Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Ben Stokes' father Ged Stokes has sadly died of cancer after his long struggle.
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Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Inflammatory stuff coming from the chairman of CSA, sounds a real firebrand - perhaps a one man campaign to permanently damage relations - he may be successful if England listen to him playing the blame game and subsequently ditch any plans to return.
Judge Zak Yacoob has warned CSA will defend itself against any “lies” said about its handling of the now abandonment, attacked the tourists’ “negative” attitude, said the hosts had been “too lax with the English and their desire to do things which in our strict view they shouldn’t be doing" - such as the 'Covid secure' golf, The facts are that ultimately, they were negative. We have gone into our protocols and we think that our protocols have been very good.
“There is an awkward narrative coming out that third-world countries can’t manage these things properly. I can say we have been managing the virus much better than England.”
He added of the abandoned tour: “Many aspects of the operational side are not working and I don’t want to go into details of that because then those in charge of the operational side will start running to the newspapers to say how bad the board is.
“The only criticism I can make, and I am not even authorised to make it, is that we were too lax with the English and their desire to do things which in our strict view they shouldn’t be doing. We were stronger on preventing our players from doing things and we allowed the visitors a little more laxity. There’s a courtesy thing, because they are visitors and so on. - no mention of the home players barbecue there..
“I don’t think we want an apology from anyone but if they say lies about us, we will defend ourselves. I am prepared to leave it on the basis that we do understand the sensitivities of the matter.
We have got this virus for the first time and therefore people can be put off.”
The England and Wales Cricket Board declined to comment.
Just a lesson on how to make sure England will bend over backwards to come back then...bound to help quell any concerns amongst any prospective future tourists - the Sri Lankans and Aussies might read with interest.
Judge Zak Yacoob has warned CSA will defend itself against any “lies” said about its handling of the now abandonment, attacked the tourists’ “negative” attitude, said the hosts had been “too lax with the English and their desire to do things which in our strict view they shouldn’t be doing" - such as the 'Covid secure' golf, The facts are that ultimately, they were negative. We have gone into our protocols and we think that our protocols have been very good.
“There is an awkward narrative coming out that third-world countries can’t manage these things properly. I can say we have been managing the virus much better than England.”
He added of the abandoned tour: “Many aspects of the operational side are not working and I don’t want to go into details of that because then those in charge of the operational side will start running to the newspapers to say how bad the board is.
“The only criticism I can make, and I am not even authorised to make it, is that we were too lax with the English and their desire to do things which in our strict view they shouldn’t be doing. We were stronger on preventing our players from doing things and we allowed the visitors a little more laxity. There’s a courtesy thing, because they are visitors and so on. - no mention of the home players barbecue there..
“I don’t think we want an apology from anyone but if they say lies about us, we will defend ourselves. I am prepared to leave it on the basis that we do understand the sensitivities of the matter.
We have got this virus for the first time and therefore people can be put off.”
The England and Wales Cricket Board declined to comment.
Just a lesson on how to make sure England will bend over backwards to come back then...bound to help quell any concerns amongst any prospective future tourists - the Sri Lankans and Aussies might read with interest.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
India won the toss and will bat against Australia in the first test.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
India 41-2 at the start of the second session (day/night match.)
Listening to the Aussie commentary they gave the results from last night's matches - well, all of them except ours. The media bias is worldwide. lol
Listening to the Aussie commentary they gave the results from last night's matches - well, all of them except ours. The media bias is worldwide. lol
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Collapse by India at the end of day 1, finishing on 233-6. Started with this run out of Kohli :
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
No local games.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Australia in a bit of a pickle, would have been worse but for some dreadful catching. India 244, Australia 83-5, 43.3 overs.
Australia just bowled out India for 36. Not one batsmen got double figures. Wow!
Mildredblues
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Hilarious that. Nice to see cocky Kohli down.
As an Englishman who has an Aussie best mate I'd rather see a cocky Kohli than cocky Aussies but have to respect that performance. Incredible bowling
EDIT: Pretty funny that Starc didn't take a wicket
Brilliant bowling from cummins and hazlewood.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Not any more they're not......
One of the all time greats, this collapse will be remembered for a very long time .....I blame the captain ...oh it's Kohli....maybe not then.
That Australia attack is really underrated. I had a little look of guys who've taken 100 wickets, and their record in Australia, and the 3 they have are in the top 10 are up their with the best in Australia's history. They are as good as Warne, Mcgrath, Lillee etc in Australia. But all in the same team, Scarily James Pattinson also takes his wickets at about 21 in Australia too.
Beating Australia in Australia is still probably the ultimate challenge, and India fell a way off there.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
India are notoriously bad travellers away to anyone decent England, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa, 4-0 beckons
They lost in England 4-1 last time and have a truly horrendous record going back over the last three series won 2 lost 11 in their last three in England. Often when they've been ranked number one too.
Rankings built entirely on home form which made up almost all their test matches anyway - the odd away series in the sub continent to Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, possibly the West Indies. Anytime they met a big boy away from home they get hammered results wise even if competitive in the individual tests
Tbf they did beat Australia in Australia last time, taking full advantage of sandpapergate and no batting (which is Smith and Warner, no new guy Lambuschagne (sp?) then either.
They lost in England 4-1 last time and have a truly horrendous record going back over the last three series won 2 lost 11 in their last three in England. Often when they've been ranked number one too.
Rankings built entirely on home form which made up almost all their test matches anyway - the odd away series in the sub continent to Bangladesh or Sri Lanka, possibly the West Indies. Anytime they met a big boy away from home they get hammered results wise even if competitive in the individual tests
Tbf they did beat Australia in Australia last time, taking full advantage of sandpapergate and no batting (which is Smith and Warner, no new guy Lambuschagne (sp?) then either.
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