The Cricket Thread, Mark 2

[odessasteps]

 

[SirFozzie]

ah that wacky English Weather.

[odessasteps]

CrickHIT for Six in today's #Cricket #GoogleDoodle! 
https://g.co/doodle/hqk7m3

[SirFozzie]

Who says you have to have a slam bang game of cricket to be a great game.

 

The Women's World Cup final at Lords between England and surprise finalist India was great, nerve racking, as England defended 228 to win by nine runs. 

[The Natural]

Well done to the England Women's Cricket Team winning a fourth World Cup beating India by 9 runs. Tense listening on TMS radio.

[The Natural]

England beat South Africa 3-1 for the series win. Moeen Ali Man of the Series taking 25 wickets and scoring more than 250 runs, first ever man to do this in a four test series. Ali also got a hat-trick.

[The Natural]

 

[The Natural]

Jonathan Agnew prank to Geoffrey Boycott:

Aggers and Boycott, one of my favourite ever commentary teams.

[The Natural]

Speaking of Jonathan Agnew,  Emma, his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. Best wishes go out to them.

[GuerrillaMonsoon]

No way England aren't retaining the Ashes this summer.

[odessasteps]

Match abandoned at the Oval when a crossbow bolt was apparently fired from outside the stadium and landed on the pitch. 

 

[J.T.]

India kicked the shit out of New Zealand yesterday. 

Sri Lanka comes to India on November 15th.

I expect riots.

[The Natural]

The Ashes 2017-2018 first test is finely poised, fourth day today.

[sevendaughters]

completely rearranged my bodyclock for this series. last few weeks of teaching are going to be hard. worth it.

predicted AUS 3-2 at the outset. If Stokes comes back then it's evenly-matched. Our middle order would be better, but their bowling is better. The top 4 are sort of the same in some respects:

#1 matchwinning left-handed batsman who looks and talks and plays like an opponents' caricature of what a person from that country would be like
#2 watchful, proven quantity in the English game but yet to establish themselves in the national team
#3 look absolutely brilliant in the nets, textbook form and can slaughter a middling attack, but will die trying to prove a point and thus far found out by decent or unconventional attacks
#4 best batsman and captain, can go big, can dig in, both sort of shit at bowling spin, look too young to be doing what they're doing

[Greggulator]

Anyone know how I can watch The Ashes in the US? 

[odessasteps]

It's on some streaming pay service called Willow TV.

You can listen to TMS on BBC 5 Live but you may need to VPN to do it.

[The Natural]

England 2-0 down to Australia in the Ashes with three to play. Fucked.

[SirFozzie]

Australia have regained the ashes.

[odessasteps]

Now we see if it's a white wash. 

[SirFozzie]

so, the Big Bash League starts up again soon, was hoping we'd see games on NBC sports again. doesn't look like it.

[The Natural]

Alistair Cook with the double hundred in the Fourth Ashes Test, still not out.

[The Natural]

6 hours ago, The Natural said:

Alistair Cook with the double hundred in the Fourth Ashes Test, still not out.

Cook's fifth double century. Before today he was the ninth top Test scorer of all time, he's now sixth with this innings. Cook's played since the match started, 10 1/2 hours. Amazing.

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[sabremike]

On 12/18/2017 at 3:38 AM, SirFozzie said:

so, the Big Bash League starts up again soon, was hoping we'd see games on NBC sports again. doesn't look like it.

They apparently are as I'm watching a BBL match before the NHL pregame show right now.

[SirFozzie]

There's a collapse, there's a TOTAL collapse, and then there's whatever the fuck happened to England today.