England v South Africa: 2nd one-day cricket international delayed through rain – stay!
Updates on the action at Old Trafford, South Africa lead 1-0
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Last little bit of Jonny. “I feel truly top proper now. I hated Covid. I didn’t experience being locked up in a motel room being capable of see my friends and own family doing everyday things. I didn’t like the motel, I’m not a ‘gamer.’ And I’m someone who feeds of the group and getting fired up.”
That become an brilliant interview - I’ll submit in full while Sky tweet it out.
YJB maintains. Athers asks him approximately in which the old style ODI sits in the current panorama. “I think it's far a truely properly format. Over the closing five years the journey we were on a set turned into an amazing one. I also see 50-over cricket is a stepping stone to Test cricket as you get worked over for longer and you’ve got to play [mimics Boycott accent] correct cricket photographs.” He provides that England need to be realistic approximately how lengthy it'll take for the Test team to get to where they want to be, to effecively repeat what the only-day group did.
Asked to mirror on the latest white-ball droop, Bairstow factors to how few ODIs they played earlier than this clump. “It’s something we need to be aware of however no longer some thing we want to be worried of because the middle organization is there and we’re lower back to playing together.”
Jonny Bairstow is talking to Athers on Sky. I picked up the chat as he reflected at the “lure of a short buck” in T20 leagues, taking place comparison that to the solid foundation that the very first-rate brief-shape players have earned in lengthy-shape cricket. “And that’s now not to mention there received’t be anomolies - people who will just play T20 - but you examine those who have sustained it, that is the adventure they have been on: a fundamental technique that they may be then able to expand on.” YJB, this is tune to my ears.
Speaking of that England/South Africa Women’s collection, I became down at Chelmsford with Geoff Lemon on Wednesday interviewing Laura Wolvaardt for our pod, The Final Word. At 23 years of age she’s already one of the maximum executed openers in the game; the youngest ever to 3000 ODI runs - you get the photograph. She’s additionally were given plenty occurring above the shoulders, granted an area in medical faculty and extra commonly an insightful and articulate thinker on the destiny of the girls’s game in South Africa. While it rains, pop it on on inside the historical past. She’s very impressive.
Knighty says the rain is heavier. So permit’s go with the flow a bit. Firstly, to England’s Women, who are going brilliantly towards the Proteas. After getting the better from a draw within the standalone Test at Taunton they swept the ODIs three-zip earlier than cruising to victory inside the first T20 at Chelmsford closing night time. They’re in the center of a tremendous re-boot after falling quick in the ODI World Cup Final in March both in terms of new gamers getting and taking their opportunities (Lamb, Wong, Bell) and changing the aspect’s configuration. On the latter point, Sophia Dunkley made his maiden ODI ton ultimate week after being elevated to No3 and got their chase off to a flyer closing night time with most of her half-century racked up within the energy play. Here’s the suit file.
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