[Benno Spire]

Watching Wood batting there brought back memories of my batting against Clarevoyant bowling.

[JonB]

Love Mark Wood, cricket needs more people like Mark Wood. When he is fit he is a godsend to our bowling attack with Archer out. Throw in his joyful batting and….

[CFC91]

Was there on Saturday so got really unlucky with the weather, but the afternoon session we did see was a stunner! Great we are back in it, Woakes and Wood coming in have been fab.

Will be tempted to drop Bairstow out for Foakes into the next one too.

[Westbars Spireite]

CFC91, on 10 July 2023 - 08:28 AM, said:

Was there on Saturday so got really unlucky with the weather, but the afternoon session we did see was a stunner! Great we are back in it, Woakes and Wood coming in have been fab.

Will be tempted to drop Bairstow out for Foakes into the next one too.

They won't do that as it would be accepting they go it wrong in the first place. Anderson for Robinson will the only change I can see.

[Doreets]

Westbars Spireite, on 10 July 2023 - 09:31 AM, said:

They won't do that as it would be accepting they go it wrong in the first place. Anderson for Robinson will the only change I can see.

It's shocking to me that he only played in two first class games after his leg break and he scored poorly in both of those, international cricket isn't the place to try and find your form

[Benno Spire]

CFC91, on 10 July 2023 - 08:28 AM, said:

Was there on Saturday so got really unlucky with the weather, but the afternoon session we did see was a stunner! Great we are back in it, Woakes and Wood coming in have been fab.

Will be tempted to drop Bairstow out for Foakes into the next one too.

That would be my shout as well if we want to win. what runs has Bairstow made compared against dropped catches.

[Doreets]

England Men's Fourth Ashes Test Squad
Ben Stokes (Durham) Captain
Moeen Ali (Warwickshire)
James Anderson (Lancashire)
Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire)
Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire)
Harry Brook (Yorkshire)
Zak Crawley (Kent)
Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire)
Dan Lawrence (Essex)
Ollie Robinson (Sussex)
Joe Root (Yorkshire)
Josh Tongue (Worcestershire)
Chris Woakes (Warwickshire)
Mark Wood (Durham)

[Mr Mercury]

I didn’t realise this feud was still going on..well done beefy.
https://youtu.be/Sm2gYQRTmqA

[Doreets]

Mr Mercury, on 15 July 2023 - 09:10 PM, said:

I didn’t realise this feud was still going on..well done beefy.
https://youtu.be/Sm2gYQRTmqA

Chappell comes across quite the bellend doesn't he.

[Johnnyspireite7]

Doreets, on 16 July 2023 - 02:17 PM, said:

Chappell comes across quite the bellend doesn't he.

He always has, don't forget that he's the one who instructed his brother to bowl underarm to the New Zealand batters when they needed 4 to win a one dayer. Same old Aussies always cheating. He also hates the fact that Botham & Border became such great friends and Thomo and My Uncle.

[DOUGLAS JARDINE]

Johnnyspireite7, on 16 July 2023 - 02:41 PM, said:

He always has, don't forget that he's the one who instructed his brother to bowl underarm to the New Zealand batters when they needed 4 to win a one dayer. Same old Aussies always cheating. He also hates the fact that Botham & Border became such great friends and Thomo and My Uncle.

Just watched this wow what’s bitter bitter man Chappel is and yes the underarm bowling was disgusting

And then you get the complete opposite with Richie Benuods thoughts at the end which of course were independent and classy from the greatest cricket commentator ever

[Westbars Spireite]

Bought NordVPN for a month so I can hopefully watch NowTV poolside in Greece.

[JonB]

Westbars Spireite, on 18 July 2023 - 07:28 AM, said:

Bought NordVPN for a month so I can hopefully watch NowTV poolside in Greece.

I've used various VPN trials over the years we've gone to France to use Sky Go, BT Sport, BBC Sport streaming stuff etc on my iPad for cricket\football and various other sports without any issues. As long as you make sure the VPN is connected before you open the streaming app it should be fine. NowTV i suspect is more or less the same as Sky Go in terms of platform.

[Doreets]

Yeah I bought 2 years of nordvpn and I may have gone to Belgium a few times when I can't get to the b2net/proact/technique/SNM stadium it's by far the best I've used.

On topic, Jonny Bairstow is already winding me up I feel like I'm starting to become one of those constant whingers on a particular player

This post has been edited by Doreets: 19 July 2023 - 10:48 AM

[JonB]

I've managed to avoid having to pay for one so far by installing different ones each time i go as they generally come with a free trial of the full version for 7 days, or if you are lucky 30 days, and just make sure i cancel the sub so i dont get charged. Got me through for years for now.

[Doreets]

JonB, on 19 July 2023 - 10:59 AM, said:

I've managed to avoid having to pay for one so far by installing different ones each time i go as they generally come with a free trial of the full version for 7 days, or if you are lucky 30 days, and just make sure i cancel the sub so i dont get charged. Got me through for years for now.

One I can recommend for free is Windscribe rather than have a trial for a week or 30 days you get 10gb of data a month but they usually offer ways to refresh it like following them on twitter etc

[JonB]

Doreets, on 19 July 2023 - 11:16 AM, said:

One I can recommend for free is Windscribe rather than have a trial for a week or 30 days you get 10gb of data a month but they usually offer ways to refresh it like following them on twitter etc

Yep i've got that one and for a while had it on a free option with 30gb but had an email the other day saying it was going down to 10gb. Not sure that would last long using Sky Go etc.

[Doreets]

No big fan of Crawley but that's a helluva century

[JonB]

Doreets, on 20 July 2023 - 02:08 PM, said:

No big fan of Crawley but that's a helluva century

Been good in this series just needed to kick on from a start like he has today.

[Westbars Spireite]

He could get 250 here and put us in a really strong place even if it ends up being a 4 day game.