Cricket

[Yozza]

What a first game. Who needs franchise cricket when the counties offer this!

How the f*** did Lancashire lose that one?

[ChesterDave]

How the f*** did Lancashire lose that one?

I'm still not OK. Had £75 at 7/1 at the start of the season. Bottled the chase at both Derby and Worcester in the group stages and got away with it. 53 runs needed from 8 overs with 7 wickets left and lost. With the batting power in that team can only be psychological to fail to get that over the line

[RichC]

Board of cricket Scotland resigns after racism claims. Think we might see more of this coming out.

https://news.sky.com/story/board-of-cricket-scotland-resigns-with-immediate-effect-following-racism-claims-12658100

[Buzzo]

Saw that yesterday.

Scotland has its head stuck deeply in the sand in general when it comes to racism in society, so this comes as no real surprise.

[Zapater]

How's the Bazball working out?

[Buzzo]

Wow. That’s a tonking I just went to check the score.

Yeah - the rise and demise of Bazzball. It was doomed to fail.

[Yozza]

Wow. That’s a tonking I just went to check the score.

Yeah - the rise and demise of Bazzball. It was doomed to fail.

Yeah this England team needs to show Test Cricket some respect

They got carried away by the previous results when they could easily & perhaps should have lost every one of those games

Need to find some balance between digging in & showing some mettle and playing attacking cricket.

[Cormack74]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2022/09/02/jonny-bairstow-ruled-t20-world-cup-final-test-freak-golf-accident/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr

England suffered a massive blow on Friday when Jonny Bairstow sustained a suspected broken leg in a freak accident on the golf course that is likely to rule him out for the rest of the year.

Bairstow will miss the Test series decider against South Africa at the Oval next week and will force England to rip up their plans for the Twenty20 World Cup in November. The Yorkshireman suffered the injury just hours after he was named as Jos Buttler’s opening partner at the tournament in place of the axed Jason Roy.

Bairstow will see a specialist next week but he is not likely to return until next year when England play two Tests in New Zealand in February.

He sustained the injury slipping over in a tee box at Pannal Golf Club in Harrogate on Friday morning as he took time off before reporting to the Oval at the weekend for the third Test.

"Unfortunately I am going to be unavailable of all games/tours in the immediate future," Bairstow posted on social media. "The reason being is that I have injured my lower leg in a freak accident and it shall need an operation.

"The injury came when I slipped on the golf course this morning. I am gutted and want to wish everyone for this week at The Oval all the best firstly and the boys that are going to Australia for the T20 World Cup. Absolutely gutted! I will be back…"

Nottinghamshire batsman Ben Duckett has been added to the squad as cover with Harry Brook in line for a Test debut at No 5 in place of his Yorkshire colleague.

England will now have to pick a new opener for the Twenty20 World Cup with Alex Hales and Will Jacks in contention for Bairstow’s place.

Roy was left out on Friday morning of both squads for the seven-match Twenty20 tour to Pakistan and World Cup following a lean run of form. Rob Key, the director of cricket, confirmed Bairstow would open at the World Cup but also admitted that Hales had been close to a recall for the first time in three years.

Hales fell out of favour under Eoin Morgan and was left out of the 2019 World Cup squad when he was banned for 21 days for failing a test for recreational drugs. It was the second time he had failed a test and Morgan was incensed and never forgave him for breaking the “trust” of the team.

But Hales has had a superb Hundred competition and remains a fine T20 opener wanted in leagues around the world. Jacks, the Surrey batsman, was named in the squad for the Pakistan tour and would represent a bolder choice but lacks Hales’s experience.

England have until Sept 16 to name a replacement for the World Cup and comply with competition rules. Hales has a chance to press his case for the Trent Rockets in Saturday's Hundred final at Lord’s.

It is a huge blow personally for Bairstow who has been England’s best player this year and enjoying his greatest ever run of form. He was the only batsman to score a hundred in Australia and followed it with a century in Antigua before arguably kickstarting the Stokes-McCullum era with England’s second fastest Test century off 77 balls in the run chase against New Zealand at Trent Bridge.

Centuries followed at Headingley and against India at Edgbaston as well as topping England’s averages and making the highest score – 90 – in an otherwise disappointing Twenty20 series against South Africa.

[Harv]

[ame]https://twitter.com/TheACCnz/status/1565400947727409152[/ame]

all time

[Buzzo]

Should be allowed to claim the wicket.

[Cormack74]

https://twitter.com/TheACCnz/status/1565400947727409152

all time

I remember seeing that live at the time.

IIRC the commentators said it was one of the camera crew on his break.

[Shaggy]

The Ben Stokes film on Prime is well worth a watch - it's really good.

[ChesterDave]

Calls to cut the County Championship to 10 games from 14 because players are fatigued playing too much cricket.

Also,

[ame]https://twitter.com/bbctms/status/1567183342394642432[/ame]

[ame]https://twitter.com/bbctms/status/1567243991573200903[/ame]

Test cricket is dead.

[Shaggy]

About time tbh

[ame]https://twitter.com/bbctms/status/1567437892229685248[/ame]

[ChesterDave]

This test match has not been a great advert for multi-day cricket.