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So, 1st test of the England v India series.
England have another classic batting collapse.
No surprises when there's very little 4 day matches being played and England continue to never plan in warm-up games, but rather cram in T20s and 1 dayers.
There is such little support for test cricket from the ECB, when (in my mind at least) its the best form of the game.
We're picking players who have played zero red ball cricket this year for a start.0 -
I wouldn't put all the blame on the ECB. We're about the only country left who cares about Test Cricket no matter who we play. The vast majority of the others really don't. One day and T20 have over taken Tests by a huge marginelbowloh said:So, 1st test of the England v India series.
England have another classic batting collapse.
No surprises when there's very little 4 day matches being played and England continue to never plan in warm-up games, but rather cram in T20s and 1 dayers.
There is such little support for test cricket from the ECB, when (in my mind at least) its the best form of the game.
We're picking players who have played zero red ball cricket this year for a start.
Lets be fair even T20 is now considered too slow! Hence the OneHundred
And it's looking even worse for England at the moment. Archer is out for the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his right arm.
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India care, Australia care and so do NZ, who made it their goal to be the no.1 test team.JimD666 said:
I wouldn't put all the blame on the ECB. We're about the only country left who cares about Test Cricket no matter who we play. The vast majority of the others really don't. One day and T20 have over taken Tests by a huge marginelbowloh said:So, 1st test of the England v India series.
England have another classic batting collapse.
No surprises when there's very little 4 day matches being played and England continue to never plan in warm-up games, but rather cram in T20s and 1 dayers.
There is such little support for test cricket from the ECB, when (in my mind at least) its the best form of the game.
We're picking players who have played zero red ball cricket this year for a start.
Lets be fair even T20 is now considered too slow! Hence the OneHundred
And it's looking even worse for England at the moment. Archer is out for the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his right arm.
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The Hundred was invented as part of the power struggle between ECB and the rest of the world but India in particular. It would have been very easy to speed up T20.JimD666 said:
I wouldn't put all the blame on the ECB. We're about the only country left who cares about Test Cricket no matter who we play. The vast majority of the others really don't. One day and T20 have over taken Tests by a huge marginelbowloh said:So, 1st test of the England v India series.
England have another classic batting collapse.
No surprises when there's very little 4 day matches being played and England continue to never plan in warm-up games, but rather cram in T20s and 1 dayers.
There is such little support for test cricket from the ECB, when (in my mind at least) its the best form of the game.
We're picking players who have played zero red ball cricket this year for a start.
Lets be fair even T20 is now considered too slow! Hence the OneHundred
And it's looking even worse for England at the moment. Archer is out for the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his right arm.
I would agree with your other comments but do feel there is room to give India some credit for having a lot of very good players and enormous strength in depth.0 -
Look at what we did with earlier series this year, we rested players for the T20 and I day games, rather than prioritising the Tests.0
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England, or rather Jimmy, has come out swinging (literally) two wickets in two balls
Ask the other Cricket boards to choose two formats out of the 3 ( I'm discarding the onehundred for now at least) T20 would get picked. Which would be the other? Eng and Aus would pick the Test option (I'd hope) the other countries? Honestly couldn't call it.
Any combination of Eng, Aus, NZ and India will get crowds no matter where. Any combination of the other 5 test playing nations don't. At least not consistently.0 -
T20 was invented by country cricket/ECB in order to get people into the game. The Hundred was invented by the ECB in order to get people into the game. It amuses me how people criticise the Hundred despite it being created by largely the same people who created T20.surrey_commuter said:
The Hundred was invented as part of the power struggle between ECB and the rest of the world but India in particular. It would have been very easy to speed up T20.JimD666 said:
I wouldn't put all the blame on the ECB. We're about the only country left who cares about Test Cricket no matter who we play. The vast majority of the others really don't. One day and T20 have over taken Tests by a huge marginelbowloh said:So, 1st test of the England v India series.
England have another classic batting collapse.
No surprises when there's very little 4 day matches being played and England continue to never plan in warm-up games, but rather cram in T20s and 1 dayers.
There is such little support for test cricket from the ECB, when (in my mind at least) its the best form of the game.
We're picking players who have played zero red ball cricket this year for a start.
Lets be fair even T20 is now considered too slow! Hence the OneHundred
And it's looking even worse for England at the moment. Archer is out for the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his right arm.
I would agree with your other comments but do feel there is room to give India some credit for having a lot of very good players and enormous strength in depth.
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But could they have not just leverage T20 more? Always seems sold old when i've tried to get tickets close to the match. Did we need another format?TheBigBean said:
T20 was invented by country cricket/ECB in order to get people into the game. The Hundred was invented by the ECB in order to get people into the game. It amuses me how people criticise the Hundred despite it being created by largely the same people who created T20.surrey_commuter said:
The Hundred was invented as part of the power struggle between ECB and the rest of the world but India in particular. It would have been very easy to speed up T20.JimD666 said:
I wouldn't put all the blame on the ECB. We're about the only country left who cares about Test Cricket no matter who we play. The vast majority of the others really don't. One day and T20 have over taken Tests by a huge marginelbowloh said:So, 1st test of the England v India series.
England have another classic batting collapse.
No surprises when there's very little 4 day matches being played and England continue to never plan in warm-up games, but rather cram in T20s and 1 dayers.
There is such little support for test cricket from the ECB, when (in my mind at least) its the best form of the game.
We're picking players who have played zero red ball cricket this year for a start.
Lets be fair even T20 is now considered too slow! Hence the OneHundred
And it's looking even worse for England at the moment. Archer is out for the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his right arm.
I would agree with your other comments but do feel there is room to give India some credit for having a lot of very good players and enormous strength in depth.
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Looks like rain will save the match for England anyway.
I'm sure England will improve as the series goes on, but the first match of a series England are always terrible and half-cooked having had no warm up matches.0 -
Once I got over the garish presentation with numbers everywhere, I decided it is more accessible, so I don't think it does any harm.elbowloh said:
But could they have not just leverage T20 more? Always seems sold old when i've tried to get tickets close to the match. Did we need another format?TheBigBean said:
T20 was invented by country cricket/ECB in order to get people into the game. The Hundred was invented by the ECB in order to get people into the game. It amuses me how people criticise the Hundred despite it being created by largely the same people who created T20.surrey_commuter said:
The Hundred was invented as part of the power struggle between ECB and the rest of the world but India in particular. It would have been very easy to speed up T20.JimD666 said:
I wouldn't put all the blame on the ECB. We're about the only country left who cares about Test Cricket no matter who we play. The vast majority of the others really don't. One day and T20 have over taken Tests by a huge marginelbowloh said:So, 1st test of the England v India series.
England have another classic batting collapse.
No surprises when there's very little 4 day matches being played and England continue to never plan in warm-up games, but rather cram in T20s and 1 dayers.
There is such little support for test cricket from the ECB, when (in my mind at least) its the best form of the game.
We're picking players who have played zero red ball cricket this year for a start.
Lets be fair even T20 is now considered too slow! Hence the OneHundred
And it's looking even worse for England at the moment. Archer is out for the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his right arm.
I would agree with your other comments but do feel there is room to give India some credit for having a lot of very good players and enormous strength in depth.0 -
Pretty much that, the batsmen/women still bat, the bowlers still bowl. Everything else is just window dressing.TheBigBean said:
Once I got over the garish presentation with numbers everywhere, I decided it is more accessible, so I don't think it does any harm.elbowloh said:
But could they have not just leverage T20 more? Always seems sold old when i've tried to get tickets close to the match. Did we need another format?TheBigBean said:
T20 was invented by country cricket/ECB in order to get people into the game. The Hundred was invented by the ECB in order to get people into the game. It amuses me how people criticise the Hundred despite it being created by largely the same people who created T20.surrey_commuter said:
The Hundred was invented as part of the power struggle between ECB and the rest of the world but India in particular. It would have been very easy to speed up T20.JimD666 said:
I wouldn't put all the blame on the ECB. We're about the only country left who cares about Test Cricket no matter who we play. The vast majority of the others really don't. One day and T20 have over taken Tests by a huge marginelbowloh said:So, 1st test of the England v India series.
England have another classic batting collapse.
No surprises when there's very little 4 day matches being played and England continue to never plan in warm-up games, but rather cram in T20s and 1 dayers.
There is such little support for test cricket from the ECB, when (in my mind at least) its the best form of the game.
We're picking players who have played zero red ball cricket this year for a start.
Lets be fair even T20 is now considered too slow! Hence the OneHundred
And it's looking even worse for England at the moment. Archer is out for the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his right arm.
I would agree with your other comments but do feel there is room to give India some credit for having a lot of very good players and enormous strength in depth.0 -
The biggest argument against the Hundred is that it deflects from the existing county set up, By creating teams out of thin air it alienates the fans of those teams. I personally also don't see the point when they could have just promoted The Blast. Having 4 formats is unsustainable.0
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Yep you are right, the ECB dominates T20TheBigBean said:
T20 was invented by country cricket/ECB in order to get people into the game. The Hundred was invented by the ECB in order to get people into the game. It amuses me how people criticise the Hundred despite it being created by largely the same people who created T20.surrey_commuter said:
The Hundred was invented as part of the power struggle between ECB and the rest of the world but India in particular. It would have been very easy to speed up T20.JimD666 said:
I wouldn't put all the blame on the ECB. We're about the only country left who cares about Test Cricket no matter who we play. The vast majority of the others really don't. One day and T20 have over taken Tests by a huge marginelbowloh said:So, 1st test of the England v India series.
England have another classic batting collapse.
No surprises when there's very little 4 day matches being played and England continue to never plan in warm-up games, but rather cram in T20s and 1 dayers.
There is such little support for test cricket from the ECB, when (in my mind at least) its the best form of the game.
We're picking players who have played zero red ball cricket this year for a start.
Lets be fair even T20 is now considered too slow! Hence the OneHundred
And it's looking even worse for England at the moment. Archer is out for the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his right arm.
I would agree with your other comments but do feel there is room to give India some credit for having a lot of very good players and enormous strength in depth.0 -
Tashman said:
The biggest argument against the Hundred is that it deflects from the existing county set up, By creating teams out of thin air it alienates the fans of those teams. I personally also don't see the point when they could have just promoted The Blast. Having 4 formats is unsustainable.
I don't think that's why people were against it. It's because we don't really need 4 formats and an extra format in already congested calendar means 4 day cricket has lost out and been moved all over the shop.TheBigBean said:
T20 was invented by country cricket/ECB in order to get people into the game. The Hundred was invented by the ECB in order to get people into the game. It amuses me how people criticise the Hundred despite it being created by largely the same people who created T20.surrey_commuter said:
The Hundred was invented as part of the power struggle between ECB and the rest of the world but India in particular. It would have been very easy to speed up T20.JimD666 said:
I wouldn't put all the blame on the ECB. We're about the only country left who cares about Test Cricket no matter who we play. The vast majority of the others really don't. One day and T20 have over taken Tests by a huge marginelbowloh said:So, 1st test of the England v India series.
England have another classic batting collapse.
No surprises when there's very little 4 day matches being played and England continue to never plan in warm-up games, but rather cram in T20s and 1 dayers.
There is such little support for test cricket from the ECB, when (in my mind at least) its the best form of the game.
We're picking players who have played zero red ball cricket this year for a start.
Lets be fair even T20 is now considered too slow! Hence the OneHundred
And it's looking even worse for England at the moment. Archer is out for the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his right arm.
I would agree with your other comments but do feel there is room to give India some credit for having a lot of very good players and enormous strength in depth.0 -
I don't particularly like this bit either. I would have liked to see it used instead of the T20 tournament.Tashman said:The biggest argument against the Hundred is that it deflects from the existing county set up, By creating teams out of thin air it alienates the fans of those teams.
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Nice to see Test cricket shooting itself in the foot again. Could of gone out earlier and had some play. Nope must start at 11. Off again 10 minutes later 0
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They were moving starts for a series earlier in the year weren't they? Why not this time?JimD666 said:Nice to see Test cricket shooting itself in the foot again. Could of gone out earlier and had some play. Nope must start at 11. Off again 10 minutes later
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No crowd earlier in the year, it is a lot slower to get the crowd in once play has started.elbowloh said:
They were moving starts for a series earlier in the year weren't they? Why not this time?JimD666 said:Nice to see Test cricket shooting itself in the foot again. Could of gone out earlier and had some play. Nope must start at 11. Off again 10 minutes later
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So England dismiss India for 278, a lead of 95.
Dropped 4 easi-ish catches on the way, should have been a lead of closer to 30 or 40 otherwise.
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BBC live text has it down as three dropped catches and 5 missed run outs. However you look at it that's poor.
Wish I had a bit more faith in our batting.0 -
There are 4 dropped catches in video clips on the BBC live textJimD666 said:BBC live text has it down as three dropped catches and 5 missed run outs. However you look at it that's poor.
Wish I had a bit more faith in our batting.0 -
Stick the cricket on. Lose two wickets. Go back to the Olympics while hoping for rain....0
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I think there should be a new format of cricket entirely. The "90" would fit in nicely between the 80 and the 100 and would bring in a new generation of 5 or 6 people who aren't interested in any of the other dozen or so formats of the game. They could also use another colour of ball to spice things up.
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Looking like Eng will be rescued by the weather.
How the hell did cricket ever originate in this country?!0 -
India will be breathing a huge sigh of relief, the game has been abandoned......0
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Presumably it did not originate t’up north so why do we insist on trying to play up thereJimD666 said:Looking like Eng will be rescued by the weather.
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Would we have got 5 days' play at The Oval? We certainly wouldn't have in Cardiff.surrey_commuter said:
Presumably it did not originate t’up north so why do we insist on trying to play up thereJimD666 said:Looking like Eng will be rescued by the weather.
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Cardiff counts as t’up northPross said:
Would we have got 5 days' play at The Oval? We certainly wouldn't have in Cardiff.surrey_commuter said:
Presumably it did not originate t’up north so why do we insist on trying to play up thereJimD666 said:Looking like Eng will be rescued by the weather.
How the hell did cricket ever originate in this country?!0 -
No.Pross said:
Would we have got 5 days' play at The Oval? We certainly wouldn't have in Cardiff.surrey_commuter said:
Presumably it did not originate t’up north so why do we insist on trying to play up thereJimD666 said:Looking like Eng will be rescued by the weather.
How the hell did cricket ever originate in this country?!
It's been pissing it down for most of yesterday and today.0 -
So does The Oval 😜surrey_commuter said:
Cardiff counts as t’up northPross said:
Would we have got 5 days' play at The Oval? We certainly wouldn't have in Cardiff.surrey_commuter said:
Presumably it did not originate t’up north so why do we insist on trying to play up thereJimD666 said:Looking like Eng will be rescued by the weather.
How the hell did cricket ever originate in this country?!0
