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Said it last week ECB sold their souls to keep the Hundred. Basically handed control of English cricket to overseas business people. BCCI already largely controls international cricket through finances now people affiliated with it controls the rest.

Absolutely unnecessary wicket.

So confirmed what we all suspected. ECB basically hands control of England players over to the Hundred franchises for a large chunk of the summer. Sold their soul.

Whilst his son solicited billions for the family business from middle east gocts during his father's negotiations on Gaza. Coincidence that the family business is property and witkoff's peace plan involves 100s of billions of dollars worth of construction funds in postwar Ukraine ( Which Trump...

this team is just ridiculous

so playing a warm-up friendly on a slow, low pitch wasn't great preparation for the first Test. England's solution to preparing forthe 2nd Test against the most successful pink ball side is not to use the opportunity to send players to play a pink ball game. Arrogance just looks more like...

yep that's me. Have had no interest in the Birmingham stuff. glad it's back to what it should always have been

Him and Stokes seem immune to criticism - justified, constructive or unconstructive.

Bit of a contrast in approaches. The Test world champions going to India on those prepared pitches and looking like they'll win a series.

not sure I've seen a more confident City side than this Lampard one.

Again England's bowlers struggle to put 2 innings together in a Test match. With the current mindset they'll probably see Head's innings as an affirmation of that their batting approach can work. Biggest criticism is that there are no shocks about the pitches or how Australia will bowl but there...

That Dutch dnf was massive for points and not his fault. Start is massive with Max looking to really pressure him. Still a track that should favour the Red Bull but a podium ahead of Piastri would put one hand on the title. Wouldn't be surprised to see another Piastri mistake.

That's why Root is the key wicket. He's got to bat his normal game and let the others get on with it

Bowlers done great - if this is to be a low scorer with not many overs more chance to squeeze an extra Test out of the quicks.

Home office figure for illegal immigrant accommodation 2024/25 - so that's not the total cost.

could depend on what shape AJ is in. 4 weeks until the fight isn't long. AJ looks sharp in training and wouldn't surprise me if Paul picks up a mystery late injury. On paper it's straightforward - Paul hasn't fought anybody, couldn't knockout a pensioner etc. Joshua is probably done as a genuine...

Democrats had access to /control of the files for 4 years. If there was something really damaging to Trump in them surely they would have released/ leaked it when they had the chance?

Yep. Wasn't concentrating ( much like most of the players in the warm up game). Rest of it applies though.

This team has the ability to do well just needs the brains. Got to get through the first 25-30 overs of the Duke ball without losing too many wickets then capitalise. Quicks have to be able to bowl with discipline particularly after the 25-30 over mark. Has to be a big improvement in the...

Seems to be a constant theme from recent overseas tours that we don't prepare properly with games against local opposition. Touring sides to England nearly always have preparation games against some sort of Lions team. I'm a lot less confident about this Ashes series having watched some of the...