Off Topic Cricket Thread

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Poor dismissal from Crawley. If you're going to charge down the wicket with wicket keeper standing at the stumps you better make sure you hit it!
 
We lost about 4 batsmen in the first test dancing down the wicket to Lyon.

Anyway, good start. Need Duckett to kick on and get a big score now.
 
Umpires would only change it if it was genuinely out of shape though.
The Duke ball had a bit of bad press recently and I read somewhere they were trialing the kookaburra in county cricket...hope I read it wrong!
This and the next 2 rounds are using kooks balls.

the umpires have a metal ring and of the ball won’t go through it gets changed. This years batch are much better than last years where some balls were being changed after 6 overs.

the dukes are hand made and from memory the stitching wasn’t tight enough so the balls went out of shape too quickly.
 
This and the next 2 rounds are using kooks balls.

the umpires have a metal ring and of the ball won’t go through it gets changed. This years batch are much better than last years where some balls were being changed after 6 overs.

the dukes are hand made and from memory the stitching wasn’t tight enough so the balls went out of shape too quickly.
I just don’t get why changing an out of shape ball benefits anyone but the bowling side though!!
 
I just don’t get why changing an out of shape ball benefits anyone but the bowling side though!!
Probably an attempt to make it fair for both sides I suppose.

Hope Lyon is ****ed for rest of the series!

also just been watching the work of the Ruth Strauss foundation. Broke my ****ing heart that did but what an important charity.
 
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Lyon could be out of the test if not the series there. If the calf is torn he won’t play. Good for us. Not for them or him obviously