Nas and Athers discuss England's defeat and Ali's retirement 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sky Sports Cricket Podcast

Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton discuss England's defeat to Sri Lanka at the Oval and Moeen Ali's international cricket retirement. Look out for part two of the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast featuring Ricky Ponting 🇦🇺

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[achinthaereshen]

premier league pundits need to watch these two gentlemen’s talk about sport

[hithrudealwis]

Root was the only reason they won this series. Only Test he failed they lost

[HkFinn]

I feel sorry for the newer England players. Imagine getting a chance to open the batting for England and being told you have to try and hit everything for six. Against the new ball. In September.

[rohanmarkjay]

Congratulations to Sri Lanka they were superb. They played entertaining highly skillful, determined fired up cricket. Their batsman especially are very pleasing to watch. Wonderful strikers of the cricket ball. The hook for six, the cover drive to the fence, The Straight drive to the sight screen, the late cut to the ropes. They played with a enormous amount of talent and skill. Their bowlers normally their weak point. Was superb and used the English conditions to make the ball talk through the air and off the pitch. Making life very difficult in their England players own backyard. Although the Oval pitch in late summer behaves similar to a subcontinent pitch after a summer of the sun baking the pitch. So a more favourable pitch and maybe conditions greeted Sri lanka in late English summer. They took full opportunity. Now as a side note I have to be a bit critical of the big three cricket nations that is England, Australia and India. That is they tend to over rule the ICC when playing the lesser nations in terms of inviting them to fit into the schedule on home territory of the big three Eng, Aus and Ind. Teams like Sri Lanka which should be given series more often in England, Australia and India seem to have to wait a long time to get a series in the big three and when they two in Australia case only given mostly 2 tests. To their credit England has given two tests to Sri Lanka this time. But it isn't always the case. For example in last 15 years it seems Australia is invited for some one day or t20 series in England every year. When Australia could better use instead of doing another long flight to England outside the Ashes. Host one of the lesser nations in Australia at this time for a one day or t20 series. For example a New Zealand or West Indies or Pakistan can be invited to Australia to a series either in Darvin or in Melbourne at the indoor cricket stadium they have they could use during this time instead of Australia going and playing England again flying all the way to England again. It seems the big three determine in their schedule who they play and don't give enough chances to the nations outside the big three. Its like the big three is a seperate club from the rest of the smaller cricket nations with less financial resourses. Like Sri Lanka, West Indies, Pakistan, Bangladesh, NZ etc these nations deserve a fair go and to be invited more often. Especially teams like Sri Lanka deserve more chances to play test cricket and be invited more for longer series with England, Australia and India. Cricket is dominated by the big three and I would like to see that change to smaller nations get a bigger slice of the schedule when it comes to test, one day and t20 cricket series.

[supremegodemperordonaldtru]

I feel like people are focusing more on a England being complacent narrative than appreciating the fact that SL has an insanely high talent but inconsistent bunch of new kids playing (amongst the 2 uncles) who out of the blue played close to their potential. Nissanka and Kamindu both had FC averages of 60+ both clearly generational talents. Kusal Mendis a freak talent with zero discipline. Kumara a genuine 150kph bowler when fully fit, Vishwa a very talented yet inconsistent young left arm quick etc. On top of this there is a world cup winning warhorse in Mathews, Chandimal and coach ATG WC winning Jayasuriya recently taking over the coaching reigns.

Few weeks ago SL beat India thoroughly in an ODI series which no one expected either. Good to see Windies and SL resurgence cricket is richer for having these two once giants coming back into the fray.

[markarnold]

There are a few English batters who go into panic mode and play a bit village. Not sure why. Be professional, remember how good you are and take your time as it's a test match. This need to entertain the crowd is fine, but let your class shine through.

[sportslife]

They don't look anywhere near good enough to beat Australia or India on an away tour.
Those two teams are actually far closer to winning in England.

[vinayrao]

Atherd looked completely high hangover eyes😂

[sahanseney]

thanks for introducing Ben Elton from the backdrop Nas

[KrisAdamsTV]

So glad you two are doing these podcasts.

[ryuhayabaker]

How many Ben Elton books does Nasser own? Think I can see 3, but I suspect there's another 2 or 3 there. 😊

[alphansogayle]

The style of cricket England is now playing it’s very attractive it’s nothing short of excitement I personally think its doing the world off good for test cricket

[thomridgeway]

It was galling to see us lose like that. It's like seeing a dog piss on its own food. It was so unnecessary. We literally threw a game away, through stupidity, appalling disrespect for the opposition, and sheer mindlessness! If that is Bazball, it's moronic! Give me a 200 run grind with Geoff Boycott and Chris Tavare any day. At least it's not embarrassing! It's like watching The Three Musketeers turning up for a fight so pissed and casual and irresponsible they haven't even brought their swords. Bazball is pure blagging! It's making it up on the hoof! When it works it looks great, when it fails (more times than not over time) you look the biggest, clumsiest oath in the world!

[eddisstreet]

After the Oval Test last year Broad made a point of leaving the field with Moeen because he admires him so much

[Kairais]

Again the same question.. Is the bazball working?

[Dilz]

Watching Atherton and Nazzar going old is surely sad.

[johnab]

It was one of the weakest England bowling groups ever. They never looking like bowling Sri Lanka out in the fourth innings. Chosen on hunches rather than looking at who's in form. I thought Hull was supposed to be fast but he was less than 80 mph for much of the time. County bowlers that are producing the goods week in week out are not getting a look in. Nasser and Athers won't criticise the setup or management in case they lose the chance to get a nice juicy ECB job offer.

[santoshraghavan]

The very fact these gentlemen whom I love listening to.. are so sold that this team was ruthless and there was a 2.0 .. considering they are playing a very very young west indies team and a srilankan team which has hardly played tests in the last 4-5 years... pretty much says how much this is a rob key show.... 7-8 batsmen getting caught in the outfield and one out ramping to the keeper in a third innings of a test and these guys say every team has a bad day... bad days is where u just try and results don't come... India got bowled out for 36 and they pretty much nicked everything and all were taken... or u get bowled out in a rank Turner or a green top that is called a bad day not this !!!.very disappointed with their analysis ...

[Dominic_Barone]

Best cricketing minds, quite professional always big fan of sky sports.

[relayer]

The Sri Lankan batsmen showed that if you have good technical skills then you can succeed against supposed better opposition. Unfortunately the majority of England's batsmen, Root excepted don't have a solid technique, they don't move their feet correctly and rely on big bats and strength. Without the basic skills you'll always get found out against a good bowling attack, yes slogging will get you some results- anyone can have a lucky day but ultimately you'll get found out as was shown in India