I see that Kamindu Mendis has a chance of equaling Herbie Sutcliffe and Everton Weekes for the fastest to 1000 in terms of innings. Needs 55 more to get there in 12, Bradman needed 13. The guy is a machine at the moment, possibly the start of the next generation of top batters to go with Gill, Jaiswal and possibly Brook?
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Are tickets for ODIs normally over £100 for "platinum" seats? (I got allocated some for a game in Southampton next year... but £105 each, for a match in september that will probably get rained out?)
The home season is over for England and now it is turn for the away season for them which is starting in about a week with a 3-match test series against Pakistan. England should win this series without much problem against a team that recently lost 0-2 against Bangladesh.
While Pakistan have been terrible recently they will raise their game against England. There are still some players that can hurt England, just need to find cohesion.
South Africa on the other hand are in a big slump. Lost a one day series to Afghanistan for 1st time, then lose a 20I to Ireland.
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we need another 300 or 350 tomorrow and then to bowl at them for 3.5-4 sessions
still might win this one
still might win this one
Soldato
Definitely still possible. England could be on for a huge score here if they up the scoring rate. 5 rpo for 120 overs is mad and has given us chance of an unlikely win.
Soldato
Old school innings total there from England
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Bloody hell those Pakistani fans are going riot if they lose this. Fancy scoring 556 runs batting for nearly two days and losing!
Caporegime
Old old old school. Most of the highest totals seemed to come in the 30s.
Soldato
Back in the days of Wally Hammond, Len Hutton and Don Bradman the school of thought was you played to a finish no matter how long it took so teams would bat for upto 3 days and grind the other team into the ground (thank the Lord Boycott wasn't playing back then). When you combined it with lifeless wickets teams could rack up monster scores even on a 40ish strike rate and often the other team would be so drained from days of being the field they get bowled out cheaply making it uncompetitive and boring for the fans.
Not to take anything away from those guys but Harry brook smacked over 300 runs with an almost 100 strike rate, that's the best innings from any batsman I've ever watched and likely the greatest ever imo.
losing by an innings just for extra fun
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Srinivas Vijaykumar the Cricviz analyst said:
An unwanted record set.
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If Joe Root can keep up this level he should overtake Ricky Pointing's run scoring record in the next 7 tests. After that only Tendulkar is ahead of him but Sachin is far ahead of the rest of the pack in terms of overall runs scored.
Only take him 4 years at 750 runs a year which on current form is easily achievable. More like 3 years if the number of tests and his scoring rate continue.
Best stat I saw was that until over 248 root had been on the field for all but 8 balls
Best stat I saw was that until over 248 root had been on the field for all but 8 balls
Soldato
120/1 of 23 overs. I don't want to jinx it but given Pakistan are playing spinners and with our current run rate we could get another monster score. If we play for 180 overs we could see a total first innings of 900+
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And as soon as I press post reply we lose a wicket........