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The lack of 100 is because he plays stupid shots when he gets in so should fit in with this England side. Pope is safe in that side until the summer it’s pretty hard to get out of the side as a batsman.
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I wouldn’t have taken Leach and would have taken another pace bowler.
tisza
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Tough series. Interesting to see Cox goes - quite a few keeper/batsmen options available.
3 spinners is a strange one
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I would have gone for Rew at Somerset but equally I didn’t think Smith would be good enough so I might leave it to the pro’s
tisza
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Think Rew will benefit from the 2 Lions tours. Smith has to keep performing there's a queue of youngsters lining up behind. let's hope Cox goes well and gives the selectors genuine headaches in at least one position. The strength in depth just isn't there for the batting positions.
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I actually saw somebody say what about Bairstow the other day.
Cox and Smith could play with Pope carrying the drinks.
tisza
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Bairstow smh!!
Honestly what I want them to do is concentrate on building a side that can properly compete in the Ashes next year - they've really only got these NZ Tests and the 5 Test home series against India to prepare - that's not a lot of cricket to build a side with
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No more international cricket live on free-to-air TV as ECB fails to agree deal
ECB struggle to interest Channel 4 or ITV in four live games a year after deeming BBC’s offer too low
chiefdave
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Was pretty obvious there had been a massive drop given that every other year there's been a press release on the day of the final talking about how fantastic everything has been. Even those figures fell apart when you scratched the surface but this year there was nothing they could spin into a good news story.No more international cricket live on free-to-air TV as ECB fails to agree deal
ECB struggle to interest Channel 4 or ITV in four live games a year after deeming BBC’s offer too lowwww.theguardian.com
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chiefdave
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Budget 2024: ECB faces cuts to £35m government grassroots funding pledge for state schools
A £35m government funding pledge towards grassroots cricket to help revive the game in state schools is said to be severely under threat from cuts in the Budget.
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SlowerThanPlatt
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Both Warwickshire boys in the England side over in Antigua
CJ_covblaze
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Great to see. From Rugby School and Bablake.
chiefdave
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A while ago on The Grade Cricketer podcast they described whiteball, well T20 but I think it applies to all whiteball, as background noise.
There's so much being played you can turn the TV on at pretty much any point and there's a game.
They're killing the international game with the schedule. And you can see they don't give a shit about playing anyone but India and Australia. For anyone else we get 'experimental' sides because the 'names' can't be bothered or have a payday from a franchise tournament.
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ovduk78
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I was watching WI/ENG last night & Livingstone bowled at Carty & appealed for LBW, Carty ran a single and umpire gave him out. Carty appealed the decision and the ball hit his bat first but the run wasn't allowed. Why not? This is not the 1st time I have seen this happen.
thekidfromstrettoncamp
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England 52 -0 after 4 overs chasing 182 in 20 over game. Salt got 40 of them.
thekidfromstrettoncamp
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Brilliant catch Motie got Butler out for duck
thekidfromstrettoncamp
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Here we go again West Indies 16-1 after 2nd over.
thekidfromstrettoncamp
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Watching the 20-20 Mc Coy almost took a great off Salt but put it down held his hand up and said it touched the ground. You could see it with the naked eye.It was still checked without an appeal don't get it why?
thekidfromstrettoncamp
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Windies 136-0 3 balls later 136-3.
Sky Blue Pete
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Still didn’t defend over 200
tisza
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Not a game they seemed to take too seriously with the series won. Played Overton even though he "couldn't" bowl.
chiefdave
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From the BBC article about the release of next seasons Blast fixtures:
Suspect it won't be as straightforward as that.
Having done one of the ECB's beloved reviews and decided that the women's game needs to align with counties it seem they then haven't enforced that hence Nottinghamshire's Women's team are retaining The Blaze branding and Lancashire's women's team will be Thunder while the men's team is Lightening
As ever, even when they come up with a vaguely decent idea they manage to make a mess of the execution
Have they finally seen sense. After 11 years of every social media post having replies about people supporting Warwickshire not Birmingham have they got the message?
Suspect it won't be as straightforward as that.
Having done one of the ECB's beloved reviews and decided that the women's game needs to align with counties it seem they then haven't enforced that hence Nottinghamshire's Women's team are retaining The Blaze branding and Lancashire's women's team will be Thunder while the men's team is Lightening
As ever, even when they come up with a vaguely decent idea they manage to make a mess of the execution
tisza
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Any return to the proper namesand I'll take an interest again. Have hated the "Birmingham" nonsense from the beginning.
ECB is just incomepetent. Can't manage finances,can't organize proper tours. Have devalued what was a decent T20 tournament with their ridiculous obsession with the Hundred (which all non-ECB sources/reports show to have been a loss-maker).
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I think the Birmingham name came in as Birmingham council wanted it as part of the finance deal for the new stand which was changed from the city end to the Birmingham end.
im more worried about the lack of new signings and Burgess retiring plus most of the season without Bethell who will be carrying the drinks for England and Mousley for the one days
im more worried about the lack of new signings and Burgess retiring plus most of the season without Bethell who will be carrying the drinks for England and Mousley for the one days
chiefdave
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There's something wrong at the club tbh, players leaving, players retiring, none of them being adequately replaced.
But even that's better than the women's side. Since the women's side has officially come under 'Warwickshire' branding all the best, and long serving, players seem to have moved elsewhere. Must have the youngest, most inexperienced side in the country. Not good when there's an attempt next season to relaunch women's domestic cricket and a lot of T20 double headers. People will lose interest fast.
tisza
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They seemed unfocused going into last season in terms of new signings, carrying existing players that hadn't played much due to injury and scrapped through the seaon with temporary signings.
Something's not right at the club on the playing side. There were some poor sides put out last year and some really dire Championship performances.
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This coach and squad will get relegated there just aren’t enough runs in it.
tisza
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Rhodes a big loss.
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Players like Rhodes, Barnard and Burgess are perfect county cricketers never going to push on to internationals so always there and do a good job.
tisza
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Over 1000 runs in Championship last season which covered middle order weakness.