[John_D]

Super Cricket - 2nd Test : Sun Jun 05, 2011 1:31 pm  

Dilshan. Ouchy.

Great knock by the piratical opener, but that thumb is flatter than my wife's Yorkshire puddings.

Re: Super Cricket - 2nd Test : Mon Jun 06, 2011 11:08 pm  

Outside chance of a result again? If we can get another 150 by 2.30 then set them 300 and see what happens...

Carry on scoring Cooky.

Re: Super Cricket - 2nd Test : Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:53 am  

Great turn around!

Re: Super Cricket - 2nd Test : Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:34 am  

PAUL M wrote:

Outside chance of a result again? If we can get another 150 by 2.30 then set them 300 and see what happens...

That's the ideal scenario. First task is to make sure we don't collapse as they did yesterday. We're in front in the series, no need to give them even an outside sniff of a win - at least 300 with fifty overs for us to take ten wickets ought to be about right.

I'd like to see Broad do something with the ball today, because I don't think he should be as high in the pecking order as he seems to be. He just doesn't seem to take enough wickets often enough. I get the feeling he's preferred to others because of his batting, yet when the number six spot was up for grabs all the noises coming from the England leadership suggested that Morgan's inability to offer a fifth bowling option was irrelevant; Bopara wouldn't be preferred simply because he can replicate Collingwood's bowling contribution.

If you're only going to pick four bowlers, with no real back-up whatsoever, it simply has to be the best four even if they're all rabbits, which Swann certainly isn't in any case, so if Anderson is fit to be recalled right now I make Broad first in line to drop out.

Re: Super Cricket - 2nd Test : Wed Jun 08, 2011 12:30 pm  

Prince of Denmark wrote:

I'd like to see Broad do something with the ball today, because I don't think he should be as high in the pecking order as he seems to be.

105 Test wickets at near as dammit 36 apiece and a strike rate of a wicket every 68 balls.

Compare that to:

Ryan Sidebottom - 79 wickets at 28 and strike rate of 60.
James Anderson - 215 wickets at 31, strike rate of 56
Tim Bresnan - 25 wickets at 28, strike rate of 69
Steve Finn - 50 wickets at 27, strike rate of 41
Chris Tremlett - 38 wickets at 26, strike rate of 53
Graham Onions - 28 wickets at 31, strike rate of 51

Statistically, Broad should be well down the England pecking order. Even Saj Mahmood has a marginally better strike rate, although his wickets have come at 38 apiece. He's lucky to be in the side, let alone part of the captaincy group.

Re: Super Cricket - 2nd Test : Wed Jun 08, 2011 4:41 pm  

First choice seam attack, when fit, should be Anderson, Bresnan and Tremlett. They're the ones that were successful in Sydney and Melbourne, and nobody's done enough to force their way in, in their absence.

Can see Finn eventually forcing his way in, but I think he'd be better served just being allowed to bowl for Middlesex this season, rather than being in a squad of 12 and bowling to David Saker during every lunch/tea break.

Re: Super Cricket - 2nd Test : Thu Jun 16, 2011 12:33 pm  

3rd Test - SL 22-1

Re: Super Cricket - 2nd Test : Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:17 pm  

Is that Shane Warne or Joan Rivers in the studio? What has he done to his face?!?!

Re: Super Cricket - 2nd Test : Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:32 pm  

Sri Lanka collapsing again 91-6.

All the lost play may be irrelevant at this rate.

[TimperleySaint]

Re: Super Cricket - 2nd Test : Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:00 pm  

Tremlett on fire today!