3rd Test at Headingley, Leeds

[Ulzan69]

Craig Walsh never play test right?

 

[Spikey]

been having some skin cancer stuff taking care I think

personally I think he was happy to stay away but when they invited Ian Botham onto the coverage he lost it and smashed his way into the coverage

 

[Starfighter]

Bairstow

 

[Spark]

ajdude to comment

 

[Starfighter]

Guess where Cummins scores his first runs...

 

[Spikey]

is there a betting market for "where will pat cummins score his first run"

 

[Jarquis]

Cummins off the mark to third man

 

[TheJediBrah]

how does he keep doing this! Put a 3rd man in the second he leave the dressing room ffs

 

[Prince EWS]

IIRC JBMAC said before that Bradman didn't play it much either. Tended to walk across the stumps and work the ball leg side. If so it would basically confirm that as the optimal technique for someone with a good enough eye to ~never miss a straight one.

I remember getting into deep and pointless thoughts after watching a video of a deep learning AI learning how to walk and speculating that if you taught such a thing the rules of cricket and let it have at trying to learn to bat it'd probably decide pretty quickly to basically not play that shot at all in Tests. I may have even mentioned it to Spark, the only other person in the world I knew who might've watched that video and also been a Test cricket fan.

 

[social]

You know that a team is done when their fielding falls apart

If England lose here, 4-0 is on the cards

 

[morgieb]

He's 75.

Even then there's a massive gap between how he came across even 12 months ago.

been having some skin cancer stuff taking care I think

Yeah you're right. Would probably take a fair bit out of him.

 

[Ulzan69]

Westindies chased 322 here when root declared but I think present English team not have potential to scores
Even 265 in 4th innings

 

[trundler]

Defs don't need a third man

 

[TheJediBrah]

don't mind Patto getting out then. A nice 20-odd from each of the other bowlers would be nice too. Don't want them spending too much time at the crease. Save energy for bowling

 

[Spark]

I remember getting into deep and pointless thoughts after watching a video of a deep learning AI learning how to walk and speculating that if you taught such a thing the rules of cricket and let it have at trying to learn to bat it'd probably decide pretty quickly to basically not play that shot at all in Tests. I may have even mentioned it to Spark, the only other person in the world I knew who might've watched that video and also been a Test cricket fan.

Haha I don't know about that. Deep learning AIs, when you dig into them, don't seem to run on any sort of discernible actual chain of logic.

 

[ajdude]

ajdude to comment

mrdmurphy is gonna be so salty when cameron wins the coleman

 

[Spark]

You know that a team is done when their fielding falls apart

If England lose here, 4-0 is on the cards

And imagine if our fielding had not been similarly crap on that 4th evening at Lord's...

 

[Spikey]

hahahahaha holy ****

 

[morgieb]

That's a nasty hit.

 

[ajdude]

getting sick of seeing richard saw