English cricket

Oh the power of positive thinking. A team which had won 1 from 17 under Joe Root's captaincy & coached by Silverwood have just won 4 from 4 under the new guidance of Ben Stokes & Brendan Macallum. They have successfully chased 4 totals in excess of 250 for victory making today's chase of 378 look like a stroll in the local park. Batting from Root & Bairstow approaching 5 an over is something we have never seen in test cricket before. Long may it continue.

They we're both class and have been for a while, enjoyment to watch 

Easily the highlight of the british sporting summer, This is a special english team with 4 or 5 all time greats

The boks are in town next , theyre 3rd england 4th in the test rankings , that will tell us a lot...

Not many welsh players lately, not even many in glamorgan. Binned the colts and welsh cricket has faded badly

reesytheexile wrote: RR1972 wrote: Not many welsh players lately, not even many in glamorgan. Binned the colts and welsh cricket has faded badly Sad.  I would rather they just dropped Wales in the Board rather than see us humiliated as being an irrelevance as a nation.

it’s prob to help justify givimg us the odd test or odi game tbh

Its bizarre to think but the emergence of 20/20 and growth of one day cricket has inadvertantly saved test cricket....How? Well firstly it kept the big crowds coming to cricket with sell out one dayers and in time the skills developed in the shorter game have been transferred to the longer game. The skills and the positive attacking instincts... You couldnt have dreamt of seeing a run chase like that in the 70s 80s 90s ..Even beefy wasnt reverse sweeping sixes over mid off lol Sometimes it goes too far but thats all down to judging each ball on merit as Root seems to do so well... The 2005 ashes was epic and there have been umpteen other classics since including the epic world cup final. The innovations with third umpires and stump cams and so on have added massively to the spectacle too...Cricket is rightly back to its lofty spot as the best game in the world imo....and the second most popular

Edited by roy munster - 07 July 2022 at 2:01pm

reesytheexile wrote: roy munster wrote: Its bizarre to think but the emergence of 20/20 and growth of one day cricket has inadvertantly saved test cricket....How? Well firstly it kept the big crowds coming to cricket with sell out one dayersEven beefy wasnt reverse sweeping sixes over mid off lol and in time the skills developed in the shorter game have been transferred to the longer game. You couldnt have dreamt of seeing a run chase like that in the 70s 80s 90s The 2005 ashes was epic and there have been umpteen other classics since. The innovations with third umpires and stump cams and so on have added massively to the spectacle too...Cricket is rightly back to its lofty spot as the best game in the world imo....and the second most popular What can rugby learn? Simplify the game, create more space for skill and speed, make it more appealing to the masses and encourage more kids of all shapes and sizes...As Benny rightly mentioned in his book, the game was hurtling towards crash bang wallop for too long and he celebrated the rise of the little men such as the french v all blacks 99 classic...Lets face it kids who get inspired want to be benny and shane not derwyn jones lol  Isn’t that also the role of 7 a side perhaps? The WRU don’t invest in this wing of rugby and it’s a means of getting young men into rugby with the hope some could migrate on to 15 a side?

Edited by roy munster - 07 July 2022 at 2:14pm