Re: Cricket World Cup : Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:20 am  

Oh well, that's the end of that then. Shambles.

[Kosh]

Re: Cricket World Cup : Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:34 am  

Don't worry - Wright will save the day.

Re: Cricket World Cup : Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:41 am  

I think we need 250 to have a chance here, Wright is going okay but he needs to stick around until the end and hopefully the others can give him a bit of support.

Re: Cricket World Cup : Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:54 am  

I wouldn't be surprised if a fair number of them want to come home after 5 knackering months away. Perhaps that explains the crap performances and lack of consistency

Re: Cricket World Cup : Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:58 am  

Chris28 wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised if a fair number of them want to come home after 5 knackering months away. Perhaps that explains the crap performances and lack of consistency

Care to explain whats 'knackering' about playing cricket?

One day cricket admittedly is a little more physical than the test match version.

On a test match if you are a lower end batsman like Jimmy Anderson you might spend 2 out of the 5 days sitting in the pavillion if your side is batting well.

Not exactly the Royal Marines selection course is it?



Cricketers must have the easiest life out of any 'sportsmen' this side of playing golf

Re: Cricket World Cup : Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:01 pm  

If you've ever played, you'd know. Plus try spending 5 months away from home and travelling every few days and then tell me you're not tired and fed up.

Re: Cricket World Cup : Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:03 pm  

Chris28 wrote:

If you've ever played, you'd know. Plus try spending 5 months away from home and travelling every few days and then tell me you're not tired and fed up.

You didn't think that reply through did you?

So whats 'knackering' about playing cricket?

Re: Cricket World Cup : Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:14 pm  

PHIPPS wrote:

You didn't think that reply through did you?

So whats 'knackering' about playing cricket?

Chris28 wrote:

If you've ever played, you'd know

[Kosh]

Re: Cricket World Cup : Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:20 pm  

Kosh wrote:

Don't worry - Wright will save the day.

Or not.

Michael Vaughan on TMS: wrote:

"I can't tell you how bad a cricket shot that was. Why didn't he take the powerplay if he was going to play a shot like that? My word, that's dumb."

Re: Cricket World Cup : Thu Mar 17, 2011 12:58 pm  

Chris28 wrote:

If you've ever played, you'd know. Plus try spending 5 months away from home and travelling every few days and then tell me you're not tired and fed up.

If you or I travelled abroad for 5 months there is a fair chance we would have to plan some (if not all) of our trip ourselves.

We would have to get ourselves to the airports, check our own luggage in, fly economy (maybe) find our way to our hotels, sort our own laundry out, Find something decent to eat, figure out how to get around the places we were going....and repeat this all over again when we moved off somewhere else.


An England cricketer doesnt have to do any of this.


They stay in all the top hotels, fly business class, escorted everywhere on arrival etc etc... all they have to do is turn up.


And then when it finally comes down to playing cricket, if it's a test match most of the team spend most of the game standing about on the boundary ropes signing autographs for spectators.






The poor souls must be worn out after 5 long arduous months of that