Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:10 pm  

Prince of Denmark wrote:

I'm disgusted by the Morgan Review. The various one day competitions have been tinkered with so much over the last decade I'm not really bothered what happens to them, but cutting the number of Championship matches when the current format has worked so well and produced so many exciting finishes since it was adopted in 2000 is shocking.

Couldn't agree more. I still can't quite work out what the purpose is supposed to be.

Prince of Denmark wrote:

I'm not sure how to link it as it's on a PDF, but Morgan's proposed calendar for the 2014 season is on my desktop. The season starts on Friday 11 April with the one day knockout final on Saturday 20 September; the Champions League is scheduled to begin on 10 September. The season is still just as long, it overlaps with the Champions League, and there are still 19 dates allocated for Championship matches, the same as last season. The only difference is that each team is inactive for five out of 19 rounds instead of three out of 19 rounds.

I'll have to try and find a copy of that if you can't get it up on here. That just makes it sound even dafter.

I'm refusing to comment on England, by the way!

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Mon Feb 06, 2012 5:08 pm  

GT wrote: Couldn't agree more. I still can't quite work out what the purpose is supposed to be. I'll have to try and find a copy of that if you can't get it up on here. That just makes it sound even dafter. This is the link from which I downloaded the PDF a couple of weeks back. It seems to have been removed, maybe it can be found by another route on the ECB website? http://static.ecb.co.uk/files/morgan...dule-11868.pdf My gut feeling is that "Team England" has given Morgan two briefs: a) Cut the number of Championship matches to 14 and give every team two additional blank weeks for rest/practice during the season. There's clearly a groundswell of opposition to this at county level, and it appears the Morgan Review has attempted to ignore this. b) Make the one day competion 50 overs instead of 40 overs, regardless of what best suits the counties. (Personally I'd rather watch 40 overs, but I'm not really that bothered. either way.)

GT wrote: Couldn't agree more. I still can't quite work out what the purpose is supposed to be. I'll have to try and find a copy of that if you can't get it up on here. That just makes it sound even dafter. This is the link from which I downloaded the PDF a couple of weeks back. It seems to have been removed, maybe it can be found by another route on the ECB website? http://static.ecb.co.uk/files/morgan...dule-11868.pdf My gut feeling is that "Team England" has given Morgan two briefs: a) Cut the number of Championship matches to 14 and give every team two additional blank weeks for rest/practice during the season. There's clearly a groundswell of opposition to this at county level, and it appears the Morgan Review has attempted to ignore this. b) Make the one day competion 50 overs instead of 40 overs, regardless of what best suits the counties. (Personally I'd rather watch 40 overs, but I'm not really that bothered. either way.)

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:49 pm  

Chief Stinkwort wrote:

Did they manage to hit any?

Plenty of contributions to our downfall again from our batsmen today, Pakistan played very well - and have had a very good 2011/12 in test cricket, but questions have to be asked about our planning and preparation batting-wise. The attitude of persevering with players has served us well in recent times and is to be applauded - so surely with that settled line-up there should be no excuse for people not being ready for what they are going to face from their opponents?

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:51 pm  

I agree with scrapping the 40 over competition in favour for a 50 over. We should be playing the same formats domestically, as are played internationally.

Reducing the county championship games is ridiculous.

As for England, the fact that we're capable of taking 20 wickets on the sub-continent is a plus to take from the series. The batsmen need to work on their technique against spin, and if they do we should be in a good position to win in Sri Lanka. Would leave Morgan out and replace him with either Bresnan or Patel, dependant on whether they'd like an extra front line seamer or batsman that offers a better backup spin option than KP.

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:47 pm  

The only sensible way that they could have brought the championship down to 14 games would have been to reduce the number of teams in the top division to 8 so at least there would be an even spread of the 14 games. To have some teams playing each other twice and some only once makes it a lottery.

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Mon Feb 13, 2012 4:19 pm  

Good knock from Cook as England get 260 something.

Finn has all 4 as Pakistan slip to 40 something for 4

[TimperleySaint]

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Tue Feb 14, 2012 9:43 am  

So are we now a one day team??? lol.

[John_D]

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:52 pm  

Tie between India and Sri Lanka today, both making 236/9. But the 30th over of the Indian innings was a 5-baller... Controversy

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:02 pm  

Two decent ODI wins now, Cook and Finn doing the business again - doesn't make up for the test shambles though.

Re: cricket - general cricket chit chat thread : Wed Feb 15, 2012 7:11 pm  

Asim wrote:

Two decent ODI wins now, Cook and Finn doing the business again - doesn't make up for the test shambles though.

If only we had a couple more explosive and relaible batsman, then we'd be a formidable one-day outfit, because our bowling attack is as good as you could get.