Have England won every toss?
English & Irish Cricket Summer 2018
- Thread starter ArmchairCritic
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We lose another toss. Think we may have seen some slightly different games had we won at least one or two tosses.
Yeah. I'm glad they're thinking of removing the procedure.
Can we fecking win a toss?
That Kohli is a useless tosser.
Eh? Eh?
Eh? Eh?
I think we are using a loaded coin.
But would it just be better to just alternate in a 5 day series? So the home team “wins” the toss on the 1-3-5 tests and away on the 2-4. Keeps a bit of home advantage. Or just alternate than flip a coin for the 5th test or something.
But would it just be better to just alternate in a 5 day series? So the home team “wins” the toss on the 1-3-5 tests and away on the 2-4. Keeps a bit of home advantage. Or just alternate than flip a coin for the 5th test or something.
Indian team management is fecking awful.
Good chance there will be too much home advantage, like preparing the pitch to suit batting first for 1,3,5 and pitch that suits bowling first in tests 2 and 4.
The fact that England have won all five tosses is a bit of a joke. Feels like we've had a double advantage, given we've also got home conditions.
They should scrap the toss and give away sides the choice of batting or bowling. With so few sides winning away these days, it would be a good way to even up the score.
They should scrap the toss and give away sides the choice of batting or bowling. With so few sides winning away these days, it would be a good way to even up the score.
Nice idea but would be even worse than what we had now really Groundsmen would know exactly what the home side was doing in each game.
In county cricket they give away sides the option of bowling first, but I'd go further and give them the complete choice. It'd make it a much more even contest than the one we've got at the moment - home team controls the conditions, away team controls the order they're used in.
Yes you’re both of course right, totally forgot about the preparation issue. Back to the drawing board.
It should be difficult to win away, very difficult.
The problem is it's now looking almost impossible to win away, I agree something needs to be done to give the away side a little more.
The problem is it's now looking almost impossible to win away, I agree something needs to be done to give the away side a little more.
In the 90s they went through a period of tossing for the choice of ball. Perhaps they could give the away side the choice in future?
So if England went to Australia, they could at least choose to use the English ball and have some foothold that way.
This is going to a long and boring test match.
Just give them the choice of batting or bowling first.
Surely after what happened to Phil Hughes, any bang on the helmet should warrant a mandatory medical check?
Hope it gets over in 3 days
The openers seem to have settled down. A good score likely is on the cards here.
The English openers look very comfortable, considering that was the weaklink. This doesn't bode well for us.
Bit of turn. Might not be that long.
On a side note, Olly Stone's just taken another 7 wickets for Warwickshire. Surely worth taking him on tour to Sri Lanka? The wickets will be flat and we'll need a bit of gas.
Oh dear Jennings.
Poor shot
Poor shot
Going to keep him though aren't they? They've already got to fill one slot and there's no-one else.
Although he's not exactly been convincing this series.
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Cook retiring has definitely saved him yeah.
You'd think he'd fare better on the slower spin friendly pitches in Sri Lanka, but if he's going to play shots like that round the corner straight to the fielder he's going to carry on failing.
When does play resume after lunch?
In four minutes time.
Cheers and yay! i work about 15 minutes walk from the Oval and my local is fecking rammed and I want to have lunch. Need them all to feck off back to the cricket.
Ffs I thought you were interested in cricket or something.
No I want fish and chips and a glass of chablis. I can take it or leave it tbh. With the right people and good weather it can be a nice day out of the office -get invites through work sometimes, so been to an Ashes match and various tests and 20/20 matches at both the Oval and Lords. The cricket more tends to be in the background though while we just get pissed.
Massive lettoff for Cook there. Hopefully it will be like his debut and he'll get the century.
We're bowling really well. Poor fielding from Jinx.
Very nice gesture by us right now.
And another drop.
Been impressed with the Indian bowling all series.
The fast bowling especially.
The fast bowling especially.
Ishant has improved tremendously since the last time he was here. The control hes displaying is quite rare and great to see.
The cnuts are still in the pub. It's like that Club Wembley problem, where they all stay at the bar for ages after half time finishes.
So happy for Cook.
Cook and Ali going to edge one of these?
How the feck is Ali still batting?