England Cricket

Well done the ladies ! They were down and out at one point but turned it round to reach the final. Also well done Sophie Ecclestone a sixfer in a limited over match, brilliant .

I remember being at Headingley to watch England women against New Zealand in an ODI and when she was bowling you could hear Sarah Taylor keeping wicket encouraging her with “come on Katy” or good work Katy”

I left the ground puzzled because of course her name wasn’t Katy. It was sometime much later that I realised it wasn’t “Katy” but  “Cakey”. Ecclestone had become Eccles cake😀

Taken me a while to realise why somebody is posting Happy Things on here, then realised that it's the Ladies making Roger smile and post happily.  So May Be there is real hope for fresh management teams to let Strauss go back into the dark areas { and Brian does not mean Richard Georg of that ilk   }

Yep, well done Ladies.    i gave up hope of the men's game many years ago.

They came up against a top, top team in the final, and it was a big ask for them to win.

A pity most of the match was on when I was fast asleep. I had my spring booster jab on Friday and having had a bit of a reaction didn’t sleep at all well on Friday night so I was spark out last night😴

So very sad to see that Jofra Archer has, like so many of the younger quick bowlers,  gone down with 'Lower Back Troubles ' and that is before he has got his arm back up to Test Match Pace.

Did I hear somebody saying that Broad & Anderson are both " Past It " snort harrummmppphhh !

RIGHT YOU LOT  :~~ IT'S  CRICKET TIME SO PUT AWAY THOSE PUDDING SOFT BLOW UP BALLS  ~~ THIS IS SERIOUS SPORT   !!

When I saw the Kiwi’s first innings score I started to believe the hype uttered by the new skipper. Then I watched yet another inept batting display and thought same old same old😱

Don't tempt me, Roger, Please !

Could ( should ??  ) have gone to the local Jubilee Garden Party instead of watching 60 minutes of torture on Beeb this evening    !!

Nice to see a bit of a fight back by the England bowlers this morning.

I fear 277 to win will prove to be well beyond these batsmen unless they frame themselves 

ps “frame thisen” is what you say in these parts to get somebody to shape up.

Well so far they have framed up, or at least Root and Stokes have, after an excellent spell of new ball bowling in the morning session. Hope that they can continue in the same vein, but fear it will be "the same old England".😞