The England Cricket Thread

a1ex2001 said:
I think before long we will be saying where's Anderson when we need him, he bowled beautifully this test and I think pushing him out is just a bit cheap. Time will tell still what a career and what a legend, gutted he dropped that caught and bowled at the end would have made the perfect ending to his time, it was almost to easy!

The debutants have looked good hopefully Atkinson can build on his dream start and Smith looked today enough behind the stumps and decent with the bat it would be nice to have an established keeper with no debate over his place after the last couple of years flip flopping with Foakes and Bairstow.
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Personally, admittedly with hindsight, I think they've done a great job with their selections for this series.

Anderson had to go sometime and probably soon so it was best to do it while it was in our control and not because age or injury caused his form to drop off.

Bringing in Atkinson seems to have been a good choice, but that has to be tempered by the fact the Windies are pretty terrible.

I like the look of Bashir too, it's been too long since we had a genuinely dangerous spinner rather than one who mainly gives control at one end, I like the drift and spin his action brings and he's beaten the bat well in this series.

For me it was the right time to make changes so the new lads could gain confidence and experience in a less testing series.

Then we have Sri Lanka who will pose whole different test of the new lads, especially Smith who will have to score runs against a very different type of bowling attack.
 
Jimbeam3678 said:
Has cause of death been reported yet?
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Not yet AFAIK.

el Beeb said:
Thorpe was appointed head coach of Afghanistan in March 2022, but he was admitted to hospital with a serious illness before he could join the team.

BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew said Thorpe was a "mainstay of England's middle order throughout the 1990s" and called him "a gritty and unfussy left-hander".

Agnew added that, after it had been announced that Thorpe had been admitted to hospital in a serious condition, "no details were given and there have been no public updates until today".

The cause of Thorpe's death has not been announced.
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Absolutely gutted reading about Graham Thorpe. I remember him scoring a debut century against Australia in 1993 and this was during a time when England's cricket team was at bottom in terms of quality, he was the one star we had that you could rely on to get you out of trouble. You only need to look at his average to see how good he was, 44/45 average playing in a 90's England cricket team is remarkable.
 
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Excellent innings by Jamie Smith who got his first test hundred. He will surely get a few more in his test career. England right on top of Sri Lanka with these two early second-inning wickets.
 
Congrats to Joe Root. Scored a century in both of England's innings in the Lord's test (first time apparently he's scored two centuries in both innings of a Test). He's now got 34 Test hundreds and moves ahead of Cook having just shared the 33 record for a couple of days.

Another 96 runs or so for Root and he becomes England's men's highest Test run scorer. Root has also taken 200 (non-wicket keeper) catches (first Englishman to 200 catches) and needs another 11 to take the all-time catch record. Hope he carries on playing for a few years yet and stays in a good vein of form. Can really look to move up the list of century makers and see how close he gets to Tendulkar's 15,921 runs.

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England vs Sri Lanka: Joe Root makes record 34th hundred in march towards victory

Joe Root further cements his status as England’s greatest batter with a record-breaking 34th Test century in the march towards victory over Sri Lanka at Lord’s.
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You are right, too many part time spinners giving freebies and no pressure built. But saying that if you let Head get a start you will pay - he is in another world at the moment.
 
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