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 Stuk  Top half 02 Jun 18 11.57am |
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I've said it before, test cricket in the north shouldn't be allowed.
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| Midlands Eagle 02 Jun 18 2.23pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
I've said it before, test cricket in the north shouldn't be allowed. I'm a Durham supporter (long story) and the ECB kindly allowed them first class status conditional on them building a test match ground. Durham built a shiny new expensive test ground and the ECB responded by giving them the occasional test match in May and then complained when no-one wanted to go.
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| Stuk Top half 02 Jun 18 2.40pm |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
I'm a Durham supporter (long story) and the ECB kindly allowed them first class status conditional on them building a test match ground. Durham built a shiny new expensive test ground and the ECB responded by giving them the occasional test match in May and then complained when no-one wanted to go. Last year they didn't even get that. They got one T20 or ODI match, can't remember which, and then picked that game to give Ben Stokes a rest. Not to mention they got relegated and remain financially knackered.
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| Midlands Eagle 02 Jun 18 4.25pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
Not to mention they got relegated and remain financially knackered. Most Durham fans are still angry over the relegation. Much of their losses stem from hosting test matches against unfancied opposition in May with the last one being held 10 days after a test at Headingly against the same opposition. Durham were financially bailed out by ECB, stripped of their test match ground status and relegated to division two with a 48 point deduction for the following season but when Glamorgan got into financial difficulties over loss making test matched they were given a hefty hand out by ECB as a reward for not hosting any more
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| steeleye20 Croydon 02 Jun 18 5.00pm |
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The ECB are right on the money selling the game to the English public. After sitting in the drizzle for most of the day the spectators can watch an hour and a half, but that's all folks its time for tea !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and that will be £50 please 'without your support the game would die'.
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| Midlands Eagle 02 Jun 18 5.30pm |
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Originally posted by steeleye20
The ECB are right on the money selling the game to the English public. After sitting in the drizzle for most of the day the spectators can watch an hour and a half, but that's all folks its time for tea !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was at an Ashes Test at Edgbaston a few years ago when it rained almost all day but they managed to get in 15 overs (just over an hour's play) at the end of the day so that they didn't have to give refunds
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chateauferret  02 Jun 18 6.10pm |
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Had a great chance to bat pakistan out of it but bottling it as usual now. 260-6.
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| Stuk Top half 03 Jun 18 12.00pm |
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Originally posted by pefwin
who would have thought that, I wonder what you could have got for that on an Asian betting syndicate? And now we're out for 363 1st innings, the exact score pakistan got 1st test. This is an odd series.
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| chateauferret 03 Jun 18 5.41pm |
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Originally posted by Stuk
And now we're out for 363 1st innings, the exact score pakistan got 1st test. This is an odd series. pakistan collapsed. Won by an innings and 55 runs. Much better. Bess was very promising.
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| Stuk Top half 03 Jun 18 7.23pm |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
pakistan collapsed. Won by an innings and 55 runs. Much better. Bess was very promising. He was. He had a great test getting some runs, 3 wickets and taking a beautiful catch. Gave a decent interview afterwards too. Buttler just goes to show that you need to be in form, and not necessarily in the conditions or the format.
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| chateauferret 10 Jun 18 8.00pm |
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ODI. Scotland 371 - 5 Scotland won by 6 runs. Normal service resumed. Chucked away from unloseable positions several times. What an embarrassing shower of s***e. Perhaps we should send Scotland to Australia instead?
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| Stuk Top half 11 Jun 18 1.36pm |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
ODI. Scotland 371 - 5 Scotland won by 6 runs. Normal service resumed. Chucked away from unloseable positions several times. What an embarrassing shower of s***e. Perhaps we should send Scotland to Australia instead? We were never in an unloseable position, though I must say I thought we'd be okay when it was 27 required from 33 after Plunkett hit that 6. The bowling was simply appalling but we actually lost it in the fielding as Scotland saved a number of balls from going for boundaries (Budge particularly) while we had more than a few fumbles. It was a bit like when Sven f***ed about against Australia and it bites England on the arse, to be recalled forever more. Buttler in instead of Billings and we'd have walked it. Woakes, Stokes and Curran were all missed from the bowling line up.
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