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by **Jeckland** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:43 am

My Best Bowling was 4-3, although I did once take 3-0 off seven balls including a hat trick to wrap up the innings.

My High Score batting is 4*

You can guess what I do.

by **Liventia** » Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:47 am

Freddie Flintoff has taken his 31st (EDIT: and now 32nd) senior Twenty20 wicket(s), and his first in five years.

by **Liventia** » Tue Jul 08, 2014 12:25 am

Mitchell Marsh (previous career best 111) and Doncaster, Yorkshire-born Sam Whiteman (previous career best 96) have put on an Australian first-class record 371 runs (Marsh 211, Whiteman 174) for the seventh wicket (highest in Aus FC history) to save Australia A from 99/6 against India A.

by **Goram** » Wed Jul 09, 2014 4:27 am

So, I'm no expert on pitches, but surely English grounds shouldn't be this flat/slow?

by **Chelta** » Wed Jul 09, 2014 5:16 am

GOram wrote:So, I'm no expert on pitches, but surely English grounds shouldn't be this flat/slow?

I heard Kevin Pieterson was complaining about something the groundsmen have done to the English pitches to allow the grounds to drain quicker after rain, which ended up changing the character of the pitches...

by **Goram** » Wed Jul 09, 2014 5:50 am

Chelta wrote:
GOram wrote:So, I'm no expert on pitches, but surely English grounds shouldn't be this flat/slow?

I heard Kevin Pieterson was complaining about something the groundsmen have done to the English pitches to allow the grounds to drain quicker after rain, which ended up changing the character of the pitches...

I guess that would make sense, but as I say, I'm no expert.

In other news - Ian Bell, what a catch that is.

by **KoloToure** » Wed Jul 09, 2014 10:29 am

Anyone know the difference between left and right handed batting pads?

by **Aryavartha** » Wed Jul 09, 2014 3:09 pm

good show by vijay. for a supposedly 't20 specialist' - he does better in tests, compared to odi and ipl :lol2:

pujara looked good while he lasted. dhoni, as i said before, has become a much better test batsman - even with his limited technique. he won't be pretty, but he manages to stay and score nowadays in foreign pitches.

happy that it was not a 200 all out, as first day of first test usually is, for india.

by **Goram** » Wed Jul 09, 2014 3:27 pm

KoloToure wrote:Anyone know the difference between left and right handed batting pads?

The tibia protection, apparently. At least, that's what Google says.

by **Apox** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 3:09 am

KoloToure wrote:Anyone know the difference between left and right handed batting pads?

The longer side of the padding will be on a different side to protect you're leg from the ball otherwise you'd be exposed wearing the wrong type of padding. As a left-hander myself, it initially baffled me as to why I needed different pads, but it all makes sense now.

by **KoloToure** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 3:45 am

Apox wrote:
KoloToure wrote:Anyone know the difference between left and right handed batting pads?

The longer side of the padding will be on a different side to protect you're leg from the ball otherwise you'd be exposed wearing the wrong type of padding. As a left-hander myself, it initially baffled me as to why I needed different pads, but it all makes sense now.

I'm a rightie and took a gamble on right handed pads. Gamble paid off, it seems.

by **Uitbregen** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 4:22 am

The ECB and BCCI have presumably entered into a secret agreement to secure a 0-0 run-fest draw by preparing dead pitches, just so no ones feelings get hurt.

by **Goram** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 7:06 am

28 and climbing for the last wicket...It's happening again.

EDIT: Yeah. It happened again.

by **Goram** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 7:30 am

Prior has missed that by a country mile. How India can be allowed to play without DRS, when everyone else uses the system, is beyond me.

by **Aryavartha** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:16 am

i personally don't think that hawkeye predictions of ball path is reliable on lbw's. snicko and hotspot look good.

i also think that technology should only be used for reversing howlers , like that horrible decision to Prior.

it should not be used per the current system where a team gets two decisions wrong, then they cannot appeal any horrible decisions later. OTOH, if you allow all decisions to be reviewed, then there would be no end to this appealing.

BCCI, i think, is against DRS - mainly because its tech is currently offered by only one company (true?) and the costs involved? maybe if an indian company offers the same thing, preferably with a BCCI big wig in its board :roll:

by **Liventia** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 10:36 am

Andrew Flintoff is now batting for Lancashire.

And he's out for 1 off 4 balls, lbw.

by **Liventia** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:37 am

All sorts of records falling.

Maiden FC fifty for Anderson
Maiden Test fifty for Anderson
Largest 10th wicket partnership for England v India in Tests
First time two century partnerships for the 10th wicket have been recorded in Tests (third in FC cricket)
Largest 10th wicket partnership ever for England in Tests
Highest score ever for an England number 11 in Tests
First 150 partnership for the 10th wicket for England
Longest innings by a Test number 11 batsman by minutes
Most balls faced by a 10th wicket partnership in Tests
Largest 10th wicket partnership in Test cricket (beating Ashton Agar and Phil Hughes at this very ground last year)

by **Nimzonia** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 5:24 am

After Tino Best, and then Ashton Agar, I had a feeling that come English summer 2014, another new 10th wicket record would be set. I didn't imagine it would be England doing it, though.

by **KoloToure** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 5:52 am

It's times like this I wish I was still at university. I could watch the cricket. No sky our computer attached to the tv at home

by **Liventia** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 6:22 am

Nearing the 200 stand for the last wicket. There have only been 12 first-class 200+ stands for the 10th wicket in history.

Ended agonisingly on 198…

by **Liventia** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:03 am

ALASTAIR COOK HAS A TEST WICKET

by **Apox** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:07 am

Liventia wrote:ALASTAIR COOK HAS A TEST WICKET

Speechless. This match is why Test cricket is brilliant.

by **Goram** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:08 am

Liventia wrote:ALASTAIR COOK HAS A TEST WICKET

He finally has something to laugh about - maybe that eases the stress, ever so slightly.

by **Liventia** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:13 am

Apox wrote:
Liventia wrote:ALASTAIR COOK HAS A TEST WICKET

Speechless. This match is why Test cricket is brilliant.

No, it was the worst of Test cricket. A horrible, horrible pitch that never offered a result and produced some of the most boring Test cricket ever.

GOram wrote:
Liventia wrote:ALASTAIR COOK HAS A TEST WICKET

He finally has something to laugh about - maybe that eases the stress, ever so slightly.

Incredibly, it probably will. It's the kind of thing they need to lift spirits after a hard slog in the field!

by **Liventia** » Sun Jul 13, 2014 9:19 am

England squad for second Test at Lord's:
Cook, Robson, Ballance, Bell, Root, Moeen Ali, Prior, Stokes, Broad, Plunkett, Anderson, Jordan, Woakes, Kerrigan

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