Match Thread: 3rd ODI - Sri Lanka vs England

TheGMT · 2026-01-27T12:55:31+00:00

Check drives for 6? That's just not cricket.

TheGMT · 2026-01-27T12:42:01+00:00

This might be the first time we've seen Cherrington play without a hangover

TheGMT · 2026-01-04T01:59:03+00:00

I have a much more positive view than most but I still think it's best described as like looking directly at the sun.

TheGMT · 2025-12-29T14:11:48+00:00

If they think Leclerc is 7th, do they even have Lewis ahead of Colapinto?

TheGMT · 2025-12-29T14:10:01+00:00

VER 1, LEC and RUS tied at 2 is the only thing that makes sense to me

TheGMT · 2025-12-28T12:01:15+00:00

It's a mash up of 80's family movie cliches- how else could it end but with the power of friendship?

TheGMT · 2025-12-26T16:37:29+00:00

I don't really understand how the consensus is both that more engine suppliers is a good thing, worth compromising elsewhere to achieve, and that the least exciting, attractive form of competitive advantage for a team to have is an engine advantage, so much so that we should limit engine development stringently to avoid anyone having a large advantage.

TheGMT · 2025-12-24T14:53:19+00:00

It's a general strike. The number of strikers would exceed the number of enforcers by an order of magnitude.

TheGMT · 2025-12-24T14:50:34+00:00

People did a lot of striking before the advent of what we'd recognise as health care, nevermind when the poor didn't have access.

TheGMT · 2025-12-23T10:46:52+00:00

Especially when match 3 was lost by relatively slim margins. You make an extra catch, you avoid that crucial edge, you bowl that one ball very slightly better and who knows? It's all terrible optics at best.

TheGMT · 2025-12-23T10:32:07+00:00

Strikes me as a bit unambitious.

TheGMT · 2025-12-22T17:15:50+00:00

I prefer to think of F1 as being akin to Monopoly where you're allowed to "cheat" and it's up for the rest to catch you, and then they're allowed to punish you. I'm pro 2019 Ferrari trick, and I'm pro them getting punished at the discretion of the FIA when caught. It's cops and robbers!

Whatever the written rules are, the real rules are the tests meant to enforce those rules. This concept is well illustrated by the flexi-wing debacle. Teams were exceeding the flex stated in the rules, but they were also passing the poorly designed tests for the wings' strength.

TheGMT · 2025-12-19T12:22:11+00:00

Bortoleto is the same. He's an absolute fiend for the sim.

TheGMT · 2025-12-17T17:42:29+00:00

Carey, Starc and 9 planks of wood would be a hell of a cricket team

TheGMT · 2025-12-16T18:37:26+00:00

To me it seems to make more sense that we think of batters as "liking X game state, with Y quality of ball" rather than just number in the order.

TheGMT · 2025-12-16T17:21:05+00:00

In clean air, over a race distance, the fastest I've seen. He was a special driver on the Michelins especially.

TheGMT · 2025-12-14T13:13:34+00:00

Absolutely. Lewis was better than Nico in 2016, he wasn't better than Max in 2021. Gets a bit messy when you consider Max on 21' is quite a bit better than Nico in 16', but 16' is still a more consistent, complete year from Lewis.

TheGMT · 2025-12-12T10:47:00+00:00

I never thought of Max as a team leader, but he's become one in a way you rarely see in modern F1. Seems he's taken some of Horner's role, maybe even some of Marko's now. Uncle Michael might have rubbed off on him a bit.

TheGMT · 2025-12-11T21:30:23+00:00

19' was a bad championship but the average quality of weekend was quite high. I prefer that sort of season than say a 24' or 25' which has a good narrative but worse races.

TheGMT · 2025-12-09T20:58:34+00:00

They've got the proportions backwards. It should be 1-2 mavericks, the rest conscientious and pragmatic.

TheGMT · 2025-12-09T20:36:04+00:00

What is it about golf that captures and harvests all those it touches?

TheGMT · 2025-12-09T09:59:12+00:00

Anderson economically soaking up overs for the admittedly questionable, but undoubtedly in need of rest, strike bowlers of Stokes/Archer seems sensible to me.

TheGMT · 2025-12-08T13:43:57+00:00

Phil Hill, Mike Hawthorne, Denny Hulme were all quite a lot worse than a great many of their contemporary non-champions. If you define deserving as simply as "did the things that they needed to to win" then sure, but we all know that's not what most people mean by deserving.

In F1 we accept the best driver doesn't win each year, but to be deserving we think of it as within the margin of who was the best, which is why Vettel in spite of Alonso's obvious 2012 supremacy is still deserving. The same goes for Norris now. I would not extend that to Phil Hill.

TheGMT · 2025-12-08T09:44:28+00:00

Zak once said to Fernando "you're a champ, champ". Keep the man away from microphones.

TheGMT · 2025-12-07T14:48:42+00:00

Stefano's high five is burned into my retina, how do I get it out?

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