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Headlines tomorrow: "Jonny Bairstow in Fracas at Leeds Station" No, he just walked past towards the west exit (so maybe the taxi rank / car park).

As an aside, I just walked past Jonny Bairstow in Leeds Station. Taller than you might imagine.

As I wasn't paying much attention for most of it (work tended to get in the way, so I'd nip down and turn on the tele if a match seemed to be getting interesting, and then give up 5min later when England immediately lost 3 wickets :lolol:), this is a genuine question, was Cummins' captaincy that...

As a "team of the world cup" rather than a team anybody would actually pick for a match, Mitchell over Maxwell makes complete sense. On a similar basis though, I struggle to justify picking Cummins over a number of other players (including Madushanka), who took noticeably more wickets at a...

Yes you're right, I misremembered Rahul's much higher average (he finished not out 4 times, while de Kock was dismissed in every innings, unsurprisingly given he was opening) as being a higher aggregate. I'd ideally pick Sharma and Head over de Kock as an opener because they either scored as...

I just had a crack at picking a team (tricky, given I didn't actually watch much of the tournament), and ended up with the below. Beyond seeing you'd posted it, I didn't actually read the ICC selection first. 1 Sharma 2 Head 3 Kohli 4 Ravindra 5 Rahul (w) 6 Maxwell 7 Jadeja 8 Zampa 9 Bumrah 10...

No, that was Illingworth (who's presumably not in on the conspiracy).

To be fair to him, England finished the first day of the 2017 Perth test on 4/305, so he was almost certainly right about bowling first being a stupid idea. That England went on to lose by an innings and 41 runs is neither here nor there. :lolol: I always admire people who choose to go to the...

I don't mind Warner too much when he's on the pitch, I can at least watch him bat without wanting to stick pins in my own eyes. His amusingly bad record in England (and generally outside of Australia) also helps me tolerate him. I'm not sure "unlikeable" covers the accusations against Shami. If...

If Head scores a match winning hundred, I'll be pleased for him. I'll be even more pleased if Labuschagne manages to run himself out by tripping over and lodging his own bat handle up his groin, but that might be too much to ask for.

I'm a big admirer of Head's moustache.

Oh I wasn't looking when they showed that replay. What a shame. Should have tried hitting it with his bat shouldn't he?

Has there ever been a more unlikeable cricketer than Steve Smith? Not content with being an insufferable twat, his batting looks like somebody's sewn about 3 insufferable twats together. Oh he's out LBW again.

Unless he's changed his mind, he's playing through the Australian summer in tests and then to the next world Cup in T20s.

Always liked both of them, so I can see that. Vaguely surprised Gough hasn't won it given some of the press he's had in the last few years. Though I'm mainly thinking of the covid summer in 2020 which they don't appear to have awarded anybody for.

Well, the best non-Indian or Australian umpires anyway. Good for those two. Both yorkshiremen, which I'm sure will please Dickie Bird.

I'm trying to think of a way in which it could be worse, and so far all I've come up with is actually having rabies. At least there's a chance Australia will get hammered and we'll get to see Steve Smith's confused face when he's outrageously given out LBW to what turns out on review to be a...

Continuous failure will do that to a fanbase. The least philosophical I've come across seem to be those on NSC, although they're generally posting in real time so probably understandable. If cricket doesn't educate you about the fundamental unfairness of life then little will.

To be fair, that's not dissimilar to the Australians who seem to think it's unfair that their team sometimes have to bat when it's cloudy.

To be fair, Nasser on his greatest moments sounds like a great watch. It does last too long. Of course it does. But that is entirely down to the TV scheduling. The first world cup in 1975 (featuring 8 teams) lasted two weeks. The 1992 edition, played to basically the same format as this but with...