The Cricket Thread 2016

[Dr Butler]

This does not bode well. TMS did not start with Soul Limbo. I feel like I've been debagged of my lucky pants.

WHAT !!!!  sacrilege.....

come on England lets have a good first session.

UTV

The Doc

They played a clip featuring highlights of previous series going back over many years. Then they played Soul Limbo.

Wrong way round.

phew at least it got played

UTV
The Doc

[Villan For Life]

Won the toss and we're batting.

[PaulWinch again]

Won the toss and we're batting.

That's probably good, but it's up to the top order to do a job.

[UK Redsox]

Early tossing to allow for having three anthems

[UK Redsox]

I like Swanny. He's been a great addition to TMS

[Villan For Life]

Won the toss and we're batting.

That's probably good, but it's up to the top order to do a job.

Pitch report saying it's very dry and no grass. As you say, we need the top order to fire.

[Villan For Life]

I like Swanny. He's been a great addition to TMS

Clearly a face for radio! He's been truly awful at times with distasteful West Indian impressions during the Caribbean tour. Hopefully he has learned from this because as a recently-retired test player he should have some decent insight.

[Villan For Life]

Teams:

England
AN Cook*, A Lyth, GS Ballance, IR Bell, JE Root, BA Stokes, JC Buttler†, MM Ali, SCJ Broad, MA Wood, JM Anderson 
 

Australia
DA Warner, CJL Rogers, SPD Smith, MJ Clarke*, AC Voges, SR Watson, BJ Haddin†, MG Johnson, MA Starc, JR Hazlewood, NM Lyon
 

[Villan For Life]

Raining in Cardiff so a minor delay is expected.

[PaulWinch again]

If we bat well it should bring Moeen into the game.

[Villan For Life]

If we bat well it should bring Moeen into the game.

He should have some rough to exploit from the footmarks of their left armers.

[PaulWinch again]

You do wonder about the logic of cricket sometimes. You get all the players out for the anthems and then send them back in to the changing rooms before starting at 11.15.

[Villan For Life]

I work from home so I've got TMS on the radio and the Sky Sports live stream on my personal laptop whilst working away on my work laptop. There's a delay of about 90 seconds between TMS on Five Live Sports Extra and the Sky feed. That will be useful because I will be able to keep up with important developments without having to work late to make up for time spent on here or watching cricket.

[Villan For Life]

Effectively the Sky feed is 3 balls behind! It will be interesting if ever there was a chance of a hat trick!

[Chris Jameson]

I like Swanny. He's been a great addition to TMS

Clearly a face for radio! He's been truly awful at times with distasteful West Indian impressions during the Caribbean tour. Hopefully he has learned from this because as a recently-retired test player he should have some decent insight.

He's too busy trying to be the class clown, i find him tiresome, as you say he should be able to offer some decent insight but we're still waiting.