| England v Zimbabwe 14:44 - May 22 with 466 views | Zx1988 |
208/0 off the first 39 overs.
What, precisely, is the point of this match? With its truncated format, surely it's little more than a 'Four Day International'. |  |
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| England v Zimbabwe on 14:46 - May 22 with 451 views | Linners |
You know what they say, you can't judge a pitch until both sides have batted... |  | | |
| England v Zimbabwe on 14:47 - May 22 with 450 views | gainsboroughblue |
Crawley's place secured for next five years. |  |
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| England v Zimbabwe on 14:48 - May 22 with 441 views | Zx1988 |
| England v Zimbabwe on 14:47 - May 22 by gainsboroughblue |
Crawley's place secured for next five years. |
You know a side is bad when they can't even induce a nick-off to slip from Crawley. | |
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| England v Zimbabwe on 14:59 - May 22 with 398 views | gainsboroughblue |
Wouldn't surprise me if all tests were 4 days soon. Draws are exceptionally rare now.
Duckett just gone 4, 6 out to three long hops. | |
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| England v Zimbabwe on 15:06 - May 22 with 365 views | Churchman |
Duckett deserves to booted off the team. Getting out to buffet bowling? Disgraceful. Boooo!
You are right. Little more than a net session without the nets. |  | | |
| England v Zimbabwe on 16:50 - May 22 with 251 views | tivo |
Because we need to help develop smaller nations if we want Cricket to be a successful sport. Especially nations like Zimbabwe who are themselves, working hard to grow it within the country. It's a one off, it's a warm up for us, a great chance for them and will give tens of thousands of people to go and watch a test match at normal prices who could not usually afford it. | | | |
| England v Zimbabwe on 16:53 - May 22 with 245 views | Zx1988 |
| England v Zimbabwe on 16:50 - May 22 by tivo |
Because we need to help develop smaller nations if we want Cricket to be a successful sport. Especially nations like Zimbabwe who are themselves, working hard to grow it within the country. It's a one off, it's a warm up for us, a great chance for them and will give tens of thousands of people to go and watch a test match at normal prices who could not usually afford it. |
That's a very fair point.
In which case, it feels a little bit disappointing that this has become very much a second-rate match; four days at one of the 'lesser' international grounds.
Why not just invite them to Lord's for five days, in keeping with the traditional format of the first test of the English summer? | |
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| England v Zimbabwe on 17:54 - May 22 with 164 views | Radlett_blue |
| England v Zimbabwe on 16:53 - May 22 by Zx1988 |
That's a very fair point.
In which case, it feels a little bit disappointing that this has become very much a second-rate match; four days at one of the 'lesser' international grounds.
Why not just invite them to Lord's for five days, in keeping with the traditional format of the first test of the English summer? |
As we have seen today, Zimbabwe are hopeless so a half empty Lord's wouldn't be a great idea. Trent Bridge is just over half the size of Lord's. Inviting them for 1 "test" allows England to fulfil their TV obligation of 6 Tests & we are paying Zimbabwe a fee of £150,000. |  |
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| England v Zimbabwe on 17:58 - May 22 with 156 views | gainsboroughblue |
| England v Zimbabwe on 17:54 - May 22 by Radlett_blue |
As we have seen today, Zimbabwe are hopeless so a half empty Lord's wouldn't be a great idea. Trent Bridge is just over half the size of Lord's. Inviting them for 1 "test" allows England to fulfil their TV obligation of 6 Tests & we are paying Zimbabwe a fee of £150,000. |
Both our wickets have come from boredom really.
I can recall us giving Sri Lanka a one off test in 1984, two years after they achieved test status. England were relishing easy pickings after being pummeled by the West Indies all summer. The Lankans completely outplayed England, albeit taking three of the five days to score 400 odd and the game meandered to a draw.
Zimbabwe have had the odd talent. Andy Flower, Heath Streak etc but have never really looked like pushing on in 30 odd years. Internal and political struggles have no doubt been little help mind. [Post edited 22 May 17:59]
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| England v Zimbabwe on 18:04 - May 22 with 128 views | mellowblue |
| England v Zimbabwe on 17:58 - May 22 by gainsboroughblue |
Both our wickets have come from boredom really.
I can recall us giving Sri Lanka a one off test in 1984, two years after they achieved test status. England were relishing easy pickings after being pummeled by the West Indies all summer. The Lankans completely outplayed England, albeit taking three of the five days to score 400 odd and the game meandered to a draw.
Zimbabwe have had the odd talent. Andy Flower, Heath Streak etc but have never really looked like pushing on in 30 odd years. Internal and political struggles have no doubt been little help mind. [Post edited 22 May 17:59]
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Henry Olonga springs to mind, he had to go into exile due to protesting against the Mugabe regime. | | | |
| England v Zimbabwe on 19:09 - May 22 with 38 views | vinceg |
Reminds me of the famous incident between Glenn McGrath and Eddo Brandes the fat Zim chicken farmer.
Brandes had been edging McGrath for boundaries through the slips and grinning back at him. One more edge for 4 and fInally McGrath snapped and lost it, yelling at him, "why are you so fat?" Brandes replies "because every time I **c* your wife, she gives me a biscuit!" |  | | |
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