[Cricket] 1st Test: England vs New Zealand @ Lords

[Barrel of Fun]

It may well be the way the ball is moving etc nowadays but I can never remember so many extras in a test match and even leg byes were stopped or reduced by the agile keepers of the past. I do not profess to be an expert on cricket just an interested observer from my younger days.

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/284131.html

The record is held by Karthik. Plenty of test matches with 50+ extras in a single innings.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

How do you pick a MOTM out of that, brilliant stuff

Brilliant team performance that it was, I think MOM is a fairly straightforward choice...

 

[Triggaaar]

We've found our man. Tip the Albion for relegation.

You're welcome

 

[Geestar]

How do you pick a MOTM out of that, brilliant stuff

Has to be KP...

 

[jakarta]

A superb advertisement for proper Cricket, the last five days puts T20 firmly in its place......

 

[dangull]

Has to be KP...

Great test match and a great result for us this time. However for the next game and when the mighty Aussies roll in to town would we be better of with Balance or KP?

yes, I know he's not popular, but I'm sure many people here have worked with people they were not keen on, but for the greater good for the company or England the best people should be in the side.

 

[pasty]

A superb advertisement for proper Cricket, the last five days puts T20 firmly in its place......

I just came back to this thread to post something very similar. The last 5 days have been a brilliant advert for test cricket. Think it was great that Lords let under 16's in for free today, so hopefully that will increase their interest in proper cricket.

 

[Gwylan]

Great test match and a great result for us this time. However for the next game and when the mighty Aussies roll in to town would we be better of with Balance or KP?

yes, I know he's not popular, but I'm sure many people here have worked with people they were not keen on, but for the greater good for the company or England the best people should be in the side.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Great test match and a great result for us this time. However for the next game and when the mighty Aussies roll in to town would we be better of with Balance or KP?

yes, I know he's not popular, but I'm sure many people here have worked with people they were not keen on, but for the greater good for the company or England the best people should be in the side.

 

[big nuts]

Great test match and a great result for us this time. However for the next game and when the mighty Aussies roll in to town would we be better of with Balance or KP?

yes, I know he's not popular, but I'm sure many people here have worked with people they were not keen on, but for the greater good for the company or England the best people should be in the side.

Would be very harsh to drop Ballance who has 4 centuries in 12 matches and averages 55. That was a highly spirited display by England, and could galvanise us for a tough summer. I'm not looking past Headingley next week we will have to be on top of our game to beat an excellent test match side.

KP is undoubtedly a world class batsman but his also a world class knob end so maybe this young England team would perform better with him left out.

What a great test match, superb skill levels shown by each team and great to see Cook back in form, if he can stay in and blunt the new ball and Mitchell Johnson it gives our exciting middle order stroke players license to thrill and I would fancy our chances if we can post 400 regularly first innings.

 

[dangull]

What's Palace got to do with it?

 

[Questions]

Great test match and a great result for us this time. However for the next game and when the mighty Aussies roll in to town would we be better of with Balance or KP?

yes, I know he's not popular, but I'm sure many people here have worked with people they were not keen on, but for the greater good for the company or England the best people should be in the side.

Yeah let's raise morale.......

 

[fleet]

Great advert for a 5 day test match - and great recovery by England

 

[pasty]

KP is undoubtedly a world class batsman but his also a world class knob end so maybe this young England team would perform better with him left out.

 

[dangull]

Yeah let's raise morale.......

I don't understand this morale business.

Cricket is not really a team game. Its 1 batsmen against the bowling team.

While fielding you can have KP on the boundary so he doesn't upset anyone.

When I seen him being interviewed he never seems to come across like Adolf Hitler.

Dressing room stuff ? There not children, sort things out like adults.

 

[vegster]

Bit of a difference between batting against Leicestershire's pie chuckers and Mitchell Johnson, I'm pretty sure KP would twang a calf to avoid his image and average taking a battering.

 

[dangull]

Bit of a difference between batting against Leicestershire's pie chuckers and Mitchell Johnson, I'm pretty sure KP would twang a calf to avoid his image and average taking a battering.

He seemed quite up for the challenge of Australia's bowlers this summer, more so than Stuart Broad by the evidence of his batting recently.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I don't understand this morale business.

Cricket is not really a team game. Its 1 batsmen against the bowling team.

While fielding you can have KP on the boundary so he doesn't upset anyone.

When I seen him being interviewed he never seems to come across like Adolf Hitler.

Dressing room stuff ? There not children, sort things out like adults.

Not sure if you're fishing, clueless or just never played the game. Cricket is mostly played in the head. It's about confidence, even cockiness. One guy disrupting the atmosphere, getting his mate Piers Morgan to slag you off every time you get a low score and then texting his chums in the oppo hilariously about it would be the last thing you'd need. The KP question is all about if he did those things and if he'd do them again. I wouldn't risk it for 50 extra runs or so, especially given how we've played today and yesterday.

 

[jakarta]

Great test match and a great result for us this time. However for the next game and when the mighty Aussies roll in to town would we be better of with Balance or KP?

yes, I know he's not popular, but I'm sure many people here have worked with people they were not keen on, but for the greater good for the company or England the best people should be in the side.

Yes, England are clearly short of aggressive middle order batsmen at present.

 

[vegster]

He seemed quite up for the challenge of Australia's bowlers this summer, more so than Stuart Broad by the evidence of his batting recently.

I think you are getting a bit mixed up, Stuart Broad started as a bowler who could bat a bit, now he is pretty much just a bowler, he was never, ever going to bat 3 or in the middle order.