The Winter Cricket thread

[Gary Baldi]

First stop Sri Lanka this year, then off to the West Indies early next year.

Stone makes his debut today and lots of spinners are in the team. Let's see what happens

 

[SteMerritt]

Looking forward to seeing how the white ball team cope, a good test for them. The red ball side? Not expecting too much, the top order have a lot of work to do.

 

[Sarge]

Hoping the cricket gives us a bit of genuine excitement... especially as we're not getting much following OUFC of late

 

[Gary Baldi]

A decent start from England, but the usual dumb shot from Roy though.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Trying to play cricket in the monsoon season? Hmm...

 

[Foley]

Trying to play cricket in the monsoon season? Hmm...

Yes a little odd. One of the warm up games was rained off as well.

 

[Oufcrealist]

Yes a little odd. One of the warm up games was rained off as well.

Thats what happens when you have overloaded fixtures.
I notice Saturdays match has Sunday as a reserved day..............just in case!!
Its quite likely that around 50% of the tour could be washed out.

 

[Foley]

Nasser Hussain suggested that Ollie Stone is 'seriously quick
Hopefully he will be used in the test matches as well. Short spells and hope to blast a couple out.
I am amazed Broad AND Anderson have gone to Sri Lanka. Anderson Stone with stokes and some spinners would have been enough.

 

[Foley]

Well rain nearly ruined the game but we probably would have won fairly comfortably today.
Woakes three wickets (and the first was a great ball). It will be interesting whether he can get wickets in the Tests

 

[makv]

Does anyone know why we have this Cricket Social thing rather than actual full-time commentary?

 

[Gary Baldi]

TalkSport nabbed the commentary for the Sri Lanka tour, so the BBC are left with trying to fill a hole in their schedule.

 

[makv]

TalkSport nabbed the commentary for the Sri Lanka tour, so the BBC are left with trying to fill a hole in their schedule.

Aha! Thanks for that.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

So, the third match starts (or doesn't!) with it raining. After one match was washed out and the other severely curtailed.

The idea of playing in the rainy season looks ever more ludicrous.

 

[Foley]

So, the third match starts (or doesn't!) with it raining. After one match was washed out and the other severely curtailed.

The idea of playing in the rainy season looks ever more ludicrous.

I agree. Ridiculous. The Sri Lanka board must be furious to lose most of what is probably a lucrative home ODI tour.
Apparently the Barny Army didn't go as they knew most would be rained off

 

[Gary Baldi]

It's a question of fitting tours into calendars - players want to play in tournaments like the Big Bash and IPL, so the boards have to compromise somewhere. But it does look silly go on tour in the rainy season

 

[Oufcrealist]

Play due to start at 15.45
21 overs per side, so a virtual 20/20 game!!

 

[SteMerritt]

Turned into a bit of a stroll. Morgan again looking good, which has come as a bit of a shock as put him in a Middx shirt he doesn't know which end of the bat to hold...

 

[Gary Baldi]

Turned into a bit of a stroll. Morgan again looking good, which has come as a bit of a shock as put him in a Middx shirt he doesn't know which end of the bat to hold...

He said on the radio that he used the couple of weeks break after the season to work on some of the flaws in his game that had crept in this season.

And Darren Gough is a terrible commentator. Can't even consistently state the obvious.

 

[unification]

I agree. Ridiculous. The Sri Lanka board must be furious to lose most of what is probably a lucrative home ODI tour.
Apparently the Barny Army didn't go as they knew most would be rained off

That and the daft ticket pricing. England fans £25 and locals less than £2.

All things are relative of course and £25 pittance to those who travelled but the principle of charging one lot over 20 times more to watch the same match from the same stand has understandably aggrieved many.

 

[brokeandobscure]

And Darren Gough is a terrible commentator. Can't even consistently state the obvious.

Unlike Boycott, who consistently states the obvious, or his opinion of it, over, and over, and over, and over.... (repeat until ready to bang your head against t'wall or turn t'radio off)

 

[Gary Baldi]

Unlike Boycott, who consistently states the obvious, or his opinion of it, over, and over, and over, and over.... (repeat until ready to bang your head against t'wall or turn t'radio off)

Gough was interviewing Rashid last night and persistently talking about his Google. Google? Talk about thick!

At least Boycott is bearable because the TMS team just play so many tricks on him nowadays.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Gough was interviewing Rashid last night and persistently talking about his Google. Google? Talk about thick!

I din't know whether he is thick or not, but if you knew much about cricket, you would know that people have been referring to a googly as 'a google' for donkey's years.

 

[SteMerritt]

That and the daft ticket pricing. England fans £25 and locals less than £2.

All things are relative of course and £25 pittance to those who travelled but the principle of charging one lot over 20 times more to watch the same match from the same stand has understandably aggrieved many.

It's the same for West Indies, official England tickets were £30 I think it was, but $9 US for locals, we just bought them there instead of before we left. The matches rarely sell out, especially the tests.

 

[Foley]

It's the same for West Indies, official England tickets were £30 I think it was, but $9 US for locals, we just bought them there instead of before we left. The matches rarely sell out, especially the tests.

Which Tests did you go to in the WI and what was your favourite?

 

[Gary Baldi]

I din't know whether he is thick or not, but if you knew much about cricket, you would know that people have been referring to a googly as 'a google' for donkey's years.

For us plebes, it sounds wrong and he was the only one using it - even Rashid called it a googly. I kept thinking about the search engine, and cannot have been the only one wondering what he was on about!

 

[SteMerritt]

Which Tests did you go to in the WI and what was your favourite?

Only managed Antigua, wasnt the liveliest of home support but barmy army were there en mass. Pitch turned slow and lifeless last day and we couldn't force the win. Great experience though, the Antiguan people are so friendly and chilled.

 

[Gary Baldi]

Another game, another rain delay, another England win.

 

[SteMerritt]

Looks like we are having one of "those" games today. When our ODI team gets it wrong, they get it VERY wrong.

 

[Foley]

So Joe Denley has relatively recently taken up leg spin.
He opened the bowling in the T20 game and got a four for!
Could he force his way into the one day team and give us another bowling option?

 

[makv]

So Joe Denley has relatively recently taken up leg spin.
He opened the bowling in the T20 game and got a four for!
Could he force his way into the one day team and give us another bowling option?

What was he bowling before?