Does cricket need a strong England?

[Fuller Pilch]

Gotta say it was much more fun when they were almost guaranteed one or two sub 120 score/s per series.

Now we laugh at their needless aggression and brainless cricket. I preferred to laugh at floundering incompetence.

 

[Adorable Asshole]

Hell no.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

****. No!

**** outta here

 

[Jumno]

A strong west indies

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

A strong west indies

The new only right answer

 

[GIMH]

Yes

 

[Prince EWS]

Well it definitely needed one at the start...

 

[Howe_zat]

Well it definitely needed one at the start...

They started by losing 100% of all test matches so did we even have a strong England? Would be called minnows.

 

[Prince EWS]

They started by losing 100% of all test matches so did we even have a strong England? Would be called minnows.

Test cricket wouldn't have got off the ground if we didn't have a strong England beforehand.

 

[number11]

There are only 8 real teams. Cricket needs all of them to be strong.

 

[ataraxia]

There are only 8 real teams. Cricket needs all of them to be strong.

9, unless you're not counting WI.

 

[number11]

9, unless you're not counting WI.

WI are one of the giants. Nixing BD, Zimbo etc.

 

[Prince EWS]

WI are one of the giants. Nixing BD, Zimbo etc.

Feels weird to put Bangladesh and West Indies in entirely different tiers as cricketing nations these days.

 

[Coronis]

Didn’t we have a thread like this for the Windies too?

Anyway wasn’t when England was at its shittest regarded as one of the best times of test cricket?

All teams are gonna go through cycles of being **** or good, ideally most of the time a majority will be good. I don’t think it matters that much which teams they are (though probably 2/3 of the big 3 need to be good/competitive these days)

 

[Prince EWS]

Didn’t we have a thread like this for the Windies too?

That's the joke.

 

[honestbharani]

That's the joke.

He would have gotten it had it been more black and white.

 

[subshakerz]

The 90s are proof that it doesn't.

 

[trundler]

The 90s are proof that it doesn't.

Also the late 40s, 80s, early 2000s and late 2010s.

 

[GIMH]

We won away in Pakistan in the early 00s, can’t have been too bad

 

[trundler]

We won away in Pakistan in the early 00s, can’t have been too bad

Imran Nazir in tests. Yuck.