O/T:- 🏏The other Notts [Cricket]

[Mark_Ross]

At least England win in the worlds greatest sport - England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Roooooooot

That was one crazy game, eh? When the wickets were tumbling yesterday we were all thinking "here we go again". Hopefully it will help Root not having the extra burden of captaincy. He is the spine - it seems that for England to succeed Root must succeed.

[forwardmagpie]

That was one crazy game, eh? When the wickets were tumbling yesterday we were all thinking "here we go again". Hopefully it will help Root not having the extra burden of captaincy. He is the spine - it seems that for England to succeed Root must succeed.

Great to see wickets from the old boys too.

[jackal2]

That was one crazy game, eh? When the wickets were tumbling yesterday we were all thinking "here we go again". Hopefully it will help Root not having the extra burden of captaincy. He is the spine - it seems that for England to succeed Root must succeed.

To be honest, Joe Root has successfully papered over the continuing huge cracks in England's batting line-up, and if relinquishing the captaincy helps him to continue doing this then it can only be to our benefit. Something's got to be done about that top order though. We keep swapping the personnel but getting the same thing: batsmen who can look reasonable in the comfortable surroundings of "first class" English cricket but whose technical flaws and impatience get horribly exposed at Test level. They spend far too much time playing short-form cartoon cricket.

I feel sorry for our bowlers. They performed brilliantly to bowl New Zealand out for 132 in the first innings, but then most of our batsmen just threw their wickets away and ended up only 9 runs ahead. You could excise the likes of Broad, Anderson and Potts for feeling de-motivated after that!

Still, we won in the end, and it's something at least to build on.

[Magpies1959]

As strange as it may seem, there is still room for a Sir Geoffrey type, at test level. The game might have changed but a Test Match still can last five days.
It is interesting though as Stokes saw while batting yesterday that he didn't fancy our tail needing too many against the new ball, so took it upon himself to push the run rate on with some 'one day batting', this eventually lead to his downfall but did change the game.
I guess it has added a new dimension to test cricket, but it would be lovely to see a few more top order batsmen play straight, and take the shine off the ball.

[LaughingMagpie]

The top 3 batsmen give you no confidence whatsoever. Surely we must have better.

[Elite_Pie]

Notts T20 game at Warwickshire reduced to 8 overs per side, Notts need 99 to win.

Notts reply starting soon and can be watched here:

https://edgbaston.com/fixtures/first...e-5-june-2022/

[forwardmagpie]

Notts T20 game at Warwickshire reduced to 8 overs per side, Notts need 99 to win.

Notts reply starting soon and can be watched here:

https://edgbaston.com/fixtures/first...e-5-june-2022/

Thanks Elite - a chaotic loss

[Elite_Pie]

Thanks Elite - a chaotic loss

Chaotic sums it up well. Hales and Duckett put us in a great position, the rest of the batsmen just weren't up to it.

[jackal2]

As strange as it may seem, there is still room for a Sir Geoffrey type, at test level. The game might have changed but a Test Match still can last five days.

We're crying out for a player or two like that. Someone who only gives their wicket away to an absolute jaffa of a ball. Some of our lot act like they're playing rounders!

[Stan Marshall]

The top 3 batsmen give you no confidence whatsoever. Surely we must have better.

That and the fact we were playing with virtually four number 11’s. Another wicket and we’d have struggled today. Credit to Foakes for sticking with Root though.