Johan
Hall of Fame Member
Maybe your captain should figure out how to get his voice to hit puberty.
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3rd Test (Lord’s) - 10 July to 14 July
- Thread starter silentstriker
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centurymaker
Cricketer Of The Year
Literally everyone is clapping lol
Darwin Award
State 12th Man
Be quiet! You Englishmen… You're all so ****ing pompous. and none of you have got any balls ...
cnerd123
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Has honestly been a horrible game to umpire. Players going out of their way to waste time at every opportunity, balls keep going out of shape, pitch that stays low but when you give an LBW out Hawkeye says it's going over. And most of the cricket has been turgid and boring. Plus it's hot. And now a captain has told the opposition openet to grow some ****ing balls.
Regarding balls and spares - the ECB is responsible for providing match balls and spares for the series. They control what is provided to the umpires at the start of the game, and the umpires take care of it during the match - literally. I've known umpires to take the match balls back to the hotel with them at the end of the days play if there is no secure storage at the ground!
Arachnödouche2.0
State Vice-Captain
Making people wait on him is probably second nature to Crawley anyway.
centurymaker
Cricketer Of The Year
These two umpires need to be suspended first. They have been terrible. Players are doing as they please.
trundler
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Umpires should be fined for failing to do their job too
Johan
Hall of Fame Member
Seeing how the game has gone...
Fifth Day
Stokes: "For 90 overs, they should feel hell out there-"
Root: "But we haven't bowled 90 overs in a day since 2021."
Stokes: "Oh Uhh, For 80 overs-"
Root: "Nope, haven't bowled 80 overs a day in a while either."
Stokes: "For however many overs we bowl, they should feel hell out there."
Fifth Day
Stokes: "For 90 overs, they should feel hell out there-"
Root: "But we haven't bowled 90 overs in a day since 2021."
Stokes: "Oh Uhh, For 80 overs-"
Root: "Nope, haven't bowled 80 overs a day in a while either."
Stokes: "For however many overs we bowl, they should feel hell out there."
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Cricket hasn’t been that good. The pitch is ****. The ball is ****. And there’s a bunch of **** bowlers interspersed amongst some great ones.
Thala_0710
International Captain
He did get hit.
Chin Music
State Captain
Largely agree. I saw an article with the CEO of Dukes who argued that the current summer being so hot and dry means the ball doesn’t last so well. However, this was a problem the last two years when the summers were nothing like as hot and dry as this one.
cnerd123
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I saw that interview. He seemed clueless. Go and investigate your cricket balls instead of simply drinking champagne at Lords and blaming the weather to the press.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Also ten overs the ball was misshapen. And England had not scored 100 runs either. So “players are hitting it harder” excuse doesn’t fly.
silentstriker
The Wheel is Forever
Take a shovel and dig some holes.
Johan
Hall of Fame Member
To build a rank turner?