Off Topic Sport Other than Football - formerly the Ashes Thread

Some items that weigh about 66ilbs.

A chest of drawers
A Labrador
A central heating radiator
An Electric Scooter
A folding pool table.
A lawnmower
Football goal posts
A reclining leather armchair

Impressive.

 

Former Aussie opener Michael “Slatts” Slater has been charged with 19 domestic violence related offences and remanded into custody in Queensland. He reportedly collapsed in the dock on being refused bail.

 

Meanwhile Harry Brook is named as one of Wisden’s Five Cricketers of the Year

 

Or as a rough estimate 1 Bryan Gil (dry)

 

RR needed 99 off 42 balls with 6 wickets down.
Step forward Jos Buttler

 

This was on at primetime in Japan on a Monday, so lots of people will have missed it.
Fight starts at about 12.30 in that video.

 

Jimmy Anderson is to retire after the First Test v Windies in July.
That’s a shame because I think there was a few more miles left in the tank, even at 41, turning 42 in July.
What a legend.
700 wickets for a pace bowler is unlikely to ever be bettered; players in the modern era are unlikely to play that many Tests - and even if Test cricket was the priority again and they played every available game, they won’t have that longevity. Doing what he goes at 40+, at the level he does it at, is unheard of.
He’s gone from an erratic bowler capable of brilliance and dross in equal measure to the greatest ever English type bowler with incredible control of the ball, unplayable in conditions favourable to him.
God knows how England will cope without him (and Broad).

 

Well said

Although I don't think his 'erratic' phase lasted too long. But how his body has held up, let alone his commitment, for 20 years of test cricket at the highest level is extraordinary.

A delight to watch and as you rightly say, difficult if not impossible to replace.

 

His record is all the more remarkable for having Broad at the other end. The wickets were shared between them. Sometimes he created the pressure which enabled Broad to have those spells where he took 5 or more wickets. Had England been even more reliant on him, he might have taken more wickets! I’ve always felt Broad benefited more from that partnership.

 

Brilliant from Adil Rashid - bowling and catching

 

USA beat Pakistan in the Super Over.
Great match.

 

Afghanistan beat New Zealand (thrash) and Bangladesh beat Sri Lanka. Canada win. Times are a changing.

 

Nice to see the lesser teams looking competitive and winning games on merit.
I think the rain saved England the other night. Need to beat the Aussies tonight.
It’s already looking tough for some of the bigger teams, especially Pakistan.

 

Australia 65-0 after 4.2 overs
After the first over by Moeen Ali only went for 3.
England struggling.

 

Well, if the first 4 overs is anything to go by, they will be booking their return tickets very soon...

 

Fighting back.
9-2 off the last 1.4 overs.
Need Rashid on form tonight

 

England outplayed

 

Scotland have just made it very hard for England to qualify.
It’s one thing Scotland doing better at a football tournament, it’s quite another at cricket!

 

Depends if Australia thrash them by more than they did England

 

And if England thrash Oman and Namibia.
But advantage Scotland at present