I_Saw_Shaw_Score
Well-Known Member
Yeah be over by 3pm tomorrow
Why couldn't Cook pretend it was his last ever test innings in every game?
India are just postponing the inevitable now.
Surely we must win from this position.
I'm a big fan of his but did start to wonder what would have happened if he'd have been dropped during one of his lean spells if there'd been anyone worth replacing him with. These last two innings he's been back to his best but that seemed to be because he was more focussed than ever to prove himself and rack up the runs, rather than the pressure being off. I wonder if we'd have got a similar reaction if he'd been sat out for a couple of tests/series.Why couldn't Cook pretend it was his last ever test innings in every game?
I'm a big fan of his but did start to wonder what would have happened if he'd have been dropped during one of his lean spells if there'd been anyone worth replacing him with. These last two innings he's been back to his best but that seemed to be because he was more focussed than ever to prove himself and rack up the runs, rather than the pressure being off. I wonder if we'd have got a similar reaction if he'd been sat out for a couple of tests/series.
I realise it's entirely churlish to wonder if you could have got any more out of someone who's scored 3500 more runs than anyone else in your country's history and holds many records but was just a thought.
Love the way cricket , fans, players and former players acknowledge & celebrate players and records.
Also again what a refreshing change Kohli is to many other captains. Generous in his praise of opponents and their achievements. Can't help thinking cricket will be celebrating many records for Kohli himself in all forms of the game - a tremendous batsman.
I think you've just illustrated how tough it for playersI think with Cricket and especially the England Cricket team as they’re playing 12 months a year, so many days, all different times of the day and night you feel more of an affinity/connection for them,well I do out of all the sports sides I support, it’s like they’re always there, take Cook for instance I was still at school, the amount of winter mornings I’d roll in from a night out stick the tv on at stupid o’clock to eat my cheesey chips and he’d be batting, I remember his debut test v India when he scored a ton i was in a pub in Southampton before for a city away game (1-1 Hutchinson last minute pen), the Ashes tour 10/11 being in Aus for it spent the days I wasn’t at the test watching it on a TV in various hostels, it’s like a soundtrack to your life.
I think you've just illustrated how tough it for players
Barely at home
I think the stress and pressure of that mentally hits them at some pint and must cause issues/tensions at home
Yeah the rewards are good but they miss a lot of their children growing up etc
hadn't realized it's only about 3 weeks until they fly out to Sri Lanka for what could be a really tough tour so not much time to rest and then prepare again.I think you've just illustrated how tough it for players
Barely at home
I think the stress and pressure of that mentally hits them at some pint and must cause issues/tensions at home
Yeah the rewards are good but they miss a lot of their children growing up etc
hadn
hadn't realized it's only about 3 weeks until they fly out to Sri Lanka for what could be a really tough tour so not much time to rest and then prepare again.
3 months ago it was doom and gloom about how Kuldeep was going to decimate England over the coming months. Now up against a side that could easily open the bowling with 2 spinners in Herath and PereraJust beaten SA fairly comfortably that way.
another one somewhere where Trueman got agnew.Just found this. Its well worth watching if you have 10 minutes.
20/20 finals day.
Don't like saying it but good luck worcs. New name on trophy and are developing young English players.
Watched next to none 20/20 this year. Protest at Birmingham bears etc. and to be honest it is getting much of a much.
I guess they can select two different teams if they make the final, i.e. make changes to the first game's line-up?
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