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 beak  croydon 28 Jun 23 2.49pm |
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Josh Tongue clean bowls both Aussie openers.
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ASCPFC  Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 28 Jun 23 3.48pm |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
Don't forget that many schools have sold off the ground that they used to play cricket on True, my old school being an example. However, there are two council maintained pitches in the town.
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Teddy Eagle  28 Jun 23 4.29pm |
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Originally posted by ASCPFC
True, my old school being an example. However, there are two council maintained pitches in the town. In the post-helmet age council pitches might be a bit better to play on but in the 70s they cost a few teeth every season.
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| ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 28 Jun 23 6.13pm |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
In the post-helmet age council pitches might be a bit better to play on but in the 70s they cost a few teeth every season. There was one real pitch and one artificial one. This England attack is the epitome of toothless.
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YT  Oxford 28 Jun 23 6.47pm |
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Another test match England won't be winning. The pre-series hype about playing test cricket like it was a 20-over beer match failed to take into account that we have such a poor bowling attack.
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| steeleye20 Croydon 28 Jun 23 7.02pm |
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A slow Lords pitch, the ball doesn't retain its hardness for long. So why put the Aussies in to bat? And we will bat last? Root obliges with 2 late wickets. Stokes only bowled 3 overs. Hoping for a miracle.
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| ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 29 Jun 23 11.53am |
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There's a really telling stat in cricket when there's a first innings score of around 400. In all time, something like only twenty matches have been won by the team that bats second. I think England may have won one recently like that against India. The last time they did it before that was something like 1983. I believe it's actually less than twenty, I'm just rounding it up.
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| Midlands Eagle 29 Jun 23 2.01pm |
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Originally posted by ASCPFC
There's a really telling stat in cricket when there's a first innings score of around 400. In all time, something like only twenty matches have been won by the team that bats second. 2006 in Adelaide. England batted first and scored 551/6 declared with a century for Pietersen and a double century for Collingwood yet still contrived to lose the game
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| The Dolphin 30 Jun 23 6.56am |
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Bazball without a brain yesterday at times!
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| Goal Machine The Cronx 30 Jun 23 7.38am |
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Great fightback yesterday and if we have a good first session today we'll be ahead. The gung-ho tactics have been moronic at times. We absolute threw away the first Test by the clearly stupid declaration. 393 was never enough on that wicket, we needed at least 450. Root was in and was smashing it around the park. The collapse yesterday against the short bowling was utterly pathetic and so obvious. If we had just not played a shot against the short ball for 6 overs, the Aussies would have changed tactics and we'd probably be only 1-2 wickets down and in total control. Thank god Stokes steadied the ship. How Brook is still in I'll never know. We need to screw our heads on and be more ruthless if we're to win these tight matches.
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| Teddy Eagle 30 Jun 23 11.13am |
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| Teddy Eagle 30 Jun 23 11.22am |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
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