England 2012 Cricket Thread

[Villan For Life]

We did well to wrestle the initiative back there. Akmar and Afridi could have easily taken the game away from us. Great bowling from the seam attack, Finn in particular.

Their 30 overs went went for 118 and they took 8 wickets between them. The depth and variety in our bowling unit makes them a force to be reckoned with in all forms of the game.

[PaulWinch again]

KP is obviously trying to play his shots.

[PaulWinch again]

KP gets a life on 47, but he's played well and looks a lot more like the batsman he can be. This backs up my belief that the batsmen were just hideously under prepared for the Test matches.

[Villan For Life]

Record opening stand by Cook & Pietersen

[PaulWinch again]

Great 100 from KP, looks right back at it.

[Villan For Life]

Great win. Strong in all areas.

[paul_e]

superb from KP, on that form we have no one else even close to his quality, as soon as a bowler pressures him he hits them out of the attack.

Cook is the form batsman in the world over the last 18months.  Had a bad test series but is back to his ashes form now and looks like a rock at the top of the order.

Brilliant from the seamers, Finn will get the plaudits but all 3 were fantastic, broad and jimmy deserve  credit for coming back so well after bad first overs from each of them.  Special mention to Finn for his last 2 overs 1 run and 1 wicket from those 2 completely stifled any chance of them rallying to a competitive target.

[TheTimVilla]

Really great performance again. And with the likes of Briggs, Borthwick, Buttler, etc to come things could get quite interesting...

[PaulWinch again]

Lots of changes, I'm hoping Buttler gets a good chance.

[PaulWinch again]

KP doing a great job again, and Kies doing a good job.

[Villan For Life]

We need to keep the scoreboard ticking over and we should comfortably win this. There's a 150 available for Pietersen, hope he gets it.

[PaulWinch again]

KP has turned a corner majorly, he looks like he did at his best with a bit more judgment.

[PaulWinch again]

Kies has also been very good.

[PaulWinch again]

Kiss of death there, sorry Kies.

[PaulWinch again]

Still he did a really good job and hopefully has been part of a match winning partnership.