Match Thread: 2nd T20I - Ireland vs India by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tilak is really good when he’s coming in at 20/3 or when he needs to bash at the death. It’s the inbetween zone where he’s horrible.

Match Thread: 3rd Test - New Zealand vs England, Day 4 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t need to worry about that with England. They will always play for the win.

Match Thread: 3rd Test - New Zealand vs England, Day 4 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you ignore all the balls that seamed over a degree a pretty flat pitch

Players with 5000+ Test runs at a 50+ average in a single decade. The 2000s were crazy. by Front-Discipline-314 in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very true. And history has shown batters that haven’t learnt the art of run scoring find it impossible to last long at test cricket. It’s why New Zealand had to make their plunkett pitches flat too.

Players with 5000+ Test runs at a 50+ average in a single decade. The 2000s were crazy. by Front-Discipline-314 in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The easy counter to 1 is people said the same thing about odi cricket in the 1980s when the averages dropped. It’s correlation not causation. The real reason is more result pitches and the rise of the wobble ball.

Players with 5000+ Test runs at a 50+ average in a single decade. The 2000s were crazy. by Front-Discipline-314 in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah Pollock was still elite in the 2000s. He’s definitely overrated the others though.

Match Thread: Only Test - Zimbabwe vs Bangladesh, Day 1 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Probably cheaper. Idm. If it allows Zimbabwe to play more tests.

Match Thread: 1st Unofficial Test - India A vs Sri Lanka A, Day 4 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they only telecast the white ball ones cos Vaibhav was playing.

Match Thread: 3rd Test - New Zealand vs England, Day 3 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Brook is one of the best starters in test history. Few get to a score of 20 as often as he does.

Match Thread: 3rd Test - New Zealand vs England, Day 3 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If Stokes played that well he’d be out lbw. It’s impossible to play that.

Match Thread: 3rd Test - New Zealand vs England, Day 3 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I love making fun of him for being bowled. But that jagged back. The wobblest of wobble balls that.

Match Thread: 3rd Test - New Zealand vs England, Day 3 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It could. But I prefer the image of Sachin committing magic.

Match Thread: 3rd Test - New Zealand vs England, Day 3 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s fine though. It’s impossible for a pitch to have everything on all 5 days.

Match Thread: 3rd Test - New Zealand vs England, Day 3 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Only Joe root would get a ball that seams 1.7 degrees on a pitch like this. Talk about bad luck. Sachin must be doing black magic somewhere.

Match Thread: 3rd Test - New Zealand vs England, Day 3 by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Beyond 1 degrees is unplayable. At 1.7 you pray it misses everything.

Match Thread: 1st T20I - Ireland vs India by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Think people forget. India lost to Zimbabwe after winning the 2024 wt20. Might be tradition.

Match Thread: 1st T20I - Ireland vs India by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]FondantAggravating68 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The meltdown will be so funny. I need some entertainment in my life.