International Cricket, Autumn/Winter 2022-2023

[Tony C]

Crawley, Root and Stokes contributing only 26 runs (all Stokes’s) yet England end up with a first innings lead. They seem to be picking up the habit of ‘finding a way’ - a big virtue for a test side.

[George C.]

Doesn't really matter when the opposition bowlers are ultimately useless...

[Satchmo Distel]

What's going on in Brisbane? You can usually rely on the Gabba to produce runs, but a test match over within 2 days is not really good news for anyone

South Africa has an excellent bowling attack but very poor batting. Apply that to a Test on a juicy pitch against a side with equally good bowling but better batting and this happens.

[George C.]

Aye...

[Satchmo Distel]

It was foreseeable from how they played against England.

[Etienne]

The Trent Bridge klaxon is now deafening.

[diggedy derek]

Get that kid on the front page of the sports section tomorrow.

[Cousin Boneless]

England are not messing around here, that being said Pakistan are hardly making it difficult for them.

[Cousin Boneless]

Who is the female commentator here?

[diggedy derek]

The summariser? Alex Hartley I imagine.

Is this the by now traditional Zak Crawley half-century red inker to secure his place for the next series?

[Cousin Boneless]

No, she sounded like she was from Pakistan.

[diggedy derek]

Ah, OK, not sure who that is then, sorry.

England are single-handedly redeeming the concept of bantz by sending the 18 year old leggie out for a bat.

[Etienne]

I'm not listening, but if I had to guess it would be Urooj Mumtaz Cousin Boneless

[Satchmo Distel]

I can't recall England winning 3-0 in Asia ever.

[longeared]

They won 3-0 in Sri Lanka at the end of 2018. Other than that the closest were a 3-1 in a five Test series in India in 1976-77 when Greig was captain and a couple of 2-0s in Bangladesh.

[Etienne]

They've done it in Sri Lanka in 2018-2019. They've obviously not done it in Pakistan as they will have won more tests this series than in all previous series combined there. I don't think they have ever done it against India.

[Tony C]

From 163/3 and Babar going strong to 216 all out. Great effort from England again.

[Ray de Galles]

Stokes is a dead cert for SPOTY surely, though I imagine the England women's football team will edge the mens cricket side out for Team of the Year?

[Levin]

I'm not listening either but my guess would be Zainab Abbas Cousin Boneless

[George C.]

Stokes is a dead cert for SPOTY surely, though I imagine the England women's football team will edge the mens cricket side out for Team of the Year?

Beth Mead is odds on apparently.

[Jon]

South Africa has an excellent bowling attack but very poor batting. Apply that to a Test on a juicy pitch against a side with equally good bowling but better batting and this happens.

Dean Elgar, South Africa's captain, was very scathing about the pitch in his post-match interview.

[E10 Rifle]

This will probably bite me on the arse but there are definite parallels between this year for England's men and 2004: England beating everyone at home in a swashbuckling summer before an away win against an opponent we'd not beaten in their country for a couple of decades, teeing up all manner of Ashes expectations

[ursus arctos]

The disparity in odds between Mead and the field is quite striking

https://www.oddschecker.com/awards/s...he-year/winner

[Satchmo Distel]

The bookies have the Ashes as fairly even, which seems a fair reflection of form. Arguably the two best sides of the winter season so far.

[diggedy derek]

Beth Mead should win but those odds are remarkable