summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Worcestershire 82-6, 53 ahead.
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Worcestershire 103-7, 74 ahead.
....148-8, a lead of 119. Lancashire will not want to be chasing more than 150.
....149-9 at the close, Worcestershire lead by 120 with 1 wicket left. A good position for Lancashire, the 29 run 1st innings lead might prove crucial.
toffeejack
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Tell you what, I actually quite like that England world cup kit but when is cricket going to drop the stupid country name on the front? It'd look so good if it wasn't for that.
Feels harsh on Willey to me. There will be a day where conditions in the morning are perfect for swing you'd think. He's not the best bowler in the world but he's steady, and I like a left armer.
Looks like it's going to be possibly a Woakes Wood Archer pace attack with Stokes to fill in and then the two spinners.
Looks like it's going to be possibly a Woakes Wood Archer pace attack with Stokes to fill in and then the two spinners.
Chris O'Connor
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Over the nine games I'm pretty sure all the seamers will be included and take a full part I would think.
My preference would be Wood, Archer, Woakes but many advocate Curran or Plunkett in the first eleven perhaps for Wood, given Woakes and Archer could open with Plunkett maybe in his speciality, the middle overs. Curran too has shown he's coming good right at the optimum time, and he adds that crucial lower order batting strength that has even recently helped turn a potential batting collapse into a winning score.
Agree Willey is desperately unfortunate, but numbers meant someone had to go and Rashid's ongoing shoulder niggle meant a proper spinner in Dawson was needed.There is still a possibility if an injury occurs in the World Cup tournament to a seamer, Wood perhaps the most likely, then he could come in as a replacement.
In the end the fact that England will be playing all their games, bar the Old Trafford Afghanistan one, on new flat pitches which will be almost certainly prepared under the ICC's normal instructions for hard flat batting tracks with no grass at all, thereby insuring big total batting fests, meant that swing was possibly more expendable than real pace and bounce.
It possibly came down to one of Tom Curran, Plunkett and Willey with the former two edging ahead of Willey given Plunkett's ability to take wickets in the crucial middle overs and Curran's late surge in all areas.
Maybe if they get a semi at Edgbaston on a cloudy day they may want him, but then again given our seamers record with injuries, there must be a reasonable chance he could be available to them by that stage.
My preference would be Wood, Archer, Woakes but many advocate Curran or Plunkett in the first eleven perhaps for Wood, given Woakes and Archer could open with Plunkett maybe in his speciality, the middle overs. Curran too has shown he's coming good right at the optimum time, and he adds that crucial lower order batting strength that has even recently helped turn a potential batting collapse into a winning score.
Agree Willey is desperately unfortunate, but numbers meant someone had to go and Rashid's ongoing shoulder niggle meant a proper spinner in Dawson was needed.There is still a possibility if an injury occurs in the World Cup tournament to a seamer, Wood perhaps the most likely, then he could come in as a replacement.
In the end the fact that England will be playing all their games, bar the Old Trafford Afghanistan one, on new flat pitches which will be almost certainly prepared under the ICC's normal instructions for hard flat batting tracks with no grass at all, thereby insuring big total batting fests, meant that swing was possibly more expendable than real pace and bounce.
It possibly came down to one of Tom Curran, Plunkett and Willey with the former two edging ahead of Willey given Plunkett's ability to take wickets in the crucial middle overs and Curran's late surge in all areas.
Maybe if they get a semi at Edgbaston on a cloudy day they may want him, but then again given our seamers record with injuries, there must be a reasonable chance he could be available to them by that stage.
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deipnosophist
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With England’s batting power, their bowling presence is irrelevant...it will be the most one sided WC in history
Brendan Janus
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No doubt the England cricket team will underperform just like The England football team !!
That didn't take long.... Lancs need 125 to win. Could be a tricky target given how the game has gone so far, plus the cloudy weather
32-4
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Lancashire 51-4, 75 more to win.
Chris O'Connor
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Well actually the England football team surpassed all expectations at the World Cup and since then has gone from strength to strength by beating Spain and Croatia to qualify for this summer's Nations League finals, their's is a story of rapid progression under Southgate.
I think that comment may have been more relevant in the not so distant past, but makes little sense now.
This is undoubtedly the best chance this ODI team will ever have of winning. They are currently the best in the World, ranked number one in the World and are the most gifted and talented in the World, it's really in their hands.
As wiith any sport though, the best team doesn't always win knockout phases so they'll still need luck and good management to achieve their goal.
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23 more to win, 6 wickets in hand.