Off Topic England cricket 2021

England century opening stands
Z Crawley & DP Sibley, 107 v South Africa, January 2020
AN Cook & KK Jennings, 103 v India, December 2016
AN Cook & H Hameed, 180 v India, November 2016
AN Cook & BM Duckett, 100 v Bangladesh, October 2016
AN Cook & AD Hales, 126 v Pakistan, August 2016
MM Ali & AN Cook, 116 v Pakistan, October 2015
AN Cook & A Lyth, 177 v New Zealand, May 2015
AN Cook & IJL Trott, 125 v West Indies, April 2015
NRD Compton & AN Cook, 231 v New Zealand, March 2013
NRD Compton & AN Cook, 165 v India, December 2012

 

Having watched most of the day's play on the TV today I thought, wow we batted like test cricketers. I know the openers got out without scoring big, but in both cases there was a little extra bounce that caught them out and they both survived the tricky bit before lunch, Burns needs to stop crabbing around the crease, Chanderpaul was the master at that, but he was one of the best players ever.

First session of day 2 England were beating the bat more and theatening the Australian top order more than they did ours, however they ended up scoring 100 runs with the lose of only one wicket.... funny old game


Australia still the favourites, but good to keep fighting and putting extra miles in the bowlers legs for the rest of the tour and you never know, maybe we can get a miracle.

 

"At least so far" . Terrible again. Only one century opening stand since 2016? Zimbabwe have probably had more than that.

 

Stuffed by Aussie
8 dismissals to caught by wkt keeper.
Need to play the line, and remember this is Test match cricket, not 20/20.
Let's hope Broad and Anderson are fit for the 2nd Test

 

Well Anderson was fit, they just decided they wanted him 'super fit' for the day night game....

 

2nd Test kicks off at 0400 tomorrow

 

But not going well so far.

 

No certainly not.... lets pick 4 bowlers that are all the same... absolutely moronic!

I saw Anderson staring daggers after a drop on his bowling and then next over gets taken off.

 

Catches dropped today which any 14yr old would have caught.
Horrendous fielding.

Need to step up or we are 2 down

 

England face a huge battle to get back into the Ashes series after Australia dominated again on day two of the second Test in Adelaide.

After the hosts racked up 473-9 declared, England's openers failed once more as Joe Root's side closed on 17-2 in the day-night Test.

 

That was a thankless task to come in with fading light.

 

Hameed has a technique that I think could work, Burns needs to go away and sort himself out, he is all over the place!

 

Only one century opening partnership since Cook retired is a damming statistic.

 

1. England collapse from 150-2 to 202-7

 

Sorry it was all my fault. The first session was about the first one I hadn't watched anything and then I turned the TV on and first ball, bye bye Joe Root. Our batting is shocking, which puts pressure on the bowlers, which then puts further pressure on the batsmen.

 

Root and Malan take two each in 2nd innings. They also score the runs. ???????? I can not remember Malan bowling in a test before.

 

I think we can win this

 

I'll have whatever drugs you're on!