PaulC Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 There is an opening slot available although I can't ever remember Trott opening the innings for Warwickshire at any level apart from in one day cricket. I know Vaughan mentioned it but he also was very unkind before about Trott before so I don't take too much notice of what he says. Bad start for England, hopefully we'll improve as this series goes along and be ready for the world cup. Not bothered if we loose the series but if we get a tanking then our confidence won't be very good. On a pleasing note 4 wickets for Woakes. Regarding Bell, he's got to make a score in this series else Hales will get back in. That 187 was good but its not an international match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 (edited) AB de Villiers with the fastest ever ODI ton today! Got it in 31 balls! Wow! Surely the greatest ever ODI cricketer? Edited January 18, 2015 by dAVe80 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC_Hitz Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Massive hit. They know how to play ODI, do SA. Although like New Zealand( in Rugby) they choke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 Yep. 1999 always springs to mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted January 18, 2015 Share Posted January 18, 2015 AB is incredible. SA along with Aus are favourites for the World Cup surely?? With NZ and Sri Lanka as outsiders. Wonder how England will get on, expecting us to get thrashed in the tri-series with Aus and India and we have already lost the first game. Some bloke called Kevin, who is qualified to play for England is the top scorer in the Big Bash, wonder how good he might be for England? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponky Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Sine of those shots he was hitting over the leg side boundary from way outside off stump were just outrageous. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Sine of those shots he was hitting over the leg side boundary from way outside off stump were just outrageous. It was the drives, back over the bowlers head that got me. Exact middle of the bat every time. It was like he was teeing off in golf! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 Looks like we absolutely smashed India! Great set of bowling figures for Anderson and Finn, and Bell and Taylor saw us home with a couple of 50s each. Great to see. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted January 20, 2015 Moderator Share Posted January 20, 2015 That's very England, isn't it. be pants for ages, then when everyone's totally given up on them, suddenly annihilate (supposedly) better opposition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 That's very England, isn't it. be pants for ages, then when everyone's totally given up on them, suddenly annihilate (supposedly) better opposition. Don't worry, it won't last. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted January 20, 2015 Moderator Share Posted January 20, 2015 That's very England, isn't it. be pants for ages, then when everyone's totally given up on them, suddenly annihilate (supposedly) better opposition. Don't worry, it won't last. Indeed. Very England. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 AB de Villiers with the fastest ever ODI ton today! Got it in 31 balls! Wow! Surely the greatest ever ODI cricketer? Yes anyone who averages over 50 in test cricket and odi cricket deserves a lot of respect. Top player! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted January 20, 2015 Share Posted January 20, 2015 That's very England, isn't it. be pants for ages, then when everyone's totally given up on them, suddenly annihilate (supposedly) better opposition. I think England against India in Australia is different to elsewhere. I really do think we could be dark horses this time. The hard bouncier wickets of Australia favour our seamers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted January 21, 2015 Share Posted January 21, 2015 Just looking at the World Cup fixtures. Very bloated tournament, 16 teams and it lasts over 6 weeks! Each team gets a guaranteed 7 matches over a month, ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post snowychap Posted January 28, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted January 28, 2015 BC Lara c Valderrama b Teapot 48 and the great garden rulebooks In a rare moment of early morning clarity watching England take apart India in the recent Tri-Series ODI it suddenly struck home just how many rules and regulations are used to wrestle the format into the spectacle it is (or, at least, can be). The current ICC ODI match playing conditions, updated only last year, contain no fewer than 42 laws, each with a plethora of subsections. Then there’s the 10 appendices, detailing everything from “Zing wickets” to the camera layout for TV coverage (there’s also a couple of calculation sheets for determining the loss of overs during rain delays: A minus [C – (D + E)] divided by 4.2, for those who fancy a really fun afternoon).It’s an enduring feature of a game which at first glance seems pretty rigid but is actually versatile enough to allow matches that last five days and end in a draw and games that last 20 overs and end in landslide victories. And it sent me on a bit of a journey down memory lane. Rule tinkering is an aspect of the game that goes far beyond the professional ranks – the sport is not simply malleable enough to give the professionals three distinct formats in which to excel and entertain but also gives wiggle room for practitioners who find themselves in what might otherwise have been impossible areas for a quick game of cricket.Anyone who has ever turned their arm over with a shiny Granny Smith or battered an imaginary Curtly Ambrose bouncer into the stands with a baguette has found themselves in this position – a chance to play cricket, but with conditions that needed taming. It requires creativity. And when it works it can be a thing of beauty. Astonishingly (and rather pointlessly: I forget names of people I met yesterday but I retain this information) I can still remember the rules my younger brother and I had to abide by in the back garden more than 20 years ago.We were lucky enough to have, beyond the onions in the vegetable patch, a rectangle of lawn perhaps 15 yards long and maybe eight wide. Straight down the middle we paced out a track that could be relied upon for tennis-ball bounce (admittedly largely because we used a tennis ball) that necessitated a set of “stumps” that consisted of a four-foot tall piece of plywood leaned up against a dustbin. The only boundary was straight back past the bowler, though you had to be careful not to overcook it into the greenhouse at mid off.LBWs could only be given by the batsman (a slightly lop-sided rule looking back at it). Edges behind counted as long as they carried to the shed on the full. A flick into the hedge that ran along the leg side was out caught only if the ball stuck in the greenery. A stumpy old apple tree at short mid off with wild branches that whipped around at head height should have been a terrible hindrance, but instead became a source of tactical gamesmanship: a clever bunt past the trunk was the only opportunity for a batsman to run two, as the bowler would have to duck under the branches and then avoid the wasps before picking the ball up; hitting the trunk on the full, though, was out, caught. At some point, the branches meant the tree was dubbed Valderrama after the extravagantly-coiffed Carlos.But the Colombia midfielder was far from the only big name involved. As is the wont of teenage boys of a certain temperament, every innings was diligently recorded in an exercise book perched nearby. Teams tended to be seven a side, (three bowlers, a wicketkeeper and three batsmen), had to be named before the start of play, and could be cribbed from the cream of the world and county game.Selection was crucial. Left-handers in the order meant playing left-handed, which brought a disadvantage. The wicket of a particular favourite could be incredibly hard to claim (I still remember at least one double century scored by my brother when masquerading as Ajay Jadeja). And bowlers had to be deployed in the correct style. Andy Caddick would involve a pointy-elbowed approach; Darren Gough a ridiculously OTT leap into the crease; Allan Donald a run up that started by the house.Problems occurred whenever our dad could be persuaded to bend his back for a couple of overs. The problem for the batsman was two close catching fielders, Valderrama on the off side, a (usually) far less reliable human on the on. The problem on the scoreboards was that the new bowler would refuse to play the role of any cricketer since 1970, invariably nominating himself Fred Trueman or picking a random object from the kitchen. This led to several destructive spells against the cream of the world’s early 90s international middle orders for Fiery Fred and the occasional frustratingly random “BC Lara c Valderrama b Teapot 48” in the books.Yet it all worked. And wherever cricket is played rules can be wrangled into shapes that work. They won’t all be the same, and we might not necessarily agree with them all – I’ve never been entirely convinced by Ashdown Beach Cricket Law 23.7 which states that catches taken in the sea must be held above the water or else otherwise be considered dropped, while I’ve always seen the sense in the old childhood rule that while playing in a wide open space batsmen can only run a maximum of six no matter how far they cart the underarm bowling of someone’s toddling sibling.But generally they work. Even in ODIs. If you have a garden, schoolyard, street or park rule of which you’re particularly fond then do share them below the line on the blog or send them to john.ashdown@theguardian.com and we’ll see if we can’t put together some sort of compendium for next week. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Our backyard was a fast bowler's paradise, complete with a manhole cover on a length for variable bounce (sometimes straight over the fence) and caused many a bruised finger. Whiskey the rabbit in her hutch was at silly point, probably against RSPCA rules but she never seemed to mind that much. Those were the days. I think my highest score was 80 odd which as I'm 5 years younger than my next brother, isn't too shabby. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 AB de Villiers with the fastest ever ODI ton today! Got it in 31 balls! Wow! Surely the greatest ever ODI cricketer? Glchrist by a mile, when DeVilliers does it in high pressure World Cup games then he might be the best. He hasnt been in top 5 run scorers or played big game innings in any of the 2 World Cps he has played Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Hmm, I like Gilchrist. He'd be my number one pick for a WK/batman in any form of the game, but AB still shades it for me, in ODIs. I take on board what you say about Gilchrist's World Cup record, and again if I was picking a World Cup XI, he'd be a shoe in. As we're talking about someone at the pique of their career, and someone who has retired, I guess we may well be able to judge better, when de Villiers is done in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 Hmm, I like Gilchrist. He'd be my number one pick for a WK/batman in any form of the game, but AB still shades it for me, in ODIs. I take on board what you say about Gilchrist's World Cup record, and again if I was picking a World Cup XI, he'd be a shoe in. As we're talking about someone at the pique of their career, and someone who has retired, I guess we may well be able to judge better, when de Villiers is done in the game. Gilchrist was an amazing batsman and an incredible WK to boot. No-one comes close to him in my opinion. Quick question for all of you cricket fans in here, what got you into cricket? For me it was the 05 Ashes, KP and Freddie smashing the Aussies out of the park, the incredible win at Edgbaston, the nervy draw at Old Trafford, just about scraping home at Trent Bridge and then KP smashing the Aussies to all parts at the Oval when it looked as though Australia were going to turn it around. I mean both of my Grandad's and my dad are big cricket fans so I would have been introduced to it eventually by one of them but they didn't have to. Both my Mum and Step Dad both dislike sport but even they watched most of that series and really enjoyed it. I'm asking because I read an article the other day and it talked about a lack of a national interest in the English cricket team and it was right. How are England going to capture the country's imagination when they are so god damn awful and boring? I think it's sad for the English game will never see sights like this again- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) Quick question for all of you cricket fans in here, what got you into cricket? Loved it from the moment I began playing it as a youngster (I guess I was about 7*). * That's an edit and not a not out. Edited January 29, 2015 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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