Cricket Thread

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57.5 Degrees of Pain 3 Jun 8:20pm, 3 Jun 2024 18,729 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain Pothunter wrote:Tricky pitch and very slow outfield though It'll be interesting to see how teams adjust to playing there. Batting looked hard work today.
Bazoaxe 3 Jun 8:22pm, 3 Jun 2024 26,813 posts	0 Bazoaxe Cricket outing booked, take in a few days of the Yorkshire game at Scarborough in august. My son coming this year despite having no interest in cricket. Not quite the ashes, but will do.
57.5 Degrees of Pain 3 Jun 8:35pm, 3 Jun 2024 18,730 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain Playing tomorrow on the the same pitch as Namibia vs Oman's low scoring tie should also add an element of jeopardy to Scotland's game against England. Given the pattern in recent years, England actually have a surprising number of England born players. Scotland do too, but maybe less surprising..
Cerrertonia 3 Jun 11:11pm, 3 Jun 2024 21,211 posts	0 Cerrertonia 12 out of 15 born in England, 1 in Wales, 2 in Barbados? Scotland I think have 4 players born in Scotland, 3 from Aberdeen surprisingly. That's probably better than Scotland's rugby union team manage. England haven't beaten Scotland in a limited overs game since 2015.
Pothunter 3 Jun 11:43pm, 3 Jun 2024 8,907 posts	0 Pothunter Surprising lack of South Africans across Eng and Sco too
Cerrertonia 4 Jun 8:07am, 4 Jun 2024 21,212 posts	0 Cerrertonia Pothunter wrote:Surprising lack of South Africans across Eng and Sco too Scotland have a few don't they? Brandon McMullen, Chris Greaves, Brad Wheal? (Although of course being born in South Africa doesn't necessarily make you South African - Richie Berrington when he was Scottish captain sounded genuinely Scottish).
Pothunter 4 Jun 11:30am, 4 Jun 2024 8,909 posts	0 Pothunter My bad, I missed those when skimming the cricinfo stats on the Scots
57.5 Degrees of Pain 4 Jun 3:07pm, 4 Jun 2024 18,747 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain Ready for the game!
HellsBells 4 Jun 3:26pm, 4 Jun 2024 33,694 posts	0 HellsBells Has it stopped raining yet?
57.5 Degrees of Pain 4 Jun 3:39pm, 4 Jun 2024 18,749 posts	0 57.5 Degrees of Pain HellsBells wrote:Has it stopped raining yet? Good of our teams to bring our UK weather all the way to Barbados.