And Its Smith

England v India Thursday. T20. £20 per adult and £19 per kids. Tickets left and all unreserved. Good value for money

Some will know I’m an xG sceptic. I don’t mind the principle behind it but find the execution someone too flawed to prove reliable. However, I know that some people take a lot of notice of it so thought I’d share this that some might find interesting. It would suggest, if you believe in xG that we are currently overperforming and may well ‘regress to the mean’ (an annoying phrase that gets used a lot nowadays) at some point. The caveat is that 8 games isn’t a lot to go on. It certainly doesn’t feel that we are getting more points from games than we deserve

My suggestion would be to simply not click on his threads if you don’t want too

He’s 25 though. Little bit of a different situation

Fair point. I think one can try to judge who will go furthest in the game though. I can see Alex Scott playing for England but I wouldn’t say Semenyo would get to that level necessarily even if he was eligible. Think he will be good premier league player though

Alex, Antoine, Tommy, HNM

An incredible summer. Beat world test champs and number one team in the world in one summer and also India in one off test. And this team is far from perfect as well so can improve

I reckon Lees might get dropped from the team before Crawley does.

My use of the word ‘if’ was not used to cast doubt. I very much believe it happened. My son had his first game of the season last weekend and it was depressing to be back running the line for his team. We’ve just come off the back of a delightful cricket season where we had one incident of dissent in about 18 matches. First football match, the 16 year old referee gets a ton of flack for a decision that he got correct as it happened 6 yards in front of me! The dads of the opposition had an awful angle of it but it didn’t stop the abuse. And regardless of if it was the correct decision or not it shouldn’t happen. I then speak up and tell them to mind their tone and language and then I’m in the firing line!

If a group of men are surrounding the car of a ref for an under 12s game (or any age group) then I’d suggest they have huge emotional issues and are likely to have been violent in the past. Their kids and/or partner probably live in fear.

England got it very wrong with the bat. Trying to bat for 60 overs to get to 280 but had time to take 80 overs to get there no problem. Now the first innings lead will be about 100 on a wicket that will probably be better to bat on today.

I applaud the Met office for not predicting future weather for the time being. Her Majesty hated weather forecasts beyond the day itself so it’s fitting that they have done this.

Potentially next weekend off and then into an international break I believe.

Day two

Cricket is back on tomorrow

Reign stops play

The FA have called off kids football if you didn’t realise that so clubs can’t just play

Your response shows a lack of knowledge

What is your view on kids sport being cancelled ?

The rugby is now on tomorrow afternoon!

Again, I cannot see any surprise, only disappointment

Apparently we cannot even cope with kids playing football, having swimming lessons or opening a playground. How will we cope at war?!

Completely agree

Completely crazy decision. Kids shall not enjoy themselves for 72 hours after the queen has died. It’s what she would have wanted

Anecdotally nobody I know is so not sure ‘vast majority’ is accurate