Champions Trophy 2025

[SuperSub]

This batting approach is just a shambles, you would expect better game awareness from a bloke in the thirds nevermind international level.

 

[Classic94]

This lot are a shambles

Why not play Banton and Rehan in this game? Feels really short-sighted.

Salt is a dirty slogger and Smith should be lower down the order.

 

[Durham-Mackem41]

Is it just me who’s getting sick of seeing abject performances yet every time they pan to McCullum he’s sat there laughing and joking like it does not matter!

 

[Inside Forward]

“Bazball” is starting to fuck our players.

 

[Eggman]

“Bazball” is starting to fuck our players.

Is it because they are getting mixed messages or just told to play one way ? Who knows !

There seems to be no willingness to play the situation - they just play the way they are instructed - and cricket isn’t like that

Although there are different formats these days, the basic techniques have been developed over 200 years and there is a reason for that. You can’t just throw away all this history, though Bazball and The Hundred are trying to

 

[Dexter]

Honestly what was the point in picking Salt and not giving Rehan a go. We’re out of the tournament and still the same failures get picked. Absolute farce.

 

[Struts]

Is it me or are these games moving VERY slowly?

 

[Rufus T Firefly]

An hour and 40 minutes to bowl 20 overs. Suppose 5 wickets slow things a little.

 

[SAFC11]

Livingstone is so shit

 

[Dexter]

Harry Brook has played 11 matches this year in the T20s and ODIs for an average of 17.5. Lad has been abysmal.

Hopefully that’s the last we ever see of Livingstone anarl.

 

[Paddy O'Dors]

Hopefully the last we ever see of Livingstone in an England shirt. He's absolute turd.

 

[Rufus T Firefly]

Hopefully the last we ever see of Livingstone in an England shirt. He's absolute turd.

Definitely for 50 over games, along with Salt. Might have a T20 future. Might.

 

[Classic94]

Hopefully the end of Salt and Livingstone. Brook has been rancid also.

Thus team are just so unlikeable under ‘Baz’. Arrogant and rubbish.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

It’s just the way we play iirc

 

[Struts]

An hour and 40 minutes to bowl 20 overs. Suppose 5 wickets slow things a little.

Should be limited to 90 seconds in One-Day Cricket. Ridiculous they still get 2 minutes like in Tests.

 

[Inside Forward]

Hopefully the end of Salt and Livingstone. Brook has been rancid also.

Thus team are just so unlikeable under ‘Baz’. Arrogant and rubbish.

That’s it for me. The arrogance of them is staggering.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

the replacement white ball captain shouldn’t be Brook. Obviously mega talented, but he comes across as if he doesn’t give a shit at all.

Whilst he almost certainly does, that’s not the body language of a leader.

The cupboard is bare

 

[Rufus T Firefly]

Hopefully the end of Salt and Livingstone. Brook has been rancid also.

Thus team are just so unlikeable under ‘Baz’. Arrogant and rubbish.

And there's another one to say goodbye to.

 

[chunkyshanhawk53]

Just gash. There are 25 overs left

 

[SuperSub]

the replacement white ball captain shouldn’t be Brook. Obviously mega talented, but he comes across as if he doesn’t give a shit at all.

Whilst he almost certainly does, that’s not the body language of a leader.

The cupboard is bare

Agree, and you could also say there's no obvious replacement for a number of key positions such as opener, number 3, all rounder, spinner, lower order batsman.

There just seems to be a massive gap in quality within English white ball cricket, hence why the likes of Overton is getting a gig.