England 2012 Cricket Thread

[PaulWinch again]

RIP Tony Greig.

[PaulWinch again]

Also on a less sombre note, Mike Hussey retiring from international cricket.

[OzVilla]

Yes, it's a extremely sad day in Australia today. Tony Greig was just part of the furniture for the last 30+ years.  Cricket is much more part of the national fabric in Australia than it is in England so this is a big story and tributes running all evening long on the main TV channels.  A real shock and it'll be similar when Benaud goes.  Only diagnosed in October so just very sad.

Anyway, surprised about Hussey although 4 kids under 8 probably give away a lot.  He's been their main stay with Clarke for the last 2 years and him and Ponting going leaves a very inexperienced middle order all of a sudden. 

They really wanted and we're fully expecting him to go to the Ashes so that's now two they thought they'd take with a combined 230 odd caps between them.  Oh dear  .

[Villan For Life]

CMJ dead at 67.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/20881346

As a massive TMS fan his voice was part of cricket and formed the soundtrack to many a summer.

RIP CMJ. Thank you for many hours of listening pleasure.

[PaulWinch again]

RIP, bad few days for cricket.

[Bernie]

Indeed a bad few days for cricket as you say Paul. There's certainly a good TMS box in the sky now with CMJ joining the likes of Arlott & Jonners.   
Sports Report today played a rare instance of CMJ "corpsing" when having used a fishing analogy during a commentary he carried the analogy on by referring to the player " laying down his rod", or something similar, then went into fits of laughter a la the Jonners "getting his leg over" piece.
RIP CMJ

[paul_e]

Indeed a bad few days for cricket as you say Paul. There's certainly a good TMS box in the sky now with CMJ joining the likes of Arlott & Jonners.   
Sports Report today played a rare instance of CMJ "corpsing" when having used a fishing analogy during a commentary he carried the analogy on by referring to the player " laying down his rod", or something similar, then went into fits of laughter a la the Jonners "getting his leg over" piece.
RIP CMJ

Real shame, along with a few others both on TMS and on sky, he's a big part of why I'm such a big fan of cricket, the pace of the game leads to some exceptional commentary and fantastic match analysis and he was one of the best.

RIP CMJ.

As an aside do we rename this thread or start a new one for 2013?

[Villan For Life]

Start a new one, particularly as the ODI's against India start next week.