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Donny
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7/182. Root (36) bowled by the first ball from Thakur. _________________ Donny.
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Donny
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Bumrah back on.
7/191. Woakes 18*, Overton 3*. _________________ Donny.
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Donny
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8/198. Wicket for Yadav. _________________ Donny.
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Donny
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Another for Yadav.
9/202. _________________ Donny.
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Donny
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Capitulation from England.
From 0/100 and a possibility of even winning, they were all out for 210. The Indian bowlers were spot on, esp. Bumrah.
Rohit Sharma was Player of the Match. _________________ Donny.
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Donny
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5th Test. Old Trafford.
Starts tonight. 8 pm AEST. _________________ Donny.
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Donny
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Captain Joe Root confirmed Jos Buttler would make an immediate return to the side, meaning one of Jonny Bairstow or Ollie Pope will have to drop out. _________________ Donny.
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Donny
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The fifth Test between England and India will go ahead as scheduled after the England and Wales Cricket Board announced there have been no further positive COVID-19 tests in the visitors' camp.
India head coach Ravi Shastri tested positive during the previous Test at The Oval, alongside bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar, with all three remaining in isolation while the squad moved on to Old Trafford.
CA. _________________ Donny.
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Donny
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Damn !! The Test has been called off.
Details to follow. _________________ Donny.
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Donny
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The fifth Test between England and India has been cancelled after concerns over COVID-19 left the tourists unable to field a team at Old Trafford.
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The BCCI says that the two boards will look to reschedule the Test.
Cricinfo. _________________ Donny.
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Lazza
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Rumours abound that Indian players were very keen to return to India before the IPL starts in just 10 days time. Simply more money to be earned. Cynical I know. _________________ Don't confuse your current path with your final destination. Just because it's dark and stormy now doesn't meant that you aren't headed for glorious sunshine! |
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Lazza, Michael Holding said maybe a decade ago that T20 would destroy Test cricket within two decades. Maybe Holding was right. |
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Donny
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Dead wrong. Recent Tests have been excellent.
Holding. Just the thoughts of a traditionalist. _________________ Donny.
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Well, there are at least two issues with slogathons.
The context here (following Lazza's post) is that players choose money over Test cricket. The relevant fact here is their jumping out of a Test series before it ends. We'll have to wait and see what the ICC rules. The ECB want it declared a forfeited Test. That'd leave it a drawn series. (And look at all the Oz players who played IPL but could not bother playing for Oz recently.)
As for the cricket... It's been "excellent" in the sense of being exciting, unpredictable, etc. But much of the closeness, unpredictability, etc. has been due to the incompetence of the players. And the other factor we should thank for the excitement is the weather. If it'd been a beautiful sunny summer, there would have been four boring draws, no matter how incompetent the batsmen. The pitches were very flat. The cricinfo commentators emphasised that over and over again.
Just one example on slogathons and batting technique: Ponting cannot be accused of being a "traditionalist". He's coached slogathon teams! He noted that slogathon cricket had stuffed up Agarwal's Test technique. Agarwal had an excellent IPL and lost any batting technique he had. |
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Donny wrote: | ...
Holding. Just the thoughts of a traditionalist. |
Sadly, Holding is retiring from commentary. (Sad, but not a surprise. He's not so young.)
We need more commentators who will speak their mind. And more former-bowler commentators.
Not more yes men. And not more former-batsman commentators. (e.g. in the first half of the last ODI WC, when teams could not defend totals of 400, one former-batsman commentator claimed it'd been a bowlers' tournament so far. ) |
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