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Aug 2021
7:15pm, 13 Aug 2021
15,133 posts
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rf_fozzy
Unlikely TRO. I have no emotional link with Northern Superwhatevers.
There are Lancastrians playing for them apparently.
I just couldn't care less about the results in the Hundred.
I've been trying to keep up to speed on the One Day Cup with the real teams playing in it.
And I've always said Buttler is a decent One-Day batsman. It's his red-ball game I don't think is good enough for test cricket.
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Aug 2021
9:12pm, 13 Aug 2021
5,166 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Hammed is an opener, so play him as such. He's not used to sitting in the pavilion with his pads on not knowing when he's going to be asked to bat. For someone coming back into the team after several years that's a significant additional stresser
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Aug 2021
9:14pm, 13 Aug 2021
23,735 posts
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TROSaracen
Fair point Thornton, although our no. 3 is usually out in the middle before 3 overs are done, so it’s not a stresser for long……
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Aug 2021
9:41pm, 13 Aug 2021
3,291 posts
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Cheg
Yeah and we try and protect Root from the new ball pretty unsuccessfully.
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Aug 2021
11:08am, 14 Aug 2021
25,590 posts
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Nicholls595
Can we let Root bat at both ends?
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Aug 2021
11:36am, 14 Aug 2021
3,376 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
Nearly past the follow on...
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Aug 2021
11:43am, 14 Aug 2021
25,591 posts
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Nicholls595
Mini Nico has been slowly drawn into watching The Hundred. She is after all, the target audience. We followed our local team's efforts on the BBC text while in the pub last night* but she is a long, long way off understanding #ProperCricket. Apparently, Root is rubbish because he didn't score off four consequetive balls.
* after the Lions match the other week, we are getting quite into huddling over a phone waiting for it to refresh, reminds me of "watching" football on Teletext
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Aug 2021
12:10pm, 14 Aug 2021
15,434 posts
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NDWDave
Yep. The hundred is a gateway drug into cricket.
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Aug 2021
12:12pm, 14 Aug 2021
15,138 posts
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rf_fozzy
The Hundred is the death of "proper" cricket.
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Aug 2021
12:26pm, 14 Aug 2021
15,435 posts
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NDWDave
I thought covered pitches was when it died?
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The Ashes 2009
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