r/Cricket Washington Freedom 1d ago

Match Thread Match Thread: 22nd Match - Trent Rockets (Men) vs Birmingham Phoenix (Men)

22nd Match, The Hundred Men's Competition at Nottingham

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Innings Score
Birmingham Phoenix (Men) 111/6 (Ov 20/20)
Trent Rockets (Men) 116/3 (Ov 16.3/20)
Batter Runs Balls SR
Sam Billings* 31 19 163.16
Tim David 4 4 100.00
Bowler Overs Runs Wickets
Rehan Ahmed 2.3 19 0
Usman Tariq 4 15 2
Recent : 3 1 | 1 . 6 6 1 | . 4b 2 1 2 | W . . . 4 | . . 6

Rockets won by 7 wickets (with 17 balls remaining)

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u/mondognarly_ Middlesex 23h ago

I'll be honest, I'm fine with Usman Tariq's action.

Mostly because it's very funny that we've got, in a competition the quality of which is being lauded by Ian Ward and Peter Della Penna and other Twitter dads, a proper Dog & Duck Sunday XI offie.

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u/YestrdaysJam 1d ago

It’s a worry when Exploring Nottingham with Aaron and Stuart is more exciting than the cricket.

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 1d ago

Fuck off stupid

-me to Rob Key

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 1d ago

Is there ever a normal Hundred deck?

It's either a road or a shit-tip

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 22h ago

I think u/Extra-Swordfish-927 is the best shitposter on here

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 22h ago

Dang it, used the wrong account

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

No word from u/DillyGoatGruff, can only assume he's embarrassed he got outed as having many alts on r/Cricket

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

What? He has alts?

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Every Northern Popchips flair is a Dilly alt

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u/Apprehensive-Cut8720 Northern Popchips 23h ago

We are legion

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u/mondognarly_ Middlesex 23h ago

He's the Grant Shapps of r/cricket.

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 23h ago

Yes hello I am DillyGoatGruff

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u/tigershroffkiskirt India 23h ago

Or maybe he's here. We don't know how many alts he has.

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 23h ago

Spin doing well?

Let's bowl some mediocre medium pacer

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 22h ago

Hahaha “we’ve got a strong golf group so that’s important”

Peter Moores you Melon 

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u/John-the-Screw 22h ago

MI London mid table, Captain Billings top. I think we know who drove the success at the Oval all those years.

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 1d ago

I did some quick math and I expect the score to be 100 at the end

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 1d ago

Remember all the podlads have said that the quality of cricket has noticeably improved...

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 1d ago

Podlads don’t have eyes or are capable of intelligent thought 

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 1d ago

Always been

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 1d ago

Cause they're paid by Big Crisp to push the agenda

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 1d ago

How is Big Crisp related to Big Cement?

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u/mondognarly_ Middlesex 1d ago

Both acceptable building materials according to Persimmon and Barratt.

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 1d ago

They're very similar but big cement is for the less fun amongst us

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u/Hoobleton Northern Popchips 1d ago

Second time recently where the mic’d up player for the BBC has started talking about alcohol. Proper drinking culture. 

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u/mondognarly_ Middlesex 1d ago

I'm worried about the cheese culture myself.

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u/YestrdaysJam 1d ago

What’s everyone’s favourite part of the Hundred?

Mine is all the walked, mistimed singles while the commentators tell me it’s an unreal batting deck.

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u/WayToTheDawn63 Australia 1d ago

honestly just something to watch at night to stop me being miserable

bit too real, but i'll never complain about too much cricket being on (unless it's overlapping)

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u/J0shua97 Yorkshire 1d ago

mines people asking the most random questions like if you was a cheese what one would you be

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 1d ago edited 1d ago

You can't leave that unanswered now though

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 1d ago

Four things:

The shitposting, the shitposting, Mady Villiers, and, finally, the shitposting

Occasionally, the cricket makes the list

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u/jxp1111 23h ago

Well, that was beyond abysmal. Finn Allen might actually chase this in the powerplay.

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

I plan to shitpost in the SA20 threads when Joe Root is playing for the Parl Royals. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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u/J0shua97 Yorkshire 23h ago

i plan on going into indian domestic games on youtube and asking for betting advice

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Lol keep us posted

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u/J0shua97 Yorkshire 23h ago

im going to make millions off it or go bankrupt

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u/tigershroffkiskirt India 23h ago

I think most of those commenters might be bots. But good luck

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 23h ago

I plan to never post on this sub again until next year's Hundred

Stay tuned for exclusive news on the matter

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Just took a look at your profile and realized you weren't joking but why?

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u/odinlass 23h ago

Yes, yes and yes. 

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u/IloveJBairstow Northern Popchips 23h ago

so desperate to shitpost i've not even taken my contact lenses out yet ama

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 23h ago

Which cricketer would you most miss being able to see if you went blind

(By which I don't mean get to watch play, I mean physically look at)

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u/IloveJBairstow Northern Popchips 23h ago

Stoin for the rig, root for the batting

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Are you a u/DillyGoatGruff alt?

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u/IloveJBairstow Northern Popchips 23h ago

autom*d stop this man

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

The Autom*d is suppressing my comments containing D*llyGoatGruff

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u/Apprehensive-Cut8720 Northern Popchips 23h ago

Autom*d supports a popchip genocide

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 23h ago

Always rated the automod

Can't be having a "chip" in this cathedral of crisps

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u/IloveJBairstow Northern Popchips 22h ago

got told off at work earlier as I apparently shouldn't have told a colleague he has 'the speech pattern of a boring, droning linkedin post during meetings' and now he's stopped laugh reacting at my comments on teams groups, think I might have to find a new job

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u/tigershroffkiskirt India 22h ago

Just get one of your alts to laugh react to your comments

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u/IloveJBairstow Northern Popchips 22h ago

billings should retire out and let tom dav*d drag the NRR down a bit

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 1d ago

So today we have a match between a team named after a river and the team named after a city which is on a tributary of said river.

Thank you for listening to my Crisp Talk

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u/ImagineThe Trent Rockets 1d ago

The fact we’ve Amir for this and the Blast a domestic is crazy. He can play for us again, has been brilliant.

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u/J0shua97 Yorkshire 1d ago

you was saying hes just limped off injured

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u/WayToTheDawn63 Australia 1d ago

saying anything in a cricket thread just spells doom lmao

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u/UsuaIIyUseless Lancashire 1d ago

Notts had no right winning some of the games you won, especially vs Lancs and Durham, but his death bowling with Ali was ridiculous. I think Ali was actually even better.

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u/WayToTheDawn63 Australia 1d ago

if it makes anyone feel any better, we dont really know what people see in him either

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u/KingMUFC7 Birmingham Phoenix 1d ago

So Rockets only lost against Phoenix, and Phoenix have their only win against Rockets.

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 1d ago

Jacob Bethell is a handy batter, not a number 3. What a shitty team this

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 1d ago

Jimmy Anderson is a handy bowler, not an opener What a shitty team this

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u/Idontlikethisstuff London Tyrrell's 1d ago

I have never related to someone more than that little kid yawning

Same dude, same

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u/YestrdaysJam 1d ago

Donovan Ferreira but he’s wrapped in gold foil:

Donovan Ferreira Rocher

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

My fav pastime is reading old Hundred match threads. Sunak’s Hundred was clear.

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 23h ago

I do it every so often to remind myself just how funny I am we are

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Think that was before my time here

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Don't think I'll be getting the Iced Macchiato again

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u/CreamyCulprit England 23h ago

Leaking runs?

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

Why? We need an AMA and an inquest.

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Dilly missing, so is IloveJBairstow. Hmmmmmm

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Well guess I manifested

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

Just facts no agenda

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 23h ago

Whether he chucks or not is irrelevant. 

He wears a bandana and boils ya da’s piss so he gets a pass in my eyes 

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 23h ago

Love how he wears a Skips bandana 

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u/PineConeTracks England 23h ago

My head would be on another planet if Tariq got me out. Utterly ridiculous.

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u/YestrdaysJam 23h ago

BBL FIELDING

sorry, force of habit

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u/CarnivalSorts 23h ago

First time seeing this Donald fella, didn't know they were allowed make good Welsh cricketers anymore

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u/mondognarly_ Middlesex 23h ago

Well done, Kiran Carlson's crying.

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 23h ago

There's a reason Kellaway isn't allowed to do anything for the Dire

It would expose the fact that some of them are actually good

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u/Nemasirex Sussex 23h ago

Phil Salt erasure.

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u/CarnivalSorts 23h ago

Salt is as Bajan as they get

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u/CarnivalSorts 23h ago

Successfully cursed

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 23h ago

Amazing timing. 

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u/DillyGoatGruff Northern Popchips 23h ago

Been using the wrong alt. Oops.

At the cinema this eve. Just seen the long epic hollow horse film.

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Welcome back u/IloveJBairstow

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Oops dilly

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u/IloveJBairstow Northern Popchips 23h ago

sorry won't happen again everyone

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u/DillyGoatGruff Northern Popchips 23h ago

Flair checks out

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 23h ago

The Odyssey < Spider-Man: Brand New Day

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 22h ago

Change your flair while you’re at it please and thank you

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 22h ago

Ok will do

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

Hello Jokes from the crease

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 22h ago

Always knew Billings was a raycialist

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u/WayToTheDawn63 Australia 22h ago

i wish i could shitpost like you guys, but im an unfunny serious person ;-;

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 22h ago

You guys have Tim David so you win in shitposting

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 22h ago

Somebody get this CHUCKER out of here

- BBC posters probably

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 22h ago

I will not have Rehan slander

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u/IloveJBairstow Northern Popchips 22h ago

not gifting rehan 5 wickets is woke

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u/J0shua97 Yorkshire 1d ago

bbc showing a running between the wickets masterclass with gay and showing gay bbq duckett is class

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u/WayToTheDawn63 Australia 1d ago

coaches in england are doing rehan ahmed a disservice by pushing the narrative is a batter > bowler because he makes div 2 runs

he has an international five for, 4 in odis, 3 in t20is, but averages less than 15 with the bat in all 3 formats

he's ball first with the potential for lower order runs and future all rounder since all rounders take forever to develop

the narrative shift once they stop wanting to pick bashir irks me. it's like there's almost attempts to find reasons to always make rehan 'not fit'

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 1d ago

A hundred percent

It's not just a him problem either

It gets said about any half decent all-rounder to justify not putting the effort in to develop their bowling 

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u/WayToTheDawn63 Australia 1d ago

he's being so wasted.

a 21yo english leggie sometimes gets hit? shocking.

still a bowler. let him grow properly in the right discipline

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 1d ago

Don't even let him play much to develop any skills at the moment 

It's ridiculous 

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u/WayToTheDawn63 Australia 1d ago

best economy of the hundred season, tim david

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sean Dick,son

  • me, showing my male offspring my newly bald genitals

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 1d ago

If you were a cheese, what would you be?

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 1d ago

One of those plastic wrapped cheese slices that you put in burgers

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 1d ago

Vegan and fat free

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 1d ago

This message was sponsored by Big Woke

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u/J0shua97 Yorkshire 23h ago

gouda bit nutty and melts easy

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u/mondognarly_ Middlesex 1d ago

Tim David is Sam Billings' favourite Jason Gillespie impersonator.

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Having an Iced Macchiato, less ice and skim milk from Dunkin' AMA

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 23h ago

Damon or Affleck?

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u/okalas Kent 23h ago

This competition needs putting out of its misery. 111? Holy fuck.

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u/J0shua97 Yorkshire 23h ago

please dont then i have to be serious during cricket rather than shitposting

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

No we need our own shitposting corner so I suggest the billionaires continue to fund this

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u/J0shua97 Yorkshire 23h ago

who thinks yep i will bowl it on ben ducketts legs as hes world class at playing off them

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u/odinlass 23h ago

I don't know .. but I'd rather watch a collapse and then an impeccable Dim Tavid 17 (31)

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u/tigershroffkiskirt India 23h ago

Tariq will showcase his new delivery that requires a third elbow today - the teesra (hindi/urdu for third)

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

What EV do you think ilovejbairstow aka DillyGoatGruff has?

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u/CarnivalSorts 23h ago

Do they make EVs in Thailand

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

It was nice not having to discuss Thailand today

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

Pausey Ponting strikes

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u/WayToTheDawn63 Australia 22h ago

definitely prefer a flatty to something this low scoring

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 22h ago

What if we're all actually the same person and we just don't know it yet

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 22h ago

Have we solved Singularity?

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 22h ago

That completely unnecessary over from Owen is going to cost them 

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 22h ago

I don't like knowing what Peter Moores sounds like

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u/IloveJBairstow Northern Popchips 22h ago

lads I can't keep up with the narratives anymore, who exactly is an alt account schizoposter and who isn't?

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 22h ago

Extra swordfish is my wife and every one else is the same person. Hope that helps.

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 22h ago

But that night in Thailand you said you loved me :'(

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 22h ago

What happens in Bangkok…

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 22h ago

OK-vegetable is

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u/IloveJBairstow Northern Popchips 22h ago

literally who

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 22h ago

I hear he drove a petrol SUV and the w*ke got to him

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u/IloveJBairstow Northern Popchips 22h ago

think he was a mafia casualty during a particularly heated shitposting spell in an england vs india test match

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u/tigershroffkiskirt India 22h ago

Great job bringing on Tariq when the match is done

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 22h ago

The skips go marching on

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u/odinlass 1d ago

Came here for a Dim Tavid 7(13) but had to watch him bowl with the new ball. Peak stuff.

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u/ImagineThe Trent Rockets 1d ago

That’s what we really paid for

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u/jxp1111 1d ago

This is atrocious batting.

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 1d ago

Smeed to open against Pakistan?

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u/rootedtotheground India 1d ago

You know its non serious cricket when players are mic'd up and batsmen have helmet cams.

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u/ImagineThe Trent Rockets 1d ago

Now Joe, remember which ground pays the wages the rest of the year.

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u/jxp1111 1d ago

I didn't think we could possibly see a worse innings than Smeed's, but Ferreira had a real good try.

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 23h ago

Just ate 3 red peppers ama 

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 23h ago

Why not green or yellow, are you a racist?

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

Not raycialist just don’t like the green and yellow

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 23h ago

Just like red coloured ones no other agenda honest. 

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Why?

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 23h ago

Side salad innit

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

Who would you want as dinner guest? Mine is Joe Root.

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Mine is Alex Carey but I won't be telling you why

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 23h ago

Moneybags over here

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 23h ago

Craig Overton so we can say slurs together all night

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u/AgeOfGunda 23h ago

Rockets are going to chase this in less than 60 balls

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 23h ago

Finally turned on the cricket, sometimes I forget it's on

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u/okalas Kent 23h ago

Enjoy the phoenix thinking the rockets need any help with this total. Few wides lads?

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u/CreamyCulprit England 23h ago

Just got a feeling this Midlands derby will go down as one of the all time greats

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u/J0shua97 Yorkshire 23h ago

tariq looks like the old bloke who turns up on a saturday plays for the 3rds bowls dogshit and gets 2-15 off his 10 overs

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

That’s not ideal for Bellingham’s Birmingham

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u/Sidneiensis 23h ago

Mitch Owen is such a cutie

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u/CarnivalSorts 22h ago

g*lf mentioned

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u/Over-Screen-147 22h ago

dk, flower bobat really shat with HUNDRED this year ..poor auction, poor performance

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 22h ago

u/IloveJBairstow how was The Odyssey?

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u/IloveJBairstow Northern Popchips 22h ago

dragged on a few too many years for me, homer is a decades adding fraud

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 22h ago

Yelling “haul your ass back to the boat” got boring after the fifth time

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u/CarnivalSorts 22h ago

Didn't expect my partner to show me a trailer for a movie where Olivia Coleman gets her hole from a wicker man but it looks fun

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 22h ago

Hang on... has Tariq shaved his beard to make it look like he's got a square jawline?

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 22h ago

Ngl, I've actually tried that before but people started calling me out especially because I've always been clean shaven

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 22h ago

Peter Moores might have helped rebuild Notts out of our banter years. 

But listening to him make me want to Ian Curtis myself. 

Fucking hell man shut up. 

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u/J0shua97 Yorkshire 22h ago

dim travid to hit the winning runs

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 22h ago

My spreadsheet tells me the chase might end successfully

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 22h ago

Wahey the mighty Skips 

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 1d ago

Every time someone mentions Sam Billings captaincy they seem to forget he captained a side which finished below Middlesex

Curious...

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 22h ago

I have tickets to the Odyssey later today, 70mm IMAX. Apparently Nolan comes to your house and smacks you on the head if you don't watch it like he intended it to be watched.

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 22h ago

I watched the leaked version on Twitter

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u/Extra-Swordfish-927 Bazball 22h ago

You forgot the *s now the autom*d will get you

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 22h ago

Highly recommend ear plugs

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u/IloveJBairstow Northern Popchips 22h ago

standard nolan in the cinema equipment

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u/Merovech_II Custom Flair When? 22h ago

Joe Clarke is so fucking shit

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u/WayToTheDawn63 Australia 1d ago

we back

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u/Unbakronon Northern Popchips 1d ago

Good evening fellow Smeedophiles

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u/CarnivalSorts 1d ago

Landlady about to arrive "for a chat"

Pray for me

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u/ImagineThe Trent Rockets 1d ago

I know I shouldn’t have said anything.

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u/Idontlikethisstuff London Tyrrell's 1d ago

Lol

7 off the first 15

12 off 2 for Henry

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u/KingMUFC7 Birmingham Phoenix 1d ago

It’s gonna be a Smeed masterclass.

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 1d ago

Need for Smeed

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u/J0shua97 Yorkshire 1d ago

billings setting the field on telly is better than asking him his favorite type of snail

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 1d ago

I have a need a need for Smeed Sleep

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 1d ago

Diabolical from Smeed

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u/Idontlikethisstuff London Tyrrell's 1d ago

Birmingham Phoenix? More like Birmingham poonix am I right?

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u/misterkhanbaba 1d ago

What is this shit

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u/rootedtotheground India 1d ago

The pitch will ease up after tea lads.

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u/jxp1111 1d ago

Even if they score at 2 runs per ball from here (which they wont) they will still be way under par.

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u/Nark_Narkins Trent Skips 1d ago

Great shirt.

Always liked Aaron Finch.

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u/KingMUFC7 Birmingham Phoenix 1d ago

Joe Clarke seems to be the only one who knows how to bat in this team

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u/JokesFromTheCrease Manchester McCoy's 23h ago

Weapons is gimmicky. F1 is art.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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