England Cricket

Maybe introduce a bonus point system. Turn up and get a point, at least then they wouldn't got home totally empty handed! Point is they didn't 'turn up' in the last ones!

I'll put a different spin on this. ( see what I did there)

I took the GS to Headingley yesterday to watch England v Pakistan in the fifth ODI they won by 54 runs and the athleticism on show was good to watch. Now I realize that the shorter format game is not to everyone's taste but it can be fun.

Btw the new stand at the Kirkstall Road end makes the ground look like a proper stadium now. Seats in there can be had for £120 a day for the Ashes test I'm told .😱

Certainly I could not, in my wildest imaginings, envisage Hutton, May, Boycott, Colonel Ken Barrington et al,  flinging themselves around like their modern counterparts do. On the other hand Fred Truman, Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson and the rest managed about 16 - 18 overs an hour at full pace.

By the way £140 for a SINGLE seat ??  So how much bfor a family of four ??

And they did all those overs ,pint at lunch and a park drive 

How times have changed. They were only bowling 13 overs per hour yesterday. Play started at 1100 and the first innings finished at 1435 ish, that was Pakistan bowling.

They sauntered out from their lunch at just before 1515 and play ended at 1915 but I can't remember if England needed all 50 overs. I think they didn't need the last two.

I said to my GS I remembered Brian Close being sacked from the England captaincy because Yorkshire once failed to bowl 18 overs per hour . Mind you I've always thought that they were looking for any excuse to sack him. I don't think his face ever fitted.

Oh come on, Rog, Closie was a professional Yorky what else did he expect

Brian do you remember the pictures of his body covered in ball sized bruises when they played the Windies, I think it was Wes Hall and the other quickie did that to him. Batsmen didn't wear all the padding the modern players do.

Quite agree Roger, those 'roses' or 'rosettes' were a sign of his" I won't be battered  out"  mentality --  but I recall seeing him staggering in his crease a time or three in that series.

P.S. my previous comment / post was purely about your last sentence :--  any excuse to sack him  .. .. .. .. his face never fitted. 

I was agreeing with you there  no Pro Yorkie crikitter  was / is ever loved dahn sarf as you well know.  Illingworth, Trueman & Lord Geoffrey The Boycott  all  come to mind 

I kinda guessed that was what you meant .  Times seem to have changed there too. We had Michael Vaughan and now Joe Root  in the job so perhaps some of those old southern codgers have gone to watch their crikkit in a warmer place👿

Tuesday, Sept Third 2019,  16:43 hrs.

Three and a bit months later, Rog, ad it's still the same old story.

One or two playing out of their skins and the rest looking to be waving feather dusters around with the Captain under terrible pressure both as Captain & as batsman.

Probably a touch of foresight in your last phrase, Roger, them there English batsmen may well find their cricket in a very warm place indeed tomorrow.