The Cricket Thread

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It's been said for a long while now that Snicko isn't as good as Ultra Edge. But for some reason it's Snicko which is chosen in Australia.

It also doesn't help that Hot Spot isn't a feature any more. I appreciate that Hot Spot had faults of it's own, but used in conjunction with Ultra Edge (or Snicko) it still has its place.
 
st_brendy said:
It's been said for a long while now that Snicko isn't as good as Ultra Edge. But for some reason it's Snicko which is chosen in Australia.

It also doesn't help that Hot Spot isn't a feature any more. I appreciate that Hot Spot had faults of it's own, but used in conjunction with Ultra Edge (or Snicko) it still has its place.
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In high integrity safety systems a 2 out of 3 voting system is used whereby 2 out of 3 devices measuring the same variable would have to be in a high, high alarm state before a shutdown was initiated. So 2oo3 of Ultra Edge, Snicko and the umpire's finger.
 
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Pope cannot continue at 3 at the very least. And I don't think bringing Bethell in is the answer either. Go Root at 3 and Stokes at 4.
 
This team will go down as one of the worst, gutless England teams to tour Australia. Another Test where they are going to be pummelled by at least 200+ runs.
They have been totally outplayed in every aspect of the game.
 
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SteveO 74 said:
This team will go down as one of the worst, gutless England teams to tour Australia. Another Test where they are going to be pummelled by at least 200+ runs.
They have been totally outplayed in every aspect of the game.
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I actually think they've at least shown some fight in this test but it's too late. I think Pope's test career is in tatters unless he produces something special in his second innings. He's not new to the test scene and he's getting out so cheaply. Crawley's place is also under threat - he's running out of chances. And what was the point in taking Bashir?
 
I don't understand the lack of preparation for this. Maybe I'm being a bit naive and they did all they could do to be ready but surely some lower hemisphere tests in the last year with the same sort of lighting / weather / pitch / ball as they'd face in the ashes would have been better prep than wedging a farcical experiment into the county game?

Our batting has been woeful overall and surely a couple of the players time in the team is up?
 
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I actually think they've at least shown some fight in this test but it's too late. I think Pope's test career is in tatters unless he produces something special in his second innings. He's not new to the test scene and he's getting out so cheaply. Crawley's place is also under threat - he's running out of chances. And what was the point in taking Bashir?
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I think Stokes has shown the true determination, and Archer to a degree, but out of the 68 overs faced, Stokes has faced just over 25 of those himself and Archer around 8 overs, that leaves the remaining players facing up to only 35 overs on a pretty docile pitch. Also we have had genuine edge dismissals for 5 of our 8 wickets, whilst Australia has zero.
We have lost all 3 test matches by the end of the second day.
 
It's hardly unique that we're getting thrashed in Oz.

2010-11 was an anomaly. A brilliant, memorable, anomaly.

Their bowlers are far superior to ours - as is so often the case - and it's bowlers who win you tournament's and series'.
 
The Ashes to the cricket team is as the World Cup is to football. After each failure there is talk of root and branch change but nothing changes.

The simple fact is that England’s cricketers don’t play enough of the right kind of cricket. We have shoe-horned nonsense formats into the calendar. Like football the drive to make money preoccupies the controlling bodies.

If Test cricket doesn’t matter then fine. Let the stars not demean themselves with County red ball cricket. But be aware of what you’re doing. County players are pitting themselves against players of the same standard when the four day game is allowed to interrupt the bash ball stuff. Bowlers learn to contain decent enough players but would go all over the park if the top players were present. Batters fill their boots against modest bowling attacks. Stepping up to bowl to players like Head or as a batter to face Stark is a huge step.

In 1973 the FA sacked the only England manager to win the World Cup after failing to qualify for the tournament in 1974. No doubt there will be a scapegoat for this Ashes debacle but if things don’t change fundamentally it’ll be for no gain.
 
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One of yer Norvern Saints said:
The Ashes to the cricket team is as the World Cup is to football. After each failure there is talk of root and branch change but nothing changes.

The simple fact is that England’s cricketers don’t play enough of the right kind of cricket. We have shoe-horned nonsense formats into the calendar. Like football the drive to make money preoccupies the controlling bodies.

If Test cricket doesn’t matter then fine. Let the stars not demean themselves with County red ball cricket. But be aware of what you’re doing. County players are pitting themselves against players of the same standard when the four day game is allowed to interrupt the bash ball stuff. Bowlers learn to contain decent enough players but would go all over the park if the top players were present. Batters fill their boots against modest bowling attacks. Stepping up to bowl to players like Head or as a batter to face Stark is a huge step.

In 1973 the FA sacked the only England manager to win the World Cup after failing to qualify for the tournament in 1974. No doubt there will be a scapegoat for this Ashes debacle but if things don’t change fundamentally it’ll be for no gain.
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There's to much cricket in too many formats. I've little or no interest in most of the bash ball games.
 
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That's a heck of a run chase by Brisbane. Even more impressive to do after losing Munro first ball and McSweeney to injury.

(Both teams scored more than we managed in our second innings there in the second test.)
 
Neal has signed a 2 year contract with Hants. Chuffed for him - deserves this after an excellent One Day cup. This is one of the big advantages of the Hundred being played at the same time - with a lot of players playing in that, counties are more likely to find players like Neal who have played Minor Counties cricket but counties didn't have the space in their squads. Could be an important player given Dawson could be away a fair bit more next season.
 
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