The Cricket Thread, Mark 2

[DangerMark]

On 12/7/2024 at 4:32 AM, SirFozzie said:

BazBall is still alive and well.

It's being exported to the other side of the world, two serious cricketing nations have lost 26 wickets in two days in Sydney, top score in the game so far being Rishabh Pant's 61 (33 balls).

As to your more recent post, I find it hilarious that even now whenever Bancroft's name is mentioned, the BBC feel compelled to mention that he got banned for ball tampering. Still, I can imagine running face first into your mate like that does suck.

[The Natural]

Australia 16-0 England in the Women's Ashes. A clean sweep. England an absolute embarrassment.

[SirFozzie]

England and getting Pomwashed in Ashes series in Australia.. name another more accurate combo.

 

edit: Dayumn... ESPNCricInfo isn't holiding back on lambasting Sri Lanka's performance in the just-concluded Test. (now, admittedly Australia won in a HUMONGOUS rout)

 

It felt like at times in this Test, an Australia batter could wander over to a rock on the Galle shoreline and find a Test hundred underneath it. It felt like if an Australia spinner bumped into a coconut tree, three dismissed Sri Lanka batters would fall out and then sulk mopily back to the dressing room.

Edited February 1, 2025 by SirFozzie

[SirFozzie]

USA beats Oman in a One Day International where neither side bowled a single ball of pace.. nothing but spin. And either good spin or bad batting. (USA 122 all out, Oman 67 all out)

 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/cj3n5jlln25o

 

[Pete]

Welcome your newest MLC venue: Oakland Coliseum! 

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6228063/2025/03/26/major-league-cricket-oakland-coliseum/

(Is everyone else having the same issues with embedding links, moving from page to page etc?)

[SirFozzie]

yup.. have been for months

[SirFozzie]

Bizarre T20 game:

 

Batting team, needing to win to stay in control of their own destiny (wwc t20 asia) are 192-0 after 16 overs, but notice rain off in the distance, so since T20 innings can't be declared complete like a test innings, had to have 10 people tell the umpire they were retiring out, one by one, walking to the crease, telling the ump, and walking back out.

 

They did bowl the opponents out for 20-ish, so it worked out.

 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/c2e3k3xx7edo

[odessasteps]

Two major cricket nations being at war (potentially) will be something to watch.

[SirFozzie]

9 minutes ago, odessasteps said:

Two major cricket nations being at war (potentially) will be something to watch.

Not if the button is pressed and the nukes start flying, that'll give "all out" a bad connotation..

[DangerMark]

4 hours ago, SirFozzie said:

Bizarre T20 game:

 

Batting team, needing to win to stay in control of their own destiny (wwc t20 asia) are 192-0 after 16 overs, but notice rain off in the distance, so since T20 innings can't be declared complete like a test innings, had to have 10 people tell the umpire they were retiring out, one by one, walking to the crease, telling the ump, and walking back out.

 

They did bowl the opponents out for 20-ish, so it worked out.

 

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cricket/articles/c2e3k3xx7edo

Why they banned declarations when teams can just do that, I do not know.

[Pete]

Watching Major League Cricket and on one hand, it is VERY bizarre seeing cricket at Oakland Coliseum. OTOH, the layout actually works - squint and it looks sorta like a scaled-down MCG. One hopes they name the stadium ends after famed Oakland bowlers Vida Blue and Catfish Hunter.

[odessasteps]

Imagine explaining Cricket to Rickey be Rickey. 

[SirFozzie]

Wotta match between India and England. England chase a record fourth inning total for the win.

[DangerMark]

Not even the highest score they've chased against India in the last decade.

[The Natural]

India beat England Cricket Team by six runs in the Fifth Test today, one of the best Test matches ever and series ever ending 2-2. A dramatic hour of play with England needing 35 runs and India needing four wickets. Chris Woakes plays with one arm having dislocated his shoulder playing in a sling. That's toughness. Fifth Test also had Joe Root get his 39th Test century, Harry Brook his tenth after getting caught but Siraj stumbled over the boundary rope so it didn't count! A 195 run partnership. England in the second innings dropped six catches. As the saying goes, catches win matches.

[The Natural]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/cx279ylegeyo

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/live/cz015n5kg03t

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/czerd60jweno

[SirFozzie]

Sheesh. Series had been already decided, but England just beat South Africa by 342 runs

[DangerMark]

17 hours ago, SirFozzie said:

Sheesh. Series had been already decided, but England just beat South Africa by 342 runs

Sometimes, games are inexplicably not close, cf. Game One of this series. 

[SirFozzie]

Speaking of not close.. England put up 304 to win the 4th ODI.. er.. wait.. that was 304 in a freaking T20? (england won by 146 runs)

[DangerMark]

Three hundred and four runs, and against a real team of full time cricket playing professionals. Salt and Buttler on their own scored enough to win the game.

[The Natural]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/c1dq0223930o

RIP Dickie Bird. My fellow Yorkshireman and Englishman.

[The Natural]

https://www.skysports.com/cricket/news/12123/13436654/dickie-bird-legendary-cricket-umpire-dies-aged-92-yorkshire-county-cricket-club-announces

GOAT Umpire.

[The Natural]

Australia vs. England First Test First Day is insane. England out for 172-10, Starc 7-58. Australia 123-9. Stokes 5-23. Great comeback by England.

Edited November 21, 2025 by The Natural

[The Natural]

This is the most wickets taken in a day of an Ashes Test since the Old Trafford Test of 1909 where both teams were all out in the same day.

[The Natural]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/live/crl5jn5d84kt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/articles/crmxmmxk3mwo