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They avoided the follow on. This is more than they looked like achieving last night.
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Aug 7, 2020 12:53
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Aug 7, 2020 13:46
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They're hungry to get batting again. Must be a good forecast for this evening and tomorrow.
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Aug 7, 2020 13:54
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Joffra seems to have lost his cool.
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Aug 7, 2020 14:38
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This is some pretty shambolic running from some extremely experienced players. I guess they're thinking about bowling already.
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Aug 7, 2020 14:55
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Jimmy asking for another slip rather than an extra cover saving runs! Haha, nice one Shane!!
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Aug 7, 2020 15:58
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Continuing to bowl Stokes seems unnecessarily risky.
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Aug 7, 2020 18:51
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goatface posted:Continuing to bowl Stokes seems unnecessarily risky. 
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Aug 7, 2020 19:06
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I feel that this collapse is note about Pakistan doing their thing rather than any specific English bowler
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Aug 7, 2020 19:07
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Scylo posted:He had to get a special exemption from the Aus gov to be able to travel there, and they only grant exemptions for the following reasons This is from the last page, and sorry to be pedantic about this: But there is also another exception. If you have spent more time outside of Australia than you have spent in Australia in the last 12-24 months, for the sake of this rule you are not considered a resident of Australia, and thus are allowed international travel. It is this exception I am personally hoping to make use of if/when I get a new job. So possibly Shane "it was only one pill that my mum gave me" Warne either has a property in England, or has been galavanting around the world long enough to qualify for this.
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Aug 8, 2020 01:03
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https://twitter.com/DerbyshireCCC/status/1292047802973982722
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Aug 8, 2020 12:49
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this has potential to get tasty
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Aug 8, 2020 15:36
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Time for Buttles to earn his place as a specialist batsman.
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Aug 8, 2020 15:39
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Pakistan at 10/1 to win right now, might be worth a fiver in case of a classic Englanding e: gonna lol if Pakistan lose this on a no-ball Julio Cruz fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Aug 8, 2020 18:05
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Well. What a game. We did not deserve to win that.
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Aug 8, 2020 18:34
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Pakistan set some really poo poo fields all day. They could have done more.
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Aug 8, 2020 22:31
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Pakistan v England is probably the highest variance test series going atm. Deserves doesn't really come into it
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Aug 8, 2020 22:36
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goatface posted:Pakistan set some really poo poo fields all day. They could have done more. Yeah, a good captain wouldn't have had a bunch of fielders on the boundary when England needed less than 10 to win. It just looked like Azhar hadn't actually watched any footage of England being England. The way you defend a total like that against England when the batsmen are attacking is to hide the ball outside off-stump with an 8-2 field and wait for them to get bored and nick behind.
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Aug 9, 2020 09:06
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https://twitter.com/bbctms/status/1292441764931031041
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Aug 9, 2020 13:56
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BrigadierSensible posted:This is from the last page, and sorry to be pedantic about this: This is good to know because I've spent the last 3 and a half years outside of Aus, only came back because of Covid-19 making my job no longer viable and wouldn't mind leaving again if I find work lol I didn't realise the entire ICC World Test championship thing wasn't postponed, so Eng got points for all these wins despite it being unknown whether tests are even going to happen for most teams, it probably won't be postponed unless India lose the top spot I guess
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Aug 9, 2020 18:43
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Darren Stevens is ripping through county sides again. Not bad for a man in his 24th season.
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Aug 10, 2020 17:48
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goatface posted:Darren Stevens is ripping through county sides again. Not bad for a man in his 24th season. I feel like there's a lot about how poo poo county cricket is in the fact that Darren Stevens is 44 and can still take 5-50 on a very hot day, after his team have put on 530-1(dec).
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Aug 10, 2020 20:51
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Oooooh Jimmy Jimmy. Edit. Stop dropping catches in the slips, you scrubs. Astroclassicist fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Aug 13, 2020 |
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Aug 13, 2020 11:11
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Just bowl to dismiss him you useless fucks.
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Aug 14, 2020 15:31
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goatface posted:Just bowl to dismiss him you useless fucks. I think you'll find that England's plan of bouncing out the tail has a proven track record
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Aug 14, 2020 16:10
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Joe Root is not a good captain.
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Aug 14, 2020 16:17
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goatface posted:Joe Root is not a good captain. I think he is a limited captain. He should never have been made captain, it was done simply because his face fitted. Captaincy is like everything else in cricket, it takes experience to get good at it . Before being made test captain he had only captained Yorkshire twice. They were a wining team at that point and both times they lost. He's had to learn on the job (like Cook before him) and he doesn't have a natural flare for it. He is probably a good man but you need more than that to be successful.
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Aug 14, 2020 16:54
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notaspy posted:I think he is a limited captain. The problem with cricket is that good captains are rarely good enough to get in the team consistently so teams generally have to choose from 1 or 2 poor options
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Aug 14, 2020 16:56
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Yeah. For all that people justifiably poo poo on his captaincy, the only other option punched his way out of contention. I dunno. I think his captaincy has gone alongside aimless and unfocused leadership throughout English cricket. They've been so focused on growing the television audience and making money that all the sporting decisions have been made with only superficial attention. Root, Strauss, Silverwood, Giles were all *fine*. But they were obviously picked because they were the first names that the ECB came across that fitted the brief. Like, they've not completely hosed up, but they have forgotten that being the best at any professional sport involves investing time and attention in finding the absolute best solution, not just "good enough"
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Aug 14, 2020 17:45
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I don't think Joe Root is a good captain That was from 8 days ago, probably when Root brought himself and Bess on to use up the five overs post lunch to get to the new ball and got tonked for 27 runs after the England had conceded just over 40 in the entire morning session. Now Buttttttler and Woakes got England to safety but Root makes so many questionable decisions, and there are periods where he lets the game just meander along with his solitary plan of "well, hope Stokesy/Jimmy/Broady gets a wicket here, I'll look a loving genius" and nothing to fall back on if that doesn't work ShaneMacGowansTeeth fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Aug 14, 2020 |
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Aug 14, 2020 18:53
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Root feels like he should be the transitional Captain until they workout who should be the real captain (*cough* Burns *cough*), apart from they will stick witj him as his face fits and that's why England won't reclaim no.1. That or they are just about to ruin Pope.
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Aug 14, 2020 19:09
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It's like he gets instructions during breaks and then follows them until they don't work, at which point he falls back on the most basic and bland strategies until he can get inside for more time with the coaches.
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Aug 14, 2020 19:46
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That's probably true, but his best captaining decision was probably letting Ben Stokes bowl that stupidly long spell on day 2 in the Headingley test against the Aussies in 2019, but I doubt that Root had anything to do with that
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Aug 15, 2020 02:25
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https://twitter.com/ZaltzCricket/status/1294628999554113536
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Aug 15, 2020 16:21
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Play was abandoned over an hour ago. And now: https://twitter.com/CricketMirror/status/1295024566113382400
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Aug 16, 2020 16:49
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lol I just assumed today would be completely rained off and didn't even check it.
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Aug 16, 2020 23:56
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goatface posted:lol that would have made a lot more sense than what actually happened
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Aug 17, 2020 00:04
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RIP Chetan Chauhan. The man Sunny Gavaskar tried to drag off the field when he had a sook in Melbourne 1981. Apparently he died of COVID-19 too. So that's fun.
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Aug 17, 2020 01:22
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Darren Stevens got another 5fer.
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Oh hey, they're getting a net in. That's nice.
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