The Cricket Thread

[Gazza Dazzla]

Great series win that.

Foakes is fantastic, he really should have been in the team sooner but you have the “Bairstow factor” that complicates things. For me JB has to play his way back in to this team as a batsman, there’s clearly a no. 3 role going begging if he wants to apply himself to a sensible batting role.

 

[Grays_1890]

Yeh looks a balanced side now, lots of good talent in there and the pressure seems lifted with Cook retiring....

 

[markysimmo]

Too fudging right as well !!

Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft will not have bans reduced following their part in a ball-tampering scandal, Cricket Australia (CA) has said.

The trio were all sanctioned after Bancroft attempted to alter the condition of the ball with sandpaper against South Africa in Cape Town in March.

Then-Australia skipper Smith and vice-captain Warner were handed one-year bans while Bancroft was suspended for nine months.


CA interim chairman Earl Eddings said: "CA maintains that both the length and nature of the sanctions remain an appropriate response in light of the considerable impact on the reputation of Australian cricket, here and abroad."

 

[markysimmo]

Fast bowler James Anderson has been rested for England's third Test against Sri Lanka and replaced by Stuart Broad.

Jonny Bairstow also returns in place of injured all-rounder Sam Curran and is listed to bat at number three with Ben Foakes remaining as wicketkeeper.

 

[Grays_1890]

Fast bowler James Anderson has been rested for England's third Test against Sri Lanka and replaced by Stuart Broad.

Jonny Bairstow also returns in place of injured all-rounder Sam Curran and is listed to bat at number three with Ben Foakes remaining as wicketkeeper.

Lucky selectors there, swerves having to make a tough choice

 

[markysimmo]

Hundred for JB, great batsmen to watch and a decent bloke too
Batted so well has taken his chance at 3

 

[markysimmo]

6 wickets after tea for England, fantastic bowling and catching today, we're in the box seat again

 

[StephenH]

Poor old Sri Lanka they are abject at times.
Pleased for Rashid
Now a runout! oh dear!

 

[markysimmo]

Rashid has it on a string this afternoon

 

[markysimmo]

Rashid has it on a string this afternoon

and a 5 fer

 

[StephenH]

Stoke was good also.
Jennings did very well

 

[markysimmo]

England well on their way to victory, Moen ripping through them

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

If we could find 2 reliable openers we would have a very good team, I've not seen much of Burns but Jennings looks shotless at times and I would like to see left and right hand openers.

 

[StephenH]

If we could find 2 reliable openers we would have a very good team, I've not seen much of Burns but Jennings looks shotless at times and I would like to see left and right hand openers.

They’re both ok

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

Jennings has a worse average than Robert Key in same ammount of games and doesnt look as good.

 

[StephenH]

Jennings has a worse average than Robert Key in same ammount of games and doesnt look as good.

You can’t keep chopping and changing the openers all the time, give them games!

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

I would

You can’t keep chopping and changing the openers all the time, give them games!

I would agree, but he doesnt look at ease and looks too stiff when batting. I dont mind a careful opener but the pressure builds on the following batsmen when openers get out early or score 10 to 15 runs in an hour.

 

[markysimmo]

England batsman Jonny Bairstow smashed the highest individual score in the T10 League with an unbeaten 84 from 24 balls for Kerala Knights in Sharjah.

The 29-year-old Yorkshireman hit eight sixes - with three in as many balls - as the defending champions beat Bengal Tigers with eight balls remaining.

He batted at number four in a team led by Eoin Morgan, who was out first ball.

The eight-team competition is in its second year, with round-robin matches before semi-finals and a final.

Only last week Bairstow returned from injury to score a century for Englandin the final Test in Sri Lanka and after helping his country to a 3-0 series whitewash, he flew to the UAE to switch from the longest to the shortest format.

The previous highest T10 League score was 74 made by Afghanistan wicketkeeper Mohammad Shahzad last week.

Tom Curran, Alex Hales, Jason Roy, Chris Jordan and Liam Plunkett are among the other England players competing in the event.

Other captains include Shahid Afridi, Brendon McCullum, Darren Sammy, Shane Watson and Shoaib Malik, with West Indian Chris Gayle opening the batting for Bairstow's team.

 

[markysimmo]

Alex Hales has broken the T10 League record for the highest individual score – one day after Jonny Bairstow – after he made 87 off 32 balls for the Maratha Arabians.

England batsman Hales smashed 32 off one over from Afghanistan all-rounder Mohammad Nabi as the Arabians beat the Bengal Tigers by seven wickets in Sharjah.

Bairstow had set the benchmark with 84 not out off 24 balls for Kerala Knights on Friday, but Hales moved through the gears during his innings as he went past his countryman's score during the eighth over

 

[markysimmo]

Fantastic news, this boy is the business

Sussex bowler Jofra Archer will be available for England selection next year under new ECB eligibility rules and could feature for the hosts at the World Cup.

The 23-year-old was born in Barbados but has an English father and holds a British passport. Previous England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) regulations meant he would not have come into contention until the winter of 2022.


Those regulations required a seven-year residency period for anyone who had entered the UK after their 18th birthday, which applied to Archer, who arrived in the UK in 2015.