RadioactiveWaste Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 So, 14-2. Can we not just go back to picking south Africans for our batting line up? i-Ram 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Lunch 61-3. Yey. Sleep time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yani P Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 128-6 summed up by a hideous slog last ball before tea straight down the fielders throat..what a shambolic outfit this is.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 44 minutes ago, Yani P said: 128-6 summed up by a hideous slog last ball before tea straight down the fielders throat..what a shambolic outfit this is.. Thank goodness the tail is wagging. Might get to 170 ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 2 minutes ago, Van der MoodHoover said: Thank goodness the tail is wagging. Might get to 170 ? Woo hoo...... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anag Ram Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Where was the promised fight back? This bunch has forgotten how to bat responsibly. Pleased Bairstow got a few but the experienced players all gave their wickets away. Again. Australia just don’t do that. Mental weakness. Australia didn’t even need to bowl well. SKRam 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Van der MoodHoover Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 21-0 already in reply. No early wicket for England to try to build any pressure. Another fearful tonking on the way. Cue more churchillian rhetoric from root. "we will learn lessons, improve and come back stronger"........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Still rubbish then? I'm not even going to bother to find out how the batters got out. Back to sleep.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PistoldPete Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 2 hours ago, AndyinLiverpool said: Still rubbish then? I'm not even going to bother to find out how the batters got out. Back to sleep.. Crawley was out for 12, and so actually managed to enhance his batting average for the year. Root on the other hand got another 50, which means this year he has now scored more runs by far than any other Englishman in any other calendar year in history. What does that say about our other batsmen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 I'd strip Root of the captaincy, but unfortunately there's no obvious candidate to replace him. Of the current squad, I'd only look at Butler, but he's not a test standard keeper in my eyes. I do feel for Root though. He's not awful in the skipper's role, he's just not very good and in fairness, his own form has been excellent this year and he has carried a very poor and seemingly weak-minded squad squarely on his back. It seems unfair that he gets so much flak when he is the only one performing, but I suppose the buck stops with him. Part of my reasoning for removing him from the role would be to take him out of that glaring spotlight. I'd have no such reservations whatsoever over sacking the remaining selectors though, who could not really do a worse job even if they were they trying to. I'd say the same about the ECB who have relentlessly undermined Test cricket in this country for years now. They endlessly prattle on about grass roots initiatives, yet sacrifice the purest form of the game at every juncture in favour of increasingly baseball-like derivatives. I'd also question the quality of coaching when I see us persisting with the likes of Burns when his technique is so obviously flawed. It's not as if this is even a recent problem. I used to love going to Lords and the Oval to watch England, but I'd not waste a penny on that now. It make me quite sad to see what I view as the death throes of long format cricket in this country. I do enjoy some of the short format stuff to a point, but IMO, it can never match the theatre that Test cricket can provide. I also hate to see us humiliated by an Aussie side that I isn't even that good. Ah well, soon be Christmas... Carnero, SKRam, RadioactiveWaste and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 If we're getting rid of anyone I think Silverwood is the first contender. ziggyram59 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boycie Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 12 minutes ago, RoyMac5 said: If we're getting rid of anyone I think Silverwood is the first contender. Get rid of the selectors I’d say. Or do we not have any talent in the counties? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyMac5 Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 27 minutes ago, Boycie said: Get rid of the selectors I’d say. Or do we not have any talent in the counties? Unless the selectors can stand on one leg? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i-Ram Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 (edited) 21 hours ago, ossieram said: I don't rate Burns, but how the hell has Hameed kept his place? Joe Root trying to evidence he’s no standard Yorkshireman? Edited December 26, 2021 by i-Ram Eddie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadioactiveWaste Posted December 26, 2021 Share Posted December 26, 2021 Apparently there was a covid scare at the England hotel. Unfortunately they have been given the all clear and will now be forced to play. ziggyram59 and SKRam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yani P Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 So we get them 4 down for 110..pace bowlers causing them no end of problems.. so what does Root do after Lunch? He brings on Leach bowling to 2 left handers to the most defensive field you could ever see..another prime example of how totally clueless Root is as a captain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Comrade 86 Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 So if you bowl line and length at these Aussies, they're actually human after all ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yani P Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Then Buttler misses a stumping.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yani P Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 172-5...surely now Root has to be brave and go for it ..this Leach no pressure at one end nonsense has to end and we could get these out for under 200 still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyinLiverpool Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Another morning, another shambles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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