Comments on: Should Jonny Bairstow be freed from the wicketkeeping gloves?

By: Bert

Bert — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:39:45 +0000

You know how some cricketers’ names make funny-sounding anagrams? Well it turns out that Jasprit Bumrah is an anagram of Jasprit Bumrah, which sounds hilarious.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:34:02 +0000

Having mastered not using his hands to catch, Jennings has decided to give batting without using the bat a go. Looks pretty adept at that un-skill too!

He is not test-quality batsman he is rubbish.

By: sam

sam — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:01:20 +0000

In reply to King Cricket. 'What's your average? Nine? Ten? Come on, you must know your average. I think it's nine. Nine point five, so we'll give you ten.'

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 08:20:32 +0000

In reply to Micko. Widespread mockery is the only real answer as to why this doesn't happen. There have been plenty of occasions where MS Dhoni or Tatenda Taibu or someone has ditched the gloves to bowl a few overs.

By: Deep Cower

Deep Cower — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 07:08:57 +0000

But if he’s freed from his wicketkeeping gloves, how will he keep wickets? It’s rather unreasonable to expect him to catch everything in his bare hands because he will be too sore to bat.

By: Marees

Marees — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 05:43:41 +0000

In reply to Micko. Maybe the sri lankans might have done something as funky as this?

By: Micko

Micko — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 00:54:40 +0000

Why can’t they have Bairstow keep in the first innings and Buttler in the 2nd, share the load. Actually, why can I not think of a single instance where this has happened, is there some sort of rule against it?

By: Bail-out

Bail-out — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 20:20:32 +0000

The BBC will be showing the final Ireland vs Afghanistan ODI at Stormont this Friday – on the website or via the BBC Sport app if you’ve got a smart TV.

I really enjoyed today’s game – I’ve now watched more of Ireland playing cricket live on-screen this week than I’ve seen England play in ten years.

At this rate I’m going to start celebrating my Irish great-grandparents by changing allegiance, Murtagh-style.

By: Balladeer

Balladeer — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 19:46:00 +0000

Without the beard, I thought that was Gary Ballance in the picture at first.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 15:20:22 +0000

The England team is starting to look more and more ridiculous, and yet somehow closer and closer to the actual best XI players.

Playing Woakes, Stokes, Curran, Foakes, Buttler, Bairstow, Moeen and Rashid all in the same team is patently absurd.

I am also finding it quite hard to think that those lot plus Root, Broad and Anderson wouldn’t be better than anything we have put out since 2013, even if we did have to open the batting with Woakes and Sam Curran.