Cricket
- Metro Bank Cup Starts Today
First day of the Metro Bank Cup (English county 50 over tournament).
It’ll be interesting to see how the counties go with some of the key limited overs players also on Hundred duty - a chance for fringe and youth players to stake a claim perhaps!
- Ashes combatants brace for over-rate sanctionswww.cricket.com.au Ashes combatants brace for over-rate sanctions
Both Australia and England are set to cop points penalties that could impact their standing on the World Test Championship table
- 2023 Ashes 5th Test, Day 5 Highlights | Wide World of Sports
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- Stuart Broad announces his retirement
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A sad day for cricket fans
- 2023 Ashes 5th Test, Day 2 Highlights | Wide World of Sports
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- 5th Ashes Test underway
Are we all looking forward to the final test in the men's Ashes series?
A think a drawn series overall (i.e. an England win in this test) would probably be a fair result. As an Englishman I'd happily take a drawn series after the first two tests as well!
- Pat Cummins ponders unfinished business as final Ashes Test loomswww.theguardian.com Pat Cummins ponders unfinished business as final Ashes Test looms
Australia may have retained the urn, but winning the series outright would give them a powerful sense of vindication
When you talk about coming back to where you started, there is no better place than the Oval. Elliptical shapes supposedly have no beginning or end, but they do when you first start drawing one. Australia’s trip to England’s summer began at the Oval with the World Test Championship final and will end there to close the Ashes. Now, just as then, there is one match’s worth of opportunity to claim a prize.
Of course, whatever the result, Australia will go home with both pieces of silverware tucked safely away. But given the way the Ashes series has panned out, losing the fifth match to draw 2-2 would be a very flat ending. Two wins from two had Australia on the verge of a series win in straight sets, but all manner of turmoil has happened since. Touring around the country, packed with incident from the grave to the trivial, the past few weeks have been anything but elliptical.
Speaking the day before the match Australia’s captain, Pat Cummins, reflected on the series of 2019 when Australia retained the Ashes with a last-hour win at Old Trafford having dominated the match, compared with this year when the same result was reached at the same ground by way of a rained-off draw from a perilous position. The celebrations in Manchester four years ago were long and lavish, where this time they barely happened.
“Manchester was a big win to retain the Ashes, which we hadn’t done for a long time. Off the back of [losing at] Headingley, even Lord’s where we probably missed a trick last series [in a draw], I felt like that was a big exclamation mark on the end of that series with one Test to play.
“It feels really different here. This group has been really motivated to win the series. We know it wasn’t our best week last week, so at the end of the game it was a bit of a pat on the back: we’ve retained the Ashes, well done, but really it feels like the job’s not done.”
There must also be some motivation to stick one to anyone who piled into Australia after Jonny Bairstow’s controversial stumping at Lord’s, a dismissal that prompted all kinds of accusations. Professional athletes will often claim that they ignore outside criticism, but that is only ever partly true. England supporters assuming the right to set the terms of what is fair, then disparaging players for having a different view, would have jammed in the craw.
As for Australia’s approach, they must first clear away the stars and tweety-birds that circled their heads after England clouted nearly 600 runs in an innings last week. Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood are not used to that sort of treatment as a fast-bowling trio, but they got it. There is every chance the same group will take the field again.
Cummins would not give a final XI at the time of speaking, but conclusions could be drawn from what he did say. “Probably the biggest difference to last week is a spinner, whether that comes into the equation, and we’ve waited for a couple of boys to see how they pull up but at this stage it looks like everyone is all good.”
That means Todd Murphy should play, giving Australia a specialist spin option. The players on injury watch were Starc and the all-rounder Mitchell Marsh, who “has been given a chance through injury and has been brilliant” and who is apparently fit to bowl.
That means Cameron Green would be the one to make way, with Cummins offering what sounded like explanatory notes. “He bowled brilliantly here in the World Test Championship, and since then, the way the series has gone, and missing a Test through injury, it’s been more stop-start … he probably hasn’t bowled as much as we thought. In terms of batting, there’s been little snippets where he’s looked really good, then other times when he hasn’t managed to get through that initial phase. He’s doing all his learning in international cricket, it’s not easy.”
Starc’s fitness means that Michael Neser will again miss out, despite being in top form in English county cricket this year. There was little else to be read into Cummins’s supportive comments. “It’s tough. You can only fit 11 players into a team. There’s nothing more he can do. He’s scored heaps of runs and taken heaps of wickets so we know his class and he’s just really unlucky … hopefully there’s plenty more games for him in the baggy green.”
So Australia roll the dice, going into the final contest in much the same formation as they did the previous, and hoping the class of their players will tell. Surely England can’t batter them twice in a row? Well, this England team have made a habit of bucking probability, not least with Ben Stokes winning the toss each time this series. Australia will happily grant him a clean sweep on that measure if they can keep England’s tally in the wins column to just one.
- Marsh's fitness key to Green's Test spotwww.espncricinfo.com Marsh's fitness key to Green's Test spot
Offspinner Todd Murphy is likely to play the Oval Test after missing out at Old Trafford
- Australia retain the urn after fourth Test ends in draw.www.bbc.co.uk Ashes: Australia retain the urn after fourth Test ends in draw
Follow live text, Test Match Special commentary and in-play clips from the fifth day of the fourth Ashes Test between England and Australia at Emirates Old Trafford.
The weather at OT strikes again.
- 2023 Ashes 4th Test, Day 4 Highlights | Wide World of Sports
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Not much cricket today, but great century from Labuschagne and some proper obstinance shown by all of the batters. Only 5 wickets remain, but Australia are closing in on the total so if they get even a small lead it could slow the game down enough to force the draw, with more predicted rain for the final day.
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Disappointing from Australia once again but full credit to England who have been on top this entire test match.
Labuschagne looking good at least, so there's a chance if someone can stick around with him and the rain comes as predicted.
- 2023 Ashes 4th Test, Day 2 Highlights | Wide World of Sports
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Well, Australia will be hoping the predicted rain actually comes. Dominant display from England today.
- 2023 Ashes 4th Test, Day 1 Highlights | Wide World of Sports
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- Australia pick Green over Murphy for Old Trafford Ashes Testwww.espncricinfo.com Australia pick Green over Murphy for Old Trafford Ashes Test
For the first time in 10 years, they will go into a five-day game without a frontline spinner
Well they are certainly stacked with pace bowlers and batters now, but no frontline spinner feels like a risky move.
- Saud Shakeel scores 208* against Sri Lanka
Took Pak from 101/5 to 461.
Formed a 177 run partnership with Agha Salman and a 94 run partnership with Naseem Shah, who scored just 6 runs off 87 balls!
Saud now averages over 90 and is playing his 6th test match.
Scorecard: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/pakistan-in-sri-lanka-2023-1385664/sri-lanka-vs-pakistan-1st-test-1385685/full-scorecard
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- Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nX38CMJp-Q
- Day 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBrCXhhBlKs
Nice to finally see new batsmen who can play spin. Keep going!
- Can cricket's American dream become a reality?www.espncricinfo.com Can cricket's American dream become a reality?
From press conferences set against statues of bald eagles to construction workers burning the midnight oil, it's all happening in Texas as cricket looks to light a spark
- The stats behind an Ashes short ball obsessionwww.cricket.com.au The stats behind an Ashes short ball obsession
Short bowling has been the go-to for the seamers in this year's men's Ashes, with both sides enjoying success with a more unconventional approach
- MCC recommends 'significant reduction' of ODI cricket after 2027www.espncricinfo.com MCC recommends 'significant reduction' of ODI cricket after 2027
13-member committee suggests "removing bilateral ODIs, other than in the one year preceding each World Cup"
- Robinson included but no Foakes in England squad for fourth Testwww.skysports.com The Ashes: Ollie Robinson included in 14-player England squad but no Ben Foakes for Old Trafford Test
Ben Foakes has not been included in the 14-player England squad for the fourth mens Ashes Test at Old Trafford; England kept the Ashes alive with a three-wicket win at Headingley; watch fourth Test from Old Trafford, live on Sky Sports Cricket from July 19
- MLC wants more England cricketers, but not to 'start a war with anyone'www.espncricinfo.com MLC wants more England cricketers, but not to 'start a war with anyone'
English players are in talks with MLC teams to be involved next year, and the Hundred is already impacted, with overseas players opting out of the draft to play in the USA
- Woakes, Wood and Brook keep England's Ashes hopes alivewww.espncricinfo.com Woakes, Wood and Brook keep England's Ashes hopes alive
Batters clinch three-wicket victory in white-knuckled run chase at Headingley
- 2023 Ashes 3rd Test, Day 3 Highlights | Wide World of Sports
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- David Warner’s place in the Australian Test squad must come to an end
While I agree that Warner is no longer up to Test standard, does Australia have anyone to replace him with?
Harris has already failed in his several chances and would probably be a downgrade. Renshaw was very poor in India. I'm not convinced about Bancroft. Who else is there?
- Bangladesh: Tamim Iqbal reverses international cricket retirement decisionwww.bbc.co.uk Tamim reverses Bangladesh retirement decision
Bangladesh's Tamim Iqbal reverses his decision to retire from international cricket a day after he said he was quitting.
- Tamim Iqbal cries inconsolably with emotional 'I tried my best' proclamation in heart-wrenching press conferencewww.hindustantimes.com Watch: Tamim Iqbal cries inconsolably with emotional 'I tried my best' proclamation in heart-wrenching press conference
Bangladesh opener Tamim Iqbal was overwhelmed with emotions as he announced his decision to retire from international cricket on Thursday.
Tamim Iqbal announces his surprise retirement.
- Bas de Leede's five-for and 92-ball 123 take Netherlands to the ODI World Cupwww.espncricinfo.com Bas de Leede's five-for and 92-ball 123 take Netherlands to the ODI World Cup
Scotland scored 277 and needed to prevent Netherlands from crossing it in 44 overs; de Leede ensured it didn't happen
- Download full cricket matches?
cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/cricket/t/11961
> Can you help help me find somewhere to download full cricket matches? I have really been disappointed at the amount of matches I can watch this year in USA since ESPN+ lost streaming rights for many completions, particularly IPL. > > I have managed to avoid results of IPL final hoping to watch full match unspoiled. > > I have used forum.rojadirecta.es for full games in the past, everything from MLB to English rugby league, but they don't seem to have a single cricket match. > > !piracy
- GitHub - rreyv/rcb: Match thread bot for /r/cricketgithub.com GitHub - rreyv/rcb: Match thread bot for /r/cricket
Match thread bot for /r/cricket. Contribute to rreyv/rcb development by creating an account on GitHub.
Who's got some python skills who wants to fork this to lemmy?
- Netherlands and Scotland battle for World Cup jackpotwww.espncricinfo.com Spotlight on Bulawayo as Netherlands, Scotland battle for World Cup jackpot
Cricket's biggest prize on offer this week isn't the Ashes, but a golden ticket to India later this year
- The Magnificent Steven - Smith's Test career, in numberswww.espncricinfo.com The Magnificent Steven - Smith's Test career, in numbers
No batter has averaged as much going into his 100th Test, while his unbelievable six-year peak and his stats against the best bowlers make him one of the greatest