Cricket fred

[Galfon]

Roy bowled by his cousin Snater in the 2nd over of the ODI in Amstaedam...what odds eh !
Anyhoo, Salt & Malin breezing along and possible not all of Eng super-tonkers will get a look in.
First of 3, part of new ICC 1-day super league apparently.

(u/d: k.o.d. Salt now back in the cellar )

[Galfon]

Admittedly not Oz or Ind, but Buttler bit of a One-day Wun-da innit.
Phookinell...

[Banquo]

Admittedly not Oz or Ind, but Buttler bit of a One-day Wun-da innit.
Phookinell...

498!!!!...and a 1st ball duck for Morgan

Livingston and Buttler are just brilliant ODI batsmen. Salt looks promising too!


198 runs in the last 12 overs....

[Galfon]

..and a 1st ball duck for Morgan

He just announced he would be limiting his playing time for Eng. this summer - I hope this type of thing is not included..hmmph.

[Galfon]

What.. 2 consecutive ducks ?..
The knives will be out.
Some depth in hit-worthies he has at his disposal, that's for sure.
(series won)

[Banquo]

bad habits still there- drops and collapses

[Galfon]

top order, bottom marks.
ffs just protect your wicket.Bit of a fight back now, looks like 3 figures will be reached..

[Banquo]

hats off to YJB, I thought his test career was finished.

[Banquo]

Very pleased for him!

And hats off to Which who iirc tipped Jamie Overton a few years ago- albeit as a bowler, which he also did well.

[Big D]

hats off to YJB, I thought his test career was finished.

Being asked/allowed to play a style he is good at. Fair play to him for taking full advantage.

England being committed to this style if play will cause a few hammerings but will be entertaining as anything.

[Puja]

top order, bottom marks.
ffs just protect your wicket.Bit of a fight back now, looks like 3 figures will be reached..

In fairness, Lees, Pope, and Crawley all got ridiculously good balls fom Boult who was on fire in his first spell. Swinging late, going both ways, and taking just the top of the stumps. You could argue that Lees could've taken a better step forward, or Pope should've moved his feet so his pad was next to his bat, but that would've just ended up with them nicking it and being LBW respectively. With bowling that good, it becomes a matter of luck if you get your bat in the right place or not.

A bit of credit needs to go to Stokes - the stats may suggest that he got out cheaply throwing his bat at the ball, but that counterattack knocked Boult off his stride (he was looking on for just bowling until England were all out for <50 until Stokes started smacking him around) and changed the momentum of the innings from being all-New-Zealand.

Puja

[Galfon]

top order, bottom marks.
ffs just protect your wicket.Bit of a fight back now, looks like 3 figures will be reached..

In fairness, Lees, Pope, and Crawley all got ridiculously good balls fom Boult who was on fire in his first spell. Swinging late, going both ways, and taking just the top of the stumps. You could argue that Lees could've taken a better step forward, or Pope should've moved his feet so his pad was next to his bat, but that would've just ended up with them nicking it and being LBW respectively. With bowling that good, it becomes a matter of luck if you get your bat in the right place or not.

A bit of credit needs to go to Stokes - the stats may suggest that he got out cheaply throwing his bat at the ball, but that counterattack knocked Boult off his stride (he was looking on for just bowling until England were all out for <50 until Stokes started smacking him around) and changed the momentum of the innings from being all-New-Zealand.

Puja

I'd let Lees off as the ball moved late and sharply off the pitch, his technique was ok but maybe he could have been more forward quicker.Pope & Crawley are new style where bat/pad defence is a rarity - this is Headingley, and the risk of lbw is still better than the open door airy-wafts. Root just seem to get his angle wrong, but no excuses for Stokes - he's a rare talent but his buddies have bailed him out on this occasion.

[Banquo]

great knock but got to feel for Overton.

[Galfon]

2 5'fers for Leach! ..10 for 266, 72 overs or so.
Wouldn't have predicted that; another wee positive for his Stokeship.Interesting final day again.
Tests are boss..

u/d: ffs.( Lees left stranded..)

[Banquo]

2 5'fers for Leach! ..10 for 266, 72 overs or so.
Wouldn't have predicted that; another wee positive for his Stokeship.Interesting final day again.
Tests are boss..

u/d: ffs.( Lees left stranded..)

Stokes is a very good skipper, esp as he has only one red ball game under his belt. If we could catch and review properly, this game would have been won already.

Leach has turned into a test bowler thanks to Ben'n' Bren, and Potts is a really great selection- he's like a squat angus fraser.

[Galfon]

Potts looks well set for a long Test career - good control and doesn't like coming 2nd best. Not sure why Headingley less than half-full on D4 at weekend. Some good cricket already this year.

[Puja]

Leach has turned into a test bowler thanks to Ben'n' Bren, and Potts is a really great selection- he's like a squat angus fraser.

They've had an early knack in having faith in players and getting the best out of them. Who here was optimistic about Pope or Leach or Lees or Bairstow at the start of the series - I think we'd mostly all given them up as "not good enough for top class cricket". Obviously, it's just one series, and at home, but hopefully they can carry that on going forwards.

Puja

[Stom]

Leach has turned into a test bowler thanks to Ben'n' Bren, and Potts is a really great selection- he's like a squat angus fraser.

They've had an early knack in having faith in players and getting the best out of them. Who here was optimistic about Pope or Leach or Lees or Bairstow at the start of the series - I think we'd mostly all given them up as "not good enough for top class cricket". Obviously, it's just one series, and at home, but hopefully they can carry that on going forwards.

Puja

I'm still not optimistic about Leach, but Pope has had it in him, for sure, and Bairstow, too, if he's in as a batsman and is told to shut the fook up about the gloves because he's a meh keeper but an excellent fielder.

[Puja]

Also, have we all seen the Root reverse-scoop 6: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/cricket/61942918

Utterly ridiculous skill and a sign of the freedom that he's playing with under Stokes/McCullum. I didn't even know he had the capacity to play that shot in any form of cricket, let alone that he'd bust it out in a Test match. If he can regularly add that kind of unpredictable threat to his everyday workmanlike skill in building an innings, he's going to terrorise bowlers even more than he currently does.

Puja

[Big D]

2 5'fers for Leach! ..10 for 266, 72 overs or so.
Wouldn't have predicted that; another wee positive for his Stokeship.Interesting final day again.
Tests are boss..

u/d: ffs.( Lees left stranded..)

Stokes is a very good skipper, esp as he has only one red ball game under his belt. If we could catch and review properly, this game would have been won already.

Leach has turned into a test bowler thanks to Ben'n' Bren, and Potts is a really great selection- he's like a squat angus fraser.

Early days on Leach yet. He has had a bit of deserved luck this test but we will need to see some more consistency from him. Bigger tests ahead this year. He has had a great test match though.

[fivepointer]

Root and Bairstow made that look ridiculously easy. To win like that is very impressive.

Overall a terrific series.

[Banquo]

decent comeback . Extraordinary from yjb.

Blundell and Mitchell must be thinking wtaf at losing 3-0.

3,4,5,6,7 sorted for a while at least, plus Potts and Leach bonus. Great cricket.

[Banquo]

nice to see Leach get motm, and deserved.....except yjb was the motm . Assume he will get the series award.... or not, lol

[Big D]

nice to see Leach get motm, and deserved.....except yjb was the motm . Assume he will get the series award.... or not, lol

England were dead at 55/6. I understand that 10fers are hard but YJB was clearly the player of the match. To put on 260 with Overton at a run a ball was unreal.

NZ got their selection all wrong. After what England did to them at TB going into this with 3 front line bowlers was madness. India will offer a far sterner test I think.

Mitchell didn't deserve to be on the end of a 3-0 series defeat. Great batting from him.

[Banquo]

nice to see Leach get motm, and deserved.....except yjb was the motm . Assume he will get the series award.... or not, lol

England were dead at 55/6. I understand that 10fers are hard but YJB was clearly the player of the match. To put on 260 with Overton at a run a ball was unreal.

NZ got their selection all wrong. After what England did to them at TB going into this with 3 front line bowlers was madness. India will offer a far sterner test I think.

Mitchell didn't deserve to be on the end of a 3-0 series defeat. Great batting from him.

yep. without yjb we were dead after day 2. New Zealand did test us, but top order iffinessand losing Jamison hampered them. Be interesting to see whether the aggressive batting can be sustained v India, and whether we can bowl em out twice