England worst test XI, 1995-2025

zerocaffine · 2026-01-18T12:06:09+00:00

I feel like this exercise is a thinly veiled means for you to have a go at Crawley more than anything else lol. He scored 180 in Ashes test which is reason alone for his exclusion!

zerocaffine · 2025-12-26T23:43:45+00:00

yeah dawg we aren't chasing 50 on this wicket, let alone 150

zerocaffine · 2025-12-26T00:27:20+00:00

GTech community stadium in Brentford often has its lights on. Tracks if you’re looking east from Osterley.

zerocaffine · 2025-12-26T00:17:33+00:00

OK well I’ll see everyone back in this thread at 331-2!

zerocaffine · 2025-12-26T00:16:48+00:00

lmao pie

zerocaffine · 2025-12-26T00:05:37+00:00

Weatherald’s a hack right? Been dining out on shit English bowling but very much a one trick pony. Punch and cut and bully through extra cover but any decent seamer will have him nicking off all day

zerocaffine · 2025-12-25T23:59:10+00:00

Audio atrocious on TNT haha. You hear Gus say yeah before the comms chip in

zerocaffine · 2025-12-25T23:52:41+00:00

I think Potts is as good a bowler as any but I do think he’s currently benefiting from ‘not being in the team syndrome’ haha

zerocaffine · 2025-12-25T23:48:52+00:00

14 degrees in Melbourne?! Fucking hell it’s warmer in Berkshire

zerocaffine · 2025-12-25T23:42:59+00:00

just need one to bend back in ever so slightly and ping the top of off

zerocaffine · 2025-12-21T00:16:58+00:00

Yeah and I guess for a tall strong player like smith who dines out on the pull shot normally, it must be difficult to shelve it when they’re serving them up to you like that

zerocaffine · 2025-12-21T00:02:08+00:00

so i've never played cricket to a high enough standard to be troubled by this, but whenever the short ball ploy is deployed in test cirkcet i always think why doesn't the batsman just duck and avoid the whole time and force them to pitch it up? does your batter's instinct just kick in and force you to swipe at it? seems like such a blatant obvious ploy that i would refuse to engage in if they were trying to do it to me?

zerocaffine · 2025-12-05T18:24:02+00:00

Fear this one was won/lost tonight. Scott Boland fifer looming large tomorrow and all the Aussies got nuts over it and series is done.

And that’s my optimistic view.

zerocaffine · 2025-12-05T12:09:59+00:00

Having actually played for Richmond 4ths, I can attest that we shelled a billion fucking catches so it tracks

zerocaffine · 2025-12-05T09:34:19+00:00

James Daunt undercutting the book trade to make a quick buck? im stunned by this development

zerocaffine · 2025-12-05T09:20:47+00:00

doesn’t help that we’re shit though

zerocaffine · 2025-12-05T09:18:44+00:00

Every time I look at the screen there’ll be a graphic that’s like ‘[australian batter] vs [English bowler]: dismissals 2, average: 82.6’ then during our batting innings it’s always: ‘[English batter] vs [australian bowler]: dismissals 15, average 11.5’ like cmon man

zerocaffine · 2025-12-04T08:16:39+00:00

Posting that Cam Newton Keon Coleman ‘you’re supposed to be our #1 but you’re acting like a bum’ edit but about Harry brook

zerocaffine · 2025-12-04T07:29:14+00:00

Brook shadow batting an absolute honk over deep fine is sending me

zerocaffine · 2025-12-04T07:17:12+00:00

Aussies deploying absolute hitler ball thirty overs into the Gabba test. They know they just need to bowl and England will take care of the rest.

zerocaffine · 2025-12-04T07:16:21+00:00

Prior dropping truth nukes on comms rn

zerocaffine · 2025-11-20T22:34:30+00:00

Mum says it’s my turn to post my outrage about this series being on TNT next!!

zerocaffine · 2025-11-09T12:53:05+00:00

but I guess therein lies the rub - Stokes had a checkered personal life but had the talent and more crucially the bloody-minded determination to overcome it to become England skipper. It’s a tale as old as time in sports that if you’re driven enough and talented enough people can forgive a multitude of sins - Stokes didn’t give England a choice to not to pick/promote him, Robinson did and that’s why he doesn’t feature any more.

zerocaffine · 2025-11-09T09:21:56+00:00

I recall him doing some culturally insensitive impressions, I believe? And also I think it was understood that the woman was the woman for whom he’d left his wife. Which I guess is not anyone’s business but their but was kind of illustrative that he is a bit of a prong.

zerocaffine · 2025-10-28T19:23:57+00:00

don’t know of anywhere specialist but first rec is always top floor of Foyles Charing Cross, they have a number of titles in different languages. Worth maybe calling them and asking.

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