The Cricket Thread, Mark 2

[The Natural]

On 8/29/2024 at 5:09 PM, The Natural said:

33 test centuries for Joe Root tying Sir Alistair Cook for England centuries vs. Sri Lanka in the second Test. Get in!

34 test centuries now. A century in each inning at Lord's. Well done my fellow Yorkshireman and Englishman.

[The Natural]

1 minute ago, The Natural said:

34 test centuries now. A century in each inning at Lord's. Well done my fellow Yorkshireman and Englishman.

Joe Root reached his century from 111 balls with 10 fours. Root's fastest Test century.

He has converted 17 of his last 32 fifty-plus scores into centuries. He is the 13th England player to get centuries in both innings of a Test.

[SirFozzie]

Geoff Boycott is disconsolate somewhere muttering "it's just not cricket, innit?" and "it's supposed to be a balance between ball and bat" about England putting up 315, and Australia overhauling it with 6 overs to spare.

[SirFozzie]

England about to tie the series with Australia. Good of them to show some backbone after going down 0-2

[The Natural]

Joe Root has overtaken Sir Alastair Cook to become England's highest Test run-scorer of all time.

Root eclipsed Cook's tally of 12,472 Test runs when he reached 71 against Pakistan on day three of the first Test in Multan. Root is on 157.

Harry Brook now has five centuries in six away Tests and is averaging over 100 in them. He has as many away Test hundreds as Nasser Hussain (49 away Tests), Graham Gooch (44), Michael Vaughan (37), Marcus Trescothick (34), Jonathan Trott (27), and Ben Stokes (57) to name a few.

[The Natural]

Joe Root stats:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c86le1qv0q6o

[SirFozzie]

I'm pretty sure this test could go six days without a winner. (watch England pull off the Bazball miracle again)

[The Natural]

Joe Root and Harry Brook. Yorkshire and England like me. We sure produce them!

Edited October 9, 2024 by The Natural

[The Natural]

Insane cricket stats today:

Harry Brook scored 317. Only the 6th Englishman to ever do it. Last was Graham Gooch in 1990. Amazing to think Atherton, Vaughan, Thorpe, Pietersen, Hussain, Root, Stokes and Cook never did.

Joe Root a career best 262.

Root & Brook break record for England's highest ever partnership, 454. 4th highest in Test cricket history.

England post a total of 800+. Only the sixth time in Test cricket and the first this century.

England declare on 823-7, the fourth highest total in the history of Test cricket.

Edited October 10, 2024 by The Natural

[The Natural]

Pakistan 0-1 in the second innings, very first ball bowled.

Edited October 10, 2024 by The Natural

[Cleavy]

amazing that Pakistan could (and possibly will) lose by an innings

[The Natural]

1 hour ago, Cleavy said:

amazing that Pakistan could (and possibly will) lose by an innings

Highest score to lose by an innings. This is one of the most unreal test matches I've ever seen.

Edited October 10, 2024 by The Natural

[SirFozzie]

I said "watch England Bazball it" to avoid a test that couldn't be win in six days.. and they nearly win it in 4.

[The Natural]

Six Pakistan bowlers went for 100. Only the second time in Test history. Only one maiden in 150 overs.

[DangerMark]

6 hours ago, SirFozzie said:

I said "watch England Bazball it" to avoid a test that couldn't be win in six days.. and they nearly win it in 4.

We don't know shit about shit.

Oh, by the way, that Eight Hundred and Twenty Three came in only one more over than Pakistan batted for.

Edited October 10, 2024 by DangerMark

[SirFozzie]

An innings and 47 runs.

 

Cricket's a funny ol' game, innit?

[DangerMark]

Absolutely baffling, is what it is.

[The Natural]

England are the first team in Test history to concede over 500 runs in the first innings and end up winning by an innings.

[The Natural]

One of the most incredible Test matches ever, the amount of records broken.

[The Natural]

India 46-10 vs. New Zealand. 46 is the lowest ever score by India in a home Test match and their third lowest Test total ever. Holy shit!

[Cleavy]

Kiwis beat India 3-0 in their own backyard!

[SirFozzie]

Yeah, it's just one of those.. if I'm allowed to really date myself as old: I feel like someone should be saying "This is the introduction to the opposite sketches"

 

(for those of you who are too young to get it, GET OFF MY LAWN... it's a reference to You Can't Do That On Television.. the show which amongst other things, was the first appearance of Alanis Morisette)

 

[SirFozzie]

And a month later..

 

couple interesting things that just came to mind about the england-New Zealand series

 

One: BazBall is still alive and well. "England are up 400 runs in their second innings with six wickets remaining near the end of the day, hope they left enough time to bowl New Zealand out again"..then to realize it's DAY FREAKING TWO of the test!

 

Two: Nice hattrick to end the New Zealand innings, I'd throw him out there again first ball, just for the extra bit of jangling nerves from the opening batsman

[DangerMark]

BazBall going away without Baz - recently installed as the white-ball coach - also going away is the wishful thinking of Michael Vaughn.

[SirFozzie]

Couple players hurt in collision at big bash league with concussions and possible fractures

 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/ce8xegg5lkmo