General cricket thread.

Bethell once again showed his talent, by scoring a hundred, the only one in the match, ordinarily a knock like that would win most teams the game, alas it was not to be. It was harry Brooke's dropped catch of Indian opener Sanju Samson that lost England the match. Brook dropped an absolute sitter at mid on when Sampson missed timed one on 20 odd, the drop was so costly. Sampson went on to make 80 odd, it was his big hitting that took the Indian total to 250+ a total that is huge in any format of T-20.

Jofra Archer hit 3 sixes in the final over to get England to within 7 runs of winning, so close and yet so far. Harry Brook will have nightmares about that match, it was deffo the one that got away. A final against NZ would have been very interesting remembering back to the 2019 ODI world cup final. 

Cam Green is 130 not out in the Shield, but Konstas only got 38, HG will have mixed emotions.

Kellaway also manged 66 in the Shield final rehearsal, so the slow, bumbling race toward someone failing up into the test opening position continues.

Renshaw managed only 10 and Labuschagne 20, which will no doubt immensely please HG.

3 is the biggest question mark right now, Labuschagne isn't making runs but nobody else is either. 

Thats alright though because NSW have brought in Haddin to coach. Perfect skill set to rub off on Konstas to turn all those starts he gets into big scores. As Haddin said yesterday, to paraphrase, Konstas has done the hard part which is getting a start as an opener. Averaging 33 without a 50 shows how consistent he got starts. Guy has got the skills, now add in Haddins attitude and we're going to have summer after summer of hundreds for Konstas over the next 10-15yrs.