Road to the Ashes 2021/22

[Flem274*]

Have it here with at least 2 tests at Seddon Park so I can walk to the ground and watch.

If you can't use the same ground twice, the park opposite my house is pretty representative of both nations i.e. a boring patch of wet grass with a hole in the middle of it.

 

[GIMH]

Have it here with at least 2 tests at Seddon Park so I can walk to the ground and watch.

If you can't use the same ground twice, the park opposite my house is pretty representative of both nations i.e. a boring patch of wet grass with a hole in the middle of it.

I mean surely the reasons why we wouldn’t be able to go to Oz apply to NZ?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

New Zealand aren’t letting anyone in never mind a load of foreign cricketers and their families.

 

[Gob]

Plus those mini joke grounds in NZ shouldn't get to host an event as prestigious as the Ashes

 

[TheJediBrah]

Plus those mini joke grounds in NZ shouldn't get to host an event as prestigious as the Ashes

This. They're good for a bit of a laugh or if you want to film some Lord of the Rings but not to be taken seriously.

 

[social]

Tim Paine is having neck surgery, but reckons he'll be fit for The Ashes if selected.

Jimmy Peirson is massively improved but would probably be someone like Carey

 

[TheJediBrah]

Inglis. Pierson would be a fair way back in the queue

 

[Nintendo]

Inglis. Pierson would be a fair way back in the queue

If they want the keeper to captain ide take Pierson honestly. He's a Clarke tier tactical captain who only misses out because of uzzie, and his batting over the past 2 seasons has been solid

 

[TheJediBrah]

You're in fantasy land if you think a debut keeper is going to come in to captain the team

 

[honestbharani]

You're in fantasy land if you think a debut keeper is going to come in to captain the team

 

[TheJediBrah]

I'm not talking in general, I'm talking in this exact case

 

[Flem274*]

Plus those mini joke grounds in NZ shouldn't get to host an event as prestigious as the Ashes

Isnt it 3 vs 4 or something? hah lame

 

[Burgey]

Yeah I gotta say it feels kind of pointless talking about any of the cricket related stuff while so much of the tour itself is still very much up in the air. What happened at Manchester can't have helped at all.

If England refuses to tour, it forfeits.

 

[Burgey]

Assuming the tour goes ahead at all a lot of the England players won’t be available if families aren’t allowed to visit.

Why not?

 

[social]

Why not?

They spent summer in quarantine hotels without family

Anderson lives just down the road from Old Trafford & spent long periods living in a hotel at the ground and was unable to see his family during that time

Can see him not coming

 

[Burgey]

That'll protect his average.

Wait, so they couldn't see their families during their own summer, but expect to be able to bring them here? That's Peter Costello/ GenY-Millennial level of entitlement.

I don't know why people are finding humour in my post about forfeiting. that's exactly what it would and should be.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Wait, so they couldn't see their families during their own summer, but expect to be able to bring them here? That's Peter Costello/ GenY-Millennial level of entitlement.

Yeah when you put it that way . . . pretty insane lack of logic there

 

[Daemon]

ICC to declare all refusals to play regardless of reason as forfeits.

Becomes a legitimate tactic to impose all sorts of restrictions to make it as unpleasant to tour as possible.

???

Afghanistan wins the WTC

 

[Burgey]

I suppose that would mean Pakistan take that test vs SL after the bus got shot up.

 

[TheJediBrah]

ICC to declare all refusals to play regardless of reason as forfeits.

Becomes a legitimate tactic to impose all sorts of restrictions to make it as unpleasant to tour as possible.

???

Afghanistan wins the WTC

Nah they'll be banned. Pakistan win.