WI 0-1 in the first overs, still 94 runs behind
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    Horrible way to get out on 95 😔
    Also a very good bit of bowling.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    I worry that this West Indies second innings could get very messy, very quickly, especially without their rock.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    surely it's time now to regard Chris Woakes as a proper all rounder
  • billysboots
    billysboots Posts: 1,596
    Great innings from Smith -deserved a ton
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    Woody five fer and stokes opening batting for 2nd innings. (Crawley gone for a scan from when he dropped a catch before lunch) 


  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    So what’s the bets Crawley’s first out either for a duck or single figures!
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    So what’s the bets Crawley’s first out either for a duck or single figures!
    Just seen he’s been demoted.
  • Manic_mania
    Manic_mania Posts: 2,258
    36 minutes, 44 balls, 87 runs. Yes the WI capitulated spectacularly in the last 75 minutes but take nothing away from Wood and Stokes. Absolutely ruthless. 
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  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    So what’s the bets Crawley’s first out either for a duck or single figures!
    Just seen he’s been demoted.
    Understandable 
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    You'll never win Test series with Bazball
  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    ross1 said:
    So what’s the bets Crawley’s first out either for a duck or single figures!
    Just seen he’s been demoted.
    Understandable 
    Replaced as he's having his finger x-rayed I believe.
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    So what’s the bets Crawley’s first out either for a duck or single figures!
    Just seen he’s been demoted.
    Haha not demoted. Left the ground before lunch for a scan following hurting finger whilst attempting a catch whilst stokes bowled. 
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    Stokes beaten Bothams fastest 50 record. Great to watch. 
  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,699
    Love watching Wood bowl, at last had a bit of luck today but he has so deserved that, fantastic spell of proper fast accurate bowling. Wrap him in cotton wool.
  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,912
    Stokes very much back to his best. Clocked bowling at 85mph in what was his quickest spell for England in 4 years. Fielding very sharply and batting like that. Long may it last!
  • Great to see the stumps flying about - Mark Wood made a proper job of it.

     
  • Another three day Test. The amount of revenue the ECB must be losing on ticket and hospitality income must be considerable. Surely they must be wishing for the days of Boycott and Tavare?
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    Another three day Test. The amount of revenue the ECB must be losing on ticket and hospitality income must be considerable. Surely they must be wishing for the days of Boycott and Tavare?
    Or decent opposition... 

    That West Indies batting lineup is desperately weak and inexperienced, and with the poor state of domestic cricket over there, you can hardly blame West Indian cricketers for concentrating on white ball cricket and the T20 leagues.

    What happened to Shai Hope? He scored centuries in both innings in the 2017 Headingley Test, and instead of going on to be a top Test batsman, hasn't scored a Test ton since, finishing in 2021 with an average of 25.