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The Cricket Thread

Been a good game, be fitting for Brooks or Stokes to get winning runs if we can win. Whatever the result Test cricket will be the winner.
Fair play to NZ for making a fist of it
Been played in such a brilliant spirit too, to a man they are such decent people too, you can tell both teams really get on
 
It was a great game, I wish we had won but that's cricket, over 5 days ups and downs, swings in position, great play, bad decisions, bit of luck or misfortune real entertainment
 
We've won 9/11 but only India or Sri Lanka ??????????????????????????? can face the Aussies in the Test Championship final

Australia sealed their place in June's World Test Championship final with a nine-wicket win over India in the third Test in Indore.

Chasing 76 to win, Travis Head made 49 not out and Marnus Labuschagne an unbeaten 28 as the tourists won before lunch on day three.

Usman Khawaja was caught behind second ball but Head and Labuschagne shared an unbroken stand of 78 to see them home.

They will face India or Sri Lanka in the final at The Oval in London.

India will secure their place if they beat Australia in the fourth and final Test of the series, which starts on 9 March in Ahmedabad.

However, a draw or defeat, coupled with Sri Lanka beating New Zealand 2-0 in their two-Test series, which starts at 22:00 GMT on 8 March, would see Sri Lanka qualify instead.

The World Test Championship final will take place between 7 and 11 June - a week before Australia face England in the opening Ashes Test at Edgbaston.
 
I see Vaughan’s team are trying to discredit the enquiry into Yorkshire CCC’s institutional bias.

Not a good look in my opinion.

But I don’t think very highly of him anyway.
 
I see Vaughan’s team are trying to discredit the enquiry into Yorkshire CCC’s institutional bias.

Not a good look in my opinion.

But I don’t think very highly of him anyway.

Did some work with the PCA and had beers with a few ex England lads and no one talked well of him, said greatest captain you could want in terms of manipulating minds to get the best, but that it spilled into his life and made him a tw4t

I find his responses to the claims arrogant, he is saying he did not say it and that because of that the whole process is crooked, despite witnesses saying he did, surely thats why they are even having the investigation.

Blokes Deluded
 
Did some work with the PCA and had beers with a few ex England lads and no one talked well of him, said greatest captain you could want in terms of manipulating minds to get the best, but that it spilled into his life and made him a tw4t

I find his responses to the claims arrogant, he is saying he did not say it and that because of that the whole process is crooked, despite witnesses saying he did, surely thats why they are even having the investigation.

Blokes Deluded

Well yeah. I’m disturbed he doesn’t appear to have anything to offset against these accusations.

Surely a captain of Yorkshire and England would be working really hard with those cricket mad but less privileged ethnicities to unearth some gems and well, just because.
 
I have 2 tickets for Day 1 of the Headingley Ashes test for sale

They are £90 each face value so would want £180 for both


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They are print at home tickets and I don't have them as a pdf as yet, as soon as they are there I would print them off and email them over

Any takers drop me a PM
 
Watching the craziest cricket I've seen I ages. SA ripping through WI, Harmer got it on a string, Maharez gets a wicket, celebrates, tears his achilles
 
England could give Australia a "good hiding" in this summer's Ashes, says seam bowler Ollie Robinson.

The series begins at Edgbaston on 1 June as England look to recover from a 4-0 defeat down under last winter.

England then lost to West Indies but have since beaten New Zealand, South Africa and Pakistan in Test series, and won 10 of their past 12 Test matches.

"With the team and squad we have at the moment it's such an exciting time to play Australia at home," Robinson said.

He told BBC Radio Sussex: "When we went to Australia we weren't quite at our best. I really feel we could get one over them [this summer] and give them a good hiding.

"It's a dream come true to be involved in a home Ashes. It doesn't get much better than that."

Sussex paceman Robinson, 29, has claimed 66 wickets in 16 Tests at an average of 21.27, having made his debut in 2021, but was part of the side that were well beaten in Australia last time.

However, since Brendon McCullum took over as coach last summer England's revival has been dramatic, including the recent 3-0 series win in Pakistan - a series where Robinson was the leading wicket-taker among the quick bowlers with nine dismissals.

The right-arm seamer believes the positive style of play instilled by the New Zealander - alongside captain Ben Stokes - has been revolutionary, and one the rest of the world will have to follow.

"There'll come a point where other Test nations will have to try to play the way we play to compete," Robinson added.

"That can only be good for the fans and good to watch, the entertainment we are producing is like nothing we have seen in Test cricket before.

"Teams will follow suit at some point, it just depends how long it takes for some to do that.

"Brendan McCullum and Stokesy have changed the game for us - the confidence they've given the players, the batters especially.

"I think the fans can see that the way we are going out there and trying to put on a show, almost trying to perform for people, that's the message that they're sending and we are trying to entertain them."
 
Vaughn cleared of racism, not read the notes but didn't some player claim they heard him? Witnesses not witness enough?
 
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