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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Rex Kramer » Tue Jul 16, 2019 11:12 am

Mini E wrote:
Rex Kramer wrote:

twitter.com/ICC/status/1150835550053683202



The state of the replies to that tweet :lol: :lol:

My particular favourite

twitter.com/SmushS/status/1150844407370932224


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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Mini E » Tue Jul 16, 2019 11:20 am

Rex Kramer wrote:
Mini E wrote:
Rex Kramer wrote:

twitter.com/ICC/status/1150835550053683202



The state of the replies to that tweet :lol: :lol:

My particular favourite

twitter.com/SmushS/status/1150844407370932224



ENGLAND is not a winner. u all r cheaters. real world cup deserve to NEW ZEALAND not cheater England. in cricket playing nations also know that real champion is NZ black cap not cheater England who anyhow don't deserve this worldcup. what a crooks team

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Balladeer » Tue Jul 16, 2019 1:04 pm

The replies are better than the video in my opinion. Even despite the England Failure Montage with heartbeat backing track.

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Balladeer » Wed Jul 17, 2019 1:08 pm

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Drumstick » Thu Jul 18, 2019 1:31 pm

What is everyone's preferred ashes squad and first xi?

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Balladeer » Thu Jul 18, 2019 1:41 pm

Jones, Beaumont, Taylor, Knight... oh.

Erm. Eleven: Burns Sibley Bairstow Root Stokes Buttler Foakes Curran Archer Leach Anderson.

Squad also contains Denly (sigh... he’s been racking up the runs for Kent), Woakes, Wood, Moe, Broad.

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Drumstick » Thu Jul 18, 2019 2:28 pm

It's a really hard series to call a first XI for. If I were the sole selector, I think I'd go with something like this: Burns, Sibley, Bairstow, Root, Buttler, Stokes, Woakes, Curran, Archer, Leach, Anderson.

Roy, Foakes, Moeen, Broad and Wood make up the rest of the squad. The only thing I dislike about that line-up is YJB batting at 3 and I dare say he'd also be unhappy with that.

I want Leach because he's the best spinner in the country and a lefty at that, I want Curran for his left-arm swing (and his batting is also handy), I want Archer for his pace.

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Balladeer » Thu Jul 18, 2019 7:56 pm

Agreed with all that... bar the Roy thing, natch! Denly’s actually been quite a good number 3 of late and to be honest the unsentimental decision would be to drop Jonny for him.

The Kiwis: too nice?

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Tomous » Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:03 pm

Anyone going to any of the Ashes matches?

I'll be at Day 3 at Edgbaston :cool:

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Mini E » Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:28 pm

Tomous wrote:Anyone going to any of the Ashes matches?

I'll be at Day 3 at Edgbaston :cool:


Only one with Day 4 tickets remaining is Edgbaston, and I would need to get from the morning after my Brother's wedding near Merthyr Tydfil to Edgbaston for the start of play :cry: I'll go to a Day 5 if one of them looks like it's actually going to go to Day 5...

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Tomous » Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:30 pm

Mini E wrote:
Tomous wrote:Anyone going to any of the Ashes matches?

I'll be at Day 3 at Edgbaston :cool:


Only one with Day 4 tickets remaining is Edgbaston, and I would need to get from the morning after my Brother's wedding near Merthyr Tydfil to Edgbaston for the start of play :cry: I'll go to a Day 5 if one of them looks like it's actually going to go to Day 5...



As if you'll still be able to function after a wedding in Merthyr Tydfil ;)

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Mini E » Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:31 pm

Tomous wrote:
Mini E wrote:
Tomous wrote:Anyone going to any of the Ashes matches?

I'll be at Day 3 at Edgbaston :cool:


Only one with Day 4 tickets remaining is Edgbaston, and I would need to get from the morning after my Brother's wedding near Merthyr Tydfil to Edgbaston for the start of play :cry: I'll go to a Day 5 if one of them looks like it's actually going to go to Day 5...



As if you'll still be able to function after a wedding in Merthyr Tydfil ;)


I'm unlikely to survive Merthyr Tydfil.

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Tomous » Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:33 pm

Mini E wrote:
Tomous wrote:
Mini E wrote:
Tomous wrote:Anyone going to any of the Ashes matches?

I'll be at Day 3 at Edgbaston :cool:


Only one with Day 4 tickets remaining is Edgbaston, and I would need to get from the morning after my Brother's wedding near Merthyr Tydfil to Edgbaston for the start of play :cry: I'll go to a Day 5 if one of them looks like it's actually going to go to Day 5...



As if you'll still be able to function after a wedding in Merthyr Tydfil ;)


I'm unlikely to survive Merthyr Tydfil.


You'll be fine, i hear they finally left the 80s recently.

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Rex Kramer » Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:37 pm

Tomous wrote:Anyone going to any of the Ashes matches?

I'll be at Day 3 at Edgbaston :cool:

No, because the ECB, in all their wisdom, decided we didn't need a dead cert win at Trent Bridge in this series.

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Mini E » Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:41 pm

Tomous wrote:
Mini E wrote:
Tomous wrote:
Mini E wrote:
Tomous wrote:Anyone going to any of the Ashes matches?

I'll be at Day 3 at Edgbaston :cool:


Only one with Day 4 tickets remaining is Edgbaston, and I would need to get from the morning after my Brother's wedding near Merthyr Tydfil to Edgbaston for the start of play :cry: I'll go to a Day 5 if one of them looks like it's actually going to go to Day 5...



As if you'll still be able to function after a wedding in Merthyr Tydfil ;)


I'm unlikely to survive Merthyr Tydfil.


You'll be fine, i hear they finally left the 80s recently.


I've driven past it quite a few times but never had to actually get out of the car there :dread:

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Mini E » Thu Jul 18, 2019 11:19 pm

Checking scorecards from back home.

https://www.isleofwightcricketboard.co. ... r_5931.php

Result : Ryde won by 5 wickets - reduced target of 150 from 30 overs due to break for players to watch climax of World Cup Final...which England won...Cricket came home.


I bloody love local cricket.

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Drumstick » Fri Jul 19, 2019 7:40 am

Balladeer wrote:Agreed with all that... bar the Roy thing, natch! Denly’s actually been quite a good number 3 of late and to be honest the unsentimental decision would be to drop Jonny for him.

Jocular Joe Denly can do one.

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Moggy » Fri Jul 19, 2019 11:23 am

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Balladeer » Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:03 pm

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PostRe: The Cricket Thread - Insanity. England are World Champions!
by Drumstick » Sat Jul 20, 2019 9:21 am

In a decent move, the Aussies are having an internal trial match in Southampton to help determine the squad for the Ashes.

Team 1: David Warner, Marcus Harris, Kurtis Patterson, Travis Head (capt), Marnus Labuschagne, Will Pucovski, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Peter Siddle, Josh Hazlewood, Jon Holland

Team 2: Joe Burns, Cameron Bancroft, Steve Smith, Peter Handscomb, Matthew Wade, Mitchell Marsh, Tim Paine (capt), Michael Neser, James Pattinson, Jackson Bird, Chris Tremain, Nathan Lyon

Wish we did this for every test series.

Personally I think they'd be crazy to pass up Labuschagne. Over 1k runs (albeit in Div 2) and he's spent the last few months here on our pitches.

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