Jonny Bairstow apology thread

[ImpatientLime]

he was a ball tamperer. what more juice do you need?

 

[CricAddict]

Bairstow can end up with 8k @ 40 if he keeps this up for two years or more looked unlikely a few months back.

At a strike rate of 90.

 

[GIMH]

@mods can you ban @trundler from this thread please

 

[trundler]

I didn't even start the Atherton discussion, c'mon. And I've rated Bairstow higher than most.

 

[Nintendo]

He’d stroll into any team in the world. In fact he’d probably be the best opener around.

Nah karunarantna and Rohit would be ahead of him.

 

[trundler]

Nah karunarantna and Rohit would be ahead of him.

Karuna is just Latham with 2-3 good knocks tbf.

 

[Flem274*]

Karuna is just Latham with 2-3 good knocks tbf.

Karunaratne is a genuine gun now.

Thinking about his big knock on a bouncy deck with swing here makes me list off just how many Sri Lankan knocks are up there in the best I've seen watching live. Sri Lankan batsmen don't half arse their impressive centuries these days. It's doing it twice in a row that seems to be the issue for guys not called Sangakkara.

 

[trundler]

Karunaratne is a genuine gun now.

Thinking about his big knock on a bouncy deck with swing here makes me list off just how many Sri Lankan knocks are up there in the best I've seen watching live. Sri Lankan batsmen don't half arse their impressive centuries these days. It's doing it twice in a row that seems to be the issue for guys not called Sangakkara.

I was thinking about this the other day. I've thought of both men as guys who at least cash in when the going is easy which is more than you can say about most openers these days. Both are much better home than away and cash in heavily against yer West Indies and hapless Pakistani attacks of late. Karunaratne has more gun knocks for sure: tons in SA and India in very bowler dominated series but he also fails more often. I think they're about par except one is in good form right now and the other isn't.

 

[andruid]

he was a ball tamperer. what more juice do you need?

Did he tamper with your balls?

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Did he tamper with your balls?

He wished he had.

 

[RandySpinner]

A thread to apologise to YJB in for all the times you demanded he never play Test Cricket again.

I’ll go first

Jonny. I’m sorry.

I'm sorry too, good thread, thanks for starting it

 

[Gob]

I was thinking about this the other day. I've thought of both men as guys who at least cash in when the going is easy which is more than you can say about most openers these days. Both are much better home than away and cash in heavily against yer West Indies and hapless Pakistani attacks of late. Karunaratne has more gun knocks for sure: tons in SA and India in very bowler dominated series but he also fails more often. I think they're about par except one is in good form right now and the other isn't.

When?

 

[trundler]

When?

Last year

 

[ImpatientLime]

Did he tamper with your balls?

He wished he had.

can you please both supress your fantasies over my gargantuan balls for at least a minute?

 

[wpdavid]

During the time they both opened Atherton had a superior record didn't he? It was only from halfway through the '97 ashes that Atherton's output nosedived, and from that point Stewart was no longer opening

I don't know whether that's true actually. tbf I tend to remember the good bits, so that's Stewart's twin hundreds in Barbados and wonderful innings against Pakistan in 1992. There may well have been lots of dross too even when he was opening.

 

[honestbharani]

In b4 hb claims him

Since you asked....

You mean like in Mumbai when they forced Moeen to front up after 53 overs coz Stokes might get injured after that enormous workload of 10 overs out of 190 or whatever?

I get why they do this and I get that they rate him as a bowler but to me the lad has all the tools to be one of the best middle order batsmen of this generation. The future of England lies in the middle order of Root, Stokes, Bairstow and the sooner they get rid of their additional loads, the better. Stokes can be used as a partnership breaker and a bowler to try reverse swing when other stuff fails but he is a lot more Kallis or Watson than Flintoff if you get my drift. And they need to figure out if Buttler can be a full time test match batsman keeper as well. Given the ridiculous depth Moeen, Stokes and Woakes give this side, I think they should make him a full time #7 keeper.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Karunaratne is a genuine gun now.

Thinking about his big knock on a bouncy deck with swing here makes me list off just how many Sri Lankan knocks are up there in the best I've seen watching live. Sri Lankan batsmen don't half arse their impressive centuries these days. It's doing it twice in a row that seems to be the issue for guys not called Sangakkara.

NZ attack is minnow now though

 

[Kirkut]

Atherton was ideally suited to situations where the pitches were very difficult to bat on and the opposition having 3-4 genuine quick bowlers, typical rear guard material. He was certainly lowest in the priority when it came to openers making the best use of the new ball and scoring quick runs on day one of a test match.

 

[Son Of Coco]

I obviously speak for all Australians when I say that his legacy will forever be tarnished by his inability to score a hundred on Australian soi....oh wait.

 

[Adders]

Yes indeed. So by Australian logic....... Bairstow > Root.

Really is a shame we can't grow this game outside of Australia innit.