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  1. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** England in India 2016/17

    These days listening to an Australian about a spinner in cricket is like listening to a Scotsman talking about strikers in football. In the rare occasion they have any inkling about what they're talking about there's always a risk they'd say something just to try and sabotage England. I think...
  2. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** England in India 2016/17

    Woakes was a guy who either clicks and becomes very effective, or he's totally innocuous. In India he's the latter, when he was a little bit short of 'something' he was the latter. Sorry but the only one the selectors get credit for is Rashid. But then they have the team to make it easy to allow...
  3. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** England in India 2016/17

    For the love of ****ing god I was being somewhat facetious when I said they'd call up ****ing Dawson, part of me knew it was a possibility but I thought at some ****ing point common sense would kick in. But no. Just fire the ****ing selectors and start afresh. ****ing morons.
  4. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** England in India 2016/17

    Yep and he was even **** for Warwickshire last season. Presumably they'll call over Lions people from UAE. Jennings and Leach are there, lets see if they can get blindly ignored again. I'm guessing the clowns will pick someone like Dawson.
  5. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** England in India 2016/17

    Back to the old vanishing act for most of the side then. Can't expect Stokes to keep single-handedly elevating the team above mediocrity. Still at least that avatar bet about him averaging over 50 with the ball looks in trouble.
  6. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** Australia in South Africa + South Africa in Australia 2016/17

    Not at all, I understand game theory and won a world championship. You're just some random idiot who 'cbf' Anyone who is interested in trying to understand the mathematics of it I'm quite happy to try and explain the logic to. If you're not interested or intimidated by the discussion then shut...
  7. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** Australia in South Africa + South Africa in Australia 2016/17

    That's not how it works. If the average last wicket partnership was 40 does that mean they're going to score another run and get out? No of course not. Does a guy who averages 50 always score 50? I am looking at how many more runs they would score, on average, given that situation. When a...
  8. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** Australia in South Africa + South Africa in Australia 2016/17

    Declaration was bollocks frankly. It's not like you had two crappy tailenders playing and missing every other ball and at best they're going to scrape another 10-15 runs in half an hour. You had a batsman who was unbeaten on a century at 72 SR and a guy with 18* off 23. The partnership was 39...
  9. Scaly piscine

    **Official ** Sri Lanka and West Indies in Zimbabwe 2016

    Classic West Indies. Except when they're playing England, obviously.
  10. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** England in India 2016/17

    Good work that, scoring at 2 an over whilst simultaneously losing wickets to a catch at long off and a run out.
  11. Scaly piscine

    Adam Voges average watch

    Love the way the commentators try to make out they're absolute unplayable jaffas.
  12. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** Australia in South Africa + South Africa in Australia 2016/17

    There's no doubting QDK could be something pretty special, the big question mark for me will be whether he can perform in more foreign/alien conditions. That will be the difference between a great, and someone like Sehwag (not comparing records, styles or anything, just the that level of...
  13. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** Australia in South Africa + South Africa in Australia 2016/17

    Nice to see the minnows taking it into a fourth day.
  14. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** Australia in South Africa + South Africa in Australia 2016/17

    I like the stat mentioned that Bavuma has faced more balls than the entire Australian innings. Obviously de Kock has outscored that innings too.
  15. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** England in India 2016/17

    So next time someone tells me it is impossible to bowl an extra 10-15 overs during the day when you're pushing for victory. Bullshit. England have bowled 17-18 overs here in the hour, and that's with a referral, two wickets and India pissing about.
  16. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** England in India 2016/17

    Oh look England now decided, belatedly and half-arsedly, to try and rush through their overs. It is almost like you can bowl overs quickly isn't it? Particularly if you get in the ear of the umpire about your opponents time wasting throughout the day. They're not going to bother now it is near...
  17. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** England in India 2016/17

    The declaration was a little conservative, but we're talking about the odd over, not 10 or 15. As has been mentioned the issue was Cook dropping a clanger for the last wicket partnership last evening. That's what really hurt England.
  18. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** England in India 2016/17

    Yes, that cost about 15 overs, both the partnership that ensued and the time to cancel those runs out (and when you look at the time, it is the time batting slowly that you lose, because you effectively have another 8-10 overs of conservative batting).
  19. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** England in India 2016/17

    Best bowlers on please.
  20. Scaly piscine

    ***Official*** England in India 2016/17

    England will get 55 overs to bowl India out tops, 45-50 overs more realistic. I can't see England declaring shy of a 300+ lead, which is perfectly fair given the pitch isn't doing much. So best case scenario really is India being set something like 320 in 55 overs. I don't think it's going to be...

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