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Discussion in 'Sunderland' started by LD19SAFC, Jun 2, 2022.

  1. TopCat_

    TopCat_ Well-Known Member

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    I'd say we have a massive chance to regain the Ashes - we are always stronger at home on pitches that seam and swing. If Robinson, Anderson, Broad, Wood and even Archer can be available, plus with Bairstow back fit then there is a lot to be hopeful for.
     
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    Really looking forward to it.
     
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    England in Pakistan: Andy Zaltzman on an astonishing and record-breaking first Test
    By Andy ZaltzmanComedian & BBC cricket statistician

    The Rawalpindi Test defied precedent, expectation, and the accepted bounds of cricketing science.

    On a featureless travesty of a cricket pitch that categorically refused to deteriorate - and was estimated by experts to have a half-life not far short of weapons-grade plutonium - in a match shorn of around 10 overs per day by the sun sticking to its scheduled setting time, England concocted one of the most astonishing Test match victories.

    Even allowing for the weakness of Pakistan's bowling attack - they had not fielded an XI with fewer collective career Test wickets since the mid-1950s, when they were a new addition to international cricket - this match should have been a draw.

    Almost the only feasible path to victory on such a surface, in what was essentially a four-and-a-half day game, was to score something in the region of 921 runs in 136.5 overs, to allow sufficient time to take 20 wickets. England stuck to that blueprint with impressive precision, right from the start.

    In the Test Match Special commentary box, my stats machine was overheating from the first over to the last. The gripping, fluctuating and unprecedented story of the game Vesuviused out a pyroclastic flow of extraordinary numbers, from the moment Zak Crawley equalled Chris Gayle's record 14 runs in the first over of a Test match.

    Ben Duckett and Crawley reached 100 without loss in 13.4 overs, the second-fastest hundred first-wicket stand in Tests, and the fastest in the opening innings of a Test, and the third time England have broken their national record for fastest 100 opening partnership in the last five games. The 14.5 overs it took England to reach 100 in the second innings was also in the Top 10 Fastest 0-to-100s in Test history.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/63873273
     
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    Vesuviused

    Great word!
     
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    It would just be nice to see some positive cricket after attritional stuff we’ve seen over the last few years.
     
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    Kicking myself for not getting tickets now
     
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    Prices were nothing short of a disgrace.
     
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    This is true. That's what put me off
     
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    Looking forward to how we deal with Labuschagne.....he's top drawer...we need to deal with him.
     
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    Youngest son got 2 tickets (early birthday present for me).
     
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    Like Warner and Smith, he has a face you would never tire of punching
     
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    :emoticon-0102-bigsm Agreed....but punching won't do it...we need to trap him!
     
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    Cloudy skies and a green pitch. Most of these Aussies can't bat when the ball is moving
     
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    I’ll add Kohli into that list too!!! (I know he’s not Australian!!! Just I’d love to punch and punch him!!)
     
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    Beamer first ball right between the eyes.
     
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    Well. This is ****

    167-5
     
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    Just giving them a chance.
     
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    Hard to throw off the shackles from the old regime - see us losing 3 quick wickets and it's "Oh here we go again...." but we're already 180 runs on the board whereas previous regimes would have had us 65-5 at lunch
    Every time I've questioned Stokes/McCullum in the last few months I've been proven wrong, so long may it contimue
     
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    A star, Abrar is born?
     
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    Needed that. Well bowled Leachy
     
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