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General Category => Sports, Hobbies & Interests => Topic started by: Hope on October 16, 2015, 01:49:54 PM

Title: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: Hope on October 16, 2015, 01:49:54 PM: Apparently, Alastair Cook has batted longer than the combined total match time of England at the rugby and football world cups!
Title: Re: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: Alien on October 16, 2015, 05:54:01 PM: Quote from: Hope on October 16, 2015, 01:49:54 PM
Apparently, Alastair Cook has batted longer than the combined total match time of England at the rugby and football world cups!
:)
Title: Re: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: ProfessorDavey on October 16, 2015, 07:25:20 PM: Quote from: Hope on October 16, 2015, 01:49:54 PM
Apparently, Alastair Cook has batted longer than the combined total match time of England at the rugby and football world cups!
Same applies to Wales.
Title: Re: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: wigginhall on October 17, 2015, 11:33:59 AM: Cook batted so long, that I've trimmed my beard twice since he started.
Title: Re: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: JP on October 17, 2015, 07:27:33 PM: Radio 4 first day of the test, the reporter said he counted 59 spectators?

Why is it being played in Abu Dhabi?
Title: Re: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: jeremyp on October 17, 2015, 07:28:14 PM: Quote from: JP on October 17, 2015, 07:27:33 PM
Radio 4 first day of the test, the reporter said he counted 59 spectators?

Why is it being played in Abu Dhabi?
Because Pakistan is considered to be too dangerous.
Title: Re: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: JP on October 17, 2015, 07:47:05 PM: Ahhh right. I remember now, was there some shots fired at the team bus a few years back?

Perhaps they could have played in a country where people might have actually gone to watch it.
Title: Re: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: Rhiannon on October 17, 2015, 10:14:09 PM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_attack_on_the_Sri_Lanka_national_cricket_team
Title: Re: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: ProfessorDavey on January 03, 2016, 11:05:06 AM: Just been listening to the morning session of the England/South Africa game.

Just awesome batting from Stokes. Have we finally found our new Ian Botham?
Title: Re: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: Hope on January 03, 2016, 07:15:50 PM: Quote from: ProfessorDavey on January 03, 2016, 11:05:06 AM
Just been listening to the morning session of the England/South Africa game.

Just awesome batting from Stokes. Have we finally found our new Ian Botham?
It was truly awesome.
Title: Re: South Africa v England Tests
Post by: jeremyp on January 03, 2016, 07:26:05 PM: Quote from: ProfessorDavey on January 03, 2016, 11:05:06 AM
Just been listening to the morning session of the England/South Africa game.

Just awesome batting from Stokes. Have we finally found our new Ian Botham?
He needs to do it a few more times, well, not exactly that but certainly play a few more crucial and spectacular innings. Plus he needs to take crucial wickets.
Title: Re: South Africa v England Tests
Post by: Hope on January 03, 2016, 07:28:41 PM: Quote from: jeremyp on January 03, 2016, 07:26:05 PM
He needs to do it a few more times, well, not exactly that but certainly play a few more crucial and spectacular innings. Plus he needs to take crucial wickets.
He's done the latter several times - as well as making some stunning catches.
Title: Re: South Africa v England Tests
Post by: ProfessorDavey on January 04, 2016, 10:33:08 AM: Quote from: jeremyp on January 03, 2016, 07:26:05 PM
He needs to do it a few more times, well, not exactly that but certainly play a few more crucial and spectacular innings. Plus he needs to take crucial wickets.
Yes I think that's right. He certainly has the talent with both bat and ball - he needs to deliver regularly with both.

The first thing being to get his bowling average to be lower than his batting average, which is the hall-mark of a good all rounder. Currently it isn't.
Title: Re: South Africa v England Tests
Post by: Hope on January 04, 2016, 11:20:31 AM: Quote from: ProfessorDavey on January 04, 2016, 10:33:08 AM
Yes I think that's right. He certainly has the talent with both bat and ball - he needs to deliver regularly with both.
He also needs to keep out of health-related problems!!
Title: Re: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: Hope on January 05, 2016, 03:08:52 PM: He also needs to learn from this guy!! ;)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-35230388
Title: Re: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: Hope on January 05, 2016, 04:01:32 PM: We often get more than one single hundred in a Test match. I wonder when the last time we had 2 double hundreds scored in the same match?
Title: Re: Pakistan v England Tests
Post by: Hope on January 16, 2016, 03:19:39 PM: With the growing number of tidy English swing bowlers, could we be seeing the end of Jimmy Anderson's international career?