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Words cannot express how I honoured I am....
#bbccricket
As well as it being Australia Day, in the TMS box it’s ‘Dress like
@norcrosscricket
Day’!
#AUSvENG
#bbccricket
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That ball from Bumrah to dismiss Robinson deserves a six part documentary.
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New Zealand took 222.5 overs to score 657 in this match. Perfectly respectable. England won it in just 121.2. Preposterous.
#bbccricket
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There is absolutely no way that England, or anyone else, can chase 399 against this attack on that pitch. But the fact plenty of people think they might is testament to what this team has done over the last 20 months. Fair play to them.
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Largest 1st innings deficit to beat India is now 190.
It was 65 before today.
That’s like knocking three seconds off the 100 metre record. It’s absurd, preposterous and utterly magnificent.
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More madness for you.
Maidens bowled in this match by:
Pakistan: 4 (136.5 overs)
Anderson: 16 (46 overs)
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England are basically out of this tournament so they’ve picked:
Stokes, who is due to have an operation on his knee
Willey, who has retired from international cricket and
Wood, who has gone round the park instead of:
Brook, Curran and Atkinson. Yup, me neither.
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After 51 days, most of them spent at a hotel inside Old Trafford, the West Indies team is heading home. Thanks ever so much for coming and....go well.
#tailendersoftheworlduniteandtakeover
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England reviving test cricket after the bore draw in Pindi.
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The raw and crucial stat at a ground where 15 overs were lost every day and the pitch was dead:
England 921 in 133.5 overs @ 6.73
Pakistan 847 in 252 overs @ 3.36
England literally batted twice as fast.
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A trite observation, I know, but Rashid Khan earned £900k for bowling 68 overs in one IPL season. He’s just bowled 99.2 overs in the last three days. Probably got paid around £1k. You see test cricket’s challenge?
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England have certainly answered their critics here. By agreeing with them.
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My American sister in law fell in love with cricket only after watching Shane Warne bowl. Suddenly a light was switched on. He really was the most extraordinary player. The skill, the theatre. The charisma. He was mesmerising. The game we watch today owes so much to him.
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Unbelievable is the most overused word in sport. But what England and Tom Hartley have done there is….unbelievable.
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A genuinely remarkable achievement by Ben Stokes, Brendan McCullum and the England team. No side in history has pulled off a clean sweep in Pakistan, and to do it in such style. Extraordinary.
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I reckon it’s time Australia took a hard look at their team and gave a few players a break for about a year. Cummins, Starc, Hazlewood, Lyon, Smith, Labuschagne and Warner look spent to me. Build the team around Paine, Harris, Wade and a recalled Head.
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The fortitude of these Super Bowl fans, staying up til 330am once a year is a marvel to behold. And don’t they let us know it. God knows how they’d cope with The Ashes.
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Match figures:
Jacks 6-199 (46.3)
Zahid Mahmood 6-319 (44)
Anderson 5-88 (46) WTAF
Robinson 5-122 (43)
Naseem 5-206 (33.5)
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I get that ‘Eoin deserves credit’ etc., but a bunch of players at two days’ notice, quite a few of them who thought they’d never play ODIs, turned up and thrashed a full Pakistan side 3-0. I think they deserve the majority of the credit.
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Insane last 90 minutes. Insane last six weeks. So much fun. Can we have a decider?
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India has just pulled off the most remarkable series win of all time. No question. Insane, magnificent, skilful, nerveless. Wow.
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Dawid Malan is a weird batsman. For the first 10-15 balls of his innings he looks like a blindfolded hostage. Thereafter, he becomes Kumar Sangakarra.
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There’s only one convincing candidate to replace Joe Root as captain; Heather Knight.
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Yesssss. They’ve done it. Surrey 611-9 (and counting). The highest first class score not to contain a century. What a time to be alive!
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After 48 days it’s time for
@bbctms
Team Normoerly to sign off. Thank you so much
@henrymoeranBBC
and
@AlexHartley93
for being the best of colleagues and the very best of friends. I’ve had a blast. See you on the other side. And for those who are left, good luck for the final.
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Washington Sundar hasn’t played a first class match in three years and is about to beat Australia in a test match at the Gabba. The Gabba I tell you.
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I saw Sam Robson make a hugely skilful ton on Sunday against a Notts attack containing Broad, Pattinson and Fletcher under slate grey skies with the ball doing plenty. Not sure what Crawley has done this season to get the nod over him.
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England captain for five and a half years, Heather Knight played the most perfect test match innings you could wish to see, in her 9th test; 11 years after her first test match. Unpack that.
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Today in the County Championship we’ve had:
A triple hundred at Lord’s
A hat trick at Trent Bridge
A five wicket haul for an England qualified leg-spinner at Old Trafford
(And a Golden Duck for Nathan Lyon)
Well done, day two.
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Surprised Australia have sent Smith in to bat. Thought they’d save their best player for Adelaide. England way ahead in the tactical battle.
#bbccricket
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I really don’t know who should be the next England captain, and every suggested option is either retired from test cricket, far from guaranteed their place in the team, has never captained before or can’t play 4 games in a row, let alone 7. That is quite the problem.
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I was convinced that declaration yesterday was about 20 minutes too early, but what do I know? This team delights and confounds. Insanely good fun.
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Joe Root becomes just the second man to do the double of 11,440+ runs and 62 wickets.
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Great game that, on a great pitch. What are we supposed to do for the next 10 days while we wait for the next one?
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Great compliment paid to Charlie Dean by India. They couldn’t get her out any other way. Still, lesson is stay in your crease when Deepti is bowling.
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Four years ago at Adelaide Australia scored 442-8 dec. England 227 all out. This time 473-9 dec. England 236. In terms of runs/wicket England are making progress. Just. Should have cracked it by 2053.
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In the course of that knock, Anderson became just the second person to score 1346 runs and take 693 wickets in test cricket.
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‘It’s the same old story’ says Jos.
But it isn’t. It’s a very new story for this team, and that’s why no one can make sense of it.
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This is Bazball saying ‘look what happens when you try to play attritional, occupy the crease cricket’. And will therefore vindicate all that went before. That’s the beauty of it, you see?
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I struggled to see the logic of a slogging Nightwatcher until I realised Broad is the best man to faff about wasting time with his helmet and generally infuriating the oppo.
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If Sam Northeast finishes the first-class season with 27 consecutive ducks, he’ll still average 12.48.
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Has any team in test cricket surpassed its first innings score on the first day?
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Men with 1000+ T20 International runs at an average of 50+
Kohli
Malan
That’s your lot.
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Well, that is extraordinary. This side will never play as one again, (and at least one of them will never play for England again) but they’ve just written themselves into folklore. Just wow.
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Ended up doing six nights on
@bbctms
and 11 on
@btsportcricket
from the discomfort of an English winter. Despite the result and the sleeplessness I loved every minute working with some of the best broadcasters and producers in sport. Time for bed.
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This is a monstrous performance by England. Unrelenting. Quite scary, actually.
#T20WorldCup21
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Root’s bowling average is now a full six runs lower than his batting average. Botham’s was only five.
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Hang on, have we been picking the wrong squad all this time?
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What a session that was. Bumrah’s fastest spell of the summer, with an old ball, reversing the hell out of it. Scintillating stuff. Game over.
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Everyone who ever grew up playing cricket in the 70s and 80s used to do a Bob Willis’ running in to bowl impression. Imitation really can be the sincerest form of flattery.
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I bloody loved that pitch. More of the same please at OT.
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England’s XI for Old Trafford has a record combined 1,974 test wickets between them.
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England have now lost their last 15 wickets for 85 runs across two formats.
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For so many reasons, that is an extraordinary performance. Perhaps the most extraordinary of an already extraordinary McCullum era. I take my hat off to Stokes. His captaincy is bold, bewildering and brilliant. Strewth.
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It’s a novel feeling, watching England play cricket in Australia and not be wincing with fear every ball. It could catch on.
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The question I’m bound to ask is whether Stokes would have declared on 393-4, rather than 393-8, and I’m starting to think he might.
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England avoid bottom spot in the table, by one run.
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Malan’s drop of Kohli on day two has made this match a contest. He might have revived Test cricket single-handedly. Instead of deriding him, we should give him a knighthood.
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Glenn Maxwell arrived at the crease at the end of the 39th over and still got a hundred. The latest arrival by a centurion in ODI history.
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I find myself, for no obviously discernible reason, cracking open a bottle of bubbly at 4:24pm on an ordinary Saturday.
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What can you say about Kohli that thousands of people in search of Twitter likes won’t just have said?
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This test match in Jamaica is ridiculously brilliantly poised. WI need 55 with four wickets in hand. Imran Butt can’t buy a run but he’s one of the best slippers I’ve seen. Worth a watch over on BT.
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At Lord’s England were 188-2 in reply to 416 when Pope was out and went on to make just 325. Here they were 182-2 in reply to 445 when Pope was out and made 319. Both times against a side that had just lost a key bowler. Same match unfolding. Expect a contentious stumping.
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What a truly fantastic day for Afghanistan cricket. They outplayed the world champions with bat and ball. Completely deserved that win.
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It has been pointed out to me by
@cricketingview
that England are the first team in the history of international cricket (Test, ODI and T20) to win a run chase after being BOWLED OUT. This is so gloriously insane, my life is now complete.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that when your no’s 8 and 9 are your top two scorers, you don’t win many cricket matches.
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The toss was at 1.30. When it was very, very hot. They didn’t bargain for what it actually was when they chose not to bargain for it. At the toss.
Matthew Mott says: “The heat was more than we bargained for.”
England have been in India for almost a month, and the forecast for Mumbai is pretty consistent.
Not sure that reasoning will cut it with understandably hopeful England fans.
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I guess it makes sense to leave out the leggie who averages 20 in England this year. I mean, whoever heard of a leg spinner doing well in Australia?
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There are times when I pinch myself.....
WHAT. A. MOMENT.
Here's the scene in the TMS commentary box as Alastair Cook signs off in style.
Live:
📻📱💻🎥
🌍
#ENGvIND
#bbccricket
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Isa is among the most versatile, experienced and knowledgeable broadcasters in cricket. Both on TV and radio, red ball or white all around the world. It’s a privilege to work with her. She shouldn’t have to deal with this nonsense.
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The last time Australia lost at the Gabba, Rohit, Pujara and Rahane were all less than two years old. The rest of India’s team hadn’t even been born.
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Personal news: I have decided to take a break from cricket for a while. It wasn’t an easy decision but the loss of Liam Livingstone’s wicket rendered this match entirely uninteresting. I shall instead be devoting the next 59 minutes to watching the first episode of Squid Game.
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Thanks all of you who kept
@philtufnell
and me company through the night on
@bbctms
. You were invaluable for our morale. Sorry about the inevitable, but at least it took nearly six hours this time, not two. Off to kip.
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In the flesh, this is actually one hell of a stand.
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They almost certainly don’t. A last minute deal will be done, probably at a lower price than it would have been had it been done earlier. It’s ridiculous, a pain in the arse for the actual broadcaster who gets the rights and it happens every time. To no one’s obvious benefit.
Cricket fans face a possible blackout with England’s Test series against India yet to find a home on UK television, less than three weeks before the first ball is due to be bowled👇👇👇
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Cricket is peculiar. Not sure anyone expected England’s opening partnership to be the biggest of the match by 4.26 when play began this morning.
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You can either fixate on the tiny minority of idiots who chose to boo Smith yesterday, or revel in the sight and sound of a crowd on its feet in awe and admiration of his bravery. I choose the latter.
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Well, you have to say it; India’s bowling attack is something else. Completely unplayable today. It was a genuine joy to watch them up close.
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Amidst the mayhem, let us pause to note that Joe Root has just gone past KP’s 4422 runs in 23 fewer innings at an average of 51 (10 more than KP) and a higher SR. He also has the lowest SR of England’s current top eight. Which tells you just how good England are, normally.
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Bloody hell. The worst team in the world right now has just beaten the best fast bowling attack on their own patch thanks to one of the greatest innings you will ever see. I’m in bits.
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Only one man has batted more than 65 balls today at The Oval while 16 wickets have fallen; Ollie Pope, who has toughed out 104 balls for his 68. He averages just short of 60. He is the best batsman in county cricket by a mile.
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This team’s determination to eradicate the phrase ‘it could be worse’ from the English language is among the great sporting stories of our age.
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What a bloody privilege to be at Edgbaston for one of the all time great test matches.
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Off to Karachi tomorrow with these requested items. Match the item to the commentator/photographer/producer.
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Truly magnificent from New Zealand. Pretty much dead and buried after Livingstone’s last over, then win it with six balls to spare. Spectacular. Chapeau.
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Pink ball, six overs old, and the slow left armer could have had three wickets in four balls. I love this game.
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Well, that was a magnificent test match, played at a great pace. Thrilling and unpredictable right up until the final session. Shafali Verma could boss this format for the next 20 years….if she’s given the chance. And maybe let’s do five days next time, eh?
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