• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

***Official*** England in Sri Lanka

Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
Bumble asks: "would you believe it?" (this is when a Panesar long-hop is smashed straight to backward-point) Well, I would, yes, given that it's Jehan Mubarak doing the batting. 8-)
 
pasag

pasag

RTDAS
Haha, Monty.

Anyways, didn't he used be classed as an 'attacking' bowler. I want him to do well as much as anyone, but he never looks like getting a wicket in the format tbh, just seems to release the pressure the other bowlers are building.
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
pasag said:
Haha, Monty.

Anyways, didn't he used be classed as an 'attacking' bowler. I want him to do well as much as anyone, but he never looks like getting a wicket in the format tbh, just seems to release the pressure the other bowlers are building.
Click to expand...
The latest flavour-of-the-month fingerspinner tends to be described as "an attacking bowler" TBH, which was what I was trying to say in that post.

MSP is clearly not a good ODI spinner, at all.

PS - that's Kaushal gone too. Ravinder's golden-arm strikes. Wouldn't be astonished if he got gifted another 1 or 2 either.
 
Richard

Richard

Cricket Web Staff Member
ICC rankings... important...

Did you mean to put that first and second line in different posts? :p
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
aussie tragic said:
So a very important game for Eng and SL to win today.....

Whoever wins will be 4th in the ICC ODI Rankings....whoever loses will be 7th (with Ind & Pak between them)

http://www.icc-cricket.com/icc/odi/predictor.html
Click to expand...
That very fact shows up the rankings to be pretty inaccurate, one feels. I've never had many problems with the test rankings but the ODI rankings seem to be too sensitive to a good series here or a bad series there - teams fly and up and down like yoyos.
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
Despite this being a dead rubber, these were important innings for all of England's top 3, and, to different degrees, they've all flunked it. Mustard's last chance to make a serious claim to displace Prior has been wasted, Bell yet again looks like one of life's losers after this series, and Cook hasn't quite shown that the last game's 80 was a genuine sign of progress as opposed to a one-off. Shame, really.
 
Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
wpdavid said:
Despite this being a dead rubber, these were important innings for all of England's top 3, and, to different degrees, they've all flunked it. Mustard's last chance to make a serious claim to displace Prior has been wasted, Bell yet again looks like one of life's losers after this series, and Cook hasn't quite shown that the last game's 80 was a genuine sign of progress as opposed to a one-off. Shame, really.
Click to expand...
Y'know, if Prior and Mustard really are England's best ODI options for the wicket keeping spot and they really do insist on having the keeper open, I'd almost rather Solanki do it. And given how little I rate Solanki as a batsman, and given how he's a part-time wicket keeper, that's a sad, sad state of affairs.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Top