The cricket team. To be honest I wasn't too disappointed with the football team, wasn't expecting them to get out the group and they didn't. The way the cricket team has collapsed in recent months is shocking.
What odds that this pitch that is perfect for batting isn't so great when we have to bat on it!
457 all out.
That's 111 runs for the 10th wicket.
May go straight down the bookies to have a bet on England being 2 wickets down by the end of play today.
With you on that Houch Cricket is a good game if you're playing,but tedious if you're watching it. Same I reckon with Golf,Snooker,and Darts,great if you're partaking but does my head in watching them on the box !The words "paint" and "dry" spring to mind when someone mentions cricket to me. Can't stand the game. Couldn't name a single English player or any other bloody player come to think of it! Does Ian Botham still play? I've heard of him!
Cricket can be both the most exciting and most boring game in turn.
Sometimes it can be as dull as watching paint dry. I have to switch channels to relieve the boredom. When it's good though it's really good.
Have to say mind, the only test matches I can watch all day are the Ashes series and nowt else. Everything else is watching with a fair degree of channel hopping.
Never played but have always wanted to. I'm wtching more and more cricket nowadays, especially tests. As Otis said, a lot of the time is channel hopping. But I try and watch as much of England as I can.
I'm trying but I cannot get into this T20 though..
If you have a club nearby I'd recommend it. Doesn't matter at all if you haven't played before as people improve quickly.
People improve quickly. Englishmen however, deteriorate rapidly.
England it seems very much have a problem in getting the 10th and final wicket in matches of late.
Am sure that yesterday they said the stat over the past 2 years or so was that it is averaging at 38 runs for the last wicket for sides playing against England. And this was only part way through the 111 runs for the last wicket yesterday.
That is a shocking stat. Can only put that down to losing focus and taking the foot off the pedal somewhat, thinking the job is done.
| [h=2][/h] | |
|---|---|
| 8-54 & 7-49 | v Australia, Brisbane, Nov 2013 |
| 6-24 | v Australia, Adelaide, Dec 2013 |
| 6-61 & 4-17 | v Australia, Perth, Dec 2013 |
| 6-53 & 5-6 | v Australia, Melbourne, Dec 2013 |
| 5-17 & 4-8 | v Australia, Sydney, Jan 2014 |
| 6-75 | v Sri Lanka, Lord's, June 2014 |
| 5-18 | v Sri Lanka, Headingley, June 2014 |
| 6-68 | v India, Trent Bridge, July 2014 |
Things like this just highlight what a bad job everyone who was batting before them did. If Anderson can bat like this why can't the specialist batsmen?
Agreed. When it takes Root and an all rounder to save us things are looking rather grim for sure.
So, I can only repeat, the football team are okay and the cricket team is by far the worst.
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