The Cricket Thread 2013

[olaftab]

Each time I look on this thread somebody is getting slaughtered, do any of you* actually enjoy the cricket?


* Not all of you obviously

PWA lives and dies with every ball. He would only be happy if England were 700 for 2 declared and Aussies 150 all out and following on 97 all out!

[olaftab]

Villain, Bear, outstanding batsman well done Sir.

[beness]

109 for bell same as last time i think?

[Monty]

109 for bell same as last time i think?

Correct, and both tremendous innings. Didn't get out to a stupid shot either, just a decent ball. Well played Belly, now come on Bairstow and Prior.

[Villan For Life]

Bairstow gone.

The new ball is due, it's gonna be a tough last 30 minutes for England.

[Monty]

Given that away, Bairstow. Full-toss, bollocksed it up and a good piece of fielding.

[Dave Cooper please]

That was bloody awful from Bairstow! Patting a full toss back to the bowler. Spoiled a decent innings as well.

[Chris Jameson]

Each time I look on this thread somebody is getting slaughtered, do any of you* actually enjoy the cricket?


* Not all of you obviously

PWA lives and dies with every ball. He would only be happy if England were 700 for 2 declared and Aussies 150 all out and following on 97 all out!

Sounds like the Yorkshire members, they'll all be at Derbyshire grumbling because Yorkshire only got 617 and have let Debyshire get within 550 with only 5 wickets down. As for that young lad on 250 not out, what the hell is he playing at?

[Villan For Life]

When Broad came in, he was booed all of the way to the wicket.

Turns out it was Jimmy coming to the wicket..... as Tuffers has just said on TMS, how do you withdraw a boo?

[Villafirst]

Stupid thrash by Prior... it's not T20! Why take the risk so late in the day??

[curiousorange]

I think all in all it's a disappointing day for England. Runs on the board, but when Trott and Bell were in you could easily see 350, if not more.

[Villan For Life]

At 28 - 3 you'd have settled for 289 - 7.

If we could scrape another 50 runs from the last 3 wickets then we're in a good place. 

Remember the Crims have still got to bat yet.

[PaulWinch again]

Well played Bell a great knock. Hmmm Australia's day overall, if you elect to bat on a pitch like that you're not looking at being more than 4 down overnight. We really need to try and get as close to 400 as possible. There are obvious problems to address, 3 out of the top 4 have failed in two out of three innings which isn't good enough. Also we're losing clusters of wickets and to some stupid shots. Bairstow and Prior should never have got out today. We really need Anderson, Bresnan, Broad and Swann to get us some runs.

[PaulWinch again]

What we aren't doing at the moment is setting a platform, we're relying on lower middle order heroics to get us a decent score. When we were at our best it was when the top order were getting massive runs at the top.

[Chris Jameson]

I've got somebody I'd like dropping for all future Tests. Mark Nicholas.