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Post by BWFC_Insane » Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:08 pm

A world record score for ODIs. And the highest ever score recorded in any first class 50 over game.

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Post by Bruce Rioja » Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:12 pm

498 - for 4

Boooooo. :D
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Post by Worthy4England » Fri Jun 17, 2022 2:54 pm

Get Dom Sibley in.

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Post by Prufrock » Fri Jun 17, 2022 3:42 pm

I think we might win this one.
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Post by Prufrock » Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:44 pm

What the what?! Safe to say I have never seen anything like that before...
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Post by Worthy4England » Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:46 pm

Seen most things, but not that one. (Seen a similar run out, but not a caught)

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Post by Prufrock » Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:49 pm

Sweet Jesus.
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:59 pm

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Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:49 pm
Sweet Jesus.
And the orphans. So now we just Jonny Bairstow and Ben Stokes to put around 300 on. :)

EDIT: That'll be that then!
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Post by Prufrock » Fri Jun 24, 2022 3:18 pm

Utterly brain-dead. It's not "being positive" to play big booming drives against a world class bowler swinging a new ball around corners. For feck* actual sake.
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Post by Bruce Rioja » Fri Jun 24, 2022 3:24 pm

It's just said that the rains have missed Headingly. I take we'll be going back in today then!
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Post by TANGODANCER » Fri Jun 24, 2022 4:03 pm

Been a fair amount of controversy about Jonny B over time. He seems to be shutting the critics up right now?
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Post by TANGODANCER » Fri Jun 24, 2022 6:16 pm

The late middle order is where it's at (at least in this series) N.Z had a clear incentive and were i charge, then up steps Jonny B again, and Overton on 87 ( 247-6) right now. Brilliant fight back from these two.
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Post by Worthy4England » Fri Jun 24, 2022 6:39 pm

Great fightback and top knocks from Bairstow and Overton. Also a decent 5-fer for Leech.

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Post by jimbo » Fri Jun 24, 2022 8:24 pm

I’ve missed a lot of the cricket this summer due to factors, but I did see the start of the England innings today. I think high quality swing bowling is my favourite thing to watch. Boult had favourable conditions and the most perfect control today. It was one of the highest quality spells I’ve ever seen. Every ball was challenging either the outside or inside edge and the batsmen didn’t have a clue.

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Post by Prufrock » Sat Jun 25, 2022 3:15 am

Top order as a group were shite, but that Boult ball to Lee was basically unplayable. Hard agree on swing bowling. Love Jimmy and Broad, but Boult is special too. Nothing Leed could do, but Pope and Crawley... You play like that against that quality and you're fecked.
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Post by jimbo » Sat Jun 25, 2022 5:42 am

Prufrock wrote:
Sat Jun 25, 2022 3:15 am
Top order as a group were shite, but that Boult ball to Lee was basically unplayable. Hard agree on swing bowling. Love Jimmy and Broad, but Boult is special too. Nothing Leed could do, but Pope and Crawley... You play like that against that quality and you're fecked.
Pope and Crawley’s dismissals in isolation look poor, but came about due to the relentless challenge from Boult. Every ball was in and around top of off stump, either swinging in late, or holding its line and challenging the outside edge. His relentlessness created the uncertainty that left their heads leaning over for the straight one while it tailed back in through the gate. His spell was an absolute master, in favourable conditions, with complete control.

I read a stat last night that it was the best opening spell in terms of expected average since they began recording it in 2006.

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Post by Worthy4England » Sat Jun 25, 2022 10:48 am

It was indeed an excellent spell, but also at a decent pace. The balls that got all three, you wouldn't want them back for another go. And as Jimbo says, it was the build up too. Everyone knows the three card trick is coming (maybe on the third card, maybe not) including the batsman, but they're just too uncertain, because he's in their head. Crawley by normal standards has the capability, but at this level it's technique and mental. He's getting out thought and his technique is off. If you look at yesterday only, you say he got a good ball, but when you look at the series, there's something missing for a top class opener...Pope is a makeshift 3 and fair play for his big 100, but he also feels like maybe a 5/6 batting at 3.

Lees feels like we should stick with. He has had some decent balls get him out.

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Post by TANGODANCER » Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:13 pm

Such a shame for Overton, out on 97. Take nothing away from a brilliant knock.
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Post by Worthy4England » Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:36 pm

Aye. He looked nervous this morning and I'm sure he'll be pi$$Ed off, but a grand 97, followed by a quickfire 42 from Broady. Wonder what odds a lead was at notalot for 6?

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Post by TANGODANCER » Sat Jun 25, 2022 12:40 pm

360 all out. When you consider where we were before Bairstow and Overton... Oh, and Broad hammered 42 and Jack Leach finished with back to back boundaries. What a game cricket is... :D
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