[John_D]

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Fri May 18, 2012 2:21 pm  

Placid pitch, pop-gun attack. If Strauss doesn't get a hundred here, he never will.

[John_D]

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Fri May 18, 2012 2:39 pm  

And 50 for the Run-grinder Pursuivant.

[John_D]

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Fri May 18, 2012 4:07 pm  

Played skipper

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Fri May 18, 2012 4:52 pm  

all good match practice for the REAL series against the South Africans ?

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Fri May 18, 2012 8:49 pm  

Ordsall Quays Red wrote:

And ours...although calling them "batsmen" is taking things a bit too far at the minute.
On a pitch on which Rikki effing Clarke got an unbeaten century, our mob can barely muster 50 between them. Division 2 and the chumps in there would be too good for us at this rate.

As it stands at the moment though there are, quite shockingly, two teams worse than us, so we're staying up!

One are Worcs who are not doing well against Sussex, the other are Durham who aren't playing...

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Sat May 19, 2012 9:29 am  

MSH wrote:

As it stands at the moment though there are, quite shockingly, two teams worse than us, so we're staying up!

One are Worcs who are not doing well against Sussex, the other are Durham who aren't playing...

Very true and Worcestershire, minus Richardson are going to struggle even more. Can't see Durham staying down there too long though and they always hump us twice a season too.

We seriously need to get a draw out of this if possible to try and get a little bit of momentum back. Unlike last season the bowlers aren't quite dragging us out of the mire as yet.

Anyway it's all about the CB40 this season

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Sat May 19, 2012 1:43 pm  

Seeing Clive Lloyd sat on the sofa as a pundit of ITV4's IPL coverage you realise how far the Windies have fallen as a test nation.

I remember their opening 5 batsmen in the "blackwash" series v England in 84?...Greenidge,Haynes,Gomes,Lloyd & Richards.

The bowlers were equally frightening

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Sat May 19, 2012 3:08 pm  

duke street 10 wrote:

Seeing Clive Lloyd sat on the sofa as a pundit of ITV4's IPL coverage you realise how far the Windies have fallen as a test nation.

I remember their opening 5 batsmen in the "blackwash" series v England in 84?...Greenidge,Haynes,Gomes,Lloyd & Richards.

The bowlers were equally frightening

Michael Holding - probably the finest bowling action of all time ?

the finest WI team I was lucky enough to see - with Hall,Griifths & Gibbs bowling

top seven batsmen

Hunte
Carew
Kanhai
Butcher
Nurse
Sobers
Holford

top seven England team

Boycott
Milburn
Graveney
Barrington
Cowdrey
Parks
D'Oliviera

awesome !

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Sat May 19, 2012 4:42 pm  

sanjunien wrote:

Michael Holding - probably the finest bowling action of all time ?

the finest WI team I was lucky enough to see - with Hall,Griifths & Gibbs bowling

top seven batsmen

Hunte
Carew
Kanhai
Butcher
Nurse
Sobers
Holford

top seven England team

Boycott
Milburn
Graveney
Barrington
Cowdrey
Parks
D'Oliviera

awesome !

I can just about remember Holding playing for the Windies in the late 70's, i know he served Derbyshire well after. Wasn't his nickname "whispering death"?

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Sun May 20, 2012 9:51 am  

When your best player CBA putting on the international jersey and would rather go play evening league slog-a-thons for mega money instead, you know you're screwed as a cricketing nation.

Unless there is root and branch reform of WI cricket from top to bottom, I can't ever see them challenging the top nations again.