Summer 2020 Cricket Thread

[Sarge]

Woakes into the bowling attack ...didnt do much with the bat, so needs to weigh in with some wickets

 

[Sarge]

WIndies 58-3 , Broad, Archer & Anderson all got a wicket apiece now, need to bowl ruthlessly and take a few more before tea - or before rain stops play !

 

[Sarge]

WIndies 59-3 at Tea ... skittle few more out in the final session of today ( rain permitting) , c'mon England

 

[Essexyellows]

Straight after tea.... 59-4

 

[SteMerritt]

Great start to the evening session, Jimmy strikes again.
Get the feeling the series could be up for grabs for England this evening.

 

[Sarge]

Surpassed firey Freddies record of wickets v Windies with that one did Jimmy Anderson - bowling from his 'end' too

and that's 589 test wickets he's taken in total

 

[Essexyellows]

Oooooshhhh.. saved by DRS.

 

[Marked Ox]

5 down, excellent bowling by Broad.

 

[Sarge]

c'mon England

 

[Maurice Earp]

110 - 6

 

[Essexyellows]

Looks a bit "gloomy" on my dubious stream... ???

 

[Sarge]

Archer V Holder becoming an interesting contest

 

[Gary Baldi]

First hour was going through the motions this morning until Broad bowled. England need to bat well to get ahead of the game with some British summer weather coming!

 

[Essexyellows]

Set them a target with a bit of gung ho batting then skittle them out in a run chase.... could be a fun few hours.

 

[Essexyellows]

Ouch..... 90mph through the keepers gloves straight in the face............

 

[SteMerritt]

Ouch..... 90mph through the keepers gloves straight in the face............

It looked even worse in slow motion, bloody hell that must have hurt.

 

[Essexyellows]

It looked even worse in slow motion, bloody hell that must have hurt.

Few loose teeth I reckon, might have cracked his cheekbone........... be "sore" at least! Slow motion certainly made me wince.

 

[Sarge]

Windies are now on their 3rd wicket keeper of the day

 

[Marked Ox]

Windies are now on their 3rd wicket keeper of the day

What I don't understand is that Hope is meant to be a wicketkeeper* and took over so why did they then need a sub keeper?

*The pundits on Sky Cricket Debate programme were discussing whether he should have taken the gloves from Dowrich and moved down the batting order due to his form with the bat.

 

[Sarge]

England's opening pair need to start racking up a few runs, bearing in mind tomorrows play is likely to rain affected... get a good lead of 350-400 ish, then put the Windies in to bat and finish off the demolition job