General Cricket (not the chirpy kind) Discussion Thread

by **Afalia** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 11:15 am

Ah!!! Two balls from a record. Ah well, let's call this a warmup to the Indian series where we'll learn from our mistakes...

EDIT: Warmup, even.

by **Uitbregen** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 11:48 am

@Aryavartha: What's the mood of India fans in regards to the England tour? Are they confident, do they think they'll win?

by **Jeckland** » Tue Jun 24, 2014 12:25 pm

...and when I told my Dad we might draw, he said I was a crazy optimist....

by **Aryavartha** » Wed Jun 25, 2014 3:49 pm

Uitbregen wrote:@Aryavartha: What's the mood of India fans in regards to the England tour? Are they confident, do they think they'll win?

they've been bitten once - in the last tour when the expectations were high and the team had form (test no.1 and the world cup) going in - and ended up with whitewash :palm:

cautious is probably the best word to sum up the mood.

the team did recover somewhat from whitewashes in eng, aus, home loss to eng. they did good in SA (considering our previous record there) and were good in some sessions in NZ (lost badly in other sessions).

its a new look team with only MS, gambhir and ishant having played in eng before. for the life of me, i can't understand why ishant keeps getting picked. :roll:

as useless as indian "quickies" tend to be, this one is the worst of i've seen.

by **Uitbregen** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:43 am

Aryavartha wrote:its a new look team with only MS, gambhir and ishant having played in eng before. for the life of me, i can't understand why ishant keeps getting picked. as useless as indian "quickies" tend to be, this one is the worst of i've seen.

In three overs against Leicestershire, probably the worst county around, Ishant Sharma has figures of 3-0-36-0...

by **Goram** » Wed Jul 02, 2014 8:15 am

The squad for India is as follows

by **Aryavartha** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 12:58 pm

indian openers are on shaky form. dhawan and vijay need to get back to form. both are suspect against moving ball...so i have not high hopes.

my hopes are on kohli, pujara and rahane - decent tech and application for the long form, especially pujara. dhoni has become a better test bat than before.

bowling as usual is toothless and is prone to let opponent batsmen run away again and again, even after tight situations.

by **Liventia** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 1:11 pm

MCC v Rest of World takes place on Saturday at Lord's (10:30am start, 50 overs per side, red ball/white clothing). @HomeOfCricket have been posting some incredible photos all night.

by **Aryavartha** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 4:36 pm

apparently maria sharapova said she does not know who sachin is,

fans and people with too much time on their hands, have taken to doing the usual

funniest

by **Uitbregen** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 10:53 pm

Liventia wrote:MCC v Rest of World takes place on Saturday at Lord's (10:30am start, 50 overs per side, red ball/white clothing). @HomeOfCricket have been posting some incredible photos all night.

I'm in Sri Lanka and I'm desperately trying to find somewhere where I can watch the match!

by **Liventia** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 11:16 pm

Uitbregen wrote:
Liventia wrote:MCC v Rest of World takes place on Saturday at Lord's (10:30am start, 50 overs per side, red ball/white clothing). @HomeOfCricket have been posting some incredible photos all night.

I'm in Sri Lanka and I'm desperately trying to find somewhere where I can watch the match!

ESPN Star have the rights in India - not sure about SL. Cricket Australia are live streaming it on their website (but it may be geo-blocked?) Lords.org will have radio coverage, with commentators Kevin Hand, David Townsend (of BBC London's Middlesex coverage) and Mark Church (of BBC London's Surrey coverage) with analysts Gus Fraser and Ebony Rainford-Brent.

by **Uitbregen** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 11:22 pm

Liventia wrote:
Uitbregen wrote:
I'm in Sri Lanka and I'm desperately trying to find somewhere where I can watch the match!

ESPN Star have the rights in India - not sure about SL. Cricket Australia are live streaming it on their website (but it may be geo-blocked?) Lords.org will have radio coverage, with commentators Kevin Hand, David Townsend (of BBC London's Middlesex coverage) and Mark Church (of BBC London's Surrey coverage) with analysts Gus Fraser and Ebony Rainford-Brent.

I'm in a hotel which has Star Sports 4, which I believe is an Indian stream, but you'd think it would be on a more important channel considering Sachin is playing. I'm going to try and find a sports bar or something where I can watch the World Cup tonight, so I might enquire as to whether they're showing the game at all.

by **Liventia** » Thu Jul 03, 2014 11:55 pm

Uitbregen wrote:I'm in a hotel which has Star Sports 4, which I believe is an Indian stream, but you'd think it would be on a more important channel considering Sachin is playing.

You'd be surprised. English on Star Sports 4 with a build up show at 2pm India time.

by **Uitbregen** » Fri Jul 04, 2014 12:01 am

Liventia wrote:
Uitbregen wrote:I'm in a hotel which has Star Sports 4, which I believe is an Indian stream, but you'd think it would be on a more important channel considering Sachin is playing.

You'd be surprised. English on Star Sports 4 with a build up show at 2pm India time.

Well would you look at that. Great news!

by **Liventia** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 2:21 am

Team Shane (Rest of the World) have won the toss and elected to bat.

by **Liventia** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:29 am

Rest of the World reduced to 54/2 from 54/0 after Lee bowls Sehwag through the gate and Gilchrist is stumped by Read off Ajmal.

by **Liventia** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:34 am

Bit of a collapse for the RoW side, 59/3 now. Pietersen and Yuvraj at the crease.

EDIT: 68/4, another stumping off Ajmal. Pietersen gone. Ajmal too good. Could be 120 all out here.
EDIT: 68/5, Ajmal has four. This could be over quickly.

by **Chelta** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:48 am

What is happening, Team Shane??

by **Liventia** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 3:59 am

Chelta wrote:What is happening, Team Shane??

After all of Warne's criticism of him, Ali Cook must be licking his lips.

by **Chelta** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 4:10 am

Liventia wrote:
Chelta wrote:What is happening, Team Shane??

After all of Warne's criticism of him, Ali Cook must be licking his lips.

I can picture it: Cook coming out with a tirade about Warne's rubbish captaincy. Just trollin'.

by **Liventia** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 5:40 am

Sachin is on to bowl.

EDIT: Rest of the World recover from 68/5 to post 293/7. 294 will be a difficult chase, although it might make things easier that Shane Warne has a suspected broken hand sustained from a Brett Lee beamer and will not bowl or field. Shaun Pollock will act as 12th man.

by **Liventia** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 10:52 am

Aaron Finch. Wow.

by **KoloToure** » Sat Jul 05, 2014 1:03 pm

First game of my own for three years. Returned bowling figures of 5-1-0-24 and a 4 ball 0*.

That's probably my best economy rate ever, and definitely my first maiden. I'll take that.

by **Liventia** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 2:55 am

KoloToure wrote:First game of my own for three years. Returned bowling figures of 5-1-0-24 and a 4 ball 0*.

That's probably my best economy rate ever, and definitely my first maiden. I'll take that.

0 runs for 24 wickets is impressive!

by **Liventia** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 7:43 am

Andrew Flintoff is in the Lancashire XI to play Worcestershire today. One over left, doesn't look like he'll get a bat. High scoring game so we'll see if he bowls.

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