England Collapses

A group of cricket fans celebrating England's habit of collapsing. Please note that such celebrations are in jest, we don't wish England any misfortune!

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@abhishekjriwala @laladee12345 @willis_macp He wasn't going to anyway, but this announcement just emphasises the point.

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@willis_macp Cricketer decides to play cricket at a time there are other cricket matches going on which he wasn't going to play in anyway.

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@jfwduffield The Hundred has its place... but that place is emphatically *not* at the height of summer, pushing proper cricket into the sidelines.

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Speaking of that tour match, the CA XI included Campbell Kellaway, Teague Wyllie, Jerrsis Wadis, Hanno Jacobs, Corey Rocchiccioli and Xavier Crone. I am convinced that Australia are deliberately taking the piss when it comes to naming their cricketers.

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Get clobbered by an invitational team in the tour match, then win the following Test convincingly. Reminds me of England at Bridgetown in 1994 - with the key difference that Bangladesh weren't already 3-0 down in the series...

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@Saikatmukh02 Should be, yes. But they don't behave much like it...

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Eh, the reason you've ended up becoming captain again is that the guy everyone thought would get the job failed to behave like a grown adult.

This is like letting a bunch of kids loose in an unattended sweet shop and not expecting them to eat anything.

[Stick to Cricket @StickToCricket]

Joe Root has ruled out an England curfew ahead of the Pakistan series.

Root has told his players to behave like “grown adults”.

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@icelandcricket Clem Hill by Victor Trumper. Bill Ponsford and Stan McCabe by Don Bradman. Sylvester Clarke, Wayne Daniel etc. by Andy Roberts, Joel Garner, Colin Croft, Michael Holding etc. Ian Bishop, Winston and Kenny Benjamin by Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh.

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@WisdenCricket All true, but what is the alternative? Brook and Duckett are both effectively banned from the captaincy for disciplinary reasons, although Brook will probably be appointed once he's served his time. There is no-one else with sufficient experience and who's sure of their place.

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Accurate depiction of the highlights of a Hundred match.

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After the shocker they produced this year, Lord's should be suspended from hosting Tests until they can demonstrate that they have resolved the problem.

Also, why five men's Tests but only one women's? Have the ECB forgotten the recent damning report on discrimination?

[The Cricketer @TheCricketerMag]

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The Men's and Women's Ashes will run alongside each other next summer.

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@BenDowell I'm not against the Hundred in itself - just against the idea that it should dominate the height of summer and all proper cricket be marginalised. Having a Test series finish by late July/early August so the Hundred can take over the rest of the season is ludicrous.

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@RupertLowe10 Crack on? More like on crack.

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@harryxafc @bbctms You think any of the men's team would be remotely capable of solving one?

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@JamieJrb1984 @WG_RumblePants Getting thrashed while looking like they don't give a toss about it? That is *definitely* something the men's team do.

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@WG_RumblePants I don't really follow things closely enough to know in detail who is coaching where, what success they've had and whether they might want the aforementioned tough gig. Stewart would be good, but might be too invested in Surrey to want to move to England. Otherwise maybe Flower.

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@WG_RumblePants It's going to be a tough gig for whoever gets it. Fans enjoyed the Bazball approach until it stopped working - a new coach is going to have to retain an element of positivity, while making it clear that it has to be tempered to suit the circumstances.

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Brendon McCullum's departure reflects Bazball's own selection policy: show excessive "faith" in someone whose results clearly don't merit it, until finally dropping them long after most people would have figured it had become necessary.

See: Zak Crawley.

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I'm no expert on tennis, but I'm fairly sure the answer to this question is "win the quarter-final".

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Lovely collapsing from India there. Have they been taking lessons from England?