The England Cricket Thread

Well there we go. Absolutely shambolic really.

I've tired to not to get too invested this year simply because of the prep and build up which of course isn't ideal but it just doesn't and isn't the whole reason behind this pathetic performance across all tests. But you just know they (ECB et al.) will put all the focus on that.

Cricketing fundamentals just so wrong and bad this tour across the board, bowlers and batters it's just been comical.
 
turbot1984 said:
So much for a late night! Do we need a new captain?
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In theory yes, but there are far bigger problems than that. We need a lot of new batsmen and simply don't have them. The captain impacts the fielding and bowling tactics far more than other batsmen, and we've been far worse with the bat than the ball this series.

If we had a solid batting line up and were getting thumped anyway, then I'd agree that Root needs changing - he's at best an average captain. But there's no captain in the world who would make this batting line up work.
 
manic111 said:
In theory yes, but there are far bigger problems than that. We need a lot of new batsmen and simply don't have them. The captain impacts the fielding and bowling tactics far more than other batsmen, and we've been far worse with the bat than the ball this series.

If we had a solid batting line up and were getting thumped anyway, then I'd agree that Root needs changing - he's at best an average captain. But there's no captain in the world who would make this batting line up work.
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Tend to agree with that. Our openers have been poor for a while now, even against weaker bowling attacks like Sri Lanka. So disappointed we weren't more up for it like Aus were.
 
England need to pull an India covid trick to save anymore embarrassment. Completely useless and pathetic..
 
A pathetic embarrassment. A few of them players may well have just played their last ever England test.

You can’t put up with that, it’s a complete insult to our cricketing heritage.
 
Crincinfo has an interesting set of stats for Root, showing just how much he's eclipsing his teammates.

'His Test aggregate of 1708 in 2021 is the third-highest ever, but his numbers are even more astonishing given the general mediocrity around him.'

In the midst of these batting lows, Joe Root has gone ahead and amassed 1708 runs, the third-highest ever by a batter in a calendar year. His aggregate is 802 runs more than the next-highest in 2021 - Rohit Sharma's 906 - and 1178 more than the next-best from his own team: Rory Burns' 530. Never before in Test history has there been such a wide gap between the top two run-scorers for the year, whether for the same team or overall among all teams.
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That's some incredible stats and once again shows something else is wrong with that England squad and Root being touted at losing his captaincy is ridiculous. The rest of the team needs sorting, how I don't know, but similar needs to be done to match the shorter formats success with a ground up rethink,although without a change to the county set up and focus on the shorter formats I can't see how this is possible unless we start getting players abroad in the winter to play the longer formats.
 
Boland still in, Hazlewood and Richardson still out, Khawaja replaces Head.

SCG pitch is flat, but rain has been forecast, so this could be an endurance match.
 
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