[Cricket] Ashes 2021-22

[vegster]

Quick sweepstake on our second innings total anyone?

I'm going for 156.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Quick sweepstake on our second innings total anyone?

I'm going for 156.

215

 

[Bold Seagull]

I wonder how many ducks our openers have scored in 2021? Must be approaching some kind of record.

 

[Peter Grummit]

Quick sweepstake on our second innings total anyone?

I'm going for 156.

204

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[vegster]

Did they? They only finished playing Australia A about 5 days ago?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/scorecard/ECKO51561

Hoist by your own petard HKFC? Looks like the Lions were getting pretty much the same treatment.. Looking down that list of players there are no real obvious replacements for the England players anyway.

 

[GREASED WEASEL]

a Nelson

 

[Bold Seagull]

I wonder how many ducks our openers have scored in 2021? Must be approaching some kind of record.

So, England have 49 ducks this calendar year.

The record is 54. We’re going for it!!

 

[cjd]

192

 

[Papa Lazarou]

188

 

[jakarta]

199, Buttler Top Scores with 37...

 

[knocky1]

At least we won't be going to the MCG 3-0 down this time round.

Now my optimism is telling me that we'll fight back at the MCG and SCG. 2-2 going into the 5th Test in Hobart.

 

[dazzer6666]

207

 

[vegster]

Once this Root - Stokes partnership is broken it should all be over fairly quickly. There's no real grit or adhesion in the team past this pair.

 

[jessiejames]

205

 

[Questions]

its difficult to get replacements in to australia and quarantined, not sure if there are any replacements currently good enough, available and currently in any sort of knick. Think we are stuck with the squad we have.

get the ashes done ……

 

[Tony Towner's Fridge]

It's quite chronic really. In my honest opinion the worse state of English Test Cricket for over two decades. Too much emphasis on supporting the so called bigger counties, apart from Robinson an apparent complete lack of development of other pace options. OK i know Archer is injured but they haven't really looked at an Anderson replacement have they? Opening batsman have been mediocre for a decade, we may as well start at 10 for 2. It's all very well having Stokes, Buttler etc who can bash 75 in 5 overs on the limited over format but the sheer discipline that Test Match cricket dictates and deserves has been cruelly neglected.

Set up a task force of Boycott, Hussein, Giles, Thorpe, Anderson and Cook and put in place a 10 year plan, with priority and emphasis being given to the Test team over ODI teams.


Oh and bring it back to terrestrial broadcasting. ITV do a great job with the racing so they should be given the opportunity to have three year Test Match exclusive broadcast rights (that's rights not rites!)

Depressing but with our national resources, not insurmountable.


TNBA

TTF

 

[maltaseagull]

199, Buttler Top Scores with 37...

Root out so 135.

 

[jakarta]

There is an obvious solution to this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWd9mqC80BU

 

[Cheshire Cat]

132

 

[LamieRobertson]

82.