Cricket Thread

[McNamara That Ghost...]

13 runs to win, new ball taken.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

6 to win needed.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

273-7, off goes Broad.

4 to win needed.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

England win by three wickets!

:bow:

[Mac76]

whoa jimmy jimmy - jimmy jimmy jimmy anderson... :bow:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53903703

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Australia beat India by 8 wickets in the first test.

Aussies 191 in the first innings, India 244.

India skittled out for 36 in the second innings. Thirty Six. Lowest total any international team has made since the 1950's. :haha:

Aussies only needing 93-2 to win.

[dazthegooner]

India vs England 1st test live on C4.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

England are 454-4. Root with a double century. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

India are 179-8.

Many runs behind, England only need the two wickets to win. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

179-9, off goes Nadeem!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Archer gets the final wicket!

England win by 227 runs. :bow:

[Mac76]

this has been really bad timing - having waited for years for cricket to be back on FTA TV i'm really busy with work and just can't be getting up at 4am to watch it :(

[Ollie the Optimist]

this has been really bad timing - having waited for years for cricket to be back on FTA TV i'm really busy with work and just can't be getting up at 4am to watch it :(

One test match (think it’s the 3rd) is a day night game so starts at 9am our time I believe

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Second test:

India made 329.

England bowled out for 134. :doh:

[Mac76]

One test match (think it’s the 3rd) is a day night game so starts at 9am our time I believe

Ok, good toknow, although ifit's during the week the same thing applies

Looks like i'll just have to wait another 15 years until it happens again... :(

[McNamara That Ghost...]

England have collapsed again. :faint:

[Mac76]

105/9 :haha:

[Ollie the Optimist]

105/9 :haha:

Probably a good thing you cant watch it :lol:

[Letters]

I don't like cricket but being all out for, what was it, 112?
That's quite bad, right?

[IBK]

Normal service resumed :rolleyes:

[Letters]

Although...we've reduced India to 144 for 9 so I guess it's not all over after all.

[IBK]

Although...we've reduced India to 144 for 9 so I guess it's not all over after all.

Hmmm - depends whether England can eat the deficit without losing 2 wickets, methinks...

[Letters]

Hmmm - depends whether England can eat the deficit without losing 2 wickets, methinks...

Well. We're 50-4 so apparently not :lol:

:doh:

[dazthegooner]

Goes back to an old 'Drop the Dead Donkey' quote "There will be school children growing up thinking 'England batting collapse' is one word"

[Letters]

81 all out :haha:

India need 49 to win.

[Letters]

And get it without losing a wicket :lol:

Us :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Test match done in 2 days. :bow:

[Letters]

Few days on the beach.

Us :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

England's batting shat the bed again.

3-1 defeat in the series. :rose:

Also this results counts towards the World Test Championship final so it will be India v New Zealand at Lord's in June.

Would've been England if the result were reversed. :doh:

[dazthegooner]

Seems the experiment with squad rotation didn't work though at least the didn't consistently pick Xhaka :unsure:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

New Zealand beat India to win the World Test Championship!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ashes started overnight.

England are all out for 147 of course.

[Letters]

Maximum break :bow:

[dazthegooner]

Just not cricket is it? :unsure:

[dazthegooner]

Well one of the most used words in English cricket rears it's ugly head again Englandbattingcollapes <_<

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Second Ashes test.

Buttler just dropped Labuschagne on 95.

An absolute dolly of a catch for a wicket-keeper!

[Letters]

Australia declare on 473-9.
England on 17-2 :lol:

[dazthegooner]

That's why they declared when the did they know they could probably bowl us out twice in under 2 days :(

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Another batting collapse from England. :bow:

[dazthegooner]

Yep another one to follow.

[dazthegooner]

England test team make it to 5th day shocker :yikes:

[Letters]

We only need 386 to win :scarf:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Australia's innings had heart, but cricket ball in the groin had a cricket ball in the groin.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

8 down but going in to the final session!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

England lost. :faint:

[dazthegooner]

3rd test day one England all out 185 can’t see this going to a 5th day <_<

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Utter shite.

[Letters]

31-4 in our second innings :lol:

[dazthegooner]

Well Root has said he has a test hundred in him in this Ashes series so now a good a time as any and we still have Stokes in so you never know might make it to a forth day :unsure:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jack Leach is the nightwatchman, leaves the ball and lets it his wicket. :doh:

Supposed to be protecting the batsman and gets out in two balls.

Although I've always hated the nightwatchman in cricket. Found it pointless.

[dazthegooner]

Oh right so technically we're only 3 1/2 wickets down then? :unsure:

[Mac76]

Although I've always hated the nightwatchman in cricket. Found it pointless.

Totally agree, it's BS

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Tbf the way the top order are batting it's hardly a massive difference.

[dazthegooner]

As has been said many a time the batsman really need something for the bowlers to aim at chasing low scores all the time.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Jesus Christ it actually got worse.

England all out for 68. Australia win by an innings after scoring 267. Australia retain.

Boland, on debut, took 6 wickets in 4 overs :haha:

Oh and Root got hit in the balls again.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

All that bluster about how this match was going to different.

They were right. :lol:

Not how they meant though.

[Xhaka Can’t]

My brother was there. Him and a friend took a mate there for his 50th.

We joked about the risk of going to Day 3.

They got 25 minutes of a shit comedy and had to work out plans for the day.

[Letters]

https://newsthump.com/2021/12/28/england-cricket-team-applies-for-political-asylum-in-australia/

:d

[Marc Overmars]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2022/03/04/shane-warne-dead-australian-cricket-legend-dies-suspected-heart/

Shane Warne has died.

[LDG]

Fucking hell. That is awful.

[IBK]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2022/03/04/shane-warne-dead-australian-cricket-legend-dies-suspected-heart/

Shane Warne has died.

Awful news. 52 so young!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Geez that hit hard. What a bowler.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

West Indies need a mammoth 28 to win the test and the series, in 3 and a half days :lol:

Reset button :rose:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Ashes started just under 40 minutes ago

Australia got sent for four in the first ball of Cummings and Hazelwood’s first over

Have though set a very deep field, but England happy to take singles

Duckett nibbled on something wide that he shouldn’t have from Hazlewood and out, but otherwise good start from England

Currently 32-1

[HCZ_Reborn]

Nathan Lyon brought into bowling attack for Aussies


56-1

[HCZ_Reborn]

Ollie Pope trapped LBW by Lyons, given by third umpire on review

102-2

[HCZ_Reborn]

124-3 on lunch, Entertaining but given away some cheap wickets in session we otherwise dominated

[HCZ_Reborn]

England declare on 393-8

The fuck?

That’s either brilliant or insane

[HCZ_Reborn]

Morning started brightly with Broad taking back to back wickets, clean bowling David Warner before removing Marnus Labuschagne first ball.

32-2, Steve Smith who gave me cricketing PTSD last time the Aussies came here at the crease

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

And he's gone!

Stokes gets him lbw right before lunch. :popcorn:

[HCZ_Reborn]

And he's gone!

Stokes gets him lbw right before lunch. :popcorn:

Irony is that it’s Khawaja who is proving to be potent

[HCZ_Reborn]

Khawaja being the Aussie Ian Bell here but Travis gone now 148-4

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

And finally he's gone for 141.

372-7

[McNamara That Ghost...]

It was quite the field placement Stokes had out there.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Lyon goes!

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

It was quite the field placement Stokes had out there.

Just like me on Brian Lara Cricket. And then just bowl everything full and at the stumps.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

378-9, might have a first innings lead!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Or not, with Cummings leathering that one for six.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Or yes! :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dolly of a catch for Stokes. Australia all out for 387, England lead by 7!

[HCZ_Reborn]

This reminds me a bit of the oval in 2005, Australia poised to get a big first innnings lead but end up with a small deficit

Don’t see this ending as a draw though

[HCZ_Reborn]

And it’s raining hmmm, might we get a draw here after all?

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

There's a great big black cloud ready to drench the field in minutes.

But no. England lose 2 in about 5 minutes :doh:

And now they bugger off back inside.

[HCZ_Reborn]

210-7, Stokes, Root and Brook all falling short of 50

Unless the tail wags I think we may lose this

[HCZ_Reborn]

273 all out

Tail wagged a bit but not enough. Disappointing second innings, and I think a target of 281 with four sessions to go makes Australia the favourites to go 1-0 up in this series

[HCZ_Reborn]

107-3 close of play

Australia have batted well, Warner, Labuschagne and Smith gone. Need to get Boland the night watchman gone first thing and then concentrate on getting Khawaja. That done I think the Aussies will have had it.


Like all through this test, no one side has a definitive advantage

[HCZ_Reborn]

Morning session washed out and early lunch pencilled in. No play before 13:10

[HCZ_Reborn]

126-4, Aussies have added 19 to the total with almost an hour of play, lost night watchman Boland

Are they playing for draw? Looks like

[HCZ_Reborn]

227-8

[HCZ_Reborn]

No as I said yesterday we didn’t get enough runs in our second innings

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Australia win1

[HCZ_Reborn]

Ugh, win by two wickets….that declaration Friday night

[Mac76]

Exactly, in a situation like that declaring on anything less than 500+ is always dumb, the first priority is not to lose the opening test - Stokes dropped the Ashes

[HCZ_Reborn]

Exactly, in a situation like that declaring on anything less than 500+ is always dumb, the first priority is not to lose the opening test - Stokes dropped the Ashes

Agreed although I think it would be hard to argue that the declaration lost us the test (and not saying you are saying that) but yeah there’s no need to declare full stop in a first innings unless you’ve been batting for two days and want to make sure you can win over five days.

I think ultimately they have a better bowling attack than us, relying on Jimmy Anderson seems daft…Ollie Robinson is ok. Broad is still good but getting on and never rated Moen Ali before he retired. Losing Jofra Archer was a blow, his pace would taken the Aussies out of their comfort zone.

In many respects we are lucky that Smith and Labuschagne have been shit otherwise we’d have got an absolute pasting “Baz-Ball” or not

[HCZ_Reborn]

Good Lad of the week award goes to Johnny Bairstow for carrying a protester off the pitch the way someone would pick up and move a deckchair

[HCZ_Reborn]

I think Ben Stokes might be a complete and total slag

[HCZ_Reborn]

Stokes caught on 155. 301-7….I think that’s our heroic fight back done

[HCZ_Reborn]

Australia go 2-0 up in series winning by 43 runs

Both tests have been relatively closely fought, but it feels like England have contributed to their own downfall


Poor bowling in Australia’s first innings on first day (although we did polish them off reasonably well on first session of second day) and shocking batting collapse in our first innings

[HCZ_Reborn]

Lot of whinging about the Bairstow stumping

I thought was legitimate wicket , and no reason shouldn’t be just because Bairstow assumed the over was concluded

And this idea that England wouldn’t have done exactly the same as Australia in their position is bullshit

That said, the Australians are in no position to call us bad sports when they have a history of histrionics like bullying players to walk when they’ve run out of referrals….Ricky Ponting on TMS is just a massive hypocrite

[Mac76]

Lot of whinging about the Bairstow stumping

I thought was legitimate wicket , and no reason shouldn’t be just because Bairstow assumed the over was concluded

And this idea that England wouldn’t have done exactly the same as Australia in their position is bullshit


totally, this shows Baristow actually tried a similar stumping on day 1 https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/cricket/12913817/bairstow-tries-same-stumping-trick-on-labuschagne/more/4

and they've also no right to be whining ever again, after winning the World Cup because the umpire got the rules wrong...

for me that's a travesty that's right up there with the F1 handing Verstappen the title a couple of years ago

[HCZ_Reborn]

totally, this shows Baristow actually tried a similar stumping on day 1 https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/cricket/12913817/bairstow-tries-same-stumping-trick-on-labuschagne/more/4

and they've also no right to be whining ever again, after winning the World Cup because the umpire got the rules wrong...

for me that's a travesty that's right up there with the F1 handing Verstappen the title a couple of years ago

I can’t comment because as I recall I was watching the Wimbledon final (still haven’t gotten over how Federer failed to win that match) because I tend not to have as much interest in one day cricket. It’s kind of Test or nothing for me (I did keep up to date with the scores in the final but that was it) but do remember what you’re referring to and even umpire admitted he made mistake (though claimed there was no video replay)

[Mac76]

I can’t comment because as I recall I was watching the Wimbledon final (still haven’t gotten over how Federer failed to win that match) because I tend not to have as much interest in one day cricket. It’s kind of Test or nothing for me (I did keep up to Faye with the scores in the final but that was it) but do remember what you’re referring to and even umpire admitted he made mistake (though claimed there was no video replay)

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/cricket-world-cup-2019-england-new-zealand-ben-stokes-runs-super-over-a9004826.html

NZ should have legally disputed England getting that World Cup

[Letters]

As someone who doesn’t care about cricket, but has seen the “incident”.
It does sound a bit like “play to the whistle”.

[Mac76]

As someone who doesn’t care about cricket, but has seen the “incident”.
It does sound a bit like “play to the whistle”.

it's that exactly, good comparison

If Bairstow's a pro he stays at his crease until it's clear the ball is no longer live

[HCZ_Reborn]

As someone who doesn’t care about cricket, but has seen the “incident”.
It does sound a bit like “play to the whistle”.

Yep

Another example I was thinking of was Henry’s quick free kicks

[HCZ_Reborn]

Good start to the morning, have taken Warner, Khawaja and Labuschagne already. Australia on 65-3. Get Smith and Head reasonably quickly and the potential is there to bowl Australia out for under 200

[HCZ_Reborn]

Woop Smith has gone

He has supplanted Ricky Ponting as being the Australian wicket I take the most pleasure in England taking

[HCZ_Reborn]

Mitchell Marsh has destroyed any momentum we made in first session

[HCZ_Reborn]

249-7…that’s better

[HCZ_Reborn]

249-8 Cummins trapped lbw :haha:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Australia 263 all out

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

An utterly gettable target and England are fucking it right up.

Stop wafting your bat at the ball you dumb fucks.

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[McNamara That Ghost...]

30 more needed.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

24 to go. 4 wickets to go. It should be relatively straightforward.

:Sick:

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[Mac76]

Could go either way tbh

[McNamara That Ghost...]

24 now.

Brook. :bow:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Oh you have got to be joking. Why?

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[McNamara That Ghost...]

Brook hopefully has done enough.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Smashed by Wood!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wood smacks a four!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wide. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wood dropped!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

England win by three wickets!!! Wooo!!!

The Ashes are alive!

For now.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I can’t remember a more frustrating series than this, the last three series’ in Australia we were never in it and you just had to shrug your shoulders. Even in 2019, we were well beaten at Edgbaston and Old Trafford.

Where as you can make the case for saying we could have won the first two test matches, not because we are better than Australia quite the opposite they definitely have a stronger side than us (though I think they’ve missed Nathan Lyon in this test). But because we insist on making things difficult for ourselves…declaring at Edgbaston and throwing wickets away in the second innings there and the first innings at Lords.

Australia have very much played within themselves, where as we’ve been utterly reckless/casual at times

Hopefully a bit of momentum carries us forward at Old Trafford, and maybe some batting coaching to say you don’t need to play at everything…it’s ok to leave certain things…it’s test cricket after all.

[Mac76]

I fundamentally lost interest when they took cricket off FTA TV

I hate the boorish England fans, who are happy to celebrate an illegitimate World Cup 'win' and the recent fuss over a legitimate stumping has made me want England want to losr mote than ever, ok so well done to Beardie Tattoo Man for winning the march, fair dues, but either it was a very difficult wicket or test cricket is in its last death throes for all the scores to be this low

[HCZ_Reborn]

294-8

Is that good ?. Not if we carry on with harikari batting in response


Also hate to say it but agree with the above comment, Test cricket was so much better on FTA….Beeb and then Channel 4.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Crikey 200-2 replying to Australia’s 317

I think the only chance we have of winning this test and thus keeping the chance of regaining the Ashes alive would be to build big first innings lead, weather forecasts suggest we might run out of time

[HCZ_Reborn]

310-2

Crawley and Root nicely bedded in, only a 7 run deficit

Definitely giving ourselves a chance of winning this test. Definitely best batting performance of any side in this series

[HCZ_Reborn]

422-4…can we bat the Aussies out of this test today?

[HCZ_Reborn]

506-8 at Lunch

120 runs put on in morning session

Dare we consider the prospect of an innings victory.

[Mac76]

422-4…can we bat the Aussies out of this test today?

I'm not watching but if it's that kind of pitch that England can get that score then the Aussies are just as capable of getting 600

[HCZ_Reborn]

I'm not watching but if it's that kind of pitch that England can get that score then the Aussies are just as capable of getting 600

Possibly but then you’d have to ask yourself why they didn’t do that when they batted first, when the pitch and the wicket was at its most amenable.

The fact that there have been a lot of clean bowls from Australia, suggests it’s not going to be a good wicket to bat on from here on in…especially with changeable weather

[HCZ_Reborn]

It’s nice to say “Bloody hell” in relation to Johnny Bairstow in a good way

[HCZ_Reborn]

Oh no, Bairstow not out on 99 but Anderson gets pinned lbw by Green


That’s just cruel oh well 592 all out, a lead of 275

[HCZ_Reborn]

Khawaja gets a Nick and is caught behind 32-1

[HCZ_Reborn]

113-4 close of play

Woop

[McNamara That Ghost...]

This is definitely England's game.

The weather forecast is so grim though.

[HCZ_Reborn]

This is definitely England's game.

The weather forecast is so grim though.

Yeah the Australians have this won. Can blame the weather but we knew what to expect and our bowling yesterday was poor. Should have put in Wood from the off before the light turned

[Mac76]

It's bucketing down and basically over

England :pal: :haha:

[HCZ_Reborn]

The day much like the Ashes itself, proved to be a bit of a damp squib for England

Still though after four tests I feel I can say if Australia are the best side in the world currently then Test Cricket is in the doldrums.


Don’t get me wrong, England are still only marginally better than a few years ago when Steve Smith batted us off the park, but if we’d had Archer and Leach we’d have won this series and by a comfortable margin. Australian batting was mediocre at best, aside from the second innings at Lords their bowling was massively aided by our suicidal tendency to need to play at everything.

Disappointing way for it to end, but ultimately no one to blame but ourselves…how we managed to fuck up at Edgbaston so badly I will never know. Oh well

[Letters]

It's bucketing down and basically over

England :pal: :haha:

Aren’t you English? :unsure:

I don’t care about cricket but it does same inherently ridiculous that a whole series can be won or lost because of a rainy day.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Aren’t you English? :unsure:

I don’t care about cricket but it does same inherently ridiculous that a whole series can be won or lost because of a rainy day.

At the risk of making an assumption, I don’t think he likes the fact that England only won the 1 day Cricket World Cup because of the umpire not understanding the rules when awarding runs to England in the final against New Zealand.

[Mac76]

Aren’t you English? :unsure:

Aren't you aware that laughing at our own sides's failures is a long-standing tradition of this board? :unsure:

[Mac76]

At the risk of making an assumption, I don’t think he likes the fact that England only won the 1 day Cricket World Cup because of the umpire not understanding the rules when awarding runs to England in the final against New Zealand.

It's much simpler than that - it's just funny :lol:

[HCZ_Reborn]

So final Ashes test at the Oval - had the potential to be a series decider like in 2005 and 2009 but sadly it’s just a dead rubber. Would be nice to level the series like four years ago. Unlike four years ago I think drawn series would be least we deserve, where as Australia were far better than us in 2019

I don’t think England are that good (certainly no where near the level of 10-12 years ago) but neither are the Aussies that marvellous…they have definitely missed Nathan Lyon and will I think continue to miss him today on a surface where I think he’d tear us to bits

[HCZ_Reborn]

This is a lot like the first innings at Edgbaston, Australia defensive fielding allowing England to take singles and England are happy to take them 48-0

[HCZ_Reborn]

After solid start (and frankly a bit of luck) Crawley and Duckett both gone within an over of each other

[HCZ_Reborn]

283 all out.

On one hand definitely not a batting surface, on the other hand losing seven wickets for less than 100 is pretty disappointing

Apart from Brook no one really got going. Moen Ali actually did ok considering he can barely walk. But a lot of clean bowls

[HCZ_Reborn]

Australia 295 all out. Very frustrating. But it’s been a good test…given they have to bat last it’s far from a disaster but given the weather forecast I wouldn’t bet on a result meaning they will win the series 2-1

[HCZ_Reborn]

Took one over to get rid of the deficit

[HCZ_Reborn]

40 runs in five overs is pretty good for 20/20 cricket let alone Test

[HCZ_Reborn]

From 8 runs an over in first five overs to three runs an over in the next five. 55-0, after ten overs

[HCZ_Reborn]

130-1 at lunch. Ticking along nicely.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Stuart Broad going to retire at the end of this test

If we can win and level the series that would be an appropriate end to an excellent career

Only McGrath and Warne have more Ashes wickets

[HCZ_Reborn]

Australia reached 126 without loss

We could be fucked

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Australia looked extraordinarily comfortable. Broad's (deserved let's be fair) testimonial aside the rain may actually do England a favour because they look bereft of ideas.

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[HCZ_Reborn]

Australia looked extraordinarily comfortable. Broad's (deserved let's be fair) testimonial aside the rain may actually do England a favour because they look bereft of ideas.

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Yep

Anderson and Broad look over the hill

Wood looks injured

Moen is injured


Bowling attack as well as sloppy fielding has been our downfall this series

[HCZ_Reborn]

Hope springs eternal, got Smith, Head and Marsh out and they’ve still got to get 110 runs. That said their tail was strong in the first innings

[HCZ_Reborn]

Stuart Broad gets the final wicket, to win us the match at the Oval and draw the series. Australia retain the Ashes and lot of frustration over what might have been, but one of the best series’ in my lifetime gets the Hollywood conclusion (of sorts)

[IBK]

So pleased for Broad - maybe my favourite ever England player. Fairytale ending for him and excellent that this England team goes out on a high. For me we were undercooked for the 1st 2 tests and I like the way after that that we tempered Bazball with a little judiciousness. Batting line up now looking more positive than it has done for years. Just need to keep our young bowlers fit now.

Anderson's time is done, sadly. Would have loved to see him finish on a high also.

[Mac76]

Broad and Anderson are both legends - tbh once they're gone England's bowlers are just a bunch of chuckers

[HCZ_Reborn]

Broad and Anderson are both legends - tbh once they're gone England's bowlers are just a bunch of chuckers

All relative isn’t it. It’s the equivalent of what happened for Australia when Warne and McGrath went

[Letters]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/66653971

:lol:

Good luck with that!

[Mac76]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/66653971

:lol:

Good luck with that!

Good luck with what?

It's a decision that's been made so now it will happen, where's the luck needed?

There's a case as to why it doesn't make sense, based on relative popularity of the men's and women's game, but it's done now - I've no real issue with it tbh

[Letters]

Good luck with what?
With selling tickets for the women's game at the same price as men.
There's no way that would work in football.
I don't care, I'm not in to cricket, but it seems like a strange decision unless there's evidence that demand is the same in the men's and women's game. Is there?

[HCZ_Reborn]

Good luck with what?

It's a decision that's been made so now it will happen, where's the luck needed?

There's a case as to why it doesn't make sense, based on relative popularity of the men's and women's game, but it's done now - I've no real issue with it tbh


I’ve no issue with it because it’s not coming out of my pocket. But it doesn’t make any sense and it’s a case of unequal outcomes in pursuit of equity. I don’t blame the women for chasing it, I blame the silly people who gave in to them.

[Mac76]

With selling tickets for the women's game at the same price as men.
There's no way that would work in football.
I don't care, I'm not in to cricket, but it seems like a strange decision unless there's evidence that demand is the same in the men's and women's game. Is there?

It doesn't say anything about increasing ticket prices? :shrug:

[Letters]

It doesn't say anything about increasing ticket prices? :shrug:

Ah. Fair do's. To be honest I misread it and thought it was talking about ticket prices


:getcoat:

[Mac76]

:lol:

[LDG]

Women’s sport is progessing fast in the sports they weren’t previously acknowledged in or funded for.

As Gooners I think we should be proud that a May afternoon on bank holiday weekend was usually Arsenal winning the FA Cup. BBC2, no fans in the ground, and sometimes poor levels of play.

But nonetheless, Womens football (to a degree) is because of that, and because of our club holding it up high.

What’s not to like? It’s still a game of football, and if it keeps attracting a wider fanbase and roots interest, it’s going to be just as exciting to watch in ten years. Good on em.

That said, lets not have it whirlpool into kissing territory every time. Thats not sport, thats bollox

[HCZ_Reborn]

How dead must that wicket be in Pakistan. The Pakistanis put on 556 and you think “yeah that’s England done with”. Nope…England just put on a fourth wicket stand of 400, with Root and Brook putting on over 200 each.

Would be hilarious if we get a 200 odd first innings lead, put the Pakistanis back in and get an innings victory.

You’d most likely be looking at a draw. On a surface like this, it does rather diminish Test Cricket (although for me it’s still by far the most superior form of the game)

[HCZ_Reborn]

Currently 807-7 :haha:


Declared on 823-7


Brook gets 300. I can only think of Brian Lara scoring more than that in a single test match innings

[Letters]

Ridiculous sport.

[dazthegooner]

Would be hilarious if we get a 200 odd first innings lead, put the Pakistanis back in and get an innings victory.
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59-5 you could be right.

[HCZ_Reborn]

59-5 you could be right.

I think a victory is almost certain, an innings victory is looking very likely

[HCZ_Reborn]

Pakistan put on a bit of resistance but ultimately fall for an innings and 47 runs

:lol:

[dazthegooner]

And the first time in history a side that has scored over 500 in first innings to lose by an innings.

[Letters]

I was going to say that surely has to be a record.

[dazthegooner]

England revrting to type lost the 2nd test by 152 runs after being set 297 collapsed to 144 all out.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Australia vs India in Perth

Australia bounced the Indians out for 150, only for India to dismiss them for even cheaper at 100

India then post 487 for the loss of 6 in their second innings, declare and have taken three Aussie wickets for 12 runs

End of Day three, I highly doubt there will be a Day five

India famously always struggled down under, but have won the last two test series there and likely to go 1-0 in front in the third in six years

[HCZ_Reborn]

No Day 5

India win by 295 runs

Not especially fond of the Indian cricket team but prefer them to the Aussies