The Cricket Thread

Oh dear Stokesy!

 

Willey rather than Parkinson? Hmm

 

So, um, yeah...

 

This is hilarious bowling.

 

Willey won't be getting 10!

He might not even get his 5

 

I love Ben Stokes. But giving himself and Willey overs ahead of Parkinson was disastrous captaincy. Bad, bad, bad, bad.

Game of the 100 so far.

 

Boooooom

 

Well played Alex Hales, in retrospect.

Awful all round from Ben Stokes.

 

Huge credit for Hales in sticking in there. But I'm saying that Rashid's innings was more important. He was the only one who could play spin. Hales was something of a beneficiary of Stokes' dreadful captaincy and dropped catch (I think the latter was the only boundary which Hales scored vs spin).

The innings was on life support when Rashid came in. Superchargers had it won.

 

Yes, if Stokes holds that catch it’s game over, no question. Rashid Khan was the difference, which makes it even stranger that Parkinson didn’t bowl instead of Willey.

 

Alsop in for Scriven only change from Essex game. Only one change but significantly strengthens us.

 

Really nice opening partnership this between Prest and Alsop.

 

Considering his strike rate it does beg the question why Alsop was dropped from the T20 team.

 

Not the most glamourous 34 you'll ever see, but Prest did his job. We've got an excellent platform to build a big innings now.

 

As Brendy said, he loves the 50 over format. His game just suits it down to the ground.

 

Hants throwing this away atm.

 

Excellent partnership just at the right time, need to push it well over 300 now.

 

Great ton Nick...

 

Leaving Northeast out of the T20 team may just have been a masterstroke!

 

Gubbins has been bloody good so far for us.