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Heavy bats. Harder hitting. Increased run rate. My theory is, maybe a little whacky but there is some reasoning in it. The problems have really started since COVID, since players weren't allowed to put saliva on the ball to polish it, they could only use sweat that was naturally on their hands, and...

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Be very interesting to see what those Hamas supporting protesters get for breaking into an RAF base, causing all that damage, potentially endangering life, whilst supporting a banned terror organisation if this is the president for cutting down a tree.

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The lad involved told me the Lancs League made a right pigs ear of their case. Trying to use half a conversation from a player on the verge of joining Clitheroe as evidence. Clitheroe provided the other half of the conversation which didn't look good for the witness/prosecution. There are amateurs ...

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Eddie The Cobb wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 16, 2025 12:54 pm
I still havent forgiven former Prince of Bacup Big Joe McCluskie for allowing himself to be cherry picked by Rawtenstall all those years ago.

That lunatic was paid to leave Rawtenstall, not to stay there

. Great lad to be fair...

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Long may Australia’s problems continue. The problem is with their quality of bowling attack, and our hit and miss top order, they might not have to score too many regularly. To me the Ashes is dependent on whether we can get a fit Mark Wood, and Archer on the plane, and have them available for 5 te...

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Surely it’s destined to become an open league just like many of the other ECB tier systems? Heard recently of a current Division 2 captain openly talking after a game about how much they were paying players and that he’d even had to drop somebody who was being paid! Many of the newer LL clubs that ...

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Tree lives matter!!

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It's particularly disappointing to hear that someone, especially the captain, has up and left a club mid season and tbf I THOUGHT there were rules to prevent this which meant unless someone was physically relocating (for example moving from Birmingham to Burnley type of thing!) or had other extenua...

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This is a real risk. For example, the Rawtenstall Captain (who is a local lad) has recently been lured away mid-season by that super power of North West cricket, Edenfield (3rd tier GMCL). That's only because he can't go to the club he wants to this season due to league rules, and his best mate is ...

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Very lucky this year, Kos next Friday, golf trip to Marbella in November with the lads, then Malta for Christmas as is tradition for us now..

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Then what is making these players want to leave? It's a combination of a couple of things, you get players, as in life these days with no patience, no desire to grow as a team and thinking they're better than they are. I can give several examples of players from my club, who were born and bred in t...

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Lancashire league cricket just mirrors football. Same teams at the top and same ones at the bottom. Teams just find ways round of bringing in professionals and playing them as amateurs. I personally would have never changed the rule that you either had to live, or work within a certain radius of th...

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In this country where the daylight is no problem they should just be made to bowl the overs. The players would soon speed up. The strange thing is on the last day they do, 90 overs have to be bowled. To me drinks breaks should be scrapped, there's enough natural breaks in the game for players to ge...

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ClaretsPadiham wrote: ↑
Thu Jul 10, 2025 5:12 pm
Cricket club now only away fans only too is what i got told.

How can Burnley Football Club control who goes into a cricket club, that's not on their land, and is nothing to do with them?

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Health and safety should be number one priority and close season is exactly to time to make changes you’d imagine. I’m sure any ‘major’ changes would have been communicated by now, the fact nothings been said at this point would probably indicate they’ll be only minor changes. So we're basically ju...

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How does this keep them more isolated? They will be mixing with fans on the Longside side, in a more confined area If, and it's a big if this switch was happening, you'd assume that a fence would go right across near to where the TV trucks park, so after leaving the ground all away fans turn left o...

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I can't see them risking Atkinson though I think Archer will play instead of Tongue. Don't think we need a specialist spin bowler at Lord's but Bashir seems to be Stokes' pet project so he'll probably play despite doing next to nothing to justify his continued selection. If Cook & Overton are our b...

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Add to that the thought of Overton and Cook plodding in abd it's about as poor a team as could be picked from the squad available. Totally agree. Very good County cricketers but a million miles from Test standard. To say all our place bowlers are under central contracts, how much good have those co...

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How do you think we will line up? I think we could see a little bit of change in this match, I’m going to throw my wild card out there: Pope Duckett Bethell Root Brook Stokes Smith Overton Archer Carse Cook I don't think Pope is anywhere near good enough to open the batting at the moment. His head ...

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Massively worried if Archer plays. The law of averages says India will win a toss soon, and if they do, they will obviously bat again..it's said to be a hot 5 days in London. Gill is wise for a young Captain, and his team talk will be let's keep Archers adrenalin filled first spell as unsuccessful a...

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Muric was excellent in a division where, on the whole we could recover from any errors he made.

The league has moved on massively since he was last with us, and so should we...

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I concur with most people on here. I was on a golf day with him last year and he's a decent, normal bloke.

No arrogance about him at all, had a good laugh about football and he told us he actually didn't really like the derbies, as he's so many friends who are Clarets he got grief whoever won

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We"re pinning our hopes of Archer next text match, who's had about 4 days of red ball cricket in 4 years or something ludicrous. He should have been playing for his county this week to get miles in his legs, not carrying the drinks. I'll have a little wager with anybody he doesn't get through the Lo...

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Vino blanco wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 06, 2025 1:15 pm
I wonder if Stokes will bowl first if he wins the toss in the next test?

The way we've been batting, apart from some wonderful fleeting individual performances , it won't matter if we bat first or second, we simply have to be harder to dismiss. This constant gifting of wickets is ridiculous..

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Rawtenstsall score 278 in 48 overs but our target in the same number of overs is 285! It takes into account Rawtenstall had onlyost 3 wickets and if they'd have got the full 50 overs in, would have highly likely scored quite a few more than what they got. I think it's also based on the fact that it...

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Leisure wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 06, 2025 4:12 pm
We'll knock those off easily!

Interestingly enough DL gave you a larger total to chase than what Rawtenstall actually got..

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I think this brand is useless and I've not liked it from day one. Yes it can be exciting, but it's so wreckless it's untrue. You will never get consistency against the better teams playing this way. To me it's like setting up at football with 5 strikers, you may win some games, you'll get some stuff...

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We also dropped a b***** by not batting first due to the fact India were without their best bowler. They had zero pressure on them by the time they came to bowl with a massive score on the board. It's the same with Gill, their skipper. We've asked him zero questions in terms of batting under pressur...

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Big financial hit to Lowerhouse too as they host the final so well, and always get superb crowds down there for it..

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Yep, but this is the brand we play. We’re always going to make mistakes. Some frustrate me (Brook playing a daft shot in the first ball of his innings in the first test was one that did that) so when we lose, whilst dissecting every daft decision (this side will never be faultless I don’t think), i...

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jdrobbo wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 05, 2025 7:18 pm
I think it’s worth highlighting that in this test match, India have simply been far better than England!!

They were in the last one for the majority of the game and we've not learned a thing..

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Awful shot by Root too. Good delivery, but nowhere near as good as he made it look, look at his bat face/ angle. He plays that with a straight bat, at worst it finds a thick edge.

England been found technically wanting in both tests so far..

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Interesting observation from Nasser Hussain regarding the guard Crawley’s guard on off stump which he believes is making him play at balls he doesn’t need to play. In my experience if you bat on off stump you should take out the nick to the slips totally because you know anything that is outside th...

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Crawley has to dropped now. Another duck for England from a duck egg batsman. We need to find a better opener before the Ashes. File him alongside Pope. Every few innings it comes off and it looks great, but nowhere near regularly enough. Gill gave a masterclass in leaving the ball early, and getti...

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To be fair Stokes has made 2 poor decisions at the toss. We were extremely lucky to win at Leeds, and only poor Indian catching prevented them from winning that test. They were largely on top in that game for the majority of the time. I can't understand again why he's chosen to bowl, 1 up in the ser...

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At last a declaration at drinks..

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I cannot understand why they are still batting I'd love to see England just bat out the test now and finish on 250 for 5. Serve the Indians right, this is negative beyond belief belief. They probably had enough runs 2 hours ago, I just hope these wasted overs comes back to haunt them as it's certai...

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Walker and Barnes in the same dressing room, love to be a flie on the wall there..

In all seriousness and excellent signing, his leadership and experience will be excellent for us, never mind the fact he's still a fabulous footballer..

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Rovers have gone down the monochrome badge route for an away kit - seemingly forgetting that it now looks like a Yorkshire rose. :roll: https://www.footballshirtculture.com/images/cwgallery/4025-blackburn-rovers-25-26-macron-150th-anniversary-third-kit/4025_blackburn_rovers_25_26_macron_150th_anniv...

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After all the bigging up from ex captains, former players this week...BD was always going to get a duck....

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Tragic. He was one of those players I just loved to watch too, such a clever, technically talented lad. RIP. Very sad day for football....

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CaptJohn wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 01, 2025 1:52 pm
Solution: "Go west!" Simples

That's a bloody long way to go round to get to my place on Majorca

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That's the bloody problem for us Brits, any sort of short/ medium length flight from Britain to Europe usually crosses French ATC.at some point so they really do hold all the cards as it causes multi National disruption..

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There's plenty of spare room behind the James Hargreaves stand to not need anything from Burnley CC. Rotate the pitch just like Spurs did when they built their new stadium, we'll maybe have to play at PNEs ground for a couple of years, then build a lovely 25, 000 stadium withing the current footprin...

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Doesn't Headingley have a similar set up & a double sided stand for the cricket & the rugby? It does, but the players dressing rooms aren't in there, they're at the other side of the ground..personally, I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of shared stands like that, but if that's the only potential option ...

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Seems to be a lot of ex pro’s who are playing for the love of the game in the Lancashire league these days. I was playing golf with one a few weeks ago, who will obviously remain nameless, but he told me there were 4 players, as well as himself receiving "incentives" from their club... With teams l...

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They said on the radio that it was the first time in any first class match that a team scoring five centuries had lost. Five centuries, four centurions I think? Sorry to be pendantic Steve. Stokes is some leader. They give everything for him. He certainly leads from the front for sure. Still concer...

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A game that had everything, full credit to both teams for producing a series opening cracker.

The only things both teams will be really disappointed with was the catching, I dont know the exact total, but there seemed to be a hell of a lot of catches gone down over the 5 days..

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Rain breaks may play right into India's hands as it means that their best bowler can keep putting his feet up in between spells, then come back out and bowl again. The best chance England had today was for a dry, sunny day with no interruptions. Its also much harder mentally for a batsman to keep go...

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21-0 at close. 350 to win!! I get people don't like / understand test cricket but this game has been brilliant. Superb individual performances on both sides, some fabulous entertainment and with the last day to come, 3 results are all very much possible, with either one of them impossible to call. ...

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