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  1. Owzat

    ***Official*** England Tour of the West Indies: December 2023

    I'd suggest therein lies the difference, big scores (relative to T20 anyway) win matches, cameos can finish off a chase or target set but rapid cameo 20s and 30s wow but without Salt would have been to no end bowling again pretty poor, was it 16-0-96-0 from Mills, Atkinson and Livingstone, feel...
  2. Owzat

    ***Official*** England Tour of the West Indies: December 2023

    wasn't an awe inspiring tail, Curran, Woakes, Rashid, Ahmed, Mills, looks better on paper than usually does in the middle, but fault falls with the cameo capers at the top, biff, bosh, bash and out. I know it's a short format, 120 balls, but can't keep losing wickets regularly and about time one...
  3. Owzat

    ***Official*** England Tour of the West Indies: December 2023

    better than England at the moment, but sadly that isn't saying much! who hasn't? Bangladesh, Pakistan and Holland was it from the World Cup.....
  4. Owzat

    Have Teams cracked the chasing code in LOI ?

    agreed, the Afridi injury made it a bit easier but odds were England would have won anyway being only ONE bowler goes to show though, lots bang on about fielding, saving runs blah blah blah and that pretty much sank their chances. I'm not suggesting just watch the ball fly by but sometimes...
  5. Owzat

    *Official* England in India 2023/24 #CryMoreTour

    England won a Test by scoring 550+ and IIRC the Indians made a mistake of not putting out a turning wicket England managed less than 250 in each of their last six innings 205 & 135 112 & 81 134 & 164 it is England's usual inability to score 300+ makes them ripe to lose, yet a lot of the talk...
  6. Owzat

    ***Official*** England Tour of the West Indies: December 2023

    whilst it would have been stupid to take the same players that failed miserably in the World Cup the second string, and Curran who apparently is soooooo good off the back of one performance he can't be dropped - even though he was at said WC - were not great. wasn't much learned about England...
  7. Owzat

    ***Official*** England Tour of the West Indies: December 2023

    honestly the bowling attack is more of an a hole than a whole, not sure you can read too much into any single performance as we saw from zero to hero and back to hero again bizarre use of the bowling, but then buffet Livingstone did finish the game off quickly, usually ok but surely when you...
  8. Owzat

    *Official* New Zealand in Bangladesh 2023/24

    whilst some of the cameos from the 90s for the likes of DeFreitas, Gough, Lawrence, Lewis and others didn't bring better results for England they were fun, great to watch and great for the game. A cameo partnership of 40-50 or more off 8-10 overs makes for a far more interesting game when the...
  9. Owzat

    *Official* New Zealand in Bangladesh 2023/24

    the best Test matches are where both sides are in it from start to finish, a bit of to and fro but far too many are decided by conditions, big scores, all the kinds of things that are most level in low scorers it's a psychological handicap to look at a Test as "5 days, it isn't a good Test...
  10. Owzat

    ***Official*** England Tour of the West Indies: December 2023

    no offence to the XI, but that is the most bizarre set of first names I think I've ever seen for an English speaking country/team. (and yes I do mean windies, left it open to thinking I might have meant England!)
  11. Owzat

    ***Official*** England Tour of the West Indies: December 2023

    rate Livingstone and Jacks, or no, really can't see this "balance" of four main bowlers and Livingstone plus part-timers working. It might if the side had 3-4 quality bowlers but most sides would be lucky to have 1-2 let alone 3-4, and even then presenting a potential weak link isn't clever I'd...
  12. Owzat

    ***Official*** England Tour of the West Indies: December 2023

    I'm waiting for him to bat, every time commentary (well most, not always work) "and Jacks on five...."
  13. Owzat

    *Official* New Zealand in Bangladesh 2023/24

    yeah, must be the one team and bowler (batting) I don't watch, well several, but hey ho. aka Eba-dot ball (when batting) to me needs to improve his bowling is the underlying point of course, what you average with bat is less of an issue if you're a good bowler
  14. Owzat

    ***Official*** England Tour of the West Indies: December 2023

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  15. Owzat

    ***Official*** England Tour of the West Indies: December 2023

    LMFAO, even journeymen cricketers playing half-decent international sides should return some decent figures now and again only took him 10 or so overs to work out how to bowl!
  16. Owzat

    Which 4 heads would you put on a cricketing Mount Rushmore?

    Alex Hartley, Michael Vaughan, Luke Wright and Moeen Ali for various reasons, but principally on the basis their heads are literally put on a Mount Rushmore and not just carved into stone (and right now)
  17. Owzat

    *Official* New Zealand in Bangladesh 2023/24

    just trying to remember who the two bowlers are, think it is Bangladesh, who average like 0.5 or 1.0 with bat and ain't particularly phenomenal as a bowler. (E Hossein? maybe one) *scoots off to try and find. E Hossain is one, 3.13 with bat and 47.14 with ball, Khaled Ahmed may have been the...
  18. Owzat

    *Official* New Zealand in Bangladesh 2023/24

    oh dear, was going to say earlier that kiwis perhaps wish they had started this well in the 1st Test but now see 55/5 and that's not clever at all still there's a bit of batting lower down on top of Mitchell so 100+ is 'on' !
  19. Owzat

    *Official* New Zealand in Bangladesh 2023/24

    so if he touched the ball with his glove after playing it was it not "handled ball" ??!? been a few decades since but Gooch was out handled ball when he played the ball, it was going to hit his stumps (bounced down or something and was heading in the direction of the stumps) and he swatted it...
  20. Owzat

    *Official* New Zealand in Bangladesh 2023/24

    citation needed

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