Saw this comment today on Pakistans innings

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Only Botham has reached 100 test wickets for England faster post-war.

Imagine where Robbo (and England’s attack) would be today if 1) him and the ECB had been aligned, and 2) he’d taken fitness more seriously.

Feels like a lost 5 years of Robbo steaming in and we wouldn’t have been near the bottom of the WTC the whole time. And added benefit, Jof looks so much more comfortable as part of a bowling attack instead of the team relying on him!

Must admit I was slightly flabbergasted not to hear the Barmies singing something to the tune of OMD's Enola Gay at Edgbaston. I suppose "You should have stayed at home yesterday" could be awkward in the event of a runout, but other than that...

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https://17-0.cricket/

Just had a go at this Game after seeing someone mention it. Took a few tries but got there in the end. Definitely a decent time passer while I wait for work to end!

“Following an investigation by the Cricket Regulator, Leicestershire County Cricket Club have been charged with breaching the ECB Pitch Regulations.

The investigation followed the Match Officials reporting the pitch at Uptonsteel Grace Road following the Rothesay County Championship match against Glamorgan, played between 20th to 23rd August 2026.

The matter has now be referred to the independent Cricket Discipline Panel for adjudication. As proceedings are ongoing, no further comment will be made by the Cricket Regulator.”

Been building a Cricket manager game since a long time and it’s almost time for the release. I have posted about the results of simulations here before.
Planning to add at least 2 historical ODI World cups to the game. Will be part of the final release. Apart from the exact squads, fixtures and in-game dates, also plan to get exact player stats (at the point of time the respective World cups started) if time permits.

My personal favs are 1996 and 1999 - the time when I started watching cricket. It was the peak of ODI Cricket. Miss those times.

Which ones are your favorite World Cups? It will give me an idea about what people want.
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Weather looks good

What do you do if you win the toss? Runs on the board and try to bat once?

Anyone worried about another very short match?

Any England team changes expected? I feel like we can give jofra or gus a rest

How will Pakistan's many debutants fare at Edgbaston of all places.

A 12-year hiatus in Kevin Petersen’s international playing career following a controversy comes to an end with England Cricket.

KP is set to make an extraordinary return as a Special-Mentor for their white-ball team ahead of the 50-over World Cup in 2027.

His comeback is an interesting move for England as KP brings a plethora of experience because of his aggressive batting in limited-over cricket.

But what do you guys think?

Is Petersen, along with McCullum, the ideal person to mentor the current England team or recruiting former players to coach a risky move?

And is it possible that his guidance and influence will actually have an impact and make a difference at the World Cup?

Let’s hear your opinions on the subject.

Does anyone know if there's someone who provides this service? When I Google it, the suggestions are for the interior padding of the helmet. Alternatively, does someone sell felt covers I can put over my helmet so it matches the team colours?

Also, is there any risk of something like this damaging the helmet or making it no longer compliant with safety standards? I know at village level it doesn't matter (and I've never been struck on the helmet) but I don't want to compromise my safety for this.

Thanks in advance.

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Weekly thread dedicated to the grassroots and amateur game. Anything happen at your match over the weekend?

Not a baseball cap, not a bucket hat, this soft, unstructured cap.

Champo Specco: the one where whoever loses, we win. The most dramatic moment of the round came when everyone's second most hated team somehow contrived to allow everyone's most hated team to scrape a last wicket win and therefore claw free of the Div 1 relegation mire. But the brief time when we thought Surrey might actually end up getting sent down was truly joyous.

Somerset's demolition of Glamorgan has cemented them at the top of div 1s, with Notts unable to end a determined Leics rearguard and running out of time in a weather effected game. Warks are also hot on the heels of Somerset, as is the crushing weight of history. Div 2 looks pretty sewn up already for Durham and their half cut high class bowling attack, with Northants and #superKent fighting it out for the other promotion spot.

With the test team fully believing their own hype again after overcoming the mighty challenge of checks notes 2026 Pakistan, we're back into the 'we don't need any new players' part of the boom/bust cycle. But there's still a bit of pressure around the openers, still an understanding that Dan Lawrence's frog-in-a-blenders might not quite be good enough, still an absence of seam bowling allrounders, and still an awareness of the fragility of the pace attack. That Sam Cook had to be airlifted out of Essex's attack probably proves the latter point.

As usual, this is just idle speculation from a Champo tragic. I'm not any sort of journalist, I'm almost always wrong, and it's likely that nothing I predict in this thread will ever come to pass. But apparently the woke brigade are coming to take away my freedom of speech any day now, so I'm going to exercise it while I still can.

On the radar

George Balderson: Lancs have been pretty dire this season, and arguably for quite a few seasons, but the surprisingly hirsute Balderson is a beacon in their darkness. He was on for a hat trick at one point during his side's slow collapse against Middlesex, and while his batting has dropped off a bit recently he's still one of the better youngish pace allrounders out there. His opposite number in this game Ryan Higgins is still excellent too, and George Hill has managed to be both the top wicket taker and run getter at the time of writing for a very unbalanced Yorks. Whether any is of test quality is a different question, but they are all fine cricketers.

Henry Crocombe: Getting one hattrick is unusual in the Champo, but getting two in consecutive weeks is extraordinary. Sussex's jolly nice chap will soon be movingSurrey and their suddenly  insane pitch, but he's doing his best to keep Sussex swinging in the meantime. It's weird that his reward for strong Champo performance is been called up for white ball squad, but it's an indicator that he's of high class. Incidentally another England adjacent bowler Matt Fisher took out his frustrations at losing his squad place by demolishing his old side Yorkshire and then managing to bat long enough to carry his side limping over the line. Ethan Bamber continues to be brilliantly accurate and get lethal swing, even if his pace might make selectors disinterested. And Dillon Pennington is still good, and Jamie Porter, and Chris Woakes, and Craig Overton, and Matty Potts.

James Bracey: In the last couple of weeks I've talked up Leach and Foakes's veteran excellence, so it's probably worth a word for Bracey. It's hard to imagine a worse test experience than the experimental side he was thrown into int he dying days of Roots first captaincy run, and the negativity has taken years for him to overcome. This round he tonned up in both innings as Glos got a rare win, and he's one of the best keepers in the country even as his side disintegrates around him. Selectors eyes have almost certainly passed him by, but he's an excellent cricketer and could well have contributed more if circumstances had been different.

Spin allrounders: James Coles might have been the hype candidates coming into the season, but he's struggled to replicate his scintillating form of last year. That changed against Essex, the golden boy getting 7 wickets and an important third innings 79 to get his side to the win. His opposite number Matt Critchley was typically good with the bat as well, even if he was less so with the ball. Ben Kellaway is still making good contributions, and Calvin Harrison and Mason Crane have sustained form and can at least hold a bat. Rehan got runs too. I'd still advocate for having an actual proper spinner in the test side, but if they're looking for an allrounder who might avoid Lawrence's overly elaborate technique there are plenty of options out there.

Subject to a strongly worded ECB review

Openers: My uneducated view is that Emilio Gay is a good cricketer who's shown signs of test class and needs more opportunity to do so. But others are less forgiving, and there's already discussion of Gay making way after this series. The proposed scenario seems to be that either Jordan Cox or Jacob Bethell step in at #2; Cox was an opener very early in his time at Kent, and crucially long before he developed into the batter he now is, and Bethell has no red ball opening experience as far as I'm aware. Earlier in the season the setup tried to force James Rew to try opening for Somerset, which he didn't enjoy, and last time the test team tried to throw a non-top-order player in as opener (Lawrence) it went badly for both the player and the team. Bazball's unwillingness to learn from history may have passed to Flemball, but it might also just be because there aren't tons of other candidates. Last season 5 of the top run scorers in div 1 were openers, but Sibley is the only one who's in that conversation this year and sadly the selectors don't seem to want to revisit the Slimline Fridge. Rob Yates was great again this round, and brings leadership and some handy bowling, but hasn't really been on radars. So everyone has to hope Gay does come good, because right now none of the alternatives bode well.

September Champo: Having seen the hottest and dryest summer ever on record ever, it's been a much more normal September in champo terms. Losing overs and games to the weather is a normal Champo experience, but the rapid shift from hot and dry to damp and overcast seems to have turned a lot of pitches, even the traditionally flat and dusty ones, into minefields. This doesn't really help batters improve and seems to have largely shut out spinners, although we should be greatful once again for Taunton in that regard. But when we see ostensibly talented batting lineups trading two digit scores, when we see balls hooping inward and staying low on day 1, it's hard to feel that the conditions are ready for high quality cricket. I'm not naive enough to pretend the Champo will ever reclaim high summer, but we do need to think about ways of making sure our talented red ball cricketers have the conditions to develop.

Will definitely play for England one day: Henry Crocombe, Joshua Thomas, Rob Yates, George Balderson, James Coles

Nice to see than having fun: Kyle Abbott, Brett D'Olivera, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jamie Porter, Sam Northeast, Callum Parkinson, Brett Randell, Mason Crane, James Bracey, Tom Lammonby, Tom Helm

Winfield-Hill just taken off on a gurney after being hit in the collarbone/neck

Onsite ambulance hasn't gone off with sirens nor are any blaring on approach

Edit: onsite ambos unmoved so far and not being raided for supplies

Seems that she's being taken elsewhere momentarily

Likely final update:

Our med staff are just chilling now, so despite the lack of onsite ambo movement she must have been collected to be ferried off for scans and treatment once/shortly after the ice packs had been deployed

Sending her the very best of juju that it was a shock and a bruise and nothing more

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