Cricket: Random Discussion Thread

SRH have scored 123 in five and a half overs. boring. sack whoever prepared this pitch

158/4

nope not the innings total, but the score at the half way mark

this is like making the goals twice as wide and being like wow 19-24 at full time with five players scoring hat tricks, how exciting

Yeah, SRH have been crazy good with the bat.

And LOL at KKR thinking Starc is a good choice for the last over. 3 overs for 55.

travis head being second on the ipl run leaderboard with 300 odd runs and with a strike rate of about 250 is surreal

monster knock from stoinis, 124* to chase down 210 while most of his mates got out for nothing at the other end

1 more month of this IPL hell. There isn't even a test match world wide until late June iirc. NBA playoffs is the only lifesaver

punjab about to chase 262 with a couple overs to spare. dumb. they were about 15% to chase it down before the second innings began with the bookies. i picked up a few quid backing the chase

foolishness

nice to see YJB get a hundred though

I'm hoping that this is the start of another Bairstow purple patch.

I'm also happy when England players do well in these sorts of things.

I'd say that Buttler, Salt and Bairstow can now call themselves successful this year.

Curran, Livingstone not so much.

Jacks and Topley have been meh/average in a bad team.

Ali has been bench warming mostly.

fraser mcgurk (who to be fair is terrifying with or without IPL concrete steamrolled pitches) 52 off 15 to open up the next game. we're on for a 200 personal score sooner or later

fraz mc 78 (24), his mate is 11 (15) and keeps patting it back to the bowler :/

the kohli team might be about to do a massive, almost unprecidented lol

chasing 147, they were ~95/0 after 7 overs. its now 121/6

1 more test for Jimmy

I will miss Jimmy making batsmen look silly every summer. Its been an annual tradition for so long. I hope he has one last magic spell and reverse sweep in him.

Salute to Jimmy Anderson, what an insane career he has had for a quick bowler

he needs 8 to match Warney and 9 to beat him. Unlikely tbh in one test

Odd to just play 1 test. I get it's at Lord's but seems he has another summer left in the tank and could retire at the Oval at the end of the summer.

I think England want to move on ASAP and 1 test is England's gesture of recognising his service and the need for a farewell test.

This definitely could happen and will probably be his match goal

Jfc the size of Pakistan's keeper

Can’t mention weight in 2024

PAK 26/3 vs the mighty US and A, they will be lucky to get to 150 from here and the USA can bat a bit

USA d. Pakistan
Canada d. Ireland
Afghanistan d. NZ

watching NED vs SA, they are absolutely blasting 5 to 10 seconds of dance music in between every single ball. must be intolerable to be in the stadium

Maybe it will encourage faster over rates

sith ifricah 12/4 chasing about 100 lol

QdC ran himself out first ball
kendrick bowled through the gate
markram tickled one down the leg side to the keeper
klaasen out pulling to square leg/mid wicket

they are playing in new york, which has featured ugly two-pace rando-bounce pitches so far, but tbh this pitch, which i dont think has been used yet (they are all drop-ins) doesnt seem all that bad