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Author Topic: The Cricket Thread 2016  (Read 501390 times)

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4590 on: May 20, 2016, 05:06:21 PM »
We don't seem to be bowling with the same intensity since the bad light.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4591 on: May 20, 2016, 05:27:19 PM »
Just got home to watch this. Seem like plenty of empty seats. They should stop hosting tests at provincial grounds.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4592 on: May 20, 2016, 05:36:31 PM »
We don't seem to be bowling with the same intensity since the bad light.

Until Jimmy's last six balls.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4593 on: May 20, 2016, 05:39:44 PM »
That ball to get Shanaka almost feels like cheating, how the hell is a lower order debutant supposed to do anything else with that, absolute peach.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4594 on: May 20, 2016, 05:41:03 PM »
We don't seem to be bowling with the same intensity since the bad light.

Until Jimmy's last six balls.

Yep, I very nearly followed that line with "we should get Jimmy and Broad back on" but then Stokes bowled a couple of nicer ones and I backed off.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4595 on: May 20, 2016, 05:48:08 PM »
Bloody hell, Jimmy has just become unplayable!

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4596 on: May 20, 2016, 05:51:32 PM »
The movement in the air is doing the damage.  I'm glad they've got Broad on as well, I think this could be all over in a couple of overs if Broad bowls like he did earlier.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4597 on: May 20, 2016, 06:06:37 PM »
Superb catch from Finn.

If we can mop this up cheap I'd force the follow on, the conditions suit us perfectly right now.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4598 on: May 20, 2016, 06:17:36 PM »
91 for 9, they might not make the follow on

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4599 on: May 20, 2016, 06:21:03 PM »
91 all out, nice work lads

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4600 on: May 20, 2016, 06:23:31 PM »
Can't knock that 5-16 for Jimmy & 4-21 for Broad, couple tonight would be nice.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4601 on: May 20, 2016, 06:25:26 PM »
Yes it would PGW

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4602 on: May 20, 2016, 06:28:43 PM »
Lovely bowling display.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4603 on: May 20, 2016, 06:32:39 PM »
the worst thing is I think 91 flatters them a little, I reckon you could find 7-8 more that missed an edge by a fraction of an inch.  2-3 good overs each from jimmy and broad and I suspect we'll make a dent in this innings tongiht as well.

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Re: The Cricket Thread 2016
« Reply #4604 on: May 20, 2016, 06:33:07 PM »
You have to say, the batting might be fragile but this bowling attack must be the best currently playing in Test cricket.

 


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