Capt Root .

[bwildered]

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 ).

[Andy]

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.

[IlfordEagle]

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.

[Valentines Park]

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.

[Andy]

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. 

[Valentines Park]

That's unfair to Bumble

Nothing wrong with aspiring to be Bumble.

Vaughan is just so bad at it though.

[Andy]

That's unfair to Bumble

Nothing wrong with aspiring to be Bumble.

Vaughan is just so bad at it though.

Agreed. On both counts.

[bwildered]

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 .

[Andy]

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?

[Perov]

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.

[Andy]

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.

 

[JasonP]

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.

[alji]

But this was a FIVE day game.

[Valentines Park]

How many Test matches go the distance these days?

4 days is par now I'd say.

[nat]

How many Test matches go the distance these days?

4 days is par now I'd say.

If it doesn't rain much.