more often than not, moeen ali will let you down
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Blue Shoes
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Not sure what Ali actually brings to this team, get s. Curran in for the next one please. Why he's ahead of woakes, i don't know.
Aus have 3 good bowlers accompanied by 20 overs of pie chucking and we've barely gone after the pie chucking.
Aus have 3 good bowlers accompanied by 20 overs of pie chucking and we've barely gone after the pie chucking.
Blue Shoes
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Got the two highest scorers in the match, no wickets for starc and cummings, no scores for finch and warner and still managing to chuck it away.
Blue Shoes
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What a terrible complemention of 4 wickets ha, long hops and good catches from people trying to smash you out of the ground
Blue Shoes
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This is brainless, they still need to find an over of pie chucking that billings can go after, starc isn't fit so it may even be 3 overs of easily gettable, but the bowlers are trying to smack sixes instead of just getting bilings on strike. He needed to stop giving them the strike too.
BigMick
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Notts 169-4 off 17 overs, an easy win after Joe Clarke blasted 77, including 27 off the unfortunate Danny Lamb's solitary over. Lancs' other two seamers were only marginally better and the only solace they can take from a dreadful performance was the bowling of Livingstone - 4 overs for 13 runs and two wickets.
Clarke was brilliant. He's one of 4 Notts players trying, for various reasons, to rebuild their careers and England could do worse then look at him in all forms of the game. Duckett, too, is a much better player than when he was prematurely picked for England, and then there's Alex Hales who, so good was Clarke, Lancs were actually happy to bowl at tonight..
Clarke was brilliant. He's one of 4 Notts players trying, for various reasons, to rebuild their careers and England could do worse then look at him in all forms of the game. Duckett, too, is a much better player than when he was prematurely picked for England, and then there's Alex Hales who, so good was Clarke, Lancs were actually happy to bowl at tonight..
Blue Shoes
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Billings at least brought one positive, I'd like him to do well and force his way in, but don't see how he gets in. England and Morgan being all smiles shows how serious they've taken this.
Billings and bairstow got 2/3rds of the runs themselves, just nobody else contributing. Those 5 stupid overthrows from ali and the last ball going for 6 could have been the difference really.
Billings and bairstow got 2/3rds of the runs themselves, just nobody else contributing. Those 5 stupid overthrows from ali and the last ball going for 6 could have been the difference really.
That was a top innings by Billings but they were chasing 50 more than they should have been.
And should have batted first anyway.
And should have batted first anyway.
Stokes went to NZ because personal issues, but that was ages ago. Does anyone know what's going on?
Minimeister
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He's going to miss the rest of the summer mate, his dad's got brain cancer.
Chris O'Connor
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The second odi is on BBC today.
I was reading the long time Test Match Special commentator and colourful raconteur Henry Blofeld's A-Z of cricket. A particularly interesting piece was regarding Peter Baxter who produced TMS from 1974 until 2007, being in the hot seat for 34 years and enormously proud of his achievements, not the least of which was to protect and fight it's corner when the radio commentary show came under fire from the BBC heirarchy. Tbf their sports bosses had long shown a cavalier and fairly ambivalent attitude to anything to do with cricket, giving the impression of being anti-cricket and perhaps not really caring for the show or the game's broadcasting future on the Beeb.
Baxter thought their attitude was quite extraordinary, to not give assurances about the future of such a flagship show - amidst talk of closing it down completely and not even having a suitable network to carry it. Noone was more upset than the late Brian Johnston at the way they were treated, it being the only time Baxter saw him actually lose his temper.
It's always enlightening to read about just how things were behind the scenes in the bad old days with the BBC bosses anti cricket attitudes. Their notorious parsimony and long term negligence in updating or improving the TV broadcasts were a large reason why channel 4 were so easily successful in taking the TV rights in 2005. The cash starved TCCB were being paid pennies and treated as the lowest of priorities when it came to spending money for rights, the BBC hierarchy had their favourite sports and cricket didn't figure.
I was reading the long time Test Match Special commentator and colourful raconteur Henry Blofeld's A-Z of cricket. A particularly interesting piece was regarding Peter Baxter who produced TMS from 1974 until 2007, being in the hot seat for 34 years and enormously proud of his achievements, not the least of which was to protect and fight it's corner when the radio commentary show came under fire from the BBC heirarchy. Tbf their sports bosses had long shown a cavalier and fairly ambivalent attitude to anything to do with cricket, giving the impression of being anti-cricket and perhaps not really caring for the show or the game's broadcasting future on the Beeb.
Baxter thought their attitude was quite extraordinary, to not give assurances about the future of such a flagship show - amidst talk of closing it down completely and not even having a suitable network to carry it. Noone was more upset than the late Brian Johnston at the way they were treated, it being the only time Baxter saw him actually lose his temper.
It's always enlightening to read about just how things were behind the scenes in the bad old days with the BBC bosses anti cricket attitudes. Their notorious parsimony and long term negligence in updating or improving the TV broadcasts were a large reason why channel 4 were so easily successful in taking the TV rights in 2005. The cash starved TCCB were being paid pennies and treated as the lowest of priorities when it came to spending money for rights, the BBC hierarchy had their favourite sports and cricket didn't figure.
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The BBC hierarchy's most favourite sport is Tennis. They will pay whatever it takes to keep it. The BBC elites would never give up their day in the royal box at Wimbledon..
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Not live on the telly. England 20-0, 4 overs. Smith not playing.
Edit, Bairstow out for 0, 20-1.
Blue Shoes
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Give banton a go at opening instead of roy for the next odi? No better time to experiment.