Cricket - England vs WIndies Summer 2017
Discussion
hornetrider said:
Gayle is becoming a parody of himself sadly. Fantastic hitter obviously but it's almost as if running is beneath him, and fielding for that matter.
Not a team player.
Agreed - sad to see, but he is a massive heap of muscle - proper big lad, and hits that way too. But he is no athlete. Stokes and Plunkett are big units too, but have way more flexibility and speed. Not a team player.
WI have always had talents that aren't great in the team environment, Lara was similar, played for himself first. But then England have had a few of those too.
hornetrider said:
Gayle is becoming a parody of himself sadly. Fantastic hitter obviously but it's almost as if running is beneath him, and fielding for that matter.
Not a team player.
I agree, but he is also nearly 40 - that's a decent age to be running around in international 20-20.Not a team player.
Will be a shame when he goes.
After the amazing innings from Ali I got all nostalgic about the best player I have ever seen - Viv Richards. He hit a 56 ball century in a test match!
desolate said:
hornetrider said:
Gayle is becoming a parody of himself sadly. Fantastic hitter obviously but it's almost as if running is beneath him, and fielding for that matter.
Not a team player.
I agree, but he is also nearly 40 - that's a decent age to be running around in international 20-20.Not a team player.
Will be a shame when he goes.
After the amazing innings from Ali I got all nostalgic about the best player I have ever seen - Viv Richards. He hit a 56 ball century in a test match!
I've seen both Richards and Botham smash the ball all around Taunton for fun but when I saw Gayle hit 151* two years ago in the T20, that was sheer brutality. Ten fours and fifteen sixes was just amazing to watch, shame was that the rest of the Somerset team hit 73 between them and we lost by three runs.
Well Gayle didn't quite reach the peaks today thats for sure.
West Indies batting like England used too. 200/4 off 35
A bit of bosh in the last fifteen and low end 280 - high end 310 is possible. However how may times have we said that in the past only for wickets to fall in the chase and it pancakes to a 250/260
Hope they get 300 and England have to make a proper chase. Feel Roy will go big today !
West Indies batting like England used too. 200/4 off 35
A bit of bosh in the last fifteen and low end 280 - high end 310 is possible. However how may times have we said that in the past only for wickets to fall in the chase and it pancakes to a 250/260
Hope they get 300 and England have to make a proper chase. Feel Roy will go big today !
So ? We are playing again - has this series been lost to the gaze since
1. It's pretty much October
2. We have won the series
3. Because Stokes/Hales
4. Because Ashes is now the focus
5. ODI's - especially one sided ODI's are not a thing of interest.
Things we learned. Curran is like a lamb to the slaughter on a pitch with no turn.
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