paulscholes18
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Saw that was England’s 50th test duck this year .
They'd probably settle for Atherton at the minute.Need to convince cook to unretire
Ray Illingworth, English cricketing all rounder, captain, coach… dies on Christmas Day.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/52021920
Might be because Norcross and Ramprakash are commentating from London, sounds very TMS style as wellIs anyone else’s BT Sport feed got really weird sound? The crowd noise seems too loud and the commentators seem too quiet.
Only way I see that happening is someone coming in who cares about test cricket and willing to tell the ECB its not acceptableThis series is a total damp squib. England aren’t even able to push Australia at all, it’s just cruise control and very hard to see anything other than a whitewash for them.
I know white ball cricket is where the money is but I do hope the ECB decide to do something about investment in Test cricket after this.
Yeah and bonuses being linked to performance in Tests etc.Only way I see that happening is someone coming in who cares about test cricket and willing to tell the ECB its not acceptable
That's really sad.Need to convince cook to unretire
Time for bed mate.It's actually so bad I would sack the coach for a start.
And if they won't do that I would do something mad like promoting Woakes to open - how could he possibly do any worse than these?
He is bang on about the coachTime for bed mate.
I completely agreeTime for bed mate.
The england brain fart is contagious. It's like they just get bored and lash out with useless shots.Wow that's a poor shot Buttler.
Right before tea as well. Just idiotic.The england brain fart is contagious. It's like they just get bored and lash out with useless shots.
Yeah. Feels like this is going to be a turning-point.This series is a total damp squib. England aren’t even able to push Australia at all, it’s just cruise control and very hard to see anything other than a whitewash for them.
I know white ball cricket is where the money is but I do hope the ECB decide to do something about investment in Test cricket after this.
Don’t mind it being on there as don’t have Sky Sports.The best thing about all this is that BT Sport won't bid for the rights again.
Anyone with international experience would be a start.Yeah. Feels like this is going to be a turning-point.
We need to find a coach who specialises in red-ball and let Morgan run the white-ball side. Not sure who that coach is though!!
Doesn't really matter how much ECB as a whole is funded, the best players are playing less and less red ball cricket, because the financial incentive is to play (and therefore train for) white ball. How many red ball games have Woakes, Wood, Malan, Bairstow and Buttler played in the last couple years?Is the ‘less investment in red ball cricket’ thing actually true? Relative to past years, I would assume England red ball teams are competitively funded if you compare red ball to red ball.
i know white ball cricket has more money flowing in with some of the new tournaments, but the ‘red ball cricket under funded’ seems a bit of a misleading argument given how rich ECB are compared to teams around the world.
There has been a chronic under investment in the county game for a while now. No plan on how to get talented county players to process into test players. Not sure what the ECB’s financial position is but the money hasn’t been invested back in the county game.Is the ‘less investment in red ball cricket’ thing actually true? Relative to past years, I would assume England red ball teams are competitively funded if you compare red ball to red ball.
i know white ball cricket has more money flowing in with some of the new tournaments, but the ‘red ball cricket under funded’ seems a bit of a misleading argument given how rich ECB are compared to teams around the world.
Yeah, they're going to live to regret that...Very weird that Aussies dropped Jhye Richardson. Looked a lot better than Boland.