*Official* Second Test at the Adelaide Oval

[wiff]

Roger's arm guard is still fascinating

 

[Cabinet96]

So much for the golden summer.

 

[howardj]

Cricket - still covering pitches the same way we did 30 years ago,...

Whatever happened to those hover covers that sat above the pitch, and could be wheeled on?

 

[NUFAN]

BTW, I'm tipping Ben Stokes to go for over 3.65 runs per over today. Hopefully he gets through 12+ overs, for LMS purposes.

England really let the guard down in that Fifth Test at the Oval. Unbelievable to think that Woakes and Kerrigan would get a game and then not even make the squad in the next game. Was Woakes really that poor to fall so far down the pecking order?

 

[Dan]

Whoa I don't remember writing this but

OP of the First Test thread had that type of feel.

 

[steds]

Whatever happened to those hover covers that sat above the pitch, and could be wheeled on?

They don't have them in third world countries

 

[howardj]

haha

 

[GIMH]

OP of the First Test thread had that type of feel.

It's one of my standard templates tbf. Been posting it since I joined and for 18 months in 10-11 they were coming true for a while

 

[Cabinet96]

BTW, I'm tipping Ben Stokes to go for over 3.65 runs per over today. Hopefully he gets through 12+ overs, for LMS purposes.

England really let the guard down in that Fifth Test at the Oval. Unbelievable to think that Woakes and Kerrigan would get a game and then not even make the squad in the next game. Was Woakes really that poor to fall so far down the pecking order?

Of course not, they just fell victim to the media backlash.

Here's another interesting question, if bad light hadn't intervened and Woakes had stayed at the crease as England won the game, would he have made this tour?

 

[wiff]

This rain break has smashed benchmarks ticks

ABC radio:

 

[NUFAN]

Of course not, they just fell victim to the media backlash.

Here's another interesting question, if bad light hadn't intervened and Woakes had stayed at the crease as England won the game, would he have made this tour?

Yeah of course he would be there if he won them the game.

I'm not sure how I feel about this stadium now. It definitely used to be the most picturesque main ground in Australia, not sure now..

 

[benchmark00]

**** sake why does cricinfo have the scoring around the wrong way? **** myself there when I saw 1/0.

 

[_Ed_]

And Stuart Broad can now open the bowling from the Still Looks Like a Cricket Ground End...

Yeesh. Unimpressed Cricinfo commentator is unimpressed. Is it that bad?

 

[benchmark00]

From what I've seen of the new Adelaide Oval it looks good. Just because a ground can only hold two dozen people doesn't make it beautiful and fap worthy.

 

[ajdude]

love that Warner kept his mo.

 

[benchmark00]

love that Warner kept his mo.

As did Johnners Johnson.

 

[Spark]

Yeesh. Unimpressed Cricinfo commentator is unimpressed. Is it that bad?

Looks fine IMO

 

[steds]

BTW, I'm tipping Ben Stokes to go for over 3.65 runs per over today. Hopefully he gets through 12+ overs, for LMS purposes.

England really let the guard down in that Fifth Test at the Oval. Unbelievable to think that Woakes and Kerrigan would get a game and then not even make the squad in the next game. Was Woakes really that poor to fall so far down the pecking order?

No. Our selectors went a bit mental. Kerrigan wasn't ever going to make the plane, barring Panesar going back and taking a dump on the same bouncers, though.

 

[Spark]

that's the way he plays

 

[Dan]

Woakes is gun. Definitely good enough to be a #6 or #7 bat, and handy-if-not-quite-Test-class pace bowling. Give him 2 years.