Cricket

[Chris O'Connor]

Poor Scotland, after their travails in football's euro qualifying and the debacle of their early exit from rugby's world cup comes the cricket...

In the T20 finals qualfying competition, Scotland, like Ireland, have high hopes of reaching the finals. But whereas Ireland made a supremely confident start, comprehensively seeing off Hong Kong by 8 wickets, poor Scotland lost their opening game to tiny minnows Singapore (tiny even relatively speaking).

 

[Toast]

The draft for the hundred is awful television.

 

[Connor]

The draft for the hundred is awful television.

Shouldn’t have been hard to copy the NFL ffs

 

[Tubey]

I have no idea what's going on but it looks... erm... interesting I guess?

 

[Tubey]

Shouldn’t have been hard to copy the NFL ffs

Or tried harder. The contrast with the pageantry the NFL do is stark - Jofra has the personality of a potato.

Still I'm a sucker for the random draft types of thing so it's still interesting me.

 

[Connor]

Or tried harder. The contrast with the pageantry the NFL do is stark - Jofra has the personality of a potato.

Still I'm a sucker for the random draft types of thing so it's still interesting me.

Yeah, proper half arsed compared to how it could have been.

 

[Tubey]

Yeah, proper half arsed compared to how it could have been.

They've made a mistake with the pacing too. They should have had highlights packages of each pick, strengths and weaknesses etc. to draw in new fans.

 

[Badge1878]

I have no idea what's going on but it looks... erm... interesting I guess?

If this is a way of introducing a new audience to cricket, it’s failing miserably.

 

[Tubey]

If this is a way of introducing a new audience to cricket, it’s failing miserably.

Indeed.

"Oh, they've picked Rilee Rossouw!"
"Good pick that!"

Meanwhile, 99.99999% of the country...

 

[Connor]

They've made a mistake with the pacing too. They should have had highlights packages of each pick, strengths and weaknesses etc. to draw in new fans.

Exactly

 

[Ivo]

Not sure the selections are fair. Surely if you get first pick(s) you get the best player(s)

 

[Chris O'Connor]

Sadly the ICC T20 world cup 2019 qualifying tournament isn't going to plan for either Ireland or Scotland.

Scotland opened up as posted with an embarrassing loss to Singapore before recovering with a good win against Kenya and coming out on top by a waifer thin 4 runs against Papua New Guinea only to then lose again to Namibia.

Ireland by contrast opened up confidently by hammering Hong Kong before getting hammered themselves by United Arab Emirates. They recovered with a big win vs Oman before losing out decisively to Canada. The Canadians best win ever in their history.

Ireland are fourth out of seven in group B but only ahead of UAE on run rate as three teams are level on four points. The head to head will but UAE ahead if only them and Ireland are level on points at the finish. Their skipper reckons they're now dependant on other results going their way.

Scotland are third in group A on run rate but 2nd to 6th are all on level points, Namibia and Singapore who both beat Scotland are behind on run rate only because too many are level on points for the h2h to place them above Scotland.

 

[summerisle]

Dhoni's international career over.

MS Dhoni: India selector MSK Prasad says team will "move on" from former captain

India legend MS Dhoni's international career could be over after the team's chief selector says they are "moving on" from the wicketkeeper.

www.bbc.co.uk

Interesting take on the future of England cricket.

 

[summerisle]

Can't disagree with this.

Parliament still none the wiser over ECB’s ‘reckless gamble’ with The Hundred

Bland evasions and ECB spin before an inadequately briefed select committee left MPS in the dark about the thinking which prompted the ruling body to waste millions on a punt

www.theguardian.com

 

[Chris O'Connor]

Interesting take on the future of England cricket.

Extremely unbalanced, all the negatives and none of the positives, perhaps without the cash the counties and the whole game may have sunk and folded, it wasn't so much a choice an imperative.