Collins and Lemon had a typically wise take on yesterday's podcast, which centered the role of Shastri's book launch during the week, which was evidently conducted against BCCI advice.
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https://twitter.com/GeorgeDobell1/status/1436663461765959692?s=20
Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, George Garton, Eoin Morgan, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Liam Livingstone and Jason Roy are the England players still expected to participate in the IPL. Some are expected to fly to the UAE today (Saturday) on a commercial flight. One or two others may not depart until after T20 Finals Day (on September 18). From that group of players, only Sam Curran and Moeen are expected to be named in the Ashes touring party, though it would be no surprise at all if Moeen, a father of two young children, withdrew from that.
Indeed, the future of that tour looks more precarious than ever after the events at Emirates Old Trafford. A significant number of senior players remain deeply uncomfortable with the prospect of a two-week quarantine at the start of that tour and, even more so, at the prospect of putting their families through the same. As a result, a number of high-profile withdrawals seem inevitable.Comment
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And also this by Collins and Westbury: https://www.sen.com.au/news/2021/09/10/final-england-india-test-cancelled-after-covid-scares/Originally posted by ursus arctos View Post
Brettig reaches the same conclusion as Dobell on the Ashes withdrawals:
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/cric...12-p58qww.html
I think they need to put it back a year because the vaccination rollout in Aus has been too slow and piecemeal and the political response is governed by populism and xenophobia. Why play an Ashes series with reserve squads in empty stadia?Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 12-09-2021, 08:22.Comment
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Because we would still watch <hand to face emoji> and of course $$$$Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View PostComment
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The practical problems with delaying the Ashes a year would mean it goes opposite the football World Cup (good if it overshadows the Qatar rubbish, but I can understand not wanting to compete with that) and it'd also potentially be back to back Ashes again. There was a desire from both boards not to repeat that after we had it in 2013.Comment
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Quite the squeeze put on by England in the New Zealand ODI. NZ Women, chasing 240 odd, were 2/1 after five overs. NZ are now three down and a bit in the quicksand.Comment
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The Pakistan Cricket Board aren't too happy about it.
"Earlier today, New Zealand Cricket informed us they had been alerted to some security alert and have unilaterally decided to postpone the series," the PCB said. (NZ Herald).
If they return to NZ they go into 2 weeks' quarantine, unless they get exemptions (politically fraught because everyone else wants one).Comment
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England should go, unless there's some demonstrable deterioration in the security situationComment
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It's not going away. NZ not providing anything to either the PCB or the Pakistani Govt so show what the threat was is sticking in the craw a little.
I'm assuming it's from a five eyes information share but we'll probably never know.Comment
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TMS Twitter reporting that England have withdrawn their Men's and Women's teams from the tours of Pakistan.Comment
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England are withdrawing for workload reasons? So much for owing Pakistan anything after they saved the ECB last year.
Textbook perfidious Albion. A shining example of the phrase.
I'm surprisingly annoyed.Comment
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I'm furious. What Pakistan's team and management last year to ensure that a series went ahead (as did NZ) and then to be treated with such outright contempt by the ECB is beyond the pale. Treating them, like the West Indies, as second class citizens is an utter disgrace and with the shenanigans of the Old Trafford "Test", the BCCI and ECB are making sure that Test cricket is now becoming an unviable joke.Originally posted by Levin View PostComment
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Christian Turner was my High Commissioner in Nairobi. We didn't get on too well, but he liked his cricket. Shocking performance by the ECB, and I'm glad he's come out and made this statement. He must be absolutely furious.Originally posted by ad hoc View PostComment
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Now revealed that the ECB didn't even talk to the women's team before cancelling their tour for "player welfare" #SacktheECB.Comment
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It sounds like the ECB wanted to give the impression they were lightening the load on the players and Pakistan was the easy target to cut, being historically the least popular place to tour (however this was just two T20s so it's purely tokenistic if that's the message being sent).
The other possibility is knee-jerk racism (Muslim country + regime change next door = must be a terror threat, despite all the experts saying that no rise in risk has occurred).
Or a combination of these. As The Final Word noted, it doesn't have to be conscious racism: an implicit (white, ethnocentric) bias is enough.Last edited by Satchmo Distel; 22-09-2021, 22:17.Comment
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Remarkable conclusion to a great game in Derby. In what turned out to he the final ball of the game, Ecclestone was stumped. But the ball was a wide, which gave England the one run they needed to win.Comment
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Astonishing chase from Australia vs India to get 275 from 52-4. Healy, Lanning and Perry score 8 between them, but Mooney and McGrath make the runs instead.Comment
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They needed 3 to win off the last ball, and Carey hit it (a full toss) to midwicket for the catch. But then the third umpire decided that it was high enough to be called a no ball. This decision seems somewhat controversialComment
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Just seen the video. Very tight call.Comment
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