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Cricket => England Test => Topic started by: bwildered on February 14, 2017, 11:24:19 AM

Title: Capt Root .
Post by: bwildered on February 14, 2017, 11:24:19 AM
Joe Root appointed the successor to Alastair Cook has the next Captain of England Test team . The vice captain being obvious replacement, doubt anyone else was considered . So hopefully will lead from the front, has the spotlight will well and truly be on his batting form has well has his captaincy duties .
Best wishes Joe ( just bring back the Ashes ).
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: Andy on February 14, 2017, 11:29:49 AM
Joe Root appointed the successor to Alastair Cook has the next Captain of England Test team . The vice captain being obvious replacement, doubt anyone else was considered . So hopefully will lead from the front, has the spotlight will well and truly be on his batting form has well has his captaincy duties .
Best wishes Joe ( just bring back the Ashes ).

We'll see how being a Yorkshireman will protect him from the inevitable vacuous criticisms from his fellow Yorkshiremen comedy commentators.
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: IlfordEagle on February 15, 2017, 10:49:31 PM
Good luck to our new Captain, I was surprised to read that he was only the 7th Yorkshire born Captain of England, thought there would have been more.
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: Valentines Park on February 17, 2017, 12:15:01 PM
Good luck to our new Captain, I was surprised to read that he was only the 7th Yorkshire born Captain of England, thought there would have been more.

Vaughan was born in Lancashire.

Must be why he wants to be the new Bumble.
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: Andy on February 17, 2017, 03:18:41 PM
Good luck to our new Captain, I was surprised to read that he was only the 7th Yorkshire born Captain of England, thought there would have been more.

Vaughan was born in Lancashire.

Must be why he wants to be the new Bumble.

That's unfair to Bumble, who is at worst somewhat tiresome and (like his generation) should be given some slack because of the long term effects of being hit all over the body by Lillee Thompson and the Windies quicks in the days before helmets and proper padding.

If there's only 7 Yorkshire born captains, does this mean that there are as many Indian born skippers? I can think of 3 from the sub-continent. Coming to that, there's at least one skipper from Peru. 
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: Valentines Park on February 17, 2017, 06:10:02 PM


That's unfair to Bumble

Nothing wrong with aspiring to be Bumble.

Vaughan is just so bad at it though.
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: Andy on February 17, 2017, 08:25:36 PM


That's unfair to Bumble

Nothing wrong with aspiring to be Bumble.

Vaughan is just so bad at it though.
Agreed. On both counts.
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: bwildered on July 10, 2017, 04:55:59 PM
Good start by the new skipper.
Nineteen wickets falling in the day must have kept the egg and bacon brigade short of Sunday afternoon siesta time . It did deny us the question of when a declaration might have happened though, with the game taking it's natural course .
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: Andy on July 10, 2017, 05:10:31 PM
Good start by the new skipper.
Nineteen wickets falling in the day must have kept the egg and bacon brigade short of Sunday afternoon siesta time . It did deny us the question of when a declaration might have happened though, with the game taking its natural course .

Will the pitch inspectors get involved?
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: Perov on July 10, 2017, 08:22:12 PM
Good start by the new skipper.
Nineteen wickets falling in the day must have kept the egg and bacon brigade short of Sunday afternoon siesta time . It did deny us the question of when a declaration might have happened though, with the game taking its natural course .

Will the pitch inspectors get involved?

Silly question. The match was at Lords, and you are not to allowed to  question pitches at headquarters dear boy.
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: Andy on July 10, 2017, 09:03:14 PM
Will the pitch inspectors get involved?

Silly question. The match was at Lords, and you are not to allowed to  question pitches at headquarters dear boy.

 :-[ :-[ :-[
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: JasonP on July 11, 2017, 10:56:25 AM
There was nothing much wrong with the pitch.  It went to near the end of the 4th day.  I didn't see anyone on here complaining when we beat Warwickshire recently.  The pitch on the 4th day of that was very difficult to bat on a we bowled them out for less than 100.
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: alji on July 11, 2017, 11:13:27 AM
But this was a FIVE day game.
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: Valentines Park on July 11, 2017, 11:18:00 AM
How many Test matches go the distance these days?

4 days is par now I'd say.
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: nat on July 11, 2017, 11:22:56 AM
How many Test matches go the distance these days?

4 days is par now I'd say.

If it doesn't rain much.
Title: Re: Capt Root .
Post by: Oldhasbeen on July 13, 2017, 06:28:53 AM
A good cricket wicket, IMHO
Saffers  were out-played, and especially out-fielded - I can't recall such an inept fielding display by an SA team before. They won't complain about the pitch. They

Last day showed how right Ally & KJ were to tread so warily at the start of the 2nd innings.

Loved watching Moeen bowling on the final day - superb display.

Looking forward to Friday - same team for us, I suspect, but I'm still not convinced about either Ballance or Dawson. Saffers must make changes, it'll be interesting to see both their team selection and batting order, de Kock at 7 is barmy. How does Duminy keep his place (apart form quotas)? Glad to see Philander is fit. Who will replace Rabada - Duanne Olivier, Chris Morris or Andile Phehlukwayo?