Summer of Cricket thread

[Sharkman84]

I missed this. Cricinfo saying the ball pitched outside leg so why didnt Cummins review it?? These umps have lost the plot.

The umpiring has been poor this series.

Think the problem we have is the best umpires can't umpire because they're Australian.

We're paying for decades of incompetent umpiring from other countries.

 

[Decentric]

Michael Vaughan said the same thing last night.

Crazy that Shoaib Bashir is supposed to be England's best spinner yet can get into the team.

Their selectors are worse than ours!

They won’t play their brilliant keeper, Foakes, against us either!

 

[Decentric]

The umpiring has been poor this series.

Think the problem we have is the best umpires can't umpire because they're Australian.

We're paying for decades of incompetent umpiring from other countries.

All the cricket biographies I’ve read claim out of the top 10 umpires in the world, most are Poms.

 

[Decentric]

Why because he can hit a red ball pace man out of the ground. Boland is just over medium pace so no surprise he is the bowler Brook chooses to attack. DC we already see this make room to free the arms type cricket in most white ball games.

Barrel bowled one 140kph bouncer early in the innings.

Brook impresses me because he often plays orthodox cricket shots for boundaries against red ball attacking fields, Baggers.

I’d go as far as calling him elegant. Ditto Crawley and Root.

 

[Decentric]

I reckon we have the three slowest fielders in this series, Boland, Head, Lyon.

True!

They might be the oldest too!

 

[Decentric]

new ball taken up.

100 run partnership

england hanging on.

Have to be impressed with the Poms fighting back, B.

 

[Richie]

Tongue bowled pressure stuff to r/h Labs but rubbish to lefty Trav. Josh did the same early in his career too.

 

[Decentric]

Tongue bowled pressure stuff to r/h Labs but rubbish to lefty Trav. Josh did the same early in his career too.

Tongue is bowling a lot of 140kph plus.

Poms quicker through the air than Aussies on average.

Our fastest bowlers outside Starc - all of Meredith, Morris and Spencer Johnson, can’t bowl express for sustained periods in red ball.

This Pom attack can - Archer, Wood, Tongue, Carse and Atkinson.

 

[Decentric]

50 for Archer

Very impressive for a number 10.

He played some good shots too.

 

[Decentric]

Tongue bowled pressure stuff to r/h Labs but rubbish to lefty Trav. Josh did the same early in his career too.

Did he?

Thought Tongue bowled ‘some’ good balls to Head.

 

[Decentric]

I thought Poms had fought back into game, but Head is now taking the game away from the Poms again.

Aus now 2 down and are 180 in front.

Thankfully, the heat isn’t stifling today.

 

[Richie]

This is atrocious bowling to this lefty pair. Feeding them runs. Thanks Poms.

 

[Richie]

Meredith

You told he couldnt either.

 

[Decentric]

You told he couldnt either.

I’ve edited it to read Starc can.

Meredith, Morris and Johnson can’t.

 

[Richie]

Morris and Johnson

Not seen them play much red ball to be honest. Help if they stopped being injured.

 

[Decentric]

Have seen Morris live, but Johnson has barely played Shield.

Usman out for 40 off 50 balls!

 

[Decentric]

Jacks nearly had another, after Green snicked just wide of slip.

 

[Decentric]

Green gone for 7.

Bowled Tongue, caught behind.

 

[Decentric]

See what you mean about Head exposing his stumps, Richie.

 

[Decentric]

Given all the match winning knocks Head has had, he only averages 42. I am astonished?

Thought it would be close to 50?

Head must have failed a lot in SL and Windies.