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Post by ukcstokie on May 18, 2016 12:34:02 GMT
One more sleep to go. Looks like we'll get an overcast morning and after, with not much play in the evening session. Friday and Saturday are looking a bit better though. I'm in Leeds today and it's been overcast with a bit of drizzle here and there all day. If it's like this tomorrow put them in to bat and we could have them bowled out by lunchtime. Sri Lanka are in transition and look seriously there for the taking..... I think you're right. An early season pitch, with a bit of dampness and cloud - well most sides will struggle against our seam attack.
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Post by followyoudown on May 18, 2016 13:06:42 GMT
One more sleep to go. Looks like we'll get an overcast morning and after, with not much play in the evening session. Friday and Saturday are looking a bit better though. Very strange decision to pick Finn over Ball in these kind of conditions as Finn isn't a big swinger of the ball.
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Post by ukcstokie on May 18, 2016 13:21:20 GMT
One more sleep to go. Looks like we'll get an overcast morning and after, with not much play in the evening session. Friday and Saturday are looking a bit better though. Very strange decision to pick Finn over Ball in these kind of conditions as Finn isn't a big swinger of the ball. Have they announced that Finn will start? Suspect if they do it'll be more to Finn being the next in line rather than to do with conditions.
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Post by followyoudown on May 18, 2016 13:32:05 GMT
Very strange decision to pick Finn over Ball in these kind of conditions as Finn isn't a big swinger of the ball. Have they announced that Finn will start? Suspect if they do it'll be more to Finn being the next in line rather than to do with conditions. Yes Cook announced it.
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Post by blurtonboy on May 18, 2016 13:45:18 GMT
One more sleep to go. Looks like we'll get an overcast morning and after, with not much play in the evening session. Friday and Saturday are looking a bit better though. Very strange decision to pick Finn over Ball in these kind of conditions as Finn isn't a big swinger of the ball.Confused ???????? Now, we have no Ball, Finn has become the ball, but Finn doesn't swing, so we just lob the Ball away? Correct?
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Post by BigKahunaBurger on May 18, 2016 20:39:15 GMT
I can't get on board with this series points system at all. Keep the formats separate and keep the one day/T20's as side shows to the test series.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 18, 2016 20:44:00 GMT
I can't get on board with this series points system at all. Keep the formats separate and keep the one day/T20's as side shows to the test series. Absolutely disgusting devaluation of the greatest form of the game. Imagine the 2005 Ashes with this nonsense attached to it.
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Post by BigKahunaBurger on May 18, 2016 20:45:50 GMT
I can't get on board with this series points system at all. Keep the formats separate and keep the one day/T20's as side shows to the test series. Absolutely disgusting devaluation of the greatest form of the game. Imagine the 2005 Ashes with this nonsense attached to it. It has to be scrapped after this series. Seeing Strauss backing the idea is astonishing.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 18, 2016 20:48:53 GMT
Absolutely disgusting devaluation of the greatest form of the game. Imagine the 2005 Ashes with this nonsense attached to it. It has to be scrapped after this series. Seeing Strauss backing the idea is astonishing. The reason they give is trying to add "context". If it's 0-0 or 1-0 after 2 games, it's no longer a deciding test. Awful. Well I for one will separate the games into their appropriate series.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 18, 2016 20:55:41 GMT
If England win the test series 3-0, they will have 12 points.
There are then 6 Limited overs games, we win the first, it will be 14-0, Sri Lanka can only then score 10. So if we whitewash the tests, and win 1 ODI, the remaining 5 games are meaningless.
What a load of horseshit.
Rather than Sri Lanka losing the test series 3-0, then having an ODI series to play for. This system actually removes "context" from games.
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Post by BigKahunaBurger on May 18, 2016 21:12:34 GMT
It has to be scrapped after this series. Seeing Strauss backing the idea is astonishing. The reason they give is trying to add "context". If it's 0-0 or 1-0 after 2 games, it's no longer a deciding test. Awful. Well I for one will separate the games into their appropriate series. Same. Praying that it never comes to this in an Ashes series.
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Post by charlesjefferson on May 19, 2016 11:03:37 GMT
I didn't get where I am today without noticing a steady start when I see one.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 19, 2016 11:31:42 GMT
Poor shot Alistair, chases a wide one an nicks it.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 19, 2016 11:42:24 GMT
Nick Incompetent nicks off too...
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 19, 2016 11:45:02 GMT
Even Sir Joe is gone....
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Post by ukcstokie on May 19, 2016 13:16:42 GMT
83-5 difficult start here, and a bit of a reality check.
The ball is doing a fair bit though, and it will be interesting to see how we make use of these conditions.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 19, 2016 13:19:02 GMT
83-5 difficult start here, and a bit of a reality check. The ball is doing a fair bit though, and it will be interesting to see how we make use of these conditions. It's been very hard going, one positive has been Hales digging in.
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Post by partickpotter on May 19, 2016 13:35:25 GMT
98-5!
Headingly in May is very straightforward. If you are a bowler, you pitch it up just outside off and keep plenty of fielders behind the wicket. If you are a batsmen, take great care when driving. Best not to drive for the first couple of sessions, just be patient and wait for something short or on your legs.
Strange how the inexperienced Sri Lankans have grasped this eternal Yorkshire truth, but the experienced England batsmen (mostly) haven't. Cook and Root in particular.
Nice to see Hales digging in. A hard fought 50 is good news. Let's hope he converts it into a three figure score.
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Post by The Drunken Communist on May 19, 2016 14:32:45 GMT
Is this something we should be worried about? I know it's only a smallish sample (800-odd as of posting) and I know it's just some Tweet by an English bookie, but surely most people 'following' bet365 will be young(ish) English people. I'd have expected the result to be the otherway around if I'm honest.
EDIT : Ah shit, it seems that the poll results don't show up? Well for those that can't see it has 60% prefer T20's.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 19, 2016 14:44:43 GMT
Is this something we should be worried about? I know it's only a smallish sample (800-odd as of posting) and I know it's just some Tweet by an English bookie, but surely most people 'following' bet365 will be young(ish) English people. I'd have expected the result to be the otherway around if I'm honest. EDIT : Ah shit, it seems that the poll results don't show up? Well for those that can't see it has 60% prefer T20's. Test Cricket's vulnerable because of comparisons like this. It's not even comparable in my opinion, like they would never compare Futsal scores and actual Football scores. It's a sign of the times, sadly we don't need polls to tell us that Test Cricket is dying on its arse atm.
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Post by Okie Stokie. on May 19, 2016 14:51:38 GMT
.... Apologies Bish, I could not resist it.
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 19, 2016 16:19:58 GMT
Play abandoned for the rest of the day sadly. 170-5 is a good recovery from 83-5 and hopefully Bairstow and Hales can both push on and get big scores.
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Post by Gods on May 19, 2016 16:33:32 GMT
.... Apologies Bish, I could not resist it. Where is our resident cricket connoisseur the mighty Bish
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Post by Okie Stokie. on May 19, 2016 16:55:25 GMT
.... Apologies Bish, I could not resist it. Where is our resident cricket connoisseur the mighty Bish I believe he is out in Spain or to be sightly more precise islands there of.
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Post by ukcstokie on May 19, 2016 23:42:23 GMT
One more sleep to go. Looks like we'll get an overcast morning and after, with not much play in the evening session. Friday and Saturday are looking a bit better though. Very strange decision to pick Finn over Ball in these kind of conditions as Finn isn't a big swinger of the ball. After the first day the success of Shanaka shows that a bit less pace - like Ball - would probably have worked better than pace and bounce of Finn.
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Post by partickpotter on May 20, 2016 5:01:54 GMT
Very strange decision to pick Finn over Ball in these kind of conditions as Finn isn't a big swinger of the ball. After the first day the success of Shanaka shows that a bit less pace - like Ball - would probably have worked better than pace and bounce of Finn. Not much of a surprise decision though. Our selectors have a well established habit of picking established players over new ones. Admittedly, we usually see this in the batting line up and less so in bowling but that is more down to another selectoral habit of resting bowlers along with bowlers tending to have more injuries than batsmen. England don't tend to pick sides for individual tests or even series it would seem but for an entire season. It's part of the selectors' long standing policy of consistency of selection. Those scars of the chop and change 90s run very deep. And that approach has merits. It does mean we can be inflexible in selection though, and has that unfortunate side effect that while getting picked for the England test side is incredibly hard, getting dropped is even harder! This test is a big one for Jimmy Anderson after a poor tour of South Africa. Headingley conditions should suit him to a tee, but apparently it's not one of his better grounds. Let's see later today.
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Post by GeneralFaye on May 20, 2016 7:11:01 GMT
I'm pretty sure Finn will pick up a few wickets. We have got one of the best swing bowlers in the world still in the team you know?!..
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Post by followyoudown on May 20, 2016 7:41:47 GMT
Very strange decision to pick Finn over Ball in these kind of conditions as Finn isn't a big swinger of the ball. After the first day the success of Shanaka shows that a bit less pace - like Ball - would probably have worked better than pace and bounce of Finn. Yep would have seemed the obvious choice, I like Finn if he stays injury free I can see him at some point having 2-3 years when he is in the top 3-4 bowlers in the world like Harmison did but just don't seem his conditions cue a 9 for now
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on May 20, 2016 11:26:05 GMT
Hales
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Post by partickpotter on May 20, 2016 11:41:16 GMT
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